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Frinstance, I live in Chico, CA, which has quite a bit of a Hollywood connection. Amanda Detmer is from here. Her first professional acting job in front of the camera was the 1995 TV movie, "Stolen Innocence", starring Tracey Gold, and which was partially filmed here (I once passed a location they were shooting at while I rode a city bus to work--in front of a small gas station with a single engine plane fuselage sticking tail up over the entrance) and up the hill in Paradise (more on that later). You might best remember her from "Final Destinaton" as the blonde girl who gets hit by a bus. I never met Amanda but did ring her mom up at Target, where I work. When I noticed on the check she paid with that she had the same last name as Amanda I asked if she was her mom and she said yes.

The Sherwood Forest scenes of Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood were filmed in Chico's Bidwell Park. You can see some home movies made at the time if you get the 2-Disc Special Edition.

In 1974, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor stayed at a bungalow here while Burton was filming The Klansmen in nearby Oroville. What's scary about that (besides the godawful film itself) is that my then teen sister, Gina (a blonde), met and had a picture taken with a certain infamous former football-player-turned actor (in the very loosest meaning of the word) now best known for killing his blonde wife and a male friend of hers and getting away with it. My dad used to work for the phone company and installed a phone or two for Burton and Taylor, having said that Burton was a cussing, rude, mean drunk and Taylor was very apologetic for it. Oroville is also where Tom Selleck's An Innocent Man was filmed, at its prison.

Paradise, CA, also has some Hollywood connections besides "Stolen Innocence". It's home to former M.A.S.H. star, Gary Burghoff. Anyone remember the 1985 TV series, "Small Wonder", about a girl robot named Vickie? She was played by Tiffany Brissette, also from Paradise, and "Spy Kids" star, Carla Gugino, isn't from there but did live there for awhile as a kid, and it was when I lived there too! I've never met her though, or if I did then I don't remember it, which would've been a shame cuz she's still quite the cutie.

There are probably many more Hollywood connections hereabouts but it's late and I'm too tired to look. So, does anyone else out there in NitCentral Land have any Hollywood connections in their towns?

I know of a few movies that where filmed around here in Southern Ohio.

Harper Valley PTA was filmed up in Lebanon.

Rainman was filmed on 275 in northern kentucky, Boone County. The local police department was heavily involved in the film and even have a few autogrpahed pictures hanging in their department HQ. (I know because when i worked security I was briefly stationed at a site in Boone county and had to go to the HQ to get my kentucky security licence)
They also filmed some in cincinnati itself.

Cincinnati itself has had quite a few films done in it amazingly enough. I can't recall all of them, though. One that does stan out is Take this Job and Shove it. Beer, monster trucks and country music.

Wilmington has had a couple in them.

Dayton I think has had at least one.

One Hollywood Connection that Hillsboro has is that the Bar where Johnny Paycheck shot the guy is one I had gone into a few times. It was not a nice place and has been torn down and replaced with city offices a few years ago.

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Don't you oppress me!

Back in the fall of 1969 I moved to the small town of Tonopah, Nevada. We moved away in the spring of 1970. They filmed part of "Vanishing Point" there and in neighboring Goldfield that following summer. The parts shot there are where the religious group led by Severn Darden are singing by a large rock formation and the scenes of Cleavon Little and John Amos at the radio station. The first time I saw the movie, I went "Hey, I know that rock!".

Sorry, Stan. I only meant that those cities are of course about the most popular ones concerning Hollywood. I also forgot to mention Santa Cruz, CA, my birthplace, and where at least two 1980's films that I know of were made in: Sudden Impact and The Lost Boys, both having Beach/Boardwalk scenes. If interested here's some more info on the history of films and Santa Cruz.

Some of the filming for Silent Night, Deadly Night was done in Heber, Utah, my hometown. There's at least one scene, I believe, in which some kids from town were filmed as extras. The filmmakers said they were filming "a Christmas movie", so no one objected. Later, more than one parent was furious to learn that the little "Christmas movie" had been a bloody slasher flick all along.

Yes, I went to UCSC. And there's a nit in Sudden Impact. When Dirty Harry shoots the bad guy on the rollercoaster, the geography is such that he should fall onto the street (ok, the mini-railroad tracks next to the street), but instead he falls into the carousel.

Fun note: when Harry commandeers the church van, the downtown mall he goes through (IRL: Pacific Garden Mall) is a one-way street, and he's going the wrong way.

In 1985, Martin Sheen played Ed Zigo, the detective who caught Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz, in a TV film called Out of the Darkness. The film was partially filmed two blocks from my house here in Union City, NJ. The big apartment building on the corner of 18th ST. & Summit Ave. served as the (IIRC) the Queens Police Station, and it was really thrilling to see my neighborhood when the film aired on TV. My sister and her friends even got to meet Mr. Sheen during filming one day.

I know you said "No L.A." but...

Portions of "Apollo 13" were filmed at my daughters' pre-school (Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge, CA).

I think it was probably the school scenes for Lovell's son.

I was an extra in the TV-movie "Kent State" which was filmed at the college I was attending at the time (1980 - Gadsden State Junior College in Alabama). It was directed by James Goldstone, who directed the second Star Trek pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Ellen Barkin was one of the cast members. It was fun.

I'm just a few miles away from Southfork Ranch, a familiar location to fans of Dallas.

I like making movies in this area... but other than that, Tacoma, WA is pretty boring. 10 Things I Hate About You was filmed around here, though.

Ron Lester (the fat guy from Varsity Blues and Not another Teen Movie) went to my High School. Before he left he even signed a teacher's wall and told her some day I'll be famous and you'll want that.

I live in Los Angeles, so... yes, I'd say my town has Hollywood connections

I live 1 half hour from Woodstock, Ill. Where they filmed "Groundhog Day"

Oops... didn't look at the initial post on the board. Never mind.

They filmed Benny And Joon in Spokane.Also the Indie film The Basket was made in Eastern Washington.