Mel Gibson!!!

Well, it's not every day you get kicked off a movie set. What started as a normal day took a turn when I arrived to drop Norah off at Lina and Miguel's. Their entire street was lined with 18-wheelers, dressing room trailers, and other vehicles. The police officer turning people away told me that it was a movie shoot. Lina told me that she saw Mel Gibson arrive at about 6:30 a.m., go into the trailer directly across the street from their house, change clothes, and head to the Mass Pike rest area with a bodyguard. The back entrance to the rest area is just down the street from Lina's.

Adlani had a dentist appointment so we couldn't stay and gawk. The Peter Pan bus that hit my front bumper (and kept driving) while trying to turn left temporarily took my mind off Mel Gibson, but only momentarily. When we went back to pick up Norah around 4, a lot of the neighbors were strolling over to check out the movie shoot, so I decided to take the kids over to see what we could see. We saw the cast's lunch leftovers (lobster), the hair and make-up truck (I think Aliya's leaning back toward hairstylist as a career choice), and lots of movie people. We caught a few glimpses of Mel (and his body double) in the parking lot and then a big mean-looking security guy came over and said that if the kids were going to hang out there, they couldn't be "screaming like that." I personally thought it would add some reality to the scene, but I guess not. The kids were stunned into silence and I asked Meanie if he could come over later and shut them up again. The stunned silence didn't last long so when he gave me the hairy eyeball and the head jerk that means "Get those noisy brats out of here before they ruin our movie," I dragged them back to the car.

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I guess I'll have to wait for the movie to see Mel up close and personal. It's called "The Edge of Darkness" and according to one of the support staff we met it's a thriller about a Boston cop. Sounds like a date for Mommies at the Movies.

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