When in Doubt - Depp it Out

I was all set to say - I have nothing, and I would be forced to post some Johnny Depp photos that MAYBE you have not seen. BUT . . . . .

Now I have something.

Rumor is it that Public Enemies - The Movie, will be making Christmas 2008 debut. This sucks a little for our movie party festivities because weather now becomes a factor. Classic car people might not want to venture the drive because of weather concerns and the drive from Columbus and other parts around the U.S. could be treacherous.

It also puts the PE-C Book on a slightly elevated time line. Good for YOU guys, a little added stress for me!

In other news - YOU HEARD IT HERE SECOND! last week

Billy Crudup - who is playing Dr. Manhattan in the movie The Watchman has officially signed on to play Hoover in PE.

If you are not familiar with The Watchman.

The Watchmen was a twelve-issue comic book limited series written by Alan Moore.

Watchmen is set in 1985, in an alternative history United States where costumed heros are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (the Doomsday Clock is at five minutes to midnight). It tells the story of a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own. Watchmen depicts superheroes as real people who must confront ethical and personal issues, who struggle with neuroses and failings, and who - with one notable exception - lack anything recognizable as super powers.

Now the question I have is what did Billy Crudup wear in The Watchman ???????

I have the original 12 issues and the term graphic novel has a new meaning on some of those pages.

On another casting opinion. Is it me or is this movie filled with young hunks. Is Mann going for a certain audience?

In another "?" that has been above my head. Has anyone heard of filming dates AFTER Little Bohemia? I know filming was to be concluded at the end of June - what's next?????
---
I need your help. I have seen these photos on a few sites and I had them sent to me from someone who basically said she had a friend of a friend who knew a guy she worked with and had a co-worker take these photos.

I'm trying to track him or her down so I can put them in the book.

The first photo has Johnny Depp (oops - David Wenham) obviously disagreeing with Michael Man on the lunch selection. (I need Wenham photos!!)

I believe he was heard saying "I DO NOT LIKE BROCCOLI"

Here is Johnny coming from the local Subway
(Try the New Tender Roast Beef Sandwich for some guilt free indulgence)

Kitty B'gosh reporting from Oshkosh

April 2: THE SUNDIAL IS DOWN! Repeating: THE SUNDIAL IS DOWN! That's right. The sundial is finally gone. The wall that surrounds where it used to be is starting to be filled up with billboards. Word is the is supposed to be a wall surrounding a ballpark.

The New Moon got its new sign today as did some of the adjoining businesses. One even got a start at new window dressings. Not much changed today at The Exclusive Company(say it with me - damn! I can't stop that - sorry) , but some of the stores on Market Street got new signage. They are also starting to change out the street lights.

Very conflicting information on filming dates. Yesterday my information said Friday the 11th and Monday the 14th. The Oshkosh Northwestern even had the 11th in today's paper! Stopped into Satori Imports today to purchase one of their Dillinger tee shirts. The gal there said they were told the would have to be closed the 16th, 17th and 18th. They are only 2 doors down from the New Moon.

I talked with two gals from Darlington today. They go to UW-O and made a trip home for the filming there. They were in downtown Oshkosh today to check things out.

We are real uncertain as to what dates we are going to see filming. Today we were all hyped up to take off next Friday. Now with the news from the gal at Satori, we're back to being up in the air.

Kitty B'gosh - out!
------------
Personal drivel - you are allowed to skip this.

I am a new gardener. Living in apartments most of my life I never had the opportunity to do real gardening. When we moved into our first house it had flowers but I sort of ignored them.

When we built our house in Columbus I had a clean slate, not even grass. It's like I became a farmer of something. I watched the new grass grow and felt the need to get my hands dirty, I felt the need to take some dirt and taste it (I saw that in a movie once - yuch! why did I do that!).

Then I planted a small garden around the mail box. A few weeks later I made a corner in the back yard into a larger size garden and THEN late in the summer I started on my grand project - a 10x14 raised butterfly garden. Along the way we planted rose bushes and, burning bush's and Autumn Blaze Maple, two clumps of Heritage River Birch and a Don Wyman Flowering Crab.

So now I'm looking at the flower catalogs and getting pumped because I think spring is FINALLY arrived.

Anybody have a Sweet Autumn Clematis?? Do you like it? We're thinking of growing one starting at the base of our deck.

OK - I won't want ot have this blog like yesterdays that went on and on and on.

Rod

The Fish of April Strikes

Todays issue

The Fish of April
TY's amazing adventure to Little Bohemia
News from Oshkosh
I answers somebodies question
I've won the Euro Million Spanish Lottery

---------------------
It seems yesterday's little April Fools joke hit the Marion Cotillard boards in France pretty hard.

I was just looking to if see any sites that were linking to PE-C and came across a forum from France.

