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Show V 5:;ge A6 Thmdty, August 27, 1981 The Newsptper - . i .W i.4 f l . I I - k is) w f , I i i X- O'KELLY-LEAV1TT O'KELLY-LEAV1TT INSURANCE AGENCY.INC. SHIRLEYOKELLY AGENT ALL TYPES OF INSURANCE lit U ti ytuti imitt ciiiititis i fcrk Akiic, I'BkbMf titiwtijM fir y ur iiuruct ateis. Call fir uMPMitattt. 4!l H11K 5TIEET 141 CS31 woo ladteendtnri Jhawnaf Mgent J WVt OU WT Left: "This is sacreligious." Park City detective Lloyd Evans was ready to turn in his badge Thursday after seeing David Fleisher wearing one. Below: Bruce Davison and Eileen Brennan take a break during filming of 'Lady With a Badge.' They really do say Action V By David Hampshire At last! My chance to be discovered! When I heard that Jaffe-Taylor Jaffe-Taylor Productions was looking look-ing for extras for the filming mm SKI SAKS BGINS SATURDAY SPTMBA 5th JiKl U J of "Lady With A Badge," I knew my time had come. Goodbye, battered typewriter. type-writer. Hello, Hollywood. Well, that's not exactly true. I really don't have any illusions about my acting abilities. They are nonexistent. nonexist-ent. If the truth be known, I saw this as a chance to make a few extra bucks and maybe even get a story at the same time. My fellow employees will verify that a reporter's salary just barely pays the bills, leaving nothing for frills like food and clothing. As Rick Brough reported in last week's Newspaper, I had to pass up my first chance under the bright lights. On Aug. 19, Jaffe-Tay-lor needed extras to act as reporters, of all things, for your typical big-city-type media mob scene: a horde of agressive journalists clawing claw-ing each other for a chance to fire barbed questions at the lady sheriff, being played by Eileen Brennan. Unfortunately, Aug. 19 was a Wednesday. And Wednesdays Wednes-days are set aside religiously so we can put the current issue of the Newspaper together. So I missed my chance to play a part which should have been a natural. But, in reality, I wasn't too upset. 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Call now for nightly or package rates, including crunch and tram ride. snowbird w ski and summer resort 521-6040 0 TAKE-OUT AVAILABLE Dinners, Sandwiches, or by the pound TEXAS RED'S PIT BARBECUE Catering Available 11:30-10:00, seven days a week. 440 Main Street. VJL 649-6990 649-9997 U I TT5 1 Fine German Food open for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Seating from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Daily Specials Specializing in Fine German Pastries Cappuccino & Expresso 402 Main Street, Park City Now Open the Ritz Beer Garden sidewalk cafe why I find small-town journalism jour-nalism so appealing, it's because that type of scene never develops. In Park City, you don't have to be obnoxious to get a story. "Survival of the loudest" only applies when you've got 13 different news agencies competing for the same story. In big cities. And in the movies. ... (l. Anyway, Jaffe-Taylor gave me a second chance. I was to show up at 8:30 the following day, Aug. 20. In the movies they are called extras. In the Army they are called bodies. Same thing. In both cases, you are expected to fill a function rather than a role. At least that's my theory. There's another similarity. similari-ty. Either as an extra or as a member of Uncle Sam's finest, you spend a lot of time just standing around. There were about six of us hired on at 8:30 that morning. mor-ning. Three hours later we were still standing there. I was working on my fourth donut and my fifth cup of coffee. That day's filming was taking place inside the Utah Power and Light office on Main Street, which had been refitted to be the sheriff's office of Crestridge, Wyoming. Wyo-ming. Eileen Brennan, of course, was the Sherrif. Among her deputies were Bruce Davidson (whose credits include the movie "Willard"), Corky Fowler (of PM Magazine fame) and David Fleisher (legendary columnist for the Park Record). That's right, mild-manner- fJbnli in' ed David Fleisher was playing play-ing a cop, complete with badge, uniform, and a very authentic-looking .357 magnum mag-num revolver. And it was obvious he was enjoying every minute of it. Like the rest of the extras, Fleisher spent much of his time hanging around in the alley between the UP&L office and the Post Office. And he got his share of attention from the locals. At one point, Park City detective Lloyd Evans walked past the set, caught a glimpse of Fleisher in uniform, uni-form, and did a double-take. "This is sacreligious," Evans said, shaking his head. "This is sacreligious." On another occassion, Channel Four reporter Fran-ci Fran-ci Eisenberg and a friend were driving up Main Street, then decided to do a U-turn in front of the Post Office. Fleisher tells the story this way: "The guy looks over at me and says, 'I can't do that, there's a cop standing there.'" But Eisenberg recognized the Park Record columnist. He said, 'That's not a cop, that's Flasher" he went on. "I'm going to get a lot of ribbing about this for a while." Finally, about noon, I was told services were needed. need-ed. I was to deliver a Western Union telegram to Bruce Davison, announcing that so-and-so has been indicted for something or other. Obviously a key role in the movie. Here's my instructions. I'm to walk in the front door of the office, give the telegram to Davison (I think he's called Clint in the movie), then turn around and walk out. That's it? That's it. It's time for a "take." "Picture, folks," says the assistant director. "Quiet, please. Okay, here we go. Roll sound.. .Action." That's right. They really do say "Action." That's my cue. I walk up to the counter, ever so casually, casual-ly, where Davison is reading the paper, and hand him the telegram. "Thanks, Dave," he says. I turn around and alk out the door, then wait to be called back in for a retake. Everyone knows that these things have to be shot at least a dozen times. But the call never comes. My three-second performance perform-ance must have been flawless. flaw-less. As it turns out, that is my only "work" of the day. they tell me I'm to get $25 for my cameo performance, which figures out to about $8 a second. Not bad. When "Lady With A Badge" appears on television televi-sion in about six months, it will undoubtedly top the Nielsen ratings in Park City as locals watch the screen for familiar faces. Okay, do I admit it. I'll be watching too, waiting to catch a glimpse of the back of my own head as I deliver the telegram and hear those immortal words: "Thanks, Dave." PARK CITY PROPERTIES Lot No. 2 Silver Springs - 1 m-. ."" "f Si I St."3! Outstanding 3 bedroom, 3 bath home-large wet bar upstairs' up-stairs' in scenic family room. One complete room devoted to redwood hot tub. Completely furnished with beautiful furniture package. Landscapedsprinklers. $275,000. 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