Man, it's so weird to be in this room updating after playing STAR WARS TRIVIAL PURSUIT for 4 hours (I kicked everyone's ass so far! Though My Midichlorian count is probably going to take a dive here soon) in the LINE... But... Ok... I seem to remember how to work this damn keyboard thing# Hey... That's not an Exclamation mark, it's a Number Sign... Where the hell are the arrow keys! Hey, that was supposed to be a Question mark... OH NO... I"ve lost MY obiluty 2 tipe...
Anyway, enough silliness... Onto BICENTENNIAL MAN, it was once a script that KICKED ASS, but I haven't seen any of the latest 'budgeted' drafts so I don't know what is in and what is out... Hopefully the main story is the same, which is of course brilliant as we all expect it to be. But here's our spy on set with a short itsy bitsy report!
This first day of my gig as an extra on the set of Bicentennial Man was probably a lot like what you would expect to find on most movie sets. Disney bussed 150 extras and me to Fort Point at the Presidio at dawn. Six futuristic vendor stands had been built in front of an old brick building. This is where we rehearsed our choreography as vendors and shoppers while director Chris Columbus and director of photography Phil Meheaux set up the shots. Robin Williams showed up in a robot helmet and gloves; that was cool, but nothing I didn't expect. His costar is and actress named Kirsten (I don't know her last name). She was in a full robot costume that reminded me of something from a Fritz Lang film, except for kids. She danced around to Tower of Power playing "Brick House" as we shopped. One thing that no one expected was a whale sighting in the bay, but that probably doesn't qualify as juicy movie gossip. I'm going back tomorrow and and possibly Wednesday. I'll let you know if anything happens that's really cool.
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