The forum reads (translated with using Bable Fish)

Certain sources report that Marion Cotillard would owe abandoned film because of the polemic of September 11. It will be replaced by Miss Better Midler"

Then the COMMENTS that followed (also translated with Bable Fish)!

One would say a fish of April... White beet Midler (the actress which owes the ' remplacer' at 62 years...)

You thinks? Jespere to put this information for nothing but if it is a joke it is really not terrible!

LOL if the actress who must replace it has 62 years it yes is a fish of April!! You saw it when this information?

I do not think that it is true, low in the article it is marked than they want to make a musical of it!!!!!

Veiled the source which is however serious with its practice. Good Ba I surely fell into the part will esperons!

A fish of April played by the team of Blog Public Enemies Columbus which diffused this intox:

After reading the comments I forced myself to comment and then translated it into French - THEN - I translated it BACK to English to see what I actually said.

Here is my reply

LOL - In America on April 1 is one day to play of the jokes of the people. I hope that I did not return you annoyed.

Didn't seem to clear things up a great deal as one person said to watch out for people like me. But most seemed to enjoy being the fish of April.

Of course I could not leave this "fish" thing alone. Was my universal translator on the fritz?

In France the person fooled is known as poisson d'avril (April fish). This is explained as arising from the fact that in April the sun's zodiacal sign is the fish. The French traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing dead fish on the backs of friends. (oh those wacky French). Candy shops and bakeries also offer fish-shaped sweets for the holiday.

The origins of April Fools day is debatable and is a relic with festivities on the vernal equinox, which began on 25 March, old New Year's Day, and ended on 2 April.

It was not until the beginning of the 18th century that April Fools day became a common custom.

In Scotland it is known as "hunting the gawk".

In 1957 the BBC ran a hoax showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest the spaghetti weevil had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees.

In 1965, the BBC again purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of odor over the airwaves to all viewers. Many viewers reportedly contacted the BBC to report the trial's success.

In 1998 Burger King ran an ad in USA Today, saying that people could get a Whopper for left-handed people whose condiments were designed to drip out of the right side. Not only did customers order the new burgers, but some specifically requested the "old", right-handed burger.
--------------------------------
TY's amazing adventure to Little Bohemia

Ok so seeing as I have no life what's so ever and work is slow I drove the 2 hours up to little Bohemia today...only to find out they do not open till 5. BUT being the intrepid person I am I stuck around the Nort woods till 5.

Had a wonderful steak and chatted it up with the bartender and the paramedic for the PE shoot, he is from Columbus.

ANYWAY..they are repainting the whole outside. They took out thirty four some windows and put in new old ones. This includes the windows that were preserved from the actual shootout. They packed them double sided with Styrofoam with screws going through the bullet holes to tighten the foam down so the windows would not be damaged(sixty some panes of glass).

They are building fake walls inside where they are shooting so they can do bullet holes and what not. Filming will be inside and out. They've taken all the Dillinger memorabilia out except a suit of his and a long jacket hanging in display cases. Everything modern has been taken out of the place. The bar will be changed to look older and all flat screen TV's will be taken out and furniture from the Voss resort which is period..brought in.

Locals said it looked so different already. They are spending somewhere around seventy thousand on just trees to cover the garage and other things! They are building a old school boat house like there was back in the day. Production is setting up enough squibs or whatever (that make the bullet holes) to do three takes...so thousands of them (people can not use cell phones because they might go off when they have them installed). All in all it was productive.

They are painting the place a darker color and are making the inside darker also. The crane that was mentioned outside is one of those bucket lifts that they are using to point and do windows etc, just like they had in Columbus. They put it up high at night so people do not mess with it cause the place is open at night.

No camera's anything yet but the snow is gone off one portion of the roof that I could see...with plastic over it...this may be for the fixing up they are doing or for other reasons. I guess when MM was up there visiting to check it out the owner took him on a snowmobile ride around the lake to show him everything!

Bartender was not sure when filming would take place but he guessed a couple more weeks...they have done a lot but have so much left to do!

I highly recommend the place for food. I had a Fillet Mignon and it was awesome!

I pretended I was just passing through and had no idea what was going on!:) worked well.

For more photos check out Ty's his photobucket.
----------------------------
Kitty B'gosh reporting from Oshkosh

Flashing signs on Main Street indicating the street will be closed from April 10 thru the 20th.

Talked to some of the people working on the set and here's what I found out:

One of the set guys, XXXXX from California, said they had to have everything done by the 10th. So filming must be starting sooner than previously reported. He said there will be a major transformation of Main Street to be seen by the weekend. XXXX was working on changing out some of the window dressings and awnings.

QQQQ is from Appleton WI and is with security. He says they are going to have explosives on the side of the bank for a big blow out. The wall that is being built around the sundial will be plastered with billboards. And he says the sundial will be coming down. That only makes sense because the top of the point is still visible over the wall.

