The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Thursday, October 20, 2011, Living Section, Page D1
In Your Community
Local sites star in movie
See if you can metro location ‘Footloose’ remake.
The curious can visit where film was made.
By Jill Vejnoska
Study acting, wait tables between auditions, spend money on head shots – that’s one path to breaking into the movies.
And then there’s the Burnetts of Peachtree City’s method: Own a totally “cherry” 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge that’s featured tin the exuberant “forbidden dance” scene at the Starlight Drive-In in the new “Footloose” remake. It’s the same car seen in a publicity shot where star Julianne Hough rest her own short-clad jeans, er, bumper against the front grill.
“Julianne’s fingerprints are on the hood!” Sue Burnett joked in an email where she sent a photo of herself striking a more PG version of the pose.
Filmed entirely in and around metro Atlanta, “Footloose” opened last Friday and earned about $16 million in its first weekend of release – twice as much as another ‘80s remake, “The Thing.” While you might not happen to spy Delta pilot Randy Bernett driving his GTO around town, you can pan to check out these other real-life sites with “roles” in the film: [sic]
In Your Community
Local sites star in movie
See if you can metro location ‘Footloose’ remake.
The curious can visit where film was made.
By Jill Vejnoska
Study acting, wait tables between auditions, spend money on head shots – that’s one path to breaking into the movies.
And then there’s the Burnetts of Peachtree City’s method: Own a totally “cherry” 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge that’s featured tin the exuberant “forbidden dance” scene at the Starlight Drive-In in the new “Footloose” remake. It’s the same car seen in a publicity shot where star Julianne Hough rest her own short-clad jeans, er, bumper against the front grill.
“Julianne’s fingerprints are on the hood!” Sue Burnett joked in an email where she sent a photo of herself striking a more PG version of the pose.
Filmed entirely in and around metro Atlanta, “Footloose” opened last Friday and earned about $16 million in its first weekend of release – twice as much as another ‘80s remake, “The Thing.” While you might not happen to spy Delta pilot Randy Bernett driving his GTO around town, you can pan to check out these other real-life sites with “roles” in the film: [sic]
