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Yesterday I "worked" as an extra for a motion picture which is being shot now in Chicago, The Weather Man. It involved, as you might expect, a lot of sitting around doing nothing, but overall it was an exciting experience. It was particulary funny that after a couple minutes of filling out a form I did nothing but hang around until the lunch break.

I was used in four shots, all for one scene which, if it survives the editing process, might run for a minute or so.

In one shot I walk past Michael Cain and Nicholas Cage having a conversation on the sidewalk outside city hall, the locale of which was dressed up to appear as Park Avenue at 48th street in NYC. It was quite a hoot to see light-pole banners for the Museum of City of New York hanging on the poles outside city hall, a New York city bus out front and a block full of cars with New York license plates. Even the street sign on the corner of LaSalle and Washington was changed. It was the cheapest trip to NYC I've ever taken.

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