Yes, George Clooney is coming to St. Louis to film Up in the Air and yes, the producers are looking for extras, and yes, you, St. Louisans, can get involved.Casting director Joni Tackette will be searching for approximately 2,100 paid extras in an open call at the Crestwood Court Mall on January 24th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and January 25th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. All potential extras should be 18 or older and bring a recent color snapshot and a pen. More details and a downloadable application are
flickr.com/photos/philsdarkroomOf course St. Louisans already knew that Up in the Air, also known as The George Clooney Movie, was the film event of the year, but now the rest of the world appears to be getting wise -- especially people who have actually seen the movie instead of mere glimpses of George dining out around town, trudging through fake snow in Maplewood or visiting strip clubs and harassing midgets on the east side.Entertainment Weekly reports that Jason Reitman's film is t
A still for Up in the Air features Goerge Clooney at Lambert Field.[Editor's note: As many RFT readers know, for many years Randall Roberts was a fixture at this paper, first as a freelancer, later as music editor and then as a staff writer, before he packed up his quill pen and ink bottle and hied to the left coast, where he now music-edits our sister paper LA Weekly.Well, you can take the boy out of St. Louis, but you can't take St. Louis out of the boy. So it was that Randy found himself a
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The first local press screening of the Jason Reitman/George Clooney film Up In the Air -- perhaps the most eagerly anticipated movie in St. Louis since that flick about the World's Fair -- happened this morning at the Tivoli in the Delmar Loop.While we've been asked by the PR company to withhold any reviews or features until the theatrical release in December, it can't hurt to share a few first impressions with you, loyal Daily RFT readers.And for anyone lucky (or sneaky)
