Warning: This is a long story!
Last summer, my husband was doing a lot of artwork in a mansion in Greenwich, CT. He had a couple of guys helping him out, and after painting all day they’d go back to their crummy hotel a couple of towns over and crash for the night.
One night, they got back to their hotel room and saw that the door was slightly open to make room for a bunch of thick cables going into the room. They pushed the door open farther, and saw that all of their stuff was gone. The room was full of equipment that did not belong to them. They went to the office, where the manager told them all of their things had been moved to another room because a movie was being filmed at the hotel and they’d wanted to use that particular room. My husband expressed some concern about what kind of movie would be made at a cheap motel, and after a while the manager told him it was a movie starring Robert DeNiro. My husband and his coworkers/friends hung out outside the door to their new room all night and finally got a glimpse of DeNiro leaving the motel and getting into his car. There’s a photo, which my husband is very proud of, showing the back of DeNiro’s head. It could be anyone.
Anyway, to get to my point. :) Tonight my husband came home with a DVD called “Everyone’s Fine” starring Robert DeNiro. It’s the movie they were filming, in part, at this motel. For about 30 seconds, there’s a scene where DeNiro is standing in front of a motel window. That was my husband’s motel room. It was a very exciting moment, and pretty amazing to think that out of all the rooms at the motel, they chose that one, and all for a 30 second shot. It’s a horribly depressing movie, and unless you want to see my husband’s hotel room, don’t waste time watching it.
Not the most thrilling thing in the world, but it’s a lot closer to being in a DeNiro movie than most people get. ;)