Some the store windows have little photos taped to them showing what they are going to be transformed into (as with Columbus). I also noticed that all of the stores on Market Street (the street that runs on the other side of Opera House Square [Opera House Square is the green area adjacent to the Grand Opera House] from Main Street) have the transformation photos in their windows. There is also a blue tape in the window of the Water City Grill on Algoma that says "HOTEL"

Satori Imports has a few movie related items in their window that are for sale. One is a Dillinger tee shirt; the other a photo of Johnny Depp that they are calling a poster.

There's an old-fashioned WALGREEN'S sign by the side of the Exclusive Company (say It With Me - sorry, got carried away - rod). Looks like the Exclusive will become Walgreen's. Also saw a truck with a RED CROWN gas station sign in it (HEY - stolen from Columbus). That must be going up somewhere.

The New Moon is getting a new paint job today. The building right next door, House of Heroes, is the old Continental--a men's clothing store owned by Carl Leammle who later became one of the founders of Universal Studios.

Behind the old cycle shop that is being used for set construction I spied a truck unloading some set pieces. They where wrapped in blue covers, I couldn't see what they were.

Kitty - I left the Anastasia Beaverhausen stuff out as it might be secret.
-----------------------------------------
From the Chicago Sun-Times

Depp data: Precautions have been taken to prevent actor Johnny Depp from being accosted by uproarious fan congestion near the set of his latest movie, "Public Enemies," which is now being filmed in Chicago.

• To wit: To keep the Depp machine out of fan depth, film makers aren't allowing him to go into crowds like he did on location in Wisconsin and Indiana recently.

• The flipside: Although they are trying to keep shooting locations top secret, Sneed is told a shoot 'em up scene was shot last week at Surf Street and Pine Grove Avenue in the Lake View neighborhood and a police motorcade transporting Depp, who plays legendary gangster John Dillinger, was filmed at 35th and King Drive Monday night.
---------------------------
Someone asked the question about where I get all this stuff.

Many moons ago in the egg of time I heard about a movie being filmed in Columbus. I was desperately looking for information and finding none. I thought this was a travesty. Here I was in the internet age and I was finding no information.

I decided that what Columbus needed was a nexus of information on the movie. People were like bugs looking for light. (hmmmmm that would mean I am a zapper . . . .well . . you know what I mean).

So I started a small blog.

I emailed Nancy Osterhaus our mayor hoping she would remember me and my Columbus weather station. She did and turned me on to some information and another link to more information.

I launched the site on a Monday March 3rd and had 27 visitors. On Tuesday the 4th I had 133 visitors, Wednesday, 352. The following Monday 544 and one week later 3,542.

Along the way I was making contacts from around the world with people like me. Interested and thirsting for knowledge.

Information was coming in from everywhere, photos, behind the scenes people, personal accounts. All of a sudden I was not having to actually LOOK for information. My job had become sorting out what I was getting.

I was asked where I get the information? I get if from all of you people that are running the blog. All I do is figure out how to put it up in a way that is halfway entertaining.

In the past I have had a number of blogs where I just post what I'm feeling like today, be it lasagna gardens, building a home, my take on news items, sports, poker, my traveling adventures and so forth.

For instance - I had one post called Subprime 101 on my poker blog. I had started an extremely popular poker blog but could not resist installing some of my own Off Topic thoughts.

When I created THIS blog I told myself "I want this blog to be the best source of information on the movie for Columbus residents". Little did I know that this MIGHT be the best source of information for the entire movie! I'm pretty sure I have the attention of Universal (hi guys!).

It is "I" that needs to say thanks to you. It is you that make it fun everyday. I'm just the coal man on this train. I'm always shoveling it. Thanks and I hope the ride is fun. At least the price is right!
-------------
I got an email today saying I had won the Euro Million Spanish Lottery and I was just a few clicks away from claiming my Seven Hundred and Twelve Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty Euros.

WELL - I guess I AM the lucky guy aren't I! Be assured that the cash starved Auditorium Fund will reap some of this action and watch out Ho-Chunk because I'm coming up to double it as soon as it hits my bank account.
-----------
The BOOK - I have I believe seven or eight contributers now. If any of you have seen fliker or photobucket or any other web photos with a source - email me. I have gotten some good info in that way. I got an awesome photo of Jerry the Body guard a few days ago.

NEWS - GREAT photos from Chicago

Rod M

Confirmed - Bette Midler Joins Public Enemies

That's right, you heard it here first. I first heard this rumor a few days ago when my California contact emailed and said something was brewing. Then when another person emailed me last night saying there was a strange Bette Midler sighting near Manitowish Waters it all came together.

Reports are now saying Marion Cotillard, because of the 911 her controversy, has dropped out of the movie and is being replaced with The Divine Miss M. She will be Johnny Depps new love interest.

