Monday, July 28, 2008

Local women find film industry niche by casting film extras

BY JULIE HINDS • FREE PRESS POP CULTURE WRITER • July 28, 2008

One day, they could be arranging for 20 bald guys to meet with Drew Barrymore's team. The next, they're combing metro Detroit for men and women with Mohawks.

For Kathy Remski and Rose Gilpin, the explosion of movie and TV filming in metro Detroit is making every day an adventure.

Over the past two months, Remski, a 44-year-old mother of two from Birmingham, and Gilpin, a 45-year-old mother of three from Grosse Pointe Farms, have seen their nice little production services company expand to handle assignments like finding 500 movie extras.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080728/ENT01/807280316/1035/ENT

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