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May 29, 2006
Sunday in New York
Another appearance on Fox and Friends…a bit more low key than the last one. I hung out in the green room before the segment, and had a chance to chat with the hosts before we went on. One of them was Alisyn Camerota, who did a story about my efforts on the 911 Email project back in 2001, and Julian Philips, who interviewed me last time I was on Fox and Friends. So it felt pretty relaxing. It was a bit strange being interviewed by three people—I didn’t know who to look at!! Media critic Marilyn Rea Beyer said it went well, though, so that’s all that counts.
One of the hosts asked about my Ghost Army button and I gave them a pitch on the film, directing them to check the website.
After leaving the studio, I got to see some of the Spiderman 3 filming on 6th Avenue. (Five blocks of 6th Avenue, 7th Avenue and Broadway were closed to traffic over the weekend for the filming.) This is a not-so-great picture picture from my cellphone.
Just before I took this shot, Spiderman and a woman (stunt people I assume) were suspended from the crane about 8 stories up. In about the blink of an eye they slid them down a cable to the ground. It’s cool to see that they still go out and film sequences like this, that it isn’t all blue screen and animation.
The area around the building was all dressed as if there had been an explosion or some kind of building collapse. The picture below, which someone else took, captures it pretty well.
Now I can't wait to see the movie!
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May 19, 2006
Memorial Day Interviews
I have a bunch of radio and TV interviews scheduled to promote The Greatest War Stories Never Told book over the Memorial Day Holiday. The biggest one is a return to Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel on Sunday, May 28th, at 8:50 AM Eastern.
The whole list of interviews can be found here.
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May 03, 2006
Image of the Week: The Godspeed Sails
On April 27, The Godspeed went out for it's first sail with the crew from the Jamestown-Yorktown foundation that will take it up the East Coast this summer on a port tour. We have, of course, been following the construction of this replica 1607 ship for more than a year for the documentary Godspeed to Jamestown that Plate of Peas is producing for The History Channel, and we weren't about to miss this.
We shot on board, from a chase boat, from a nearbye mountainop, and from a helicopter. (The only thing we didn't do, in all honesty, is shoot it from a submarine!) When we got over water, the helicopter pilot announced that there weren’t any floats on the helicopter because he hadn’t expected to be going over water (where did he think the ship would be, I wonder) and that if we went down we would all die of hypothermia very quickly. With this encouraging news ringing in our ears, we commenced shooting. Luckily we stayed in the air, thus missing out on the joys of death by drowning or impact or whatever.
It was cold, but incredibly gorgeous, and the footage that Dillard Morrison shot was equally beautiful.
The ship left Rockport this morning (they had to wait out the storm) to sail to Jamestown. It will be in both New York and Boston this summer--check the Port Tour Calendar and pay a visit!
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