Thanks Haruna, it was hollywood proper. We await the real deal.
From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Movie filming in my backyard.Scenes from my home. Enjoy the slide-show
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, 7 June, 2009, 7:41 PM
Suntou here are some pictures from Five killers filming. Thanx. Haruna.
In a message dated 5/17/2009 10:56:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: I'm not sure if you really know what Fisiriwalleyaa means. It actually means ungratefulness. My Allah has guided me that I must show grace and be thankful (to him) for my life, health, and strength each second of each minute of each hour, of each day. And that I must be thankful to my fellow through whom he(Allah) affords me grace and inspiration.
I thought I'd get the fundamentals out of the way.
Now then; I am aware that Gambia is under duress and extreme melancholy. The question then becomes: How do you and me relieve these and those extremeties for Gambia? Look very closely at the lives and demarches of the folk you mentioned as prospects for honoraria and grace. Firstly, I do not think they are all Gambian. Second, of the ones who may be Gambian, the scope of their demarche is
at best limited to their self-interest or community. Thirdly, any goodwill brought to a certain portion of Gambian society necessarily diminishes another portion of that same society particularly if it yielded further division among the peoples of Gambia. The trick therefore is to recognize value in life. And that transcends ephemeral honour of gallantry and religious expedition.
Now then; I thought I stopped JDAM in his tracks regarding his disdain of my "inordiante" focus on things Mali, but I may be found wanting in dimensions. I encourage all of you to consider my demarche in the service of democratic life. Its nurturing, and its affordability for all peoples of the world. Mali and La Guinea or that territory and peoples belonging to the confluences of the Fouta rivers and their headwaters happen to be the cradle of civilisation for all West Africa and indeed anything Mali is necessarily Gambia, Senegal, La
Guinea, Bissau, SierraLeone, native Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Benin. Consider this: If all life is water, then the commutation of such life on land is primarily manifest in the highlands as the waters recede. Don't make me go religious on your arse. Suffice it to say that yourself appreciates the multiple ways to skin a cat. Well consider my preponderant focus on Mali to be one of those ways. Now go away.
All west Africa needs my and your services and so does the UK, USA, Algeria, Somalia, the Soudan, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, The Benelux countries, Les pays Bas, Papua, Tananarive, Australia, Braseel, Argentina, Japan, The Koreas, China, Russia, and Turkmenistan, not to mention Nagorno Karabach. Not just Gambia. And there is more hardship elsewhere, particularly Sri Lanka and Mogadishu.
Now about the pictures of Slumdog, I understand you're anxious to see them but
I must ask for your patience and understanding. Even though it is not illegal for me to share them with you at any time, I have had time to reflect on the timing. The movie is the work product of other and I have been properly compensated for the inconvenience inured me. I also stand to gain personally from the value of the fi lming around my home. And even though I have shared this potential value to me, with the production crew, I think it wise to resist the temptations to unduly malign the marketing of their final work product even while the work is being developped. I am sure you will agree with me that that would be unconscionable. Therefore, I will separate the pictures according in my judgement to material affect to the production. Then I will share them with the production staff for their blessing to share with communities to which I belong to include Ellen and prospective buyers of my home. And my mother shared with me that you are only an
honorary uncle on account of her relation with Touray Kunda folk, so I don't owe you jack. Now, REALLY go away. Just enjoy my updates and be happy. You're pissing me off about this self-righteous Dawa. And you're pissing Galleh off too. He just wouldn't say it. But I know he's not happy with your inordinate challenges of me. Until you produce Jaawula, you will not get much love from me. Nephew or no nephew. Later. Haruna.
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From: SUNTOU TOURAY <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sun, 17 May 2009 5:45 pm
Subject: Re: Movie filming in my backyard.Scenes from my home.
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Fata Fisiriwaleya maa, why Mali whilst little Gambia needs your service? You are disqu alifying yourse;f for any future presidency. Sheik Touba, and Kombo Sillah requires more urgent attention.
From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Movie filming in my backyard.Scenes from my home.
To: [log in to unmask]" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, 17 May, 2009, 5:34 PM
Funny you should mention. I am trying my darndest for a movie to be filmed in Mali. I have introduced the idea to low-level managers first. After filming is complete, I will try to advance the idea and perhaps visit Mali to develop the theme and location pictures. A partnership arrangement between the people of Mali (Timboctou, Gao, Mopti, Kidal, Bourem, Koulikoro, Bamako, Kayes, Sikasso, Segou. I intend to speak with the director of Faantan fanga Amara Drabo to work on the project with. This is a big idea. If I can bring Drabo, Robert Luketic and Bob DeRosa together, we can get it done. Suntou you're a genius.
