Rushmore Day!

-
Did you know February 19th is officially Rushmore Day in Houston?

Last week I went to a 15th Anniversary screening of Rushmore at The Alalmo Drafthouse in Houston. The films star, Jason Schwartzman was in attendance to meet fans and answer questions before the film.  After the Q&A he was given a proclamation from Houston's Mayor naming February 19th Rushmore Day.



The reason for all of this was because Rushmore was filmed in Houston, and the director, Wes Anderson is a Houston native.  If you have never seen the film, you are really missing out.  Bill Murray is in it, what else do you need?

I wrote about the film a few years ago and took some "then and now" photos of the locations, you can see them here.

I also had the chance to meet Jason, here's the proof.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Blank Check House

-
Image
After the success of Home Alone movie studios did not waste anytime copying the formula (kid outsmarts bad guys).  While the worst offender was probably Three Ninjas, Disney was also guilty with Blank Check.  They even used it as a selling point!


I saw Blank Check in the theater, I remember because it was the only time in my movie going life that the theater manager came out and talked to us about how the movie was filmed in Texas (which is where I live).  So, on a recent trip to Austin, I stopped by the Blank Check house.
Here is how it appeared in the film:

And today:

As you can see, they've done quite a bit of remodeling. Not to mention the heavy plant growth which makes it almost unrecognizable.

The old garage door is now a window


The original entry way has been completely removed.

This is the front door now:

I drove around to the side and found the back gate open.  In the film, the back yard had a pool, go cart track, batting cages, and all sorts of bounce houses.  The new ow…
Read more

Back to the Twilight Zone: Part 2

-
Image
After the clock tower, the most important set in Hill Valley is probably the cafe. 

In the Twilight Zone, the area we know as being the cafe is a police station.

In 1985 Hill Valley, it's Lou's Aerobic Fitness Center.

The building has not changed that much since the Twilight Zone, all they really did was relocate the door and build that facade.  Funny how Lou went from owning a restaurant to a fitness center 30 years later.

Mike Ferris also takes in a movie at The Savoy.

The Marquee (and movie selection) was changed when this area became Hill Valley


A close up shows, that those busts have been there for quite a while.

One scene that really threw me off, was when Mike walked past a drug store.

It looks like the clock tower is behind him, and the reflection in the window looks like the post office building, but something about the geometry just didn't make sense to me.  I looked for more pictures of the set from this era and found out that an episode of Leave it to Beaver w…
Read more

Walt in Kansas City

-
Image
Well since tomorrow is Walt Disney's birthday I better make this post about him.  If you have read my previous post you know that I spent a rainy afternoon in Marceline Missouri.  What you do not know is that I spent that morning in Kansas City visiting Walt Disney landmarks as well.

Here is the house the Disney's lived in on Bellefontaine Ave.


As many of you might know, Walt made his first cartoons in a garage behind this house.  I did some research before my trip and saw that there was an alley behind Bellefontaine that would lead me to the garage!  The only problem was this wasn't the nicest neighborhood and some people were already standing on their porches staring at me taking pictures of a house.  I decided that I probably wasn't going to be in Kansas City again any time soon so I let them stare and I turned the corner and headed down the alley.
A car stopped and the woman inside asked me if i had been taking pictures of the house.  "That's my grandmas …
Read more