Almost made it to Prime Time!

Yesterday the new show Prison Break was filming in our sleepy burg outside Dallas/Ft. Worth. I went down to watch them shoot a scene or two. One was in a local business that's a combination jewelry store & BIG pawn shop (and he buys leftover "lots" at auctions & sells that type stuff to so it's more than a "pawn shop"). When I heard the director tell everybody to "beak down' from one shot and move there I thought maybe one of my striping jobs & maybe a sealcoat job next door would be on prime time TV, unfortunately all the shots there were indoors (and who knows, on TV it mat be portrayed as an entire different kind of store?) I'll have to watch the episode (4 episodes from now I think) and it's not "set" here, just used the buildings not the town. But if I watch carefully maybe there will be a glimpse of something I did. The only problem is our "old fashioned" downtown has only limited "on street" parking, and that's mainly where they were shooting, most all the actual lots downtown are behind the buildings...anyhow it was fun to have our downtown taken over by a TV crew... And while I have never watched the show and don't know the stars name, the main character (while they were resetting cameras) just strolled across the street with no bodyguards or entourage or anything and posed for pictures with with people (of course I didn't think to bring a camera), signed autographs, and really went to an extra effort to put his arm around a young teen-age girl in a wheelchair, getting on his knees next to her, putting his arm around her etc. so they could get a great photo. Whoever he is I was very impressed with him and how he just acted like a regular person, no "airs" at all, no "attitude", and was just very friendly and really went out of his way for everyone until a crew member came over and apologized to everyone and said "Sorry I've got to put him back to work now". So totally opposite of may of the TV personalities you see pushing people aside like they were nothing. With all their truckloads of equipment and a hundred people or so doing lighting, props etc. I was very amazed at how personable & friendly all of them were, the only time they didn't allow people right "up close" to the filming was when it might have endangered spectators if some big sun shield had blown over or camera carriages had to have room to move etc. Nothing to you big city folks but first time I can recall a Prime Time TV show filming here (although in it's "resort" heyday many radio shows with the "big bands" like Benny Goodman and such came from here...WAY before my time )

that is a awesome show... ranks up with Lost!