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“He’s so hot” — aka, the Tony Taccone adulation society
It seems the Artistic Director of the Berkeley Rep has something of a “following”. In fact, read the comments on a story we ran about him last week, and it becomes clear a certain group of fans is positively smitten with Tony Taccone, speaking with more than a little hyperbole of his brazen attractiveness, his warm personality, handsome features — even his prowess as a lover.
Berkeleyside has reason to believe these people might know … Continue reading »
Hollywood comes to Berkeley for TV show, again
It isn’t only the people behind NBC series Parenthood who feel Berkeley is a choice spot to shoot a TV series. Yesterday, the Elmwood neighborhood paid host to a film crew shooting scenes for Hacienda Heights, a night-time drama (not a soap opera, one of the crew insisted) which takes its cues from the popular Latino telenovela format.
Local fashion design store Keneuoe Vivere was the focus of the action, as scenes were shot throughout the afternoon and evening. The … Continue reading »
“Parenthood” works to up the Berkeley content
Bob Patterson yesterday came across a second unit film crew from Parenthood doing some shooting on Telegraph Avenue. Many locals have criticized the NBC series both for filming in Southern California and for representing a decidedly faux Berkeley.
I wouldn’t count on a major change, but it’s nice that they’ll be interleaving some more footage of the real Berkeley in the coming second series.
Photo by Bob Patterson/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
Berkeley Girl transplanted to SoCal
Singer songwriter Harper Simon, who describes his music as “psychedelic country and rock”, has released a new video of his single, Berkeley Girl. It’s the tale of a woman from our fair city who has “the style of Paulette Goddard and a smile like Joan Fontaine”.
But, just as in the television show Parenthood, Berkeley gets displaced by southern California. According to Spinner, the video directed by Benjamin Kutsko was shot in Los Angeles’ Echo Park … Continue reading »
Why isn’t more of NBC’s Parenthood filmed in Berkeley?
Every since NBC debuted its hour-long drama, Parenthood, people in Berkeley have pointed out all the ways it’s not, well, Berkeley.
Complaints are many. There are too many white characters, and not enough people of color. No one is gay. There are too few Priuses in the show, and not nearly enough Peet’s Coffees. That high school in the series looks nothing like Berkeley High. And how in the world can the parents afford that sprawling Craftsman-style house that … Continue reading »
“Parenthood”: Might Berkeleyside get a look-in?
I realize Parenthood has largely abandoned any attempts at credibility where its supposed Berkeley location is concerned. But how hard can it be for a production crew to get a copy of a real Bay Area newspaper on the set?
On this week’s episode, character Adam is seen — very briefly — scanning the front page of his local paper with his morning coffee (before he greets his morose teenage daughter, Haddie, who has just broken up … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 4.28.10
The omnivore’s solution: Gather welcomes the meat and potato crowds [SF Magazine]
Run photo of silly stop sign in Berkeley, generate hundreds of tweets [Boing Boing]
Berkeley-based “Parenthood”: NBC’s fifth comedy? [TV.com]
University’s Finney named to National Park Service Advisory Board [DoI]
Photo of Jerusalem cricket by Ereneta/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
Parenthood: Another season of NBC’s version of Berkeley
It still doesn’t feel completely realistic and there are occasional blunders, but NBC’s Parenthood apparently is doing well enough that it has been renewed for a second season.
The show, which is set in Berkeley, stars Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Craig T. Nelson, Dax Shepard, Erika Christensen, and Bonnie Bedelia.
NBC entertainment chief Angela Bromstad said in a statement that the network was gratified to bring back this “multi-layered and compelling series about an extended American family.”
The Berkeley Wire: 3.5.10
NBC drama Parenthood’s Berkeley is “hella” inaccurate [Fancast.com]
New property taxes for Berkeley under consideration [Berkeley Voice]
Berkeley drops everything to read [Berkeley Daily Planet]
Mentor program helps close achievement gap at BHS [Coco Times]
Photo: SW from top of Panoramic by dougsmi/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
How Berkeley can you be on TV?
Parenting prevented me from attending the Parenthood premiere bash held in — oops — Oakland not Berkeley.
So instead of viewing the pilot with local luminaries at the beautifully restored Fox Theater in downtown Oaktown, I watched the start of the series from the comfort of my couch in a modest west Berkeley cottage.
Berkeleyside readers will have read here that Oakland, not Berkeley, was the original setting for NBC’s new prime time … Continue reading »
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