Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOWN AT Watson Rink the week before Thanksgiving Paramount Pictures began the shooting of Love Story, to star Ali McGraw of Goodbye Columbus -again as a Cliffie. I had met Marty Richards, casting manager and so forth, at a press reception on Tuesday and smiled at him sweetly, so here I was on Thursday morning at eight o'clock, reporting as directed...
...skaters swept around the rink performing all sorts of fancy maneuvers again and again for the cameramen. It should come out looking fantastic. For a few sequences the director Arthur Miller (who just did Popi ) had the camera fastened between two hockey sticks with a skater moving it over the ice after the puck. The whole contraption looked like a large but frail vacuum-cleaner as it swooped in and out of the players trailing the puck...
...were the way they're all cracked up to be by worried mothers and column-writers. One was a girl who made her living as an extra. She had what amounted to a routine acting job-"except it's very hard to get work." This stint in Watson Rink was even duller than most, she told me, but still it's not a good way to earn a living. "It's just once you begin, you can't give...
...first time at the press reception, and again at the rink, where she remembered me. She asked me it I didn't want to borrow a pair of jeans (I was wearing a skirt) and insisted that I at least share her blanket...
...Saturday, then, the third evening, when they finally let us out at ten o'clock, I felt aimless knowing I wasn't coming back-and also that if I did, the rink would be empty...