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From big-time movies to cruising to a ferry at Ferry Farm, it's a day of updates Date published: 8/6/2006 By ROB HEDELT FROM A LOCAL BOY breaking into big-time films to some new animal arrivals at George Washington Birthplace, today's column is for updates. It starts with Fredericksburg's Danny McBride, a Courtland High School grad who's rubbing elbows with some big movie names these days. I wrote about McBride earlier this year as he and some friends prepared to take their film, "The Foot Fist Way," to the Sundance Film Festival. McBride got in touch last week to say that the movie, in which he acts with some friends from his days at the North Carolina School of the Arts, has been picked up by Will Ferrell's new company and will be released this fall by Paramount. He noted that since Sundance, he's sold two film scripts--one sale involving Ron Howard's company, Imagine. "And if that wasn't enough," said McBride, "right now I'm It's a Paramount film, "Hot Rod," starring Andy Samberg from "Saturday Night Live" and produced by SNL's Lorne Michaels. It's being shot Thanks to McBride for giving home folks an idea of what he's up to. I'm hoping he'll keep providing updates so we all can vicariously feel what life in the movie biz is like. On a different note, William Richards got in touch from Monterey to say thanks for "pressing a memory button and bringing back the days in the '50s when we did exactly what you described." He was talking about a recent column in which I recalled summer high school days when we'd put five bucks worth of gas in our cars and ride from one little town to another in the Northern Neck in search of excitement, which usually eluded us. His cruising took place in and around Fredericksburg. "Gas was 22 cents a gallon then and everyone in the car would chip in 25 cents apiece," said Richards. "We could ride forever. God bless that sweet little town, Fredericksburg, that we lived in. And the loving people that we knew."
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