“Ladies and Gentleman!” His hand stretched toward us and traced the circular bleachers. He wore a bright red jacket neatly stuffed with a crisp white handkerchief. The black top hat fit snugly and in his left hand he held a long black baton. “… The most spectacular show on earth!!” He shot his baton toward the entrance of the tent and the crowd erupted with applause. I clapped my hands and whooped. There were no animals entering the tent as suggested. In fact, absolutely nothing happened but we continued to cheer. Christoph Waltz had made an announcement that caused our hair to stand on end and imaginations to run wild.

By the third take some of the magic had worn off but Christoph continued the performance like it had been his first. Once the shot was complete we returned to our holding tent. I found an area of the tent where a steady breeze of air came through and wrote song titles inspired by the story of Water for Elephants.

The AD returned about 45 minutes later. “Ok, I need some nimble people. If you think you’re nimble, follow me!” I closed my notebook and stuffed it in my open backpack. The AD wore a bright blue shirt that was easy to follow to the entrance of the tent. He lifted the flap and one by one we passed into the Big Top. The AD suddenly blocked the entrance. “Woah woah woah. I said nimble. Come on now.” A gentleman that was probably in his early seventies froze like he’d been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. The AD continued, “Go back to holding please. This is for nimble folks only.” The man turned with his head tilted toward the ground and walked away. For a second I felt bad for the man but why had he joined a group of twenty-somethings for an action shot?

Inside the tent four horses were harnessed to a tall carriage stuffed with men holding band instruments. The horses were pointed toward the entrance of the tent. Our gang of “nimble” Rubes were placed precariously in the bleachers near the carriage while Francis Lawrence and Rodrigo Prieto, the cinematographer, stood close-by discussing the angle of the next shot. Our instructions were to look shocked. This turned out to be very easy. On “Action” the horses took off like cavalry. As the carriage tipped side-ways the stunt musicians were strategically thrown from the cart and instruments went flying in all directions. My mouth opened and my muscles tightened. I stared at the men spread across the dusty circus floor in shock – no acting skills necessary.

The afternoon sun took over the valley and heat set in. After a satisfying lunch I contemplated how much had happened in just two days. I wondered what Tai the elephant thought of all the commotion. My hat had flattened on top so I re-shaped the dimples and slugged down a big glass of water before heading back over the tracks. In the Big Top the camera equipment had been moved toward the menagerie. The acting doubles for Rob and Christoph talked with the stunt coordinator and began rehearsing. First in slow-motion but soon in full-speed, the two actors fought. They choked, pushed, and hit each other as we watched from the bleachers. Soon, the lead actors emerged and studied the scene their doubles had worked out. After several reenactments, Rob and Christoph took over. One rehearsal and “action”; Christoph grunted heavily and swung with might. Rob winced in pain and shoved the bull-hook away. His expression of agony made the painted blood on his face come to life. I watched on from the edge of my seat imagining my own musical film score as the scene played out.

Finally the “background artists” were called to work. “Come on down here folks,” said the AD. He grabbed my shoulder and lined me up a few feet from where Rob was now laying in the dirt. Christoph straddled the wounded young actor and Reese Witherspoon stood two feet from my right. Rodrigo, the cinematographer, worked with Reese for a moment to find the perfect angle for her entrance. A few seconds later the slate snapped in front of the camera the scene turned fierce. Reese approached the scrapping men and I raced ahead to the menagerie. Phew – no buffalo. A line of Rubes followed after me. When I turned, Francis jumped out from his director’s chair and approached the lead actors grinning with excitement. “It looks really great!! Let’s do it again.”

TO BE CONTINUED

PEERS: His biggest rival is Twilight’s Robert Pattinson — another good-looking young actor with a slobbering fan base. However, Pattinson is considered more valuable right now, even if his non-Twilight romantic drama, Remember Me, tanked: At least he has a current franchise. Efron is considered about equal with Taylor Lautner; even though Lautner’s muscles have him tapped for the action movies that Efron isn’t considered for, Lautner’s physique is topped with an equally smooth-cheeked face. To some extent, Channing Tatum (who is a few years older) has succeeded in breaking out of his pretty-boy image, giving him an edge, even though financially his films have ranged from the successful (Dear John) to the disastrous (Fighting). Efron is considered on par with Josh Duhamel and Chris Pine, while slightly more valuable than Tom Hardy.

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Next weekend will mark the 98th year St. Joseph’s School has thrown their annual fundraiser, the St. Joseph School Bazaar.

The festival has evolved over the years, Lori Ross, executive committee member said.

