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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Portland / TV Spot the Fake Homeless Person!

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:58 AM

Which homeless person in this picture is a fake homeless person? The answer may surprise you!

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The answer after the jump.

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It was a trick question: THEY'RE ALL FAKE HOMELESS PEOPLE!
The new NBC show Grimm is shooting outside our offices this morning, and when one of our staffers momentarily stopped to look, a production person told her, "Don't worry, they're fake homeless people." (Or so he thinks! Actors are usually one failed tampon commercial audition away from eating out of a dumpster.)

CONFIDENTIAL TO GRIMM PRODUCTION STAFF: In the top bowl of the Skidmore Fountain there is what looks like a Starbucks cup, an empty can of Old Milwaukie beer, and a pair of slippers. They've been floating in there for a week, it's too high for us to reach, and nobody from the city has come by to clean it out. Do a favor for the City of Portland and use your cherry-picker thingy to remove those pieces of garbage and return this fountain to its former glory. In return, we won't blow our air horn while you're filming. (If you think we're joking, ask our former neighbors on the KATU news team.) THANK YOU.

 

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1
It doesn't surprise me. I like how a Hollywood's version of a "bum," is our version of a regular Portlander ready to go on a camping trip.

Also, none of them have meth teeth.
Posted by Fruit Cup on November 8, 2011 at 10:14 AM · Report
2
Ugh, Network Television. More Air Horn please!
Posted by N0AHRC on November 8, 2011 at 10:19 AM · Report
3
Good to know that my man on the right there is still able to sport some crisp selvedge jeans despite the fact that he is "facing homelessness," in the parlance of the times.
Posted by Dave J. on November 8, 2011 at 10:55 AM · Report
4
AIRHORN!
AIRHORN!
AIRHORN!
AIRHORN!
Posted by Joneser on November 8, 2011 at 11:29 AM · Report
5
I am sure the staffer in question was happy for the reassurance, as homeless people are so seldom found in the New Market Theater's environs.
Posted by The Right Reverend Rocktimus Prime on November 8, 2011 at 11:45 AM · Report
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I'm going to start a homeless extra casting agency as soon as I figure out how to sweet talk directors and producers to warm to the guy I got who will wander aimlessly in and out of shot regardless of cues, the jack-o-lantern toothed thirty-something woman who will loudly and spontaneously burst into off-key renditions of Alanis Morissette songs and the two charming guys I've got fighting over what looks like a torn off half of a woman's coat.
They're all just waiting for the right production.
Posted by rich23 on November 8, 2011 at 11:55 AM · Report
7
Looks like smoke break at OSPIRG headquarters.
Posted by theterminizer on November 8, 2011 at 1:29 PM · Report
8
PROTIP: HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE ALL MISSING LIMBS.
Posted by Graham on November 8, 2011 at 4:48 PM · Report
9
Looks like half the jackwagons I get shoehorned into the MAX with...ah, the homeless chic look. Tres charment
Posted by The Showstopper on November 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM · Report

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