Last day of filming on the special. I'm really interested in how this special is going to turn out now. I believe they now have a good 8 hours of footage of our family for this damn thing... and we're only part of the show. We are definitely the main focus though.
Interesting to note: I saw the Concorde jet... floating on a boat down the Hudson river this morning.
We started off filming a million shots in front of the New York Public Library. It was stupendously cold. So, with how cold I was for the interview... I should look pitiful and freezing in every shot of the special!
These shots were cornball, I tell you this. Shots of us walking down the stairs, fake conversing. Pointing up-"Hey look at dat!" Taking family photos in front of the lion statues. Ordering coffees together at Starbucks--as a family! Yeah! (Free Starbucks is more delicious than purchased Starbucks.)
Shots of us walking this and that way... as a family! Yeah!
Then they filmed something with my mom looking in a window of a building... and then security came at us.
Then they filmed us walking through some sort of holiday flea market in the middle of this park. This was some cornball shit now, I tell you. Us checking out all the horrible garbage. Ornaments from India and what not. We had to get excited over junky shit... as a family! Yeah!
It was then more shots of us walking past the camera seperately. So get ready for the Dateline shot of me walking alone through a park.
Also... I should mention that the wind always blew my hair into my face as we walked... all 4 million different shots today... so that should be funny! They should make a montage!
They got a shot of me reading in the park... I was really reading... so it should look really boring!
After that, it was off to New Jersey to film in the house of a food network "food stylist." They filmed a bunch of documentary style cooking and all that. Also... more and more inserts. My dad raking. Re-enactments from the fat days of him grabbing donuts. A little of everything.
This took every hour there was to take... I tell you this.
The food network called during all of it. The network's president OFFICIALLY greenlit the show today. Which basically means that we are now allowed to talk about it. That there's no going back on their word. They want my father's agent to contact their legal department on Monday for contract negotiations.
So you see... things are happening now... and it's freaking me out.
All the people that were staring at us when we were filming in the city... it was a taste of what's to come. The week after the View airs, the People article will come out and then the week after that the special will air... it's going to be a lot of exposure all at once.
The producer of the special said that I should look forward to quite a lot of fan mail.
Tomorrow night... 11pm on the History channel... "Dead Reckoning: Buttons and Bugs" is on... it's a forensic show by our special's crew.
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