Comments on: Paparazzi: What, No Paczkis?!

By: Jim Rees

Jim Rees — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:48:18 +0000

Yes, they were on North Campus all day Tuesday, mostly in Pierpont Commons, which I discovered when I had to climb over a pile of lighting equipment to get in. They had all the UM signs covered over. I could tell the extras weren’t supposed to be UM students because they were too well dressed.

I checked out the catering van and saw no sign of paczki (which, in the original Polish, is plural without the ‘s’). The ribs looked good.

By: Kasubo

Kasubo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:47:23 +0000

PACZKI is the plural form already, no need to add an ‘s’. Paczek is the singular.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:10:56 +0000

They’re filming up on North Campus right now. Looks like its ribs for lunch today.

By: Lucy Ann Lance

Lucy Ann Lance — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:57:10 +0000

If the catering company is based in Louisiana, the menu planners should certainly understand the importance of Fat Tuesday! Anyway, I’d take a ribeye over a paczki anyday. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

By: Dave Askins

Dave Askins — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:37:09 +0000

Re: “Am I the only one who wonders why they had to bring in a catering crew from PA?”

The catering company is based in Louisiana. Todd himself is based in Pittsburgh.

I would speculate that for a movie production to have the confidence to hire a local caterer, they want evidence of experience dealing with whatever idiosyncratic aspects there are to catering a movie production. As opposed, say, to a wedding. As to get that experience providing food to a movie production … it’s a familiar conundrum.

If it were a local caterer, I’m pretty sure there’d be paczkis tomorrow. Whether they’d get eaten is another question.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:31:03 +0000

That is one thing MI lawmakers should put in the tax plan for filmakers-that local and state wide talent, crews, and catering/supply services be utilized.

By: Bill Tozier

Bill Tozier — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:54:35 +0000

@Laura might be related to the reason California is offering its own tax cuts to movie projects now….

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:05:39 +0000

Am I the only one who wonders why they had to bring in a catering crew from PA?