OMG Sheepy this is so exiting! And my hair is now carmel blond too! That sounds like so much fun to be an extra! Are you interested in acting, or is it just for fun? Oh let me know how it goes. Maybe you will get the bigger extra part next time. Have you ever been able to pick your face out on TV?

MG are you talking about the medical show ER or something entirely different?

You guys, I have been home all day with strep throat. I am missing a test and I am BORED. ( I must really have a fever because I just spent 2 minutes looking for a doctor emoticon that I was sure existed but it's not there. I can see it in my mind- he had a clown nose and a circle doctor reflector thing on his forehead... )

They called me back only 20 minutes later, they still wanted me for the somewhat extra-extra part.
They aren't sure they'll be shooting the scene tomorrow, but I should bring the right close anyway and some more clothes for just being an extra.!!

Yes, people did pick me out of an audience several times. (I was an extra at a concert -YES, THAT'S RIGHT: A CONCERT) I had to waltz and sing along and clap and man, did I got recognized....
But this is very exciting. Really curious about tomorrow...
Makes me needy for a cigarette though!! LOL

That's not a doc, that's a cliniclown!

Something different, it's just a variation. Belgium's hospital series.

That's not a doc, that's a cliniclown!

Sheepy you must let us know how it goes tomorrow! I'm so exited for you! It's not everyday someone gets to do this. It sounds very fun. Between your cool job and being an extra, your life sounds pretty exiting! I'm so jealous because I'm sick and housebound, and I'm jealous of anyone who can breathe through their nose and leave the house. And I'm p*ssed off because Sanjaya got voted off American Idol tonight. Let the weeping and gnashing of teeth begin...I think I'll bum a cigarette off ya right now...

Good luck tomorrow and have loads of fun Sheepy!!! (I'll just live vicariously )

PS- OMG a cliniclown, you said! I finally found the emoticon that I thought was the clown doctor.... this one. See he looks like a clown nose and a doctor reflector on his head...

HEY! That's KEEEEWL!

YEAH! Sheepy!!

Hey Sheepy, that sounds like fun.

The training department that I work in has been teaching emergency responder course for the last two months. They do a big mock exercise that simulates a car accident or soem other major event. Today we did a big chemical explosion. I have been playing victim in the events, and I get to do all the really gory injury make up. I'm actually getting really good at it. I gave one guy a serious head injury with broken glass sticking out and everything. It was way cool and too much fun. I can't beleive i'm getting paid for this!!!

In my previous post close =clothes, but I think you figured that one out already, hah?

Devon, don't feel alone in this: the barch trees are giving me a hell of a hard time too! Nose is stuffed and eyes ae tearful!

Grrl, in my days as flight attendant we did mock excercises as well. Fire and rapid decompressions and all. I always liked it....

Ohhhh Sheepy don't tell me this! You were a flight attendant?! Now I'm really jealous of your exiting life! I have wanted to be a flight attendant since as long as I can remember...Please tell me you loved it. I want to hear all about it. I realize the job would be very demanding, but oh all the people you would meet and the places you would go! It sounds like a dream job. (OK don't shatter my illusions by writing it was hell in the sky or something! )

Yeah I have allergies too in addition to raging strep throat...it sucks. But at least in my quarantine today I got to complete my homework for the next two weeks!

Hahaha Devon, I can guarantee you I LOVED the job! Absolutely loved it!
I worked for a regional airline whuch has gone bankrupt after 9/11.
Though I never went outside Europe, except for Northern Africa and Asia (as in: no further than Turkey) it was brilliant.

I loved the turbulence, the people I've met, the interaction with the rest of the crew, the overnights hehehe.

I'm an "Aviaddict", I even love the smell of kerosine!

OK you have officially lived my dreams...I'm serious. Every time I'm on a flight and they do that pre-flight demo of the life jackets, I think why isn't that me up there. I think I have just the soothing voice to put nervous travelers at ease. And I'm cheerful and pleasant and I just think I could do a really good job, while simultaneously living a life of high adventure. Now do flight attendants have to be certain height requirements? I think I heard somewhere you have to be tall? Do you have to wear perfect makeup all the time? (Please say yes). It just sounds so glamorous than boring life on the ground. I would love to sit in the galley and hang out with the other attendants. Then go out at night in a new city...sigh...

Have you ever thought about becoming a pilot? What is the training course for flight attendants?

That is funny you love the smell of kerosene! That's like me and gymnastics- I think the smell of crumbled chalk is the most beautiful smell in the world...

