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  • The Kissing Chair

    The Kissing Chair

    In Burbank, I often drive by this park where, last year, Ron Howard and wife Cheryl made a very sweet donation on their 50th anniversary: this “kissing chair,” two beautifully engraved bronze chairs reversed so a couple can sit and face each other. There’s only one problem – Someone made the really, really poor decision…

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  • Lecture Hall

    Lecture Hall

    Some locations set such a high bar for filming, you might as well give up on on hoping to scout anything else as good. Case in point: this lecture hall at Columbia University, which has been in so many movies and TV shows, you’d assume all college lecture halls are like this. Everything about it…

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  • Filming at LAX

    Filming at LAX

    Me chatting with LAX about airport filming: Me: So can we film at X location? Rep: No, absolutely not. Me: How about at Y? Or Z? Rep: Certainly not. Me: OK. How about if you just let me know where filming is allowed? Rep: That’s not how it works. You tell me where you want…

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  • Love and Abandoned Missile Silos

    Love and Abandoned Missile Silos

    Just a guy and a girl hitting it off at sunset, high above LA on a decommissioned Nike missile tower, with no one else around for miles… (Except an annoying movie location scout who was sent to take magic hour pictures and is totally killing the mood. Sorry guys…)

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