My Cicely Trip!
Aug 15, 2012 9:36:28 GMT -5
Post by Jane on Aug 15, 2012 9:36:28 GMT -5
Hi Y'all,
I'm back! The Cicely trip was great! I got to see Maurice's childhood home, the one he had brought back from OK. It sits in the back of a local's home and is a chicken coup. It was made for the set and wasn't a real old home. In fact, the windows weren't even real but plextiglass. The local told me they'd set fire to the siding to make it look "old."
He was a trip and worked for the crew as Janine Turner's body gaurd. He didn't care for her too much, actually and said she was pretty high maintenance. He and his wife invited me into their home and showed me pictures framed on their walls. They had pictures, too, of Darin Burroughs whom they said was a real "Good ol' boy," and they'd taken him shooting and camping on weekends they didn't film. They spoke very highly of him.
Then I met their friend who purchased the big rock (made out of styrofoam) that was used in the episode where Fleishman thinks of himself as Sisthephis (sp.?) and pushes the rock up the hill, only to let it fall back down again.
Those were some very unusual experiences I just outlined. I was at the RIGHT spot at the right time.
Later I talked to a musuem curator who let me in to Chris's office. I guess normally, you cannot go in there, and it's for display purposes only. But she saw how much I knew about the show and far I came, and she let me in!
Then I went to The Brick, Cicely's gift shop-Joel's old office, Maggier's first house and second house, Marilyn's, Ruth Anne's and Maurice's. Then i THINK I found Ed's old apt. building but I was unsure.
It was all so cool! I was blessed to run into such cool people. For the record, I was there BEFORE Moosefest. I just got really, really lucky to catch a few nice locals.
P.S. I found the service at The Brick to be rather lame and unfriendly, which was suprising and a bummer.
I'm back! The Cicely trip was great! I got to see Maurice's childhood home, the one he had brought back from OK. It sits in the back of a local's home and is a chicken coup. It was made for the set and wasn't a real old home. In fact, the windows weren't even real but plextiglass. The local told me they'd set fire to the siding to make it look "old."
He was a trip and worked for the crew as Janine Turner's body gaurd. He didn't care for her too much, actually and said she was pretty high maintenance. He and his wife invited me into their home and showed me pictures framed on their walls. They had pictures, too, of Darin Burroughs whom they said was a real "Good ol' boy," and they'd taken him shooting and camping on weekends they didn't film. They spoke very highly of him.
Then I met their friend who purchased the big rock (made out of styrofoam) that was used in the episode where Fleishman thinks of himself as Sisthephis (sp.?) and pushes the rock up the hill, only to let it fall back down again.
Those were some very unusual experiences I just outlined. I was at the RIGHT spot at the right time.
Later I talked to a musuem curator who let me in to Chris's office. I guess normally, you cannot go in there, and it's for display purposes only. But she saw how much I knew about the show and far I came, and she let me in!
Then I went to The Brick, Cicely's gift shop-Joel's old office, Maggier's first house and second house, Marilyn's, Ruth Anne's and Maurice's. Then i THINK I found Ed's old apt. building but I was unsure.
It was all so cool! I was blessed to run into such cool people. For the record, I was there BEFORE Moosefest. I just got really, really lucky to catch a few nice locals.
P.S. I found the service at The Brick to be rather lame and unfriendly, which was suprising and a bummer.