{"id":890,"date":"2006-11-15T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/1163608500792.html"},"modified":"2006-11-15T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T16:35:00","slug":"blogentry-so-the-rock-is-downstairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] So, The Rock is downstairs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=&#034;width: 120px; height: 240px&#034; align=&#034;right&#034; marginwidth=&#034;0&#034; marginheight=&#034;0&#034; src=&#034;http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=suchstuff-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000FA57M6&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr&amp;nou=1&#034; frameborder=&#034;0&#034; scrolling=&#034;no&#034;><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Got a message on the company email yesterday that there&#039;s going to be a movie filming on our street and in the building next store, so be prepared for the traffic and detours and so on.&nbsp; Turns out that this movie is <a href=&#034;http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0492956\/&#034; target=&#034;_blank&#034;>The Game Plan<\/a>, starring The Rock.&nbsp; How cool is that?&nbsp; I wandered downstairs today for lunch (nice that it is 60+ degrees outside) and yeah, they&#039;re shooting a movie all right.&nbsp; Just like you see&#8230;well, in the movies. Lots of big spotlights, and people carrying around what look like posterboards with tinfoil on them.&nbsp; We can&#039;t get anywhere near the action, of course, but the crowds are positioned so that you can get a glimpse.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t get to see him (yet), but apparently others have, as I heard some conversation like &#034;Can you see him?&nbsp; He&#039;s sitting in the front seat of the car.&nbsp; There, he just got out, that&#039;s him&#8230;&#034;<\/p>\n<p>What reaallllllly annoys me is that according to the trivia for the movie, just last week they were filming in my own hometown!&nbsp; Argh. The Rock was wandering around my home town and I missed it.&nbsp; That&#039;s annoying.&nbsp; Surely that would have merited a sick day from work.&nbsp; After all you can hardly expect North Andover to draw the same sort of crowd that downtown Boston does.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#039;t he just make a football movie?<\/p>\n<p\/><b>Update:<\/b> It&#039;s funny how different audiences see things.  I&#039;m in a meeting, there&#039;s a pause while we wait for some people, and I toss out, &#034;So, did anybody go downstairs to see The Rock?  He&#039;s shooting a movie.&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>Lady across the table looks interested, but kind of shrugs off the reference with, &#034;I don&#039;t know who that is.  Who else is in it?&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>&#034;Kyra Sedgewick,&#034; I say.<\/p>\n<p\/>&#034;Oh my god I love her!&#034; she says, and begins chatting excitedly with the woman next to her about this woman&#039;s movies.<\/p>\n<p\/>All I know about Kyra Sedgewick is that she&#039;s Kevin Bacon&#039;s wife, and I sat across the row from her on a plane once.  One of those moments to kick yourself, because the entire flight I kept wondering, &#034;Is that Kyra Sedgewick?&#034; but not having the guts to ask.  She was with two kids.  Getting off the plane she even had trouble with her luggage and I should have been a gentleman and offered to help lug it, but I didn&#039;t.  I think I assumed that when she walked off the plane there&#039;d be people waiting for her or something.  Instead I went home, went online and looked her up, and sure enough that was her &#8211; the description of the two kids matched perfectly.  So now I tell people that my Kevin Bacon number is 2. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=&#034;wlWriterSmartContent&#034; id=&#034;0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:10b05dea-5566-4b19-ba1a-15cbe255bf7e&#034; contenteditable=&#034;false&#034; style=&#034;padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px&#034;>Technorati tags: <a href=&#034;http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/the%20rock&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>the rock<\/a>, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/movie&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>movie<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a message on the company email yesterday that there&#039;s going to be a movie filming on our street and in the building next store, so be prepared for the traffic and detours and so on.&nbsp; Turns out that this movie is The Game Plan, starring The Rock.&nbsp; How cool is that?&nbsp; I wandered downstairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-family","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}