<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><br><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Greetings,</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">If you get a message from Boston Casting; We want to use you and your car as extras in an upcoming film, "Labor Day." $120.00 per day!</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"> Sounds cool huh! John Teixeira thought so too. I received an e-mail from Boston Casting looking for cars from the 60'-80's and contacted John to see what he thought. I knew he had done it a month or so ago. What an ear-full I got. He's still cleaning his car. He'd to pass this along as his first hand account as to how the cars and <em>the extras</em> were treated on a scene shoot in Sutton, MA yesterday. You may be approached but may want to re-think after reading John's story below<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ray B'</span></span><br><br><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">Yes Ray, they called me. I along with 6 other people one of which was
Lionel's sister worked the movie yesterday. They wanted the cars to look
dirty so they dampened the cars and sprayed them with a powder they
said would wash right off. After 2 hours of cleaning I got it all off
the exterior of the car. I haven't started on the interior yet. But that
wasn't the worst part of the day. The shooting was easy we parked the
cars in various spots in yards and in front of a bus terminal. We were
even in some scenes as background people.</p>
<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">At 2:00 we broke for lunch and returned to holding, which was the
middle school in Sutton, MA. We ( seven car people) all got our trays
and plate and headed to the buffet table with the rest of the cast and
crew and we were stopped and told we had to wait until everyone else
(the union folks) had eaten. They had us stand against the wall with
trays in hand for 25 minutes even during times when no one was in line.
It was humiliating. Once all were fed we were allowed to eat. There was
plenty of food and quite a good spread of food. </p>
<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">When Boston Casting called today I told them about the incident. The
young man apologized for the poor treatment and said he would report it
to his superiors.</p>
<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">Given they are sending out e-mails again, I assume no one from
yesterday was willing to come back. By the way, the pay is $64 for 8
hours work and $20 for the use of the car, and they deduct a 1/2 hour
for lunch.</p>
<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">I wish we could get the word out to other clubs and tell them how the
treat us and our cars. You have a large base of influence with other
clubs, perhaps you can get word to them.</p>
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☺ John </span><hr style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);" id="zwchr"></div></div></div></div></body></html>