warren township high school reunion 1990

One of Johnson's good friends, Mike Caplan, meteorologist at Fox 32 Chicago, came to the premiere and recalled double dating with Johnson years ago. 'There wasn't enough rain, so they had to get more fire trucks,' she said. The Gurnee Fire Department was there to imitate a downpour, she said. Her sister-in-law, Jenni O'Connor, recalled when she was working at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee and a scene was being filmed in which Patrick is on his first day of the job as the Amazing Alfredo, who could guess a person's weight and age. 'But it wasn't funny then.' She added that the problem was solved when the buses parked elsewhere. O'Connor laughed and cringed at the same time when she saw the scene of Warren Township High School boys getting on top of the school bus to look into the girls locker room. He introduced a family friend who came up with $10,000 when Johnson was going to have to shut down filming at Bertrand's Bowling Alley in Waukegan. Mostly, though, he thanked individually the many audience members who played a part in the movie's completion. 'Some of you weren't even born when we started this,' he said. And he joked about the 'long, long, long, long, long time' it took to complete the film. Johnson said everything in the film is true, except for the order of occurrence and the length of time between events.īefore the show, Johnson told the audience tales of working on the film, including cutting a hole through his home to make a certain scene work.

And those who see it will likely find it to be a poignant tale about daring to be different amid humorous high school scenes and a true but seemingly implausible trip by Johnson to meet Steven Spielberg and see the filming of 'Star Wars' in Hollywood. There's much more to the story than that, though.

The film leads to the moment when Johnson, as a teenager, saw the premiere of 'Star Wars' at the Genesee.

Warren township high school reunion 1990