Yesterday we thought we'd make the most of the sunshine and head Downtown and take a guided walking tour of film locations, or what is affectionately known as Willmywood or Hollywood East.
Wilmington has a huge film industry, which is why they call it Hollywood of the East and they are currently filming Iron Man and something with Jennifer Aniston in it and, ofcourse, this is where they filmed One Tree Hill and Dawson's Creek. Most of which was filmed in or around campus.
Our guide to the Hollywood Tour was an eccentric 'actor' who guided us around town on a 90 minute name dropping tour. Enthusiastically recounting stories of celebrity encounters, and retelling elaborate stories of movies gone by. "Over there, is where I met Katie Holmes, wh-eee-ll she was quite something" and that's the pub where me and John Travolta shared a cold one". I don't think anyone was 100% convinced if any of these anecdotes were based on much factual reality, but either way it was an amusing way to spend the afternoon. He acted out scenes from movies (video clip is him acting out the opening scene to Matlock... not that i've ever watched that, but you get the idea of the tour). It was such a hot day so our guide kindly steered us over to places in the shade or near air conditioning but either way by the end we were ready to crash so headed to a coffee shop for an ice coffee before heading home.
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