LOL! Yes I AM thinking of becoming a pilot. The only problem is... you know the expression "having a hole in your hand" as in: I can't save money, I have to spend it?
Well, my hand is practically transparent. And getting your PPL or CPL
(private pilot's license / commercial pilot's license) is quite expensive.

The course to become a flight attendant isn't that hard. Well, it wasn't for me.
If you're a sociable person who can use common sense when in a stressful situation then your suitable for the job.

Perfect make up, I'll say yes just to please you, *GRIN*

Have I've ever had to deal with agressive, drunk, nasty passangers? YUP.
Tip: waer stiletto heals, hehehe. You can always threaten them with those. (okay, you're not allowed to, but I did and it worked for me)

Yes, I'm familiar with the "hole in hand" syndrome. Quite, I'm afraid.

Well I hope you can become a pilot someday. As to raising funds for training...do you ever play lottery? It's worth a shot- even a long one!

I wasn’t an extra yet but I was seen in TV a few times already myself. One time I happened to walk down a street where they filmed a new game show. People were standing around in a circle and the moderator picked one for playing once in a time. One time he came directly towards me but then luckily picked the woman before me. But my face was clearly seen in TV, unfortunately I didn’t have a video recorder back then.

Then I also once was at an autograph session of an local actor and they said we should stand behind him so that they could get nice shootings. And the third time I was at an Open Air concert but you only can see me from behind there since of course they filmed the stage and not the audience. These two I taped.

Not too long ago I came back from lunch to work and saw a camera team take off. I immediately knew why they had been there without being told since my co-worker was working for a new party at that time. So I taped the news that evening and surely enough, there was an interview with him.

My mother once was interviewed for TV also when she was a teenager, have to track that down yet. But I got a tape from the archive when my uncle was in a game show in the early eighties. He’s long dead now but it was nice to see him again.

I’m also always there when they make a movie in my hometown, I like to see all the people in costume and what they do to the streets to make them look older. Not too long ago they did a movie about the 13th February of 1945 when the whole town was destroyed by air-raid and it was very impressing what they did there.

Yesterday was so cool!
The actors were so nice (the male is quit sexy even) and it was a warm sunny day.
I had to put on completely black clothing for my extra-extra part (first let me tell you I NEVER wear black)
But the scene was skipped... So they put me in a few other scenes (they double a lot of extra's ; apparantly the viewers don't notice it because they are paying attention to the main characters)
One scene I had to jump out of the way of a speeding motorbike. And in another scene I had to jump away from a slipping car. (I'm not just as an extra, I'm a stunt-extra LOL)
It was fun, it took a lot of waiting and some of the extra's kept complaining. Whiners.
It was very nice.

The best color around, and you don't wear it?

Cool! A stunt sheep
It all sounds very exciting. good on you Sheepy!

Oh my! That just flashed some seriously wacky pictures in front of me.

You know, there is a very funny show in Germany, actually for children but I think adults have much more fun seeing it and laughing about all the references to famous movies and such.

It is about Bernd the bread, Briegel the bush and Chili the sheep, and this is indeed a stunt sheep, she's making all the dangerous things. I just pictured her when I read this

Hmmz... I got the pics from the day of filming and I could post them here. But I really look like I have been dead for 3 days.
These are prob my worst pics ever.

AWWWWW C'MON! Post them.

Naaah... you guys remember me now as of my pic with Amanda and Rick and I was quite satisfied with that.
But in these pics I don't have any make up on and I'm dressed like a man (they had asked me to do so for that certain scene they skipped later on...)
My head looks like I got hit by a bus or something!

No, I'm not joking. We all have our really bad days. Well, I guess thThursday was one for me.

And they dressed you in black?

Yes...

I'm so bummed I look that awful in those pics as it has been such a cool day.


DANG!!!

Ran into the male actor again while I was on a night out.

We drank something together, all women around Anna and me were green with envy.
He's a normal man by the way. Handsome, but just like every other man.

Anna has dated a soap star who has started calling again and she's on cloud #9 but he's so not worth anybody's time. He's a moron. But she just likes him because he's "famous".

Now for all of you: which famous star would you like to date.
RDA is not an option. Too obvious.
So let's hear it!

That deserves it's own thread.

Hey Devon, I remember Punky Brewster! I only saw it a few times, but I remember thinking it was cute.

I do agree with the 80's being a simpler time. Then again, we were kids. Everything was simpler when you were a kid.

Ah MacGirl, Punky Brewster!!! I just remember loving Punky and her fiestiness and I wanted to be her!

