NAVEL GAZING: We’ve Seen Famous People!

Our inspiration for this edition of our podcast is none other than Derby resident Markanthony Izzo, who got a spot as an extra in Broken City,” a Russell Crowe-Mark Wahlberg vehicle currently in theaters.

Izzo’s star turn got Eugene to thinking about the many times he’s visited movie sets as a reporter eager to get a story.

And after a minutes-long, diversionary discussion of Al Pacino and John Cusack, we get down to talking about them.

Ethan has never done any movie-set-visiting, so instead he tries to fill time with stories of celebrities he happened to have seen in passing at various points in his life and also vicarious accounts of similar run-ins provided by friends.

Eugene has much more experience being a movie set gadfly, and catalogues those visits extensively, from being afraid of a Pollock-portraying Ed Harris (who wouldn’t be?) as a cub reporter in Westchester County to an incident of borderline sexual harassment perpetrated against him by Robin Wright-Penn in Danbury.

Then, Ethan laments not trying to see Elisha Cuthbert on the set of a movie shot a few years ago in New Milford, Eugene relates the story of how he got his lone IMDB credit, and he also reports details of the presence of location scouts for an independent horror movie in Ansonia recently.

Undeterred by the fact that the podcast was already 25 minutes long by that point, from there we pivot to a brief discussion of news that came out today about a reality TV show based on a community newspaper. We’ve volunteered Valley Indy offices to be featured in the show, but won’t hold our breath.

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