![]() ![]() ![]() WTF? Reduced to a simmering Kid Icarus in denial, Powers moves back home to North Carolina with his older brother and his family. And banging prostitutes wearing the Scream mask. The buzz is back, making Eastbound even more of a celebration.įor those of you who haven't illegally downloaded the show's leaked pilot-McBride's lines like "You mean, Jew York?" and "You're F***ing Out!" were drunkenly quoted to me by local film students during my barhopping seshes in "Wilmywood"-in the series McBride plays Kenny Powers, a former champion Major League Baseball pitcher with a major league penchant for cocaine and soundblasts. Today, the city's major studio, EUE Screen Gems, is in the midst of constructing the largest soundstage east of California, in addition to a massive $175 million water tank for blockbuster features. Good." Tourists still partake in a local Blue Velvet tour. If you resided here in the '90s, you might have heard things like, "I saw Katie Holmes getting a haircut," "Brandon Lee got shot!", "Steve Buscemi got stabbed.at a bar," and "Vince Vaughn got banned. The coastal city of Wilmington remains off the map to the casual moviegoer, but in the film industry it's oft-referred to as "Hollywood East." In the early '80s, mega-producer, Dino De Laurentis, brought the Drew Barrymore cult flick, precociously entitled Firestarter, to the region, and ended up permanently setting up shop. It's like they're scraping the tip of the ice berg of what the region is all about. And in places like New York, that's just what the South is. "The way the South is portrayed in Hollywood, they shoot it in Van Nuys, and everyone yuks it up. When we started shooting, we didn't want a bunch of kids from Burbank putting on f***ing Southern accents. We're having a f***ing blast and if we could, I would seriously make every movie in Wilmington. "I like being in the South, I was born here. "This is not some Blue Collar Comedy Tour s***," laughs McBride, during a break. ![]()
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