San Francisco is My Home

29
Jan

Filming at the Castro

Author: kris, Category: Castro, Celebrities, News

One morning many years ago, long before I moved to The City and became Cool, I spotted Adam Duritz (lead singer of Counting Crows, a band some of us cut our teeth on thanks very much) out the window while breakfasting at All You Knead. My friend, who did live in the city and was and always will be Cooler than me, stopped me from leaping up and running shrieking into the street after him. Apparently, that is not very Cool.

Now that I’ve lived here for a while, I know better than to chase celebrities down the street. And that’s good, because there’s yet another movie being filmed here in the SF, and specifically in the Castro, a block away from my house. This one stars Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold political office, a local hero. They’ve seventies-ized much of the area around the Castro Theatre, where filming is currently happening. Head down and check it out if you’re interested, but remember to only stare out of the corner of your eye. That is how the Cools do it.

Other movies filmed in SF include So I Married an Axe Murderer, Dirty Harry, and The Pursuit of Happyness. Check out my friend and neighbor’s amusing tales of running into the props from the last film here and here.

Do not run after this man, cools.