would like to digress momentarily and point out that it certainly was warm in Wilmington, NC., for at least the first half of the season 9 shoot. The crew began shooting last July (shortly after getting the green light from the CW network for a 9th season) when Wilmington was experiencing a relentless heat wave. Temperatures soared and consistently hovered at the century mark for about a week at one point in the summer. Several cast members tweeted about how hot it was on set. So kudos to the cast and crew for the great work they did amidst such an intense heat wave. But was it as hot as it was when Spielberg and his crew were shooting Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia? 🙂 Ofknow which of them chose the song but she chooses most of the music and each song is given Mark’s stamp of approval. It was definitely an intense cliff hanger scene and the music gives it a great energy and tempo.

In the beginning of the new film The Descendants, directed by Alexander Payne, Matt King (George Clooney) remarks in a voiceover that people and family on the mainland think everyone in Hawaii just lives this tropical, blissful, lifestyle all day every day. He wryly observes that it is not all paradise all of the time. “I haven’t been on a surfboard in 15 years,” he says. Life, with all of its trouble and heartache, touches Hawaiians too. Even Honolulu is plagued with traffic at times as on the