I took Clementine to look around in front of the local all-nude strip club this afternoon, where our friends from Hollywood will be shooting their big winter street scene tomorrow. She was amazed by how fake the “snow” was that they’d put out. Basically, it was just a bunch of tiny styrofoam balls, swept up […]
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Ypsi’s summer snowbanks and the trickery of Hollywood exposed
Sharpen your pencils…. Five Year Engagement to shoot in Ypsi
Remember how, a few weeks ago, we had a pencil paparazzi sighting of Jason Segel and a bunch of other marginally famous folks having drinks in Ann Arbor? Well, it looks like some of them may be headed to Ypsilanti next week to continue work on the film that brought them to MIchigan. (It’s called […]
Pencil Paparazzi: Jason Segel, other famous people at Old Town
We’ve got another entry for our ever-expanding pencil paparazzi file. This one comes from a young woman named Nina Eggers, who just happened to be having drink at Ann Arbor’s Old Town Tavern, when a half dozen famous folks came in for drinks. Here’s her entry. Jason Segel, as you can see, was apparently carrying […]
Conviction, shot in Ypsi/Arbor, nears release
The Trailer for the film “Conviction” has been released. Quite a bit of the production, which had previously been referred to as “Betty Anne Waters,” was shot in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. Of particular interest in the trailer, at least for me, are the scenes shot at Ypsi’s legendary Sidetrack Bar and Grill – stills […]
Pencil Paparazzi file: Jeff Daniels on Felch
As I think most of you know, the actor Jeff Daniels spends a great deal of time in Michigan. According to my sources, now that his kids are grown, he’s spending more time away from Chelsea, where his theater, The Purple Rose, is located, but he’s still around, doing stuff, like recording voiceovers for the […]