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February 21,!
Spielberg comes to Texas
Movie set location sought
United Press International
EL PASO — The man who
brought you “E.T.” is consider
ing filming part of his next
movie in El Paso.
Producer-director Steven
'Spielberg was in El Paso last
.Sunday and Monday scouting
locations for a forthcoming
movie, according to Joe Sierra of
the Greater El Paso Tourism
"and Convention Bureau’s Film
other members of the film’s pre-
production crew to locations in
San Elizario, Hueco Tanks and
in the Avenue of the Americas
area east of El Paso.
“He’s a super guy,” Sierra
said. “Real down to earth. He’s
all heart.”
which 300 El Pasoans may be
hired as extras. Bill Newkirk of
the Film Liason Office said de
tails still are being worked out
with Lower Valley County Com
missioner Rogelio Sanchez for
use of the historic area.
Liaison Office. A portion of the
movie is to be shot in El Paso’s
; Lower Valley.
{ Sierra escorted Spielberg and
Sierra said location shooting
for the film — titled “Fandango”
— will take place in late May and
early June at those locations.
Historic San Elizario, part of
the Missions Trail, would be the
site of a wedding sequence in
“They looked for this place all
over Texas,” Sierra said.
A spokesperson for Warner
Bros. Films, which will distribute
the movie, said “Fandango” is in
pre-production. The spokesper
son said Spielberg’s participa
tion in the project may be li-
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mited by his involvement in the
sequel to “Raiders of the Lost
Ark.”
“Fandango” is a comedy in
volving three former University
of Texas students. Sierra said,
one of whom inherits his pa
rents’ strip-mining operation
upon his return from Vietnam.
Though locations across Texas
will be used, much of the filming
will take place in and around the
Austin area.
Sierra said that the film had a
$6 million budget. He expects
the two-week shoot to generate
about Si million locally.
Spielberg, 34, is the hottest di
rector in films today. “E.T.” has
made more money than any
movie in history. Thursday it
was nominated for nine
Academy Awards, including
Best Film and Best Director.
Spielberg’s other box-office
hits include “Raiders of the Lost
Ark,” “Close Encounters of the
Third Kind” and “Jaws.” His
film debut was “Sugarland Ex
press,” much of which was shot
in Texas.
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Saturday.
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actors have been changed,”
Viron P. Vaky said during the
final day of the SCONA prog
ram “Latin America: Challenges
and Alternatives.”
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United States views Latin Amer
ican countries has been dis
torted by stereotypes and mis
conceptions, Vaky said, and no
generalization about Latin
America could be true.
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tioned the U.S. policy of using
tax-payers’ money to bail-out
troubled Latin Americaiul
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