Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Charles Hawkins Mingo Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Pac*Bell Phones at Dulles? Message-ID: <9692@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 03:56:56 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 480, Message 6 of 8 In article <9549@accuvax.nwu.edu> Tom Neff writes: >In this summer's movie DIE HARD 2**, which supposedly takes place in >Dulles International Airport (Washington DC), the payphones have a >prominent Pac*Bell logo on them. Do they really provide the service >in Dulles? Or was this an unavoidable glitch due to shooting in LA? >Or just a plug for the highest bidder? (GTE was featured prominently >on the in-flight public phone, and hundreds of other vendors had their >little plugs too -- this has become par for the course in movies.) According to today's {Washington Post} Style section, this was a plain screw up. Apparantly, Dulles wouldn't let them film on location after the airport management figured out the plot, so they were forced to do the rest elsewhere. (Also, they had enormous difficulty in finding snow, and had to shoot the blizzard in _four_ separate locations.) The movie was edited unusually quickly to get it out for summer (was still shooting in March). Charlie Mingo Usenet: mingo@well!apple.com 2209 Washington Circle #2 CI$: 71340,2152 Washington, DC 20037 AT&T: 202/785-2089