Aside from turning part of First Avenue into Avenue D, the crew recreated part of tent city from the late 1980s in Tompkins Square Park …
Crew members passed some time by tossing a football…
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We also understand that the crews will recreate scenes from the Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988 at some point this month.
The film is adapted from the Eleanor Henderson novel "Ten Thousand Saints." The husband-wife team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini direct. (They directed the 2003 Harvey Pekar film "American Splendor" with Paul Giamatti.) The cast includes Ethan Hawke.
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You had me up to Ethan Hawke. This ought to be interesting.
ReplyDeleteObviously, they weren't there at the time. the actual tent city took up that entire part of the park as I recall...
ReplyDeleteI want to be an extra for the riots. I want to play Chris Flash.
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@ Shawn Chittle: I know Chris Flash, and you're no Chris Flash. Actually, I don't know you, so you might be a Chris Flash but, if your picture is any indication, you're not ugly enough.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yeah, I do talk about my friends that way, but that's because of the nature of my friends.
I well remember the Tompkins sq tent city... no snow and when the cops broke it up, it moved to a vacant lot where now stands a nursing home on 8th between B & C.
ReplyDeletenygrump doesn't understand how movies are shot.
ReplyDeletePart of it also moved to the northwest corner of 11th and B, where a gorgeous old red-brick building had recently been demolished. Those guys were there for about 6 months before wandering away.
ReplyDeleteI remember the tents in tent city as being more put together. After all, the point was to serve as protection from the elements, not form a settee on a veranda.
ReplyDeleteThe 1988 TSP Riot re-enacted in the winter???? Hollywood NEVER gets ANYthing right....
ReplyDeletemaybe they will have a smoke in to honor the yippies/ zippies
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