I am dying to ask everyone their favorite movies! Would anyone want to discuss their favorites?

One of my favouritest movies ever is the old thing from 1938 "Bringing Up, Baby" - the one with Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and the leopard http://imdb.com/title/tt0029947/

It's just too funny and I watch it every time it is in TV. Despite I'm already able to speak the dialogues by myself

I've never seen this one, but I know of the title and that it's a really famous one. Anything with Cary Grant is good! My fave old movie is "Breakfast at Tiffany's". I think I've seen it a thousand times...

My fave movies in no particular order...
"Legends of the Fall"
"Garden State"
"Lord of the Rings"
"King Arthur"
"What the Bleep Do We know?"
"House of Sand and Fog"
"Freddy got Fingered"
"Borat"
"Million Dollar Baby"
and "The Believer"
Also anything and everything by Jean-Luc Goddard.

Anyone like any of these, or care to share your own?

Well the movies worth mentioning in no specific order.

King Kong
The Fast and The Furious I-III
Casino Royale
Predator (Heck, almost everything with Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Superman Returns
Blood Diamonds
Rocky I-VI (Heck, almost everything with Sylvester Stallone)
Bad Boys I-II

Those are pretty recent films but in short, I actually like all kind of movies. If you ever see my dvd collection you'll notice it's mainly action/adventure. Not many comedies. However Ben Stiller and Will Ferrel cracks me up in almost all their films. The only comedies I got are: The Breakfast Club, Road Trip and Sixteen Candles. John Hughes has pretty good films about coming of age, learning to deal with yourself. Really something for MacGyver.

To my own opinion, I like dark and violent films. Films like Ricochet, Sin City or Hostel, they're sexy, brutal and still fun. So I'm no stranger to look at torture scenes or bloody and gory scenes.
That's the way I like them. Dark, violent and if possible even a bit erotic. It doesn't always have to be like that I enjoy the Indy films very much and others a like. But there are several recipe's in movies I like. One time I think that action and comedy are the best hybrids around. Nothing better than a rousing action scene with fast cars crashing and flying throught the air followed by hilarious jokes. The next time I might say that horror and comedy are the best hybrids around. Lately I'm beginning to like more and more the talkative films like Crash and The Breakfast Club is also one of those. But if there's one genre I really hate it's the romantic comedy genre. It disgusts me. Though there are exceptions like Just Like Heaven.

This is my dvd collection!

16 Blocks
48 Hours
The Abyss
Alive
Armageddon
Back to the Future
Back to the Future part II
Back to the Future part III
Bad Boys
Basic Instinct
Beverly Hills Cop
Bird on a Wire
Black Rain
Blown Away
Braveheart
The Breakfast Club
Cliffhanger
Con Air
Conspiracy Theory
Copland
Dante's Peak
Dead Again
Dead Calm
Death Race 2000
Deep Rising
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Eight Legged Freaks
Eraser
Fair Game
The Fast and the Furious
2Fast 2Furious
3Fast 3Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fatal Attraction
FC De Kampioenen reeks 1
FC De Kampioenen reeks 2
Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Flatliners
The Fly
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Friday the 13th
The Fugitive
Godzilla
Hard Rain
Hell's Kitchen N.Y.C.
Independence Day
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jaws
Judge Dredd
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park II: The Lost World
Jurassic Park III
Ken Park
Kids
Killing Me Softly
Last Action Hero
The Last Boyscout
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 4
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lost Special: The Journey
MacGyver Season 1
MacGyver Season 2
MacGyver Season 3
MacGyver Season 4
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Magnum PI Season 1
Magnum PI Season 2
Magnum PI Season 3
Metro
Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
Mulholland Drive
National Treasure
The Passion of the Christ
Platvoet en zijn vriendjes (The Land Before Time)
Point Break
Predator
Predator 2
Quatermain Collection: King Solomon's Mines
Quatermain Collection: Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
The Quick and the Dead
Rambo Trilogy: First Blood
Rambo Trilogy: First Blood part II
Rambo Trilogy: Rambo III
Ricochet
The Ring
Road Trip
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V
The Simpsons Season 1
The Simpsons Halloween Special
Sin City
Sixteen Candles
Sleepy Hollow
Sliver
Speed
De Speurneuzen (The Great Mouse Detective)
Stealth
Superman Returns
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Thin Red Line
Tomb Raider
Total Recall
Videodrome
Windtalkers
Xena Warrior Princess: Orphan of War, Remember Nothing, Giant Killer
Xena Warrior Princess: A Friend in Need part 1 & 2