Chocolate Chip Friends: Much Ado about Clooney

Well, our little Greer is in the big time now. Our small town had such an upheaval that last few days I am not sure if it will recover. A couple of months ago it came out in the news that George Clooney and Renee Zellweger would be coming to South Carolina and shooting a film. Last Thursday they were filming in downtown. (I wanted to take my class on a walking field trip-tee hee) By the time I was able to get down there they were no longer filming. I found out that they would be filming on Sunday as well, so I went after the morning service and drug Matthew with me. We saw them setting up and a purple haired man carrying a couple of shotguns that were props. A young officer told me the action would heat up from 2-4pm. So I went back at a little after two. Basically all I saw was them setting up the huge lights on a big boom and water blasting the lines off the street.

I ran into a coworker and her Mom and after an hour or so we had worked our way to the front of the police tape. We then got a tip that Clooney would be coming to his makeup trailer and so we went to stand over there. Finally I left for the evening service at 4:30. Not a half and hour after I left Clooney came out and shook hands with the people standing right where we had been at the police tape! After church I went back to try and get more pictures of the set (they didn't even have the cars on the streets when I left.) I had Matthew with me again, so as there was nothing going on we just took pictures of the cars and left. My coworker Charlotte and her Mom stayed until 11:00pm and got to meet Clooney, shake his hand, get an autograph and have their picture taken with him. So needless to say there has been a lot of hubbub around this town. The movie is called Leatherheads and is about early football players in the 1920s. I hope it is a decent movie after we have made such

a big deal over it!

These picture are of store fronts they converted for the movie. One is a variety store (mercantile) and the other a barber shop. I know they filmed inside the barber shop but am not sure about the other. I think they must have just been outside because I peeked behind the curtains on the store doors today and it just looked like a warehouse with props and junk inside. The following pictures are thanks to Belinda, Charlotte's Mom. THANKS!