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My close calls:
They filmed the interior grocery store scenes from Gung-Ho at our neighborhood store when Yoda was a baby. We got to see Ron Howard (and his paneled station wagon), George Wendt, and local favorite Michael Keaton.
Oh, and many years later (1999), I got married under the Gung-Ho gazebo, which was moved slightly from where it was in the movie.
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I applied for Survivor about three times. The second time (Pearl Islands) two female contestants backed out at the last minute (two weeks before shooting was to begin), and I got a twenty-minute phone interview with Lynn Spillman, head casting director. She said they had two other women to call, but that if it was me, they'd call back within 24 hours and I'd have to be ready to leave within two weeks.
Every time the phone rang over the next 24 hours, I had a mini-coronary.