A Glasgow Album: Hollywood in Glasgow 1: Halle is Berry Cold

Welcome to my wee photoblog on Glasgow, where we feature the joys and unjoys of walking and cycling through a fascinating, beautiful and often badly run city. For the blog's origin see the 'Introduction' post -

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/introduction.html

An alphabetical list of all posts so far can be found at the end of this post. Today is Thursday, 8 September, 2011. and we have been looking at the interior and exterior of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's church in St Vincent St; see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/09/alexander-greek-thomson-5-glasgow-city.html

That San Francisco truck is a long way from home. We are in St Vincent lane beside the church, and some nice security people have asked me not to go any further as a Halle Berry movie is being filmed in the street down there, Douglas St


This is the second Hollywood movie to be film in Glasgow in a matter of weeks - Brad Pitt filmed parts of his new zombie movie in George Square (we have some pics of that - will post at some point)

Douglas St; scene being filmed

Must be a period movie. Or do the Yanks still make chrome gas guzzlers? Am a cyclist, me.


There seems to be a skull-like face on the left: perhaps, as in Holbein's 'The Ambassadors', it tuns into a memento mori if looked at from a particular angle

Note guy fiddling with the water spout

Off it goes again

'Hello?' - I'm in Mabel St, where did you say St Vincent St is?'

Charming wee Frisco water hydrant; they look like garden ornaments

Meanwhile down in this corner basement a sign promises 'Potatoes' and 'Bagels' as well as stamps for postcards back home. Come on Halle, bring the crew!

Where Spring St meets Mabel St

We've popped along to the next street down, Blythswood St, to get to the other end of the filming. Note photographer on right with real camera on tripod

St Vincent Lane stretching east. .

. . .and stretching west past the picket to where we started this wee ramble round the block

Looking up

Now in Bothwell St

Water being pumped to scene

This lass was very on the ball. Women are generally better at the security end of things than men; and big men are generally better security staff than wee men. All the problems I have had with security staff have been with toxic wee men who might as well have a poster round their necks saying 'I have no undercarriage to speak of and I HATE YOU'

Mattresses. Is this is a literal expression of (as in the Godfather) the Mafia 'mattress' metaphor? Or maybe Halle needs a wee lie down.

Some of the crowd have been here every day and a lady tells me Halle has been feeling the cold and has been seen clutching a hot water bottle

There she is

Alas, I doubt I can sell this one to Hello. Some of the paps have also been here since Day One with their tripods and big cameras. They must have bladders like rugby balls.

Looking pensive.

Like many US cities, Glasgow is grid-shaped and can pass as an American city with some background fiddling

It's not so much the absence of people (apart from a few yellow vests) that strikes one as the absence of cars; just a few American vehicles in the distance. A post-apocalypse Glasgow in which something has eaten the cars; a carmageddon