BRIDGEWATER - The early morning staged aircraft explosion here attracted its share of
eager would-be spectators hoping for a show of Hollywood magic.
But the stargazers who hung around long enough to see a broken 727 fuselage go up in
flames at 5:30 a.m. were a die-hard few.
Dozens of locals set up camp near Curve Street, where Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz
were filming part of their new movie “The Untitled Wichita Project.”
A “Curve Street Residents Only” sign and detail officers kept wannabe onlookers out of
the filming area, a 263-acre farm. Said Kevin Chiocca, a retired Bridgewater police
lieutenant: “We’re just here to see that the well-meaning curiosity-seekers don’t
interfere with the production.”
Chiocca said several had been arrested for trespassing by midnight. Those who opted
not to go to jail congregated at lookout spots on Auburn and Summer streets.
Carol Blackden, 52, of Bridgewater, said she’d been hanging around all week in hopes
of reliving her days as an extra on such locally shot movies as “Witches of Eastwick.”
“Mercury is in retrograde right now, and usually you want to recapture the past,” said
Blackden, a former Navy photojournalist and now a fortune teller. “I’m trying to go
down memory lane and see if I can recapture my youth.”
It would be a long stretch of idle staring. By 4 a.m., many took to beeping horns,
flashing lights and yelling, “Start the fire!”
By 4:30 a.m., 18-year-old Tony Lopez of Raynham gave up, calling the experience “cold
and disappointing.” His friend Mike Moynahan, 17, of Bridgewater, hung on until 5:20
AM. “I figured it’d be something fun, but it was a very long experience of nothing,” he
said.
Just 10 minutes later, the few bystanders with star-powered stamina were jarred out of
semi-consciousness with a glowing fireball and thunderclap followed by a mushroom
cloud of smoke, all highly visible from a field off Summer Street.
“Awesome,” said John Falvey, 39, of West Bridgewater, who had just gotten off work
as a trucker. “I expected it to be more of a cheesy gasoline fireball. It was a legitimate
explosion. Very intense.”
eager would-be spectators hoping for a show of Hollywood magic.
But the stargazers who hung around long enough to see a broken 727 fuselage go up in
flames at 5:30 a.m. were a die-hard few.
Dozens of locals set up camp near Curve Street, where Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz
were filming part of their new movie “The Untitled Wichita Project.”
A “Curve Street Residents Only” sign and detail officers kept wannabe onlookers out of
the filming area, a 263-acre farm. Said Kevin Chiocca, a retired Bridgewater police
lieutenant: “We’re just here to see that the well-meaning curiosity-seekers don’t
interfere with the production.”
Chiocca said several had been arrested for trespassing by midnight. Those who opted
not to go to jail congregated at lookout spots on Auburn and Summer streets.
Carol Blackden, 52, of Bridgewater, said she’d been hanging around all week in hopes
of reliving her days as an extra on such locally shot movies as “Witches of Eastwick.”
“Mercury is in retrograde right now, and usually you want to recapture the past,” said
Blackden, a former Navy photojournalist and now a fortune teller. “I’m trying to go
down memory lane and see if I can recapture my youth.”
It would be a long stretch of idle staring. By 4 a.m., many took to beeping horns,
flashing lights and yelling, “Start the fire!”
By 4:30 a.m., 18-year-old Tony Lopez of Raynham gave up, calling the experience “cold
and disappointing.” His friend Mike Moynahan, 17, of Bridgewater, hung on until 5:20
AM. “I figured it’d be something fun, but it was a very long experience of nothing,” he
said.
Just 10 minutes later, the few bystanders with star-powered stamina were jarred out of
semi-consciousness with a glowing fireball and thunderclap followed by a mushroom
cloud of smoke, all highly visible from a field off Summer Street.
“Awesome,” said John Falvey, 39, of West Bridgewater, who had just gotten off work
as a trucker. “I expected it to be more of a cheesy gasoline fireball. It was a legitimate
explosion. Very intense.”
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Hard-core Hollywood fans catch action at movie-set blast
by Roland Hansen
by Roland Hansen
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The result of a reported 350 gallons of gasoline
being ignited is shown in a Bridgewater corn
field as part of a movie plane crash in the
upcoming ’Wichita’.
being ignited is shown in a Bridgewater corn
field as part of a movie plane crash in the
upcoming ’Wichita’.