L&O likes to use real street names, but to avoid hassle, they use addresses on that particular street that don’t really exist. They used to piss me off when I was in law school. I lived in BK Heights and they regularly filmed there at night outside my window. I’d be trying to get some sleep but couldn’t due to bright lights shining in the windows and Sam Waterston yelling.
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Edith (on phone, trying to give someone directions to the Bunkers’ house): From where you are, can you see Astoria Boulevard? … You can? …. Then you’re lost.
Edith must have been on the phone trying to give me directions.
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Always disorienting when tv or film mangles geography in places you know. (Squid and the Whale was pretty dead-on, though.)
i just saw an episode of law an order where they did that. they had a scene on the corner of layfayette and prince street… but on the corner was a giant school, and it looked like a suburb. it was totally strange.
Sigh. Now I’m gonna have to torture myself and watch the daily Cosby reruns and listen out for street and nabe mentions. All these years I believed it was the Heights. For some reason, despite what all the internet sources say, I just can’t accept that it’s Flatbush. No disrespect to Flatbush or its residents, but the Cosby’s were an upper middle class family…At the time that show was a hit, I don’t know that Flatbush would have been the ideal setting for a family like that and still have it be believable.
Cargar, you are supposed to accept your award gracefully and just be thankful that no one is pulling a Kanye on your bright, shining moment :-p
Hey chicken!!!
“GAY OF THE DAY AWARD!”
That’s quite an honor coming from a guy who wears a rat fur coat, pajama bottoms, and a Hannah Montana hat, and carries a Hello Kitty bag, in public.
L&O likes to use real street names, but to avoid hassle, they use addresses on that particular street that don’t really exist. They used to piss me off when I was in law school. I lived in BK Heights and they regularly filmed there at night outside my window. I’d be trying to get some sleep but couldn’t due to bright lights shining in the windows and Sam Waterston yelling.
quote:
Edith (on phone, trying to give someone directions to the Bunkers’ house): From where you are, can you see Astoria Boulevard? … You can? …. Then you’re lost.
Edith must have been on the phone trying to give me directions.
*rob*
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Always disorienting when tv or film mangles geography in places you know. (Squid and the Whale was pretty dead-on, though.)
i just saw an episode of law an order where they did that. they had a scene on the corner of layfayette and prince street… but on the corner was a giant school, and it looked like a suburb. it was totally strange.
*rob*
Howdy Chicken 🙂
Sigh. Now I’m gonna have to torture myself and watch the daily Cosby reruns and listen out for street and nabe mentions. All these years I believed it was the Heights. For some reason, despite what all the internet sources say, I just can’t accept that it’s Flatbush. No disrespect to Flatbush or its residents, but the Cosby’s were an upper middle class family…At the time that show was a hit, I don’t know that Flatbush would have been the ideal setting for a family like that and still have it be believable.
And LOL Rob at the GOTD Award!
that flatbush reference is flat out wrong. they lived in an amalgum of brooklyn heights and fort greene to have a broader racially diverse audience.
*rob*