{"id":1013,"date":"2009-10-20T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2009-10-20T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:35:29","slug":"ben-affleck-in-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/10\/20\/ben-affleck-in-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck in &#8220;The Town&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1014\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1014\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1014\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/10\/towncam1.png\" alt=\"Camera crew at Harvard Sq T\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/10\/towncam1.png 520w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/10\/towncam1-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camera crew at Harvard Sq T<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Multiple camera crews were are in Harvard Square shooting for &#8220;The Town&#8221;. It is directed by and stars ben Affleck. I was told Ben was around, but I did not recognize him.<sup>1<\/sup> I think it more likely that what I saw was second unit stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The script is a screen adaptation of a novel by Chuck Hogan, &#8220;Prince of Thieves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>In addition to seeing him in the Littauer Center [North Yard edition] when he spoke in support of the Living Wage Campaign, I passed about a foot from him when he was shooting &#8220;Gone Baby Gone&#8221; in Uphams Corner<sup>A<\/sup> in 2006. I didn&#8217;t stop to talk, I had to catch the bus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalhub.com\/node\/10953\" target=\"_blank\"><sup>A<\/sup>Thanks to bloggers and commentors at Universal Hub for straightening out the confusion of the New York Times. Cantaloni&#8217;s is not in South Boston. It is in Uphams Corner, Dorchester.<\/a> As for the spelling of the bar&#8217;s name, there is no sign. It&#8217;s called whatever a particular long time resident tells you it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple camera crews were are in Harvard Square shooting for &#8220;The Town&#8221;. It is directed by and stars ben Affleck. I was told Ben was around, but I did not recognize him.1 I think it more likely that what I saw was second unit stuff. The script is a screen adaptation of a novel by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}