It has also been released that with the addition of Miss M and the emergence of Johnny Depp's singing prowess, Michael Mann will be making Public Enemies into a musical.
--------------------------------------------
The following might have a small amount of truthyness.

I want to give a shout out to our photographer extraordinaire Michelle. It seems she attached herself to a crane and was hanging upside down trying for one last superb photo and hurt her back. She has an MRI today and I pray all goes well and she is back soon.
-----------------------
TINY URL - on the right hand side.

If you are making a comment and want to post a LONG link. Use the TINY URL thing on the right hand side - works great. Put in the URL and click the button. You will go to a page with a TINY URL you can use. It's magic AND free. Works great!
-----------------------------
It seems Columbus photos are showing up in news magazines, People, InTouch and US Weekly so far from what Anonymous has told us. Perhaps somebody should check this out
------------------------
Nice post from Public Enemies - Midwest are there two Public Enemies Midwest? Will there be lawsuits? OH - I see - the other is Public Enemies AROUND the Midwest.
-------------------------
Speaking of the assumed 1933 Studebaker that all the newspapers were talking about. The one that Dillinger was suppose to have used in the bank robbery.

According to the Antique Studebaker Review

Probably not a big deal to the movie company or the museum owner but the car is not a '32 but a '31. It was never used by Dillinger or for that matter any other famous desperado. Just a nice old Commander for which someone wanted to maximize the value and made a few improvements and shot a few bullet holes in and took it on a tour to make a few bucks. It has been around for many years. I have talked to the guy who "created" it some years ago and wrote about it in The Antique Studebaker Review. It was for sale at Hershey maybe 8 years ago and of course making the unsubstantiated claim to its heritage.


This is the stunt Nash that they will crash in the movie. Sweet looking car - to bad they have to crash it.

It seems the only car left from the Public Enemies time is Bonnie and Clyde's shot up car.
------------------
News from Little Bohemia

Some of this is from IMdb and some is from another nameless source.

Saturday the parking lot was full of semi trailers and there was a crane next to the door. It looked as if the camera crane was facing the roof and the roof itself was entirely shoveled off.... strange for this are because of our outrageous amounts of snow... most people just shovel their overhangs. There were foot prints in what snow was left which led me to believe a rooftop scene... or filming down from the roof.

There are movie security all over and trucks are pulled up tight to Little Bohemia. A nameless waitress said "construction was for the film". The hotel has security and actors at the hotel and the occupancy will keep increasing steadily for a few weeks.

I'm assuming Universal will be renting the entire place.

The hotel has a webcam which I assume has a chance of being turned off at some point.

I also have reason to believe filming will be over by the 20th but . . . . as always dates are flexible.

Nice website (I think I'm locked out here at work) on Little Bohemia

------------------
On a side note - Channel 3000 out of Madison labels this blog as "Public Enemies (Unofficial website)". I like their font for the banner, hmmmmmm!
---------------------------
DJ and I are going to check out the Kurth Brewery (do they still make beer??) Friday after work (and after letting the dog out and so forth). If you're in the neighborhood stop down, we can sign songs of our village, hoist a few, laugh and slap people on the backs.
---------------------------
The Auditorium Fund

So for I have raised $26 and that is $26 that they did not have before. I'm getting about 1500 unique people a day reading this blog - if each of you sent $1 that would really really help this underfunded (actually NON funded) fund. All it takes is $1 (and a 0.42 cent stamp). There is an address on the right hand side. Say thanks to Columbus for staying old and bringing in the moving picture people.
--------------------
HOME MOVIES!!!!

I was looking through our families photo albums and found some old car photos. Anybody want to venture a guess on the makes?

I'm not sure who this is but it looks older then the 1933 cars

This is my dad looking a little ticked off. Can't really see the car. Sorry!


Here is my dad trying to drive from the OUTSIDE of the car with little success. They just don't make cars like that anymore. I remember we had a Packard with a push button transmission.


The dude on the left is my grandfather. He is a Menominee Indian and was becoming an honorary Winnebago (I MIGHT have that tribe wrong). I'm one quarter blooded Menominee Indian.

And last but not least is Melottes Melody Mixups!

Gotta a parade? I can guarantee you we would be in the Columbus 4th of July Parade if we could get the band together. Maybe we should have a reunion tour! I think it was all accordians.

Comment instructions

A note for my mom who reads the blog - there is a small line below this blog that says something like

Posted by Grinder at 8:11 AM 0 comments

if you left click the mouse on the "comments" you will go to the comment page where people can post their own comments. In the box on the upper right hand side is where you can type a comment. Once done you can click the circle next to "Anonymous". If you want people to know who you are you cam put "mom" in the comment box (or EV or whoever you want to be at the moment).

Comments are where the real action is!

Cheers - Rod