i have been laughing all afternoon at the previous picture, of tony‘s douches, or rather tony‘s pouches, which looked like douches to me, douches to me. Tony‘s Douches, Pepperoni Flavored, now in the Frozen Foods Aisle!
last night i watched Midnight Cowboy, on the hunt for screengrabs of phone booths in 1970s manhattan, when an even rare surprise crossed the screen: a scene shot at my stomping ground of Calvary Cemetery. until now i thought the only scene filmed at Calvary and used in a feature film was the funeral scene in The Godfather, but there they were, Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, stumbling around Sections 7 and/or 9 of Old Calvary, looking for what I assume was a fictional tombstone of Hoffman‘s father. Rizzo‘s father, I mean, Rizzo being the character played by Hoffman. The tombstone looked pretty real and i will be amazed if it is a real marker, but the possibility exists that the makers of that film found that tombstone and built the script around it… but i am guessing otherwise, and that the tombstone seen in the film is made of Nerf.
a cursory web search finds no mention of Calvary as a filming location in Midnight Cowboy, which makes me think there must be a number of other films that use the grounds as a location. i had assumed that few films used it because the cemetery today has strict rules forbidding filming at the grounds, but those rules might be new. i was unreasonably excited, though, when Calvary unexpectedly appeared in that film, i was all like “Go Calvary!“
there were a few instances of editing blunders, i think. i mean, i know. this is why i do not watch more movies, for the obvious inattention to detail. evidently the 2 were squatting in a lower east side abandoned building, but the address on the building was clearly a Queens address, something like 86-66, and no other of the 5 boroughs has street addresses in that format. and as they walk to Calvary they appear to cross the Pulaski Bridge, or else that other bridge at Greenpoint Avenue, but whatever bridge they cross they appear to be coming from Brooklyn … so where do they even live?
