Aaark! What have I *DONE*???

[BarbaraRose]

I tried to boil a huge mass of spaghetti for spaghetti and meatballs and discovered
it doesn't work, one end is still stiff when the other's too done.

Just an FYI: I break the spaghetti noodles in half before cooking so they fit better in the pot if I am making a lot. No uncooked ends!

Sounds like you had fun tho and learned a lot in the process!

[Anniepoo]

I did break the spaghetti - I just had so much of it I couldn't get all that water boiling, it sort of stratified.

[Anniepoo]

ok, more of the 'incidents' -

The shoot was on an off-grid horse ranch. They had a big old dog.

One of the scenes had the leading lady going out for a jog (so the bad guys could sneak in).
As she took off, the farm dog came bounding along behind her. They ended up using the shot anyway, and wrote
the dog into the plot.

The woman owner of the ranch was tickled when they recruited her son as one of the 'masked intruders'.

One of the characters was this sort of eccentric veterinarian. In a comic relief moment he's supposed to chase one of the intruders
with a frying pan while wearing red long johns. The woman who owned the farm happened to have some bunny slippers, so he
added them. They had white bottoms, and I guess you can't have white soles for some reason, so he put black gaffers tape on the soles.
OOps! made them slick.
When they did the shot he came running out, his feet slipped out from under him, and he ended up on his kiester!

Biggest disaster was right at the start. You can imagine, I had things pretty carefully planned, to buy all this food. They promised I'd have help.... came the day, they'd forgotten my help, and didn't have a PA (production assistant, the lowest workers on the movie hierarchy) - so the producer came and helped... but he wasn't a 'detail' guy, and didn't have much patience for my carefully checking things, just threw stuff at random into shopping carts... and it was hard to argue with him. Yikes - I ended up without half the stuff I needed.

The silliest part of all this was that the woman who owned the ranch was completely set up to feed large groups - she'd had many such groups. We should have had her do it.

Oh well - if anybody ever invites you to come cook for a movie crew, take my advice - RUN, DO NOT WALK, away... though if you say yes you'll have a blast doing some of the hardest work of your life.