Sheikh TOuba, Foday Kaba, Kombo Sillah, Maba Jahu, and the likes can wait for now. Their scope is a bit limited in view of what I contemplate. The natalos will come. Settle down. Your anxiety is making me jittery Suntou. Just follow my updates here.
So far these are the scenes shot around my home:
1. A driveway was graded and gravelled between my backyard and a sliver of common property abutting Chancery lane. The brown Camero was chased by the black Aimes contractor truck with blank shots to boot and the Camero (driven by Ashton Kutcher) is cornered up my embankment by the AImes truck toward Chancery lane. A family (Man, wife, and daughter) sit on my deck furniture for which was staged by the crew (umbrella on wrought-iron table w/2 chairs, plants, 3 torquoise lawn chairs, and plants).
2. down chancery to my street. turn right on Hanover past my home with the family and dog as shots rang out.
3. In front of my home as the camero chases Aimes truck and rear-end the truck as it swerves around into my neighbour-on-the-Left's driveway (like a police manoeuver during a high-speed chase). Camera truck in my driveway to capture the scene. Man strolling infant in pram on the sidewalk.
4.In front of my home as the camero chases Aimes truck, rear-ends it, go up a ramp through the path between the houses of my two neighbours across from my home. Aimes truck swerves onto driveway and follows behind camero down the alleyway between the two neighbours' houses. (took a lot of shots of tha t episode from my bedroom window upstairs). The mercedes camera truck with boom captures these scenes from my neighbour on the right's driveway.
All this will make sense when you see the movie Suntou. Right now they are unedited and disjointed pieces. But just settledown. We are screwed until June '09. The movie will be released around June 2010. Haruna.
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Nice stuff, if you are able to speak with the Holly-Wood people, tell them we need to make film on the life and work of Sheik Touba, Foday Kabba, Kombo Sillah, Mmaba and the likes.
Any ideas? But the Natalos please, i want to see your bad gardening manners.
From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Movie filming in my backyard. Adapted from Realtor Aaron Hofman
To: [log in to unmask]" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, 17 May, 2009, 2:17 AM
The Community will be getting a little extra publicity this year. Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl and Tom Selleck star in Five Killers, a feature film set and filmed in part in the community.
Described as a light-hearted action comedy, Five Killers features Ashton Kutcher as a CIA assassin who meets and falls in love with Katherine Heigl in France (where the photo above was taken). Afterwards, he gives up his assassin “business� to become a family man.
The couple moves to an idyllic, suburban Georgia neighborhood to be near her parents. After several years of wedded bliss, Ashton Kutcher’s character realizes there are several contracts out on him, and chaos ensues. Action sequences and a block party will be filmed in the community in May and June.
So if you’re looking for your own piece of Hollywood right here in Georgia, you may want to consider doing a little house hunting at New Manchester and Riverbanks now. And if you hear gun shots while looking for homes, don’t worry, they’re just blanks.
The community is a large neighborhood in Douglasville. With Swe etwater Creek State Park next door, the ideal location for nature based activities is minutes away. And at 20 minutes to Midtown (down speedy Interstate 20), all that Atlanta has to offer is in your backyard. Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead, Vinings and Georgia Tech offer more clubbing, dining and shopping than any human should tackle in a weekend.
The Community embraces all the best qualities of America’s classic neighborhoods and places them 20 minutes from downtown, Vinings/Galleria and the airport, and right next to a 2,500-acre nature preserve.
Here you can walk from your home to a park in seven minutes or less, even if you pause a couple of times to greet your neighbors. There are parks by the dozens - playgrounds, social parks, a skate park, off-leash dog parks and even a bocce park. And at the heart of it all, there’s Founders Park - where you are likely to find residents laying on blankets, playing flag football, checking e-mail (it’s a WiFi hotspot), and gathering for concerts, movies, and other community functions.
There are also neighborhood activity centers with swimming pools, a fitness center, a basketball court, tennis center, an athletic field complex, and even our own private mountain biking trail.
A few months ago we learned that the new Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Hiegl, and Tom Selleck movie "Five Killers" would be shooting in our neighborhood. Our subdivision is actually split into two parts, with the majority of the shooting being done in the other one, but some being shot right here on our idyllic suburban streets.
