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Senior year of high school I had my first job pushing papers in an abstract office in Van Buren. This would end up being possibly the best job ever by the winter because Main Street VB (where our office was located) ended up being used as a movie set for a movie called Frank and Jesse.
Line up for this movie:
Randy Travis
Bill Paxton
Rob Lowe
The year - 1994 - January to be precise.
My boss was a huge Bill Paxton fan. But he was a lawyer so he had important lawyer-type things to do. I was a minimum wage high school student whose school was out for the week due to snow covering the ground. The trailers for the above mentioned men - right behind our office.
This is what we call the perfect storm!
Yep. I got paid for almost the whole week to stand around and stalk actors until I could get Bill Paxton and then get my boss to come out for a picture. Jeff (my illustrious brother and partner in crime) was there for almost as much of the time to take pictures - I think he snapped most of what you are about to witness. In the meantime I also got to see lots of scenes. I got to talk quite a bit with Randy Travis and get autographs and pictures of almost everyone - almost everyone.
See… this was just a few years after an unfortunate incident for Rob Lowe that happened to involve teenage girls - so you can imagine that he avoided me and the other teenage office assistant like the plague! :O)
We did get a picture of him on his way to his trailer surrounded by his entourage. I know - you LOVE my cheesy captions right?!
I’d call him a snob but really considering what he was coming off of I guess I don’t really blame him.
Bill was elusive as I mentioned which required a bit of skulking but when we got the pictures - we got them. AND we got them signed. And we got the boss some signed stuff to. :) Note the classy, trendy coat I have... oh wait... I SO have to post a picture of the nature scene sweatshirt I have underneath this deal!
Randy signed several pictures... talked to me quite a bit actually and took some time to actually write out a note to me after he found out it was my senior year - nice guy! (It was a pleasure meeting you - God Bless! - Randy Travis)
Gina - who has no clever sign-off for this one... but has one more - really good picture of Bill - in which you can see the magazine he made sure was in every shot.
2 comments:
You can so call Rob Lowe a snob. He didn't just avoid teenage girls on that set, he avoided everyone. He had that entourage around him and you couldn't get near him no matter who you are.
Huh, I don't recall a movie being filmed there at the time. I think I have a vague memory of the storm though. I worked at Skateworld and my dumb boss insisted we open up because he was convinced kids would show up because there was no school. After a few hours with no customers and the storm falling like mad, my dad had to come and rescue me and the other girl who worked with us because her mother couldn't get through the snow. Good thing my dad had a gigantic monster truck type thing!
I love Bill Paxton! But why in teh world was he so adamant about the magazine being in the pictures?
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