Son of a gun, Hollywood has big fun on the bayou

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

(From The New York Times) Shreveport, home to about 200,000, equally divided between black and white, has become a kind of Hollywood South. More than 40 mostly independent productions, both television and film, have turned this very Southern city into a location stand-in for New York, Alaska and Maine in movies like “Blonde Ambition,” “Factory Girl,” “The Mist,” “Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay” and “The Great Debaters.”

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