The big raffle prize this year is a black, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro. In the early days of the festival, the big ticket item was a bale of cotton.

Honorary Chair Bill Hegeman said, “Back in those days, cotton was still king. We were an agricultural county and a bale of cotton was very valuable.”

Ticket sales for the raffle drawing, games, silent and live auction bids, box lunches and the family-style spaghetti dinner sales will all go to the operation of the school.

The Bazaar, the largest fundraiser the school hosts, will begin with box lunches available for delivery or carry-out Friday. The menu this year includes spaghetti and marinara, with homemade noodles, a deviation from years past.

“We’re also serving our spaghetti with sausage on the side. We’re cooking a little over 300 pounds of spaghetti,” Marilyn Dail, central committee chairperson of the Bazaar’s kitchen, said.

Box lunches, Ross said, are a popular way local businesses participate in the Bazaar.

To place an order for Friday’s box lunch, at $7 per box, call 329-3865. The lunches are available at Parish Hall from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., a family-style dinner will be served in the Parish Hall. The all-you-can-eat meal includes homemade spaghetti, fried chicken and several sides.

Friday at 6 p.m. the fundraiser’s “Old Fashioned Midway” begins. This family event has a festival feel. It will take place on the church grounds and includes games for kids and adults, as well as food.

Bingo is a popular event at the Midway, Ross said.

At 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 7, the doors of St. Joseph Parish Hall open for the Bazaar’s silent and live auctions.

“Last year we took a chance and made a big change and put a lot of focus on a live and silent auction. It was very successful,” Ross said.

Silent auction items include a Michael Jackson “Thriller” autographed record, an electric guitar signed by Taylor Swift, a photo autographed by “Twilight” stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, local food, entertainment and beauty packages and getaways.

Live auction items include an overnight limousine ride to Tunica, Miss., a weekend on a party barge, a murder mystery dinner for 12, and the popular “his and her” gym parking spaces for the school’s athletic events and many more local packages.

The school’s year-round flea market will hold special hours during the festival. On Thursday, the market will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, it will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“The thing that’s been the best about this, and I’ve been fortunate to have worked a lot of years, in a lot of capacities at the Bazaar, is that it really is a community event,” Hegeman said. “Even though all proceeds go to support the school, I’m amazed at the turnout of community members who do not belong to the school or church. They come to the Bazaar, to the family dinner, order box lunches and even volunteer at the event.”

Tickets for the raffle are available at more than 25 locations. The second prize is a HP laptop package valued at $500, and third prize is $250 cash. The drawing will be held on Saturday, at the end of the live auction.

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Remember Me – DVD

Directed by: Allen Coulter
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Martha Plimpton, Lena Olin, Peyton List, Ruby Jerins, Meghan Markle
Certificate: 12
Running time: 100mins
Release date: 26/07/10

Robert Pattinson can act. This is coming from a person who doesn’t necessarily detest the ‘Twilight’ franchise but simply thinks that the world wouldn’t be at a massive loss if it was without it, because to be honest it’d give the heartthrob at the centre of it more of a chance to stretch his skill in films like this.

A tale of love and loss (and no bloody vampiresfor a change!), the great and all powerful Pattinson plays rebellious son and tortured soul, Tyler Hawkins. Distant from his father (Pierce Brosnan), mourning a brother and caring for a sister, the lad is an emotional wreck who is eventually tamed by kindred spirit and just as screwed up Ally (Emilie De Ravin) who has Daddy issues of her own in the form of (Chris Cooper). Both with fathers they can’t connect with and missing a family member they can’t bring back the two lend a helping hand in each other’s lives before hitting the predictable rocky patch and recovering from it.

‘Remember Me’ is refreshing for a number of reasons. Firstly it gives the aforementioned lad from those ‘Twilight’ films a chance to prove he can do more than just look cold, grey and constipated opposite Kristen Stewart. With ‘Remember Me’ he’s a troubled youth on the road to ruin, stretching past the tree climbing, vampire pouting he’s now attached to, here we have him butting heads with Brosnan’s well delivered father figure, cracking jokes with his best mate and gelling perfectly with a love interest that unlike Bella the Bore actually reacts.

This is as much Ravin’s film as it is Pattinson and she shines just as brightly. Ally is as wild and fiery as her new beau carrying half the weight of the film that has a gut punch of an ending on its back, that only after viewing a second time echoes through the story and the characters involved, making it feel more than a cheap shock that some might see it as.

‘Remember Me’ is a film that is all about acceptance and moving on orchestrated by two strong leads at its centre. My only hope is that one of them manages to shake off the franchise they’re so cemented in once it’s all done and continue to surprise us like he has with this.

Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?

Someone impossibly good-looking. Robert Pattinson for my younger years – and then Mel Gibson.

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“Team Edward” is sweeping Walker County as fans of teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson stake out the set of his most recent film.

The star, made famous by his role in the Twilight vampire movies, is filming for his new movie Water for Elephants.

It co-stars Nashville darling and Best Actress winner Reese Witherspoon…

But the swarms of women only came to see one man.

9 year olds Madison Gable and Grace Klimp proudly proclaim, “Team Edward!”

Lisa Foster of Harrison, TN says, “I’ve already seen Eclipse three times.”

But for Carmen Erwin of Calhoun, GA it’s really just about the man, “Team Rob.”

For hours in the hot Tennessee Valley sun fans of the Twilight films and Robert Pattinson patiently waited…

Rick Owens braves the crowd as one of very few men, “Last night there was like 50 girls, sitting down there. No guys, there wasn’t a guy in sight. And I haven’t seen Twilight so you figure it’s just the girls, and I’m hoping to see Reese.”

16 year old Kelsie Biskett explains, “You don’t get a lot of Twilight reading guys or Remember Me fans that are guys.”

Pattinson is filming at a Walker County farm for his new movie Water for Elephants.

Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon is also in the film, but these fans were lined up for a far off glance of their vampire crush or at least a stand in…

Lisa Foster admits, “My husband thinks I’m an idiot standing out here in this 100 degree weather.”

Her friend Carly Gamble chimes in, ”Yeah, my parents… they think I’m crazy.”

Owens lives just a mile down the road and has never seen this many people in the spot at one time, “Noisy today.”

16 year old Brenna Nation and her friends say, “We have a celebrity in our town, this doesn’t happen very often. In Chickamauga. It’s kinda small. We don’t get a lot of excitement in our town, so this is it.”

Carmen Erwin was lucky… the dedicated Pattinson fan even got another shot of her favorite actor to add to her growing collection.

She says at first is was the story that grabbed her attention, “The books just really touched me, as far as that first love and how deep that connection can be.”

But the Calhoun resident admits it was Pattinson’s good looks that took her all the way to Vancouver and L.A. to see more of her favorite vampire, “Robert, how could you not love him? He’s like the hottest guy ever! (laughs) So…”

Filming in Walker County should run through Monday.

And it looks as though the Robert Pattinson fans aren’t going anywhere.

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In Eclipse Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson’s characters end up engaged – so what happens when they become man and wife?

Spoiler alert! Keep reading if you want to know what happens…

“It does actually literally get more physical [in Breaking Dawn],” Stewart tells Access Hollywood, referring to the couple’s sex scenes. “It doesn’t get more action-packed … [But] they definitely get more physical. Well, they get married.”

The film’s screenwriter has said she plans to show Stewart’s character, Bella, giving birth, so how steamy will the pre-baby scenes get?

“Well, they’re man and wife now,” Stewart says leadingly. “They have a kid and stuff too, so, I guess to get there that happens.”

She adds with mock excitement, “We totally have sex – finally!”

For his part, Pattinson jokes that one moment of the Edward and Bella romantic scenes in the book stuck out to him.

“I’m looking forward to the pillow-biting scene,” he says with a laugh. “I thought that was so funny. Of all the random things too do, really? He bites the pillow.”

Plus, now that he’ll be showing more skin, “I can’t wait to get all my body makeup on,” Pattinson says, “to be especially pasty looking.”

Reader Nicole sent us these great pics of the Water for Elephants set. The Jankowski House in Chickamauga, GA. Thanks Nicole!

If you are were wanting to see him he is filming at the home site set in Chickamauga GA. He arrived at 5:15 this morning and has been there most of the day. The house where they are filming is located on West Cove Road. They did have the road blocked off one mile each direction so no one could get close to the house. However, at five this morning the road was open but was closed by 7:30. I know he will be filming there on and off for three days. The set will be broke down on Monday. You might be able to at least get a glimpse if you drove by.

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Already 75 people are waiting about a half mile from the Walker County farm where actor Robert Pattinson is filming “Water for Elephants.”

Walker County Sheriff’s deputies have West Cove Road in Kensington, Ga., blocked and are only letting through traffic heading to the film set or those who need the road to get to their homes or work.

Crew members appear to be setting up in front of the farm house.

“Water for Elephants” stars Pattinson, made famous by his role as the vampire Edward Cullen in the “Twilight” film series, and Reese Witherspoon, the Nashville native who won a Best Actress Oscar for “Walk the Line.”


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