THE MOVIE STAR When my mother lived in Century Village in West Palm Beach she heard that a movie director was looking for people to act as extras in a film he was making. The movie was Black Sunday, it was about a group of terrorists who hi-jack the Goodyear blimp and try to crash it into the Super Bowl game. The movie was being shot in Miami in the football stadium there. My mother thought it would be excit- ing so she signed up. I think she believed she would have a speaking part. She took the bus with other extras all the way to Miami. When she arrived they marched her and the others high up in the stands. She didn’t particularly like that. Then, at lunch time, they marched her all the way down again just to serve her a hot dog. Then they wanted her to go all the way back up again. That was enough for my mother. She told them thanks but no thanks. And that was the end of her movie career.
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