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by **Homer** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:09 am

I saw this topic on another forum which turned into a pretty interesting thread.

List the name of your city or town, and anything famous about it.

I am from Wilmington, NC, and.....

These movies (among many others and TV shows) were filmed here:

Some people that were born here include Charley Daniels, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Trot Nixon.

And...

Wasn't born here, but grew up here.

So what's up with your town?

by **Darth Screamer** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:11 pm

Well here in west chester we have a local celeb that so many people love.

Funny no one here likes him that lives here.....

But in philly most of M.Night Shamalan's (sp) Movies were filmed here.

Also 12 monkeys was filmed here.

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:11 pm

I'm not going where I'm at now but instead with my home town of Norwalk CT

The new version of the Stepford Wives was filmed there a few years back The mens ckub in that movie is known as Lockwood Matthews Mansion which is haunted

Sports stars from Norwalk

Calvin Murphy an old NBA player who played for Houston

Mo Vaughn who played for Boton,The Angels and the Mets.I met him years back when he was in the 6 th grade his mom was freinds with mine.Plus his father was my housemaster in the 9th grade

Cops once wanted to do a show from Norwalk but the NPD turned it down

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:13 pm

Nothing exciting ever happens in Livonia. Well, there was Jeff Daniels' nephew's baptism (seriously, it was front page in the local paper). I am, however, about 15 minutes from downtown Detroit and the real star of the Transformers movie, the Fort Street sign!

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:29 pm

For some reason in the HBO First Look at Transformers they never mention its Detroit and refer to it as L.A.

I know its supposed to be L.A but they could say it was Detriot its only the making of....

News Credits: 49 · by **Senor Hugo** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:10 pm

Jackson Michigan

Jeff Daniels filmed some of his movie Super Sucker there.

Also, Amy Jo Johnson apparently has a house near there, she's seen going to the movies every once in awhile.

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:12 pm

Not my town really, but the surrounding area...

Mushroomhead(band)

Chimaira(band)

Marilyn Manson(singer)

Maynard James Keenan(singer for TOOL and A Perfect Circle)

Movies filmed here...

Air Force One started with a shot of Cleveland's city Hall

Christmas Story was shot all over Cleveland

Happy Gilmore filmed here as well

and of course Major League was filmed here, well a few scenes were shot at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:32 pm

Senor Hugo wrote:Also, Amy Jo Johnson apparently has a house near there, she's seen going to the movies every once in awhile.

If I were you, I'd hook up with her immediately. She's every nerd's fantasy.

News Credits: 1 · by **Jeep?** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:41 pm

I'm from just right between the towns of Lurganand Portadown. They're pretty rough towns for the wrong types of people, so much so that each has a Wikipedia article on killing commited there during the Troubles. Which is neat. That aside, Lurgan was the birthplace of footballer Neil Lennon, while Portadown is home to teevee's Gloria Hunniford. Which is less neat.

by **Predaprince** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:20 pm

I'm from Toledo, Ohio aka the Glass City.

We not only have the same name as Toledo, Spain, but are the only two international sister cities.

We have the Mud Hens (baseball team, which is very huge for all of the residents), the Museum of Art, the Zoo, half an hour to an hour drive to Cedar Point, and Jamie Farr.

News Credits: 349 · by **Bed Bugs** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:34 pm

Spencer, WI is not yet famous, but it will be known throughout the world soon enough, as the home of Fender Bender.

Seriously, nobody is from here, nothing is here, and nobody worth knowing will emerge from here (other than I that is).

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:38 pm

New Orleans... Lots of movies and celebs hail from down here..

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:57 pm

Predaprince wrote:We not only have the same name as Toledo, Spain, but are the only two international sister cities.

Nope. Kalamazoo, MI, (My town) has:

Kingston, Jamaica
Numazu, Japan
Pushkin, Russia

by **Predaprince** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:58 pm

Shadowman wrote:
Predaprince wrote:We not only have the same name as Toledo, Spain, but are the only two international sister cities.

Nope. Kalamazoo, MI, (My town) has:

Kingston, Jamaica
Numazu, Japan
Pushkin, Russia

Very well.

by **Big_Bot** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:03 pm

Barrow is where this movie/comic is set in:

Some shooting was done up here for, which Arnold Schwarzenegger came up for:

And an episode of Wild Boyz was shot up here.

