Unlike the last marathon post.....
Yesterday Maggie and I went to see "Julie and Julia" after church. I'd read the book last year (I have a thing for cookbooks even though when I cook I rarely follow a recipe) and you (almost) can't go wrong with a movie that Meryl Streep is in. Didn't expect Stanley Tucci, but he's a trip, no? In any event, the little comment has nothing to do with the movie itself.
Instead, during the previews there's the ad for "MovieTickets.com" (which, as an aside, I like to use AND if you get a free MovieWatcher card from AMC theaters you don't pay the service charge AND get coupons along with your tickets -- yesterday we got a coupon for one free movie ticket which we'll use this week). ANYWAY, the point is the ad. This particular version of the ad features a man running after a train leaving a station, only to have it go without him and a "Sorry, Sold Out" sign posted by the conductor in the back. As the ad starts, he's running through a station -- I was thinking that it looked really familiar and then Maggie said, "Hey, that's our station." No doubt -- they'd filmed the ad at the New Orleans AMTRAK station (which is also the Greyhound Bus Terminal). As he runs after the train, you see an AMTRAK train parked on the next track -- of COURSE it's the same one we rode on!!!! (OK, so that's just a dream of mine). In any event, if Tom hadn't had the bright idea to try out train travel we would have never known that that ad was filmed here. HAH!
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