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MARC GALUNT'WlNNfPEG FREE PRESSBusfield on location in Gunton gravel pit says he feels at home in Manitoba.diner.”Folks not star-struckBy Morley WalkerArts and Entertainment ColumnistGUNTON - THIS Interlake hamlet wasn’t letting Hollywood go to its head yesterday with the arrival of a TV movie crew.Folks in the area 40 kilometres north of Winnipeg, stayed clear of the Gunton gravel pits, where a garage, restaurant and general store have been erected for use in cable channel USA Network’s film Trucks, being co-produced by Winnipeg’s Credo Entertainment Corp.“I should try to squeeze in there and give them a few tips,” said Crystal McMahon, whose parents own Bill Bea’s restaurant on Highway 7 just south of Tfeulon,McMahon, 24, said she is starting an audio and video production course this fall at the National Institute of Broadcasting in Winnipeg.“Maybe I can make a few connections,” she joked.About 60 cast and crew members from the $3-million action movie, based on a Stephen King short story, arrived at the Gunton pits on Monday. They spent last week northeast of Winnipeg shooting highway scenes. They will remain at the Gunton quarry until Aug. 22, although they are being hoiised in Winnipeg hotels.Luanne Whittom, assistant manager of Gunton’s Roadside Rose Cafe, said a few TVucks crew members stopped in for lunch Monday.It’s good for business,” Whittom said. “On Sunday (cafe owner Scot Thomson) baked three apple pies for the movie’sBut so far, Whittom says, she has seen no sign of Trucks’ star, Timothy Busfield of TV’s thirtysomething fame.“But you never know,” she added hopefully.“People are kind of excited about it,” said Gunton postmaster Fran Kittle, pointing out a Page 1 story in Monday’s Stonewall Argus. “Somebody from the movie wanted to find a barn so they could burn it down.”Catering for the movie crew has been provided by Amici’s restaurant in Winnipeg.“They have a lot of vegetarians and people with allergies, noted Amici owner Heinz Kattenfeld.Trucks location manager Carmen Katz says Gunton-area people have been hired for such services as removing garbage and supplying water.“Everyone’s been extremely co-operative,” said Katz, who couldn't estimate the money being pumped into the local economy. “The quarry’s owners, Inland Aggregates, have been great.”On the set yesterday afternoon, the sun baked down as the crew captured a scene with Busfield and Winnipeg actors Sharon Bajer and Jonathan Barrett.“They’re calling this hot, but it's heavento me,” said Busfield, who lives in Sacramento, Calif. In Sacramento today it’s 105 (degrees F). My wife’s at home with three kids and a broken air conditioner.” Other Winnipeg actors cast in the project include Victor Cowie, Gene Pyrz, Rick Skene and Kirk Harper.We’ve been OK’d by these people from Hollywood, said Cowie, a recently retired University of Manitoba English professor. “They’ve seen our work and they like it. It’s a good feeling.”Trucks is the first American co-produc-tion to film in Manitoba since Winnipeg lost $l-million worth of business in 1993 when Legends of the Fall backed out.Credo, makers of such TV fare as The Adventures of Shirley Holmes and Lost in the Barrens, is taking advantage of the province’s tax break for using Manitoba labour.Busfield, a native of the U.S. Midwest, said he’s feeling at home in southern Manitoba, playing golf and watching sports on TV.“We’re making a monster movie and the trucks are the monsters,” he said. “The goal is to create a little sympathy for the characters so people don’t want to see them killed off.”TVucks is set to air sometime close to Halloween.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Aug 06, 1997
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