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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The cameramen had begun setting up the lights and we were herded into a coherent crowd to be background for some shots of a Harvard-Cornell game. The time spent on the actual filming was not much, but setting up shots and organizing extras and other such chores stretched one...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

In addition to Oliver on the ice they shot Ali in the sidelines (shouting "Knock his block off Oliver!") and Oliver's father on the other side-although that might have been another game. There's a lot happening on location that you never see on screen. I couldn't...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

Now naturally you're waiting for my revelations about Ali and Ryan and the gang, but they were all the way they are meant to be: very-nice, and so-human, and not-a-bit-standoffish. But it was the other small people who were surprising: they too were the...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

We went out to her dressing room, a little cubbyhole in a trailer parked outside the building. The curtain over the tiny window had a note safety-pinned to it: "Liza Minelli-Junie Moon." Ali found me a pair of bellbottoms. (They were a size 8.)

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

It was lunchtime, and I went off to eat with the other extras. We had box lunches-two hot knockwursts wrapped in silver foil the first day, pius potato salad and a dessert and so forth (they were quite inedible). We complained so much that the next day they gave...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

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