How to Make it in America Filming on Bowery

Posted: September 30, 2009 at 10:26 am

How to Make it in America on Bowery

Fellow LESers, get ready to puke.  Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson, the folks behind the glitzy rag-of-a-show Entourage, are set to invade the Bowery today to film How to Make it in America.  With a rather tired plotline – a group of twenty-somethings hustle into NYC to achieve the American Dream, yada yada – the production is sure to cause problems in and around the neighborhood.

Haddad's Bowery

And by the look of this Craigslist casting call from a few weeks ago, sure to give the area a bad rap.

Central Casting is starting to cast for a new HBO show called “HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA” from the creators of “ENTOURAGE”. The show takes place in the world of fashion and hipsters. The show will be shooting in NYC in all the hotest and trendiest locations.
The categories we are looking to cast for are:
Hipsters! Hipsters! Williamsburg types or LES. People with great wardrobe. Ages 20′s and 30s
Models- Female and Male
Indie Rock Band Types (let us know if you can play instrument)
Lower East Side Domincan or Hispanic types (all ages)
Hip and Trendy types with Real Bartending experience
Hipsters with Tatoos
Skateboarders

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Street: Bowery
Tags: Entourage, filming, How to Make it in America, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, tv/film


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  • Iworkunlikeyouutrustfundbrats
    The people who complain about film crews "invading" "their" neighborhoods are the same people who gentrified the neighborhoods in the first place. Sorry, haters.
  • B.A. Baracus
    What's ironic is that the show is probably about characters who would have the same "hater" attitudes. "A group of twenty-somethings hustle into NYC to achieve the American Dream." So by complaining about the filming, isn't it actually helping the writers with their characters? Don't bite the hand that feeds! Without actual gentrification you wouldn't be working on the show. Now stop this Jibba Jabba!
  • B.A. Baracus
    Wow your comment sounds just like the one BC Haley posted on another post about the same show. Tell Marky Mark hi since you're probably a $4/hour PA for the show. ;)
  • Iworkunlikeyouutrustfundbrats
    Actually, it's $17/hour, Sucker. And, what? If I made $4/hour I don't have a right to make a comment? Nice and classist of you, LES gentrification bitch!
  • F Fredd
    Wah! The entertainment industry wants to bring business and jobs to our city and it might inconvenience the lives of a couple of LES dimwits. WAH!

    Good Lord...if this is all you have to post about, you should re-consider the importance of your blog at all.
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