This is going to be a dumb post, prepare yourself....
My all time favorite movie EVER is "Stand By Me." I saw it in the theater as a double feature with "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" at what is now the Avo Playhouse in Vista when I was 4. Yes, my parents took me to a rated R movie when I was 4. That's a whole other subject. Anyways....I've seen the movie at least 100 times. I know every single line. I've read the novella (titled "The Body" by Stephen King) at least 10 times. I own the script. I would watch "Stand By Me" right now and then watch it a second time immediately afterwards. When I was in high school I had still shots from the film on my binder dividers. I love the movie. I am obsessed with the movie. I can tell you about how "Stand By Me" is tied into "Cujo." (In the book it says that Chopper was the most feared dog in Castle Rock until Cujo came along...because the book takes place in Stephen King's fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine instead of the real town of Castle Rock, Oregon.) I like the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" because its a good movie, but mostly because it is based on another novella from the same book that "Stand By Me" is from. This obsession runs deep, okay?
So while looking for events in Astoria, Oregon, I saw that there is a 25th anniversary event for "The Goonies" this June. I just had to see if anything was going on for "Stand By Me." Sure enough, there's one in Brownsville, Oregon this July. I live about an hour from where the movie was filmed. This is a coincidence, I swear. I SWEAR.
Anyways....in 2007 the event hosted such famous people from the movie as "guy that played the dead body"..."fat lady who barfed in her purse" and "Vern's butt double" (apparently Jerry O'Connell couldn't climb the junkyard fence so they had to use a stunt double.) THIS year though, Rob Reiner, Will Wheaton, and Corey Feldman are supposed to be there....and they are in talks to get more of the cast to come....like Keifer Sutherland and John Cusack maybe?! Oh my gosh I'm so excited.
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