NYC Hoping for More Filming
New York City is playing a numbers game with rebates, hoping to regain its place as a filming capital.
TMZ Exclusively Reports on Val Kilmer Movie Filming in L.A.
Having a movie filmed on your block may not be all it is cracked up to be. Check out these reports on TMZ.com from this past week.
“At 8:30 this morning, a movie starring Kilmer, “Columbus Day,” was about to film in Echo Park near downtown L.A .The residents were supposed to move their cars off the street. The wife of a TMZ staffer was at home, taking care of her one-year-old child when she heard banging at the front door. A woman named Kelli Lassen told the staffer’s wife, “You need to move your f**king car because we need to park the toilets for the Val Kilmer movie.” Nice.We contacted Lassen, who at first denied saying it, then said she was reacting to a man in a nearby apartment who wouldn’t move his car. She said she called that man a “f**king asshole” and then acknowledged she got hot with the staffer’s wife. Lassen apologized for her outburst, but added, “Val Kilmer can’t even use the bathroom.”
And the next day….
“TMZ has learned Kelli Lassen, the enraged production peon who angrily told the wife of a TMZ staffer living on the block where a Val Kilmer film was shooting, “You need to move your f**king car because we need to park the toilets for the Val Kilmer movie!” — has written an apology for her crappy attitude and potty mouth.In a handwritten mea culpa left on the TMZ staffer’s door, Lassen called the incident a “misunderstanding,” and labels her profanity-laced tirade a “courtesy warning.” Where’d she go to school? The Alec Baldwin Etiquette Academy?!Ironically, it wasn’t even our staffer’s wife’s car, but Lassen apologized for possibly waking up the resident and for being abrupt. She claims she was “merely trying to eliminate towing,” adding, “I sincerely care about the local Echo Park residents.” Um, define “care!”Strangely enough, according to her MySpace profile, Lassen is a Buddhist, interested in “positivity,” and believes the popular self-help book/DVD “The Secret” is working for her. TMZ is happy to have delivered a little instant karma.”