...That's about it.

by **Grendel** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:00 pm

the guy who played Indigo Montoya lives in my current town, before i moved, i lived on the same street Hacksaw Jim Duggin grew up on, and the town nearby where I used to work milla jovovitch had a summer home

News Credits: 10 · by **sniper_samurai** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:59 pm

I live in Newtownmountkennedy and its claim to fame is hosting the Irish Open 3 times, was shortlisted for last years Ryder Cup and has had scenes from a few films like Braveheart, Reign of Fire(one of my mates was an extra in it) and King Arthur filmed in it. The hq of the Irish forrestry board, Coilte, is alos situated here.

Famous people, Stephen Gaitely of Boyzone used to live here and built a studio in his house and Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawne got hammered in the local pub a few years ago on Paddys Day.

News Credits: 1 · by **Jeep?** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:01 pm

sniper_samurai wrote:I live in Newtownmountkennedy and its claim to fame is hosting the Irish Open 3 times, was shortlisted for last years Ryder Cup and has had scenes from a few films like Braveheart, Reign of Fire(one of my mates was an extra in it) and King Arthur filmed in it. The hq of the Irish forrestry board, Coilte, is alos situated here.

Famous people, Stephen Gaitely of Boyzone used to live here and built a studio in his house and Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawne got hammered in the local pub a few years ago on Paddys Day.

If Kurt Russel wanted to have gay sex with me I would so do it.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:25 pm

Oh, and Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees used to live in my town, and even went to the same high school that I went to.

If I remember right, my sister knew his sister.

by **Homer** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:41 pm

Jesus Prime wrote:If Kurt Russel wanted to have gay sex with me I would so do it.

You could be his dirty little Lopan. Go ahead JP, take him down. Take him down to Chinatown.

On a related note, some of the actors I have met in town are:

Anthony Hopkins
Woody Harrelson (cool dude)
Katy Holmes (not as good looking in person)
Chris Klein (Oz from American Pie - cool dude)
Pat Hingle (Commissioner Gordon from the Batman movies)
Linda Lovelace (Alice from the tv show Mel's Diner)
Andy Griffith (what a prick he is, let me tell ya)
Kim Basinger

Also, Micheal Jordan's dad was murdered right outside of Wilmington, and Brandon Lee died here while filming The Crow.

Steve Buscemi was stabbed in the throat at a local bar downtown and Vince Vaughn got arrested while on a film shoot. Good times! Here's the article:

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,619552,00.html

News Credits: 4 · by **Real One** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:54 pm

Las Vegas, NV

To many to mention.

News Credits: 4 · by **Real One** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:00 pm

double post

News Credits: 2 · by **Philcom** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:11 pm

Southern California, too many things are films nearby there are signs everywhere indicating where filming is taking place. Universal isn't far and some of Transformers was filmed there. Things I've personally seem... ummm, the set to Cat in the Hat... well actually I don't remember much because it's so normal. My old high school was in a TV movie starring Alyssa Milano... Oh yeah, an episode of Dirty Jobs was in my city, one where Mike worked on concrete in a gas station.

by **Predaprince** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:57 pm

Homer Jay's post reminded me that Toledo, Oh also is the birthplace of Katie Holmes.

In fact, the oldest daughter of a family friend was good friends with her in High School and attended TomKat's wedding.

Like Me, Grimlock! on Facebook · by **Me, Grimlock!** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:02 am

Ottawa, Ontario here. Not much at all. But here's what I can scrounge together:

Birthplace of Tom Green (in fact, he went to my high school, but we were only there at the same time for a year)

Tom Cruise and Bryan Adams also went to my high school, but obviously years before me. In fact, I had Bryan Adams' The Merchant of Venice book... or at least someone who signed his name in it.

Matthew Perry, Belly, Sarah Chalke (from Scrubs), Dan Aykyroyd, Steve Yzerman Alex Trebek, Sandra Oh, and Peter Jennings, are all from here. But none of them are here now.

They filmed such bombs as Alien Resurrection and Batman and Robin here, any fourth movie of a series. Also they filmed River Rats here, which no one has probably heard of, but I caught it on a movie channel once and thought it was pretty good.

We're also home to the longest skating rink in the world, the Rideau Canal.