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Listen to the latest songs , only on JioSaavn. Between takes, Guttenberg soaked up his older co-stars' knowledge. And I have six or seven of them telling those stories, sitting around eating salami sandwiches between takes. In those days, Pinellas County didn't have a film commissioner to scout locations, shepherd permit requests or assist production needs. So the job of city liaison fell to Gretchen Tenbrock, a go-getting new member of the economic development department.
Once, the producers asked if she could do anything about the noisy military jets flying overhead. I said: Would you mind? We're filming over here. They were like: 'Excuse me, but no. Most requests weren't so bold - arranging extra garbage pickups and closing streets for film crews.
Zanuck's staff handled other duties, such as setting up accommodations for the cast and crew at the former Hilton Inn on what was then called St. Petersburg Beach. Taking up nearly half of the hotel's rooms, along with catering expenses, location rentals and incidentals, the production pumped some of the film's budget into the local economy. An exact amount of Cocoon's local financial boon isn't known.
Florida's film industry didn't have today's system requiring such bookkeeping. Part of that impact was Guttenberg's golfing fees and tabs at watering holes like Silas Dent's, the Hurricane, the Hilton's revolving rooftop bar and Bennigan's, when it was still cool. Sundays were days off when everyone could be tourists, visiting the Dali Museum, Sunken Gardens and a London Wax Museum that later folded, or being bused to Busch Gardens.
Sunday brunch at the Don CeSar hotel was a popular start. Dennehy preferred long sightseeing drives. Stapleton hung around the Hilton lobby gathering anyone she could to play a trendy new board game called Trivial Pursuit. Howard relaxed at Fort De Soto Park with wife Cheryl - pregnant with twins - and 3-year-old daughter and now actor Bryce Dallas Howard, who spent her weekdays at a Pasadena day care center.
Brimley left town with the best souvenir, a pound tarpon caught offshore from the Hilton. The oldest actors usually chose to be away-from-homebodies; dinners at Leverock's or the Lobster Pot, and early bedtimes after brushing up on the next day's lines. All except Dennehy, whose arrest for driving under the influence provided a minor scandal that would be calamitous today. In the early hours of Oct. Guttenberg was his passenger. The officer's report stated the actor "smelled strongly of alcohol, staggered as he walked and did poor ly on balance tests.
Petersburg city jail. Petersburg police. I told them: Look, the officer did me a favor. I should've let Steve drive and I didn't because I'm dumb, Irish and willful. The charge was a misdemeanor, and celebrity gossip was a decade from becoming an Internet industry. Dennehy awoke the next morning, posed for photos with several officers and went back to work. The first scene that was filmed didn't make the final cut. On Aug. Florida's wet summer weather became a factor in the filming from day one.
In his DVD commentary, Howard points out that a signature scene - Guttenberg and Welch's characters having extraterrestrial sex in the pool - was filmed while a tropical storm raged outside. Like much of Cocoon, that scene was filmed on a closed set, in this case the Boca Ciega Bay home of Dr. Chester and Doris Babat, rented by the production and renovated, including a temporary structure over their outdoor pool. Also pleasurable, in a lower key, is the way that the men discuss their new found youth with the women in their lives including Maureen Stapleton and Jessica Tandy.
Of course there has to be a youthful element in a summertime movie, and. They wind up having a love scene that is absolutely modest and absolutely delightful, proving--as if it needed to be proved--that less can be more in the movies. But to his credit, child-actor-turned-director Ron Howard ''Splash''. There have been reports that he allowed his older cast to improvise many of their scenes together, and why not?
Cooke Update Cast. L X is our radical new locations feature that we've been beavering away on.. For years! Most importantly, the locations will have a status that shows whether they are verified correct and by whom. We are working with the actual locations managers or other crew where possible. The whole thing will be very interactive and you will, of course, be able to update everything. L X Preview. South; St. Petersburg, FL It was the same address as shown in the movie--no effort to disguise it.
Looked much the same as it did in the movie until it was torn down. No mansion next door. That must have been another location edited in to look like a neighboring home. I took down the address from the movie and my wife and I went there to check it out as we have a condo not too far from the place and met the couple whose unit was used to film their cottage.
They were very nice and we took some pictures by the building then went to the club house where the other scenes were filmed. While there, we were invited to dinner by a sales rep trying to get us to buy into it , so we went back the next evening with another couple and had dinner there and talked about the changes to the place, had a great time and loved the movie.
The current owners grandfather owned the dock area when the movie was filmed, you can see the words "Worlds Famous Johns Pass" on the building in the back ground as they are renting the boat. A few miles south of downtown.
There are pictures on the wall of Ron Howard and the cast. The restaurant is exactly the same as it was when the movie was shot.
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