"The Sixth Sense" and Undine Barge Club

[Clete Graham]

"The Sixth Sense", starring Bruce Willis opens this week in Philadelphia.  Billed as "a breathtaking psychological thriller" and "the most intense and moving film of the summer", some of it was shot last fall at boathouse Row's Undine Barge Club.

I don't know too much about the movie or how Undine figures in it, but it's not a rowing movie.  Bruce is the psychologist treating a troubled 12 year old boy "tormented by visions and by schoolmates".  There's a review of the movie in the Weekend section of the Phila. Inquirer, on line at http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Aug/06/weekend/SIX06.htm.

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There's another movie due later this year.  I forget the name, it's a women's first name, but it too was shot last fall in Philadelphia.  It stars Gabrielle Anwar (I probably butchered the spelling) as the cox in an mens four.  She dates all four guys but none knows she's dating the others.  She gets pregnant.

Dan Lyons was employed in teaching the actors how to row.  There are some practice and race scenes.  The working class guys in the four get into a barroom altercation with some snotty guys and are challenged to a race with the losers having to run naked along Boathouse Row.

While they were shooting I was out on the dock at Crescent when the movie four returned from a practice row, with Gabrielle in the cox's seat.  She quickly disappeared into the boathouse and I chatted briefly with the actors/rowers who were pretty regular guys from L.A. (is that an internal contradiction?).  She came out to the bay door, so I went over and introduced myself and complimented her on the her work in "Scent of a Woman" with Al Pacino.  As I turned to walk away, a womens four from LaSalle was landing at the next dock, Fairmount.  They all knew me and probably didn't realize who the woman I was talking to was and yelled over, jokingly and in unison, "Hi, Clete", in a girlish sing-song as I if were a celebrity.  I was walking away from Gabrielle, stopped and turned around to tell her, "See - I'm the star around here".  She laughed.  :)

Some locals got bit parts in the rowing scenes, including some Penn oarsmen.  Appropriately, Joe Sweeney was cast as a bartender, in a scene filmed upstairs at the bar at Penn AC, but I think he got cut out before it was over.  I auditioned, but didn't get a part, my film career ending prematurely.

Clete

[Love2Scull]

Are we to suppose that more than other Philly clubs there are "dead" people
walking around U.B.C. that perhaps only a coxswain can see?
If it was Malta I could understand as some of the lightweights there look a
little pale.....perhaps Hillary walking around late at Vesper.........caught in
the right light........who knows?
Merely in jest L2S.

[Turk]

The scene shot on the dock at Undine was only used as a video-taped wedding in the movie.  The boathouse itself is never visible, only Penn's boathouse.  The name is changed to Liberty (BC? RC?), but that is derived from Bruce's sweatshirt.  It's hard to believe that it took a week or more to shoot what ended up to be only a minute on screen.  I wish I had a budget like that.

 

BTW, the name of the other flick is "Kimberly."

 

Jeremy Turk

[doyl...@my-deja.com]

In article <EwEr3.732$ln1....@news2.voicenet.com>,
"Turk" <jt...@voicenet.com> wrote:
> The scene shot on the dock at Undine was only used as a video-taped =
> wedding in the movie. The boathouse itself is never visible, only =

> Penn's boathouse. The name is changed to Liberty (BC? RC?), but that

is =

> derived from Bruce's sweatshirt. It's hard to believe that it took a

=

> week or more to shoot what ended up to be only a minute on screen. I

=

> wish I had a budget like that.
>
> BTW, the name of the other flick is "Kimberly."
>
> Jeremy Turk
>

And I would have to say that unless "Kimberly" shows more substantial
usage of Boathouse Row footage, that our response to requests from the
Philadelphia Film Commission and future Tinseltown Twinkletoes be
something more along the lines of "bite me." The parking was horrible
when they were here and they seemed to be laboring under the
misapprehension that they were doing us a favor.

The next time these jokers come to town, I say we post fliers in the
Badlands advertising all the free lighting and wardrobe equipment
available for the picking.

Greg

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[gdo...@hotmail.com]

In article <EwEr3.732$ln1....@news2.voicenet.com>,
"Turk" <jt...@voicenet.com> wrote:
> The scene shot on the dock at Undine was only used as a video-taped =
> wedding in the movie. The boathouse itself is never visible, only =
> Penn's boathouse. The name is changed to Liberty (BC? RC?), but that
is =
> derived from Bruce's sweatshirt. It's hard to believe that it took a
=
> week or more to shoot what ended up to be only a minute on screen. I
=
> wish I had a budget like that.
>
> BTW, the name of the other flick is "Kimberly."
>
> Jeremy Turk
>

And I would say that unless "Kimberly" has more substantial usage of

Boathouse Row footage, that our response to requests from the
Philadelphia Film Commission and future Tinseltown Twinkletoes be
something more along the lines of "bite me." The parking was horrible
when they were here and they seemed to be laboring under the
misapprehension that they were doing us a favor.

The next time these jokers come to town, we should post fliers in the
Badlands, advertising all the free lighting and wardrobe equipment

[Lowpulse]

>Subject: Re: "The Sixth Sense" and Undine Barge Club
>From: gdo...@hotmail.com
>Date: Mon, 09 August 1999 04:19 PM EDT
>Message-id: <7ond4g$5q$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>

>And I would say that unless "Kimberly" has more substantial usage of
>Boathouse Row footage, that our response to requests from the
>Philadelphia Film Commission and future Tinseltown Twinkletoes be
>something more along the lines of "bite me." The parking was horrible
>when they were here and they seemed to be laboring under the
>misapprehension that they were doing us a favor.
>
>The next time these jokers come to town, we should post fliers in the
>Badlands, advertising all the free lighting and wardrobe equipment
>available for the picking.
>
>Greg

Agreed! Actually, the original plan was to screw up parking for a week. That
turned into 3 weeks. Never saw so many cops on the row, towing cars and giving
out tickets to rowers. They don't seem so concerned when our boathouses and
cars are getting broken into.
Merrill

[charlie]

As we're about showbiz rowing, I was rowing at the Docklands in London while
they were shooting the motorboat sequence of the next James Bond film, 'The
World Is Not Enough', my coach has a video of us rowing while huge
explosions are going on in the background!

Shaken, but not Stroked. (sorry)

Charlie

Turk <jt...@voicenet.com> wrote in message
news:EwEr3.732$ln1....@news2.voicenet.com...
The scene shot on the dock at Undine was only used as a video-taped wedding
in the movie. The boathouse itself is never visible, only Penn's boathouse.
The name is changed to Liberty (BC? RC?), but that is derived from Bruce's
sweatshirt. It's hard to believe that it took a week or more to shoot what
ended up to be only a minute on screen. I wish I had a budget like that.