Lights, camera... Tualatin

Two Tualatin businesses are preparing for their close-up in ‘Management’

By Jennifer Clampet

The Times, Oct 4, 2007, Updated Oct 30, 2009

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“It’s fun. It changes your day-to-day routine,” Phillips said. “But also, it’s a little scary closing down for two days.”

The crews will film during the day, but the scene is supposed to be set at night, so the windows will be blacked out.

“And of course, it probably won’t even look like my place when they (film here),” Phillips said, referring to talks among the production crews about taking out certain elements of his bar and replacing them with items that fit the scene.

The film’s crews wanted more of a cowboy-type bar, Phillips said, but two other bars in town were too big. Phillips said crews liked the “intimacy” of his bar.

Hawkins said tech crews will have to take down the arena’s glass walls and cover up some signage for the scenes at his business.

Dale Potts with the Tualatin Veterans of Foreign Wars said Wednesday that the organization had also been contacted by the production company for use of the VFW hall to house extras during the shoots in Tualatin.

A synopsis listed on the production company Sidney Kimmel Entertainment’s Web site describes “Management” as a romantic comedy starring Aniston and Zahn.

The movie centers on Aniston’s character, “an uptight, overworked traveling saleswoman of hotel art, who ends up in a roadside motel managed by Zahn’s character, an underachieving, lonely man who still lives with his parents.”

The two characters end up having an unexpected affair. And while Aniston’s character returns to her life as a workaholic, Zahn’s character can’t forget her and decides to pursue her. What follows is a series of “unlikely and hysterical misadventures.”

According to the Movie Insider, “Management” is not expected to be released until sometime in 2010.

And while Phillips is excited about the opportunity to have his bar featured in a movie, he’s also realistic.

This isn’t Phillips’ first brush with movie-making. He played a part in Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” video. Phillips’ sister Julie was at the time married to Springsteen.

And he understands that sometimes, scenes get left on the cutting-room floor.

“(The scene) could always not make the cut,” Phillips said. “The scene might not even be in the movie.”

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