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Entertainment in Brief

George Clooney’s leather man

PROTECTING CLOONEY'S NOGGIN

If you’re going to make a movie called Leatherheads you better have the leather needed to cover those heads. That was the problem facing the film’s director and star, George Clooney. The movie is set in the emerging world of pro football during the 1920s, and “leatherheads” refers to the players and their leather helmets. Problem is, those antique helmets are almost impossible to find, so the filmmakers called Marv Lubinsky, vintage sports equipment expert and owner of Past Time Sports, to handcraft 24 helmets and 60 old-style footballs called “watermelons.”


The former saddle maker used 37 separate pieces of leather to make the LG Cordovan Rust helmet worn by Clooney. “Although you can see the team wearing different styles,” says Lubinsky on the line from his office in Richardson, Texas. “Some of the bigger guys are wearing an earlier style from 1915 called a Dog-Ear helmet, which is also ours.”


With America’s obsession with football you’d think there would be lots of old helmets lying around. “They just didn’t save them,” explains Lubinsky. “They got so hard and crusty and started to smell in the locker rooms, and we talked to many coaches who told us they literally hauled them to the dump and burned them.”


—Ingrid Randoja


ON HOME TURF

Films shooting across Canada this month

• Mark Wahlberg’s working on Toronto’s streets until the end of May. He’s in town to play the title character — a DEA cop out to avenge the deaths of his wife and child — in the videogame-inspired thriller Max Payne.


• Transformers’ Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried of Mean Girls fame are in Vancouver shooting Jennifer’s Body until mid-May. Written by Juno scribe Diablo Cody, the movie follows a possessed cheerleader (Fox) who’s snuffing out her male classmates, and the friend (Seyfried) trying to stop her.

• I Love You, Beth Cooper is currently shooting in Vancouver with Heroes’ Hayden Panettiere playing a popular high school student who’s the object of a nerdy valedictorian’s affections.


• If you’re in Toronto, look out for a waifish brunette in aviator glasses and a bomber jacket. It might be Hilary Swank, who’s in town until the end of this month shooting Amelia, the life story of lady pilot Amelia Earhart. Hope it ends well.

All shooting schedules are subject to change.

—Marni Weisz



MICK AND MARTY'S SPECIAL SONG

It makes perfect sense that the Rolling Stones would want Martin Scorsese to direct their concert pic/documentary Shine a Light, considering Scorsese loves to include their music in his movies.


The filmmaker has used 10 Stones tunes in four of his films — Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed — but he’s used the same song three times. Can you guess which song appears in the soundtrack of Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed? (Answer below.)


—Ingrid Randoja


Answer: “Gimme Shelter”


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