Sunday, February 3, 2013

The Wall

This is from a wall along the Old Croton Aqueduct trail. I took this on my Friday walk to the library. There is a sign out in front of the house (actually a small mansion) that say this was the home of the first female self-made millionaire in America. She sold beauty and hair care products for black women. And just a mile on this same trail in the other direction I read they were recently filming another movie (period film) at Lyndhurst, Winter's Tale. I read about it in the paper. Supposedly Russell Crowe and Will Smith are in town and they are making fake snow.—NY

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  1. What other movies have they made up your way?

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  2. Oh, I don't remember half of them. But they do a lot of period pieces up this way. Stuff from the 40s and 50s. I remember once walking down Main Street in Tarrytown and they had literally taped red autumn leaves to the trees for a Julia Roberts film. I can remember what the name of it was. It was about young college girls. Also in Tarrytown I remember noticing the street signs had been changed and they were filming in and around the Tarrytown Theater. I think Matt Damon was playing a lawyer. Oh, and I heard they did part of the Whitney Houston movie where Denzel Washington played an angel. But I don't remember if I was living here when they did that movie. Frequently I see innocuous little signs around town telling crews where to go but I don't often know what they are filming. Sometimes just local commercials.

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