Foo Fighters – Savannah Unplugged http://www.billdawers.com Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:06:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 18778551 More “CBGB” comings and goings hit Twitter http://www.billdawers.com/2012/07/19/more-cbgb-comings-and-goings-hit-twitter/ Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:29:31 +0000 http://www.billdawers.com/?p=3462

drummer from the foo fighters in the house ! playing iggy pop in the cbgb's movie ! @gilbertocruzjr twitter.com/thejinx912/sta…

— thejinx (@thejinx912) July 19, 2012

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]]> I guess my first question is this: how the heck did Gil Cruz of The Jinx get his photo taken with both Taylor Hawkins and Joel David Moore? (Click here for a post about The Jinx with lots of photos from the last year.)

I continue to be pleased and a little surprised by how willing some of the CBGB stars have been to put themselves in the public eye via their own and their fans’ Twitter feeds while in Savannah for filming.

Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters plays Iggy Pop. Joel David Moore plays Joey Ramone. Julian Acosta is Johnny Ramone. Malin Ackerman plays Debbie Harry. Mickey Sumner is Patti Smith. Stana Katic is Genya Ravan.

Nice shoutouts here to Eric Culberson and Catfish Staggs.


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]]> Well this just gets more fun by the day, as the cast of CBGB — which will be filmed in Savannah from about June 25th to July 25th –continues to be announced.

From Hollywood Reporter:

The upcoming rock ‘n’ roll film CBGB has added several cast members, including Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who will play rock icon Iggy Pop; The Big Bang Theory’s Johnny Galecki as music manager Terry Ork and The Borgias actress Mickey Sumner as Patti Smith. [. . .]

Also joining the cast are Steven Schub (Chicago 8) as Dee Dee Ramone; Evan Alex Cole (She’s Outta My League) as Richard Hell; Peter Vack (I Just Want My Pants Back) as Legs McNeil; and Kerry Bische (Red State) as Mary Harron.

Mickey Sumner

Click here to see all of my posts about the film CBGB, about late club owner Hilly Kristal (played by Alan Rickman).

I’m also excited to report that a couple of young actors that I know have landed parts in the production.

Now, who’s Mickey Sumner and why is she playing Patti Smith (whose new album Banga will be released this week)?

She was in Last Chance Harvey with Dustin Hoffman in 2008, but I’ve never even heard of that.

She’s played Francesca in Neil Jordan’s series The Borgias with Jeremy Irons, but I’ve never seen that either.

And Mickey Sumner is Sting’s daughter, apparently. And I didn’t know that either.

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