In a work-a-day world (when you can find work, that is) movies remain magic. Witness the gathering of Hollywood glitterati this weekend for the Academy Awards. After the gold statuettes find their new homes, after you pop the winning film in your DVD player and dissect the scenes, keep the magic moving with a trip to a movie site.
New York’s Central Park is a great place. It’s the backdrop (and in a few instances outright star) of legions of films, the self-proclaimed “most filmed location in the world.” There you can:
- See where they shot the famous Bandshell scene from Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
- Visit the Boathouse Café from When Harry Met Sally.
- Suspend disbelief where Steve Carrell and Tina Fey escaped the bad guys in Date Night.
- Feed the pigeons at the spot Macaulay Culkin did in Home Alone 2.
- Cross over the small screen side of the ledger and walk where the cast of Glee sang and danced “I Love New York.”
On the other side of the continent take a decidedly different sort of film trek, a Movies & Jeep Tour of the breathtaking tableau surrounding Sedona, Ariz. Sedona’s fame was first forged back in 1923 when Zane Grey’s Call of the Canyon was shot here. In 1946 John Wayne starred in Angel and the Badman. Four years later, James Stewart took on one of his defining roles in the 1950 Western Broken Arrow in this starkly beautiful land.
Yeah, you can make the magic last – and you don’t have to do it from the confines of your couch. Ditch the remote control and grab a boarding pass.
Story by Jerry Chandler
