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JOE'S COMMENTS |
| Every now and then, a major motion picture (other than my own) will come to my hometown to shoot and I like to step out from behind the camera and become - AN EXTRA! Because of the historical look to the area, we have had many period films shot here including "The Way We Were," "Ironweed," "The Age of Innocence," "Billy Bathgate," and "Scent of a Woman." This past February, The Time Machine filmed around Albany, Schenectady and Troy, NY for two weeks, so a bunch of us jumped on the bandwagon as the film crew transformed our streets into New York City - 1885. |
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| The most horrible part of working on the movie was experiencing the filmmakers' disconcerting example of disorganization: They said they hired me partially because of my long sideburns and that if anything, they may have to make them longer. I told them I was OK with this as long as they didn't have to cut them off. No prob, right? Well, when I went in for hair and make-up the day of the shoot, two people worked on me. | |
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The woman told me
she was going to have to cut them off. I argued with her for a couple
minutes, after which she finally said, "Look, if you want to be in
it, the burns have to go." I actually took about 30-seconds to
think about it, then finally resigned to having her cut them off. I was
ticked! My sideburns...my sidekicks...which I'd had for
years...butchered! hen, a male hairdresser came over to work on me
and he says if it was up to him, he would've let me keep them! And no, I
don't mean "work on me!" |
| So, I get out of the chair and I'm walking down the hall, when I encounter a group of three extras who had already been treated and they all had sideburns, of which mine use to rival! | |
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pulled one of them aside...his name was Dave....and I exclaimed,"You
mean to tell me they actually let you keep your sideburns?!" He
replied, "What are you talking about? These aren't mine. They glued
them on me." So I took a photo as proof. Those were mine!!! I did get a number of close-ups, so if they're not sitting on the cutting room floor, you can look for me. One particular shot, I'm walking down the street with my friend Heather - the other, I'm standing at Guy Pearce's |
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| left, looking over his shoulder, and I'm with another woman! Is this a continuity screw up or a soap opera subplot?! YOU be the judge. Now, we weren't supposed to be taking pictures on set...so...I can't exactly remember...how I took these???? |
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Costume Check |
State Street Set - Albany |
Reduced to a number! |
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Sideburns? - Just an illusion |
Gerrit gets even better |
The Holding Penn |
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A Pepsi, Pierre? |
Modern Day Victorian Chick |
Joe and Heather in costume |
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Streets of Troy, NY transformed into a wintery mess on the coldest day of 2001 (-20F) |
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More of Troy |
The Upper Class Ladies |
Wynona?!, Joe and Heather |
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4 am, Still not done, and VERY tired! |
Schenectady, NY - dinner |
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Joe and Nick Barber reunite |
Go Into The Light! |
Shannon: P.A./Warrior |
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Joe Bagnardi on the pond |
Heather poses for a close-up |
Could this be THE REAPER?!!! |
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A fistful of dollars brings a roomful of ladies |
Shannon ponders the pour |
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