"Steve B" wrote in message
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 16:50:36 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

Besides the game shows What's my Line, and To Tell The Truth, remember
the game show "Beat the Clock" with Bud Collyer?

I was an "imposter" on To Tell The Truth back in the early 70s, got
one wrong vote from Peggy Cass.

I was on several episodes of Vegas with Dan Tanner, Robert Urich. Got
paid for several episodes where I was there, and they filmed or not.
Spoke in one. "Sure thing, Dan." I said as he tossed me the keys. I was
a parking attendant at the DI at the time.

The T Bird they used was such a POS that most of the scenes that weren't
blue screened the Bird had to be towed. You'd think they'd at least buy a
running car. The building they showed at the beginning as his was
actually a gardener's storage building. All gone now.
Ahhh. The old days.

It was right at $100 to be an extra. I forget what it was for speaking.
But they had the best catering, and you could eat all you wanted for free.
And you got to be on the INSIDE of the ropes. They used so many doubles
for him, I think I saw him only once.

Filming is like watching water evaporate. It is slow. Do the same little
thing twenty times, and then it gets edited. Wait, wait, wait.

Worked with Eric Estrada in Last Rider. He was polite, unlike a lot of
celebs, and a jokester. My big part was to clean up the mess when they
blew up the trailer. $3000 for two days work wasn't bad. I had some
teens I knew, they were thrilled to do it, ate a lot, drank a lot of soft
drinks, and each got two Franklins for two days work. Got to talk to the
pyro guys a lot and see a lot of stuff being blown up. Still, S-L-O-W !
But when they get ready to leave, they're like ants. Zoom, zoom, zoom.

Steve


You are correct on slow. Used to see a lot of film shoots when I worked
nights in San Francisco. Was actually interesting to see the film Towering
Inferno. As watched the filming for weeks, and nothing ever seemed to move.
My claim to fame in the movie industry, is I am in the original Herbie
movie. About 10 seconds of me and my Corvette racecar at Laguna Seca.