Since we don't frequently have movie stars filming around our homes, it's been a pretty big deal around these parts, with neighbors buzzing about an extras casting call and many folks attempting to interact Ashton and the director on twitter. I hadn't really thought too much about it all (you know, Wedding of the Century approaching peoples!) until a guy, who turned out to be the stunt location coordinator, knocked on my door a couple of weeks back and asked if I'd be willing to let them crash a car through our back fence. Certainly not something you get asked every day.
After he added that they'd replace and repair everything, I asked what our next door neighbor, a sensible engineering type had said, and he gave me an odd look and asked "Why do you want to know?"
Seemed like a fair question to me, since if they ran it through our fence, it would have to go through their fence, and if he said "yes," then perhaps we'd be interested in doing it.
Even so, I had to wait to discuss it all with the huz and get back to him.
As more details were revealed, we were told that it would shoot two to three nights and would involve five houses on our streets. We researched compensation for these types of things, and calculated (as a group) what it would take for us to participate - two nights where we'd probably get no sleep, a good couple of weeks without our yards and fences, and a lot of movie types (some very cute movie types) traipsing around our yard and perhaps taking gratuitous photos with our children that we can send to the grandmas and say "LOOK IT'S ME AND MAGNUM PI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our completely reasonable requests20(which did not include me licking Tom Selleck's mustache I SWEARTOGOD) were met with a $350 offer, to which most of us sort of rolled our eyes at.
Don't get me wrong. We didn't expect to make any money off this whole thing, nor are we trying to take advantage of a poor HUGE GIGANTIC MOVIE STUDIO who's building a pool for one of the model homes for one stunt scene and that apparently just wants to offer a few naive Southern families a few bucks to basically take over their yards and homes for a few days.
OHMAHGAW Ashtin Kucher jest used mah pisspot y'all - maybe Ah'll be on TMZ er somethang!
But most of us are bunch of cynical Northerners who'd much rather walk up the hill, plant our asses on a bunch of lawn chairs, and ogle the movie stars while they trash our neighbors' backyards and keep their kids up at night.
Let Tom Selleck Watch begin!
Tom Selleck Joins Ashton Kutcher in "Five Killers"
Tom Selleck ("Magnum PI," "Las Vegas"), Catherine O'Hara (Best in Show) and Martin Mull ("Roseanne") have joined the cast of "Five Killers," a Lionsgate action comedy that stars Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. The project is being directed by Robert Luketic (21). Filming starts this month in France and Atlanta for a June 4th, 2010, release.
The story follows a hitman (Kutcher) at the top of his game who falls for a computer tech (Heigl) and decides to hang up his guns. Years later, their suburban bliss is ruptured when he finds out there's a hit out on him, forcing him and his spooked wife to go on the run.
Selleck and O'Hara will play Heigl's overprotective father and adoring mother. Mull will play Holbrook, Kutcher's handler.
Bob DeRosa wrote the original screenplay, with additional work by Ted Griffin.
What're you talking about? I make my own movies. The ultimate Slumdog! Anyway, we have been invaded by movie trucks, camera boom trucks, and peripheral gear. There were several scenes right in front of my home and in back of it. Police have cordoned off my street and Chancery lane. We could not take pictures with flash and close-up. I had some neighbours take extra pictures hopefully I can share some here with you other slumdogs. I cannot share proprietary pictures at least until the movie is released. I will check on the release and share here. I will check AJC, Lionsgate, and SS2 coverage and clippings and my community management newsletter. Exciting stuff. I could have played Ashton Kutcher's stunt double. I look better than him anyway. I'm a bad man! Haruna.
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The first Darboe kunda in Hollywood. It is an interesting stuff Masoud. Hope you can provide some of the pictures for viewing.
From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Movie filming in my backyard. Five Killers. Starring Ashton Kutcher and Tom Selleck
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Date: Friday, 15 May, 2009, 7:15 PM
It is exciting. Lionsgate films and SS2 productions have set up their props on my back deck and front porch. Through the week they have been manicuring our lawns for this. The brown Camero and camera truck drive on my friggin backyard. I invited some friends and family but by contract we can only watch from inside our home. I managed to take some pics of the pre-roll. The filming will be today, tomorrow, and some on sunday. The kids are excited. So remember to see Five Killers starring Ashton Kutcher and Tom Selleck in a theatre near you soon. You will see my home. It is going to be on the market soon. Haruna. | To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
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