It’s like being in a movie…

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | posts

…except it’s, like, really being in a movie.

I am sitting at my desk here at the AP in New York, finishing up my evening shift, and dozens of film extras are milling around.

Seriously, there are more than 20 people here “pretending” to work.

They are all fake journalists. Standing around, shuffling papers, walking back and forth with notepads and pens in hand, chatting over coffee mugs and moving boxes of stationary from one desk to another.

The AP newsroom is the set of Drew Barrymore’s newest film, Going the Distance.

I’m trying to get some writing done for the night, on the phone with the cops to get some information on a story in the Hamptons, and I can’t hear a thing because the director is screaming instructions to the extras.

One extra comes up to me and says, “You’re fired!”

Another tells me I’ll be famous.

I scoff: “I’m already famous!”

“Really?” asks the extra to my left. “What do you do?”

“I’m the only real reporter here!” I exclaim. Haha ha.

This is very distracting, alarming, yet uniquely New York all at once.

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