The first day of shooting made a big splash in New York Click here to see pictures related to this article Man overboard! Stuntman Peter Hock took a swan dive into the Hudson River as part of the storyline in Ryan's Hope. Peter was standing in for Michael Levin, who plays Jack Fenelli, a crusading reporter for a New York newspaper--only in this case he wasn't supposed to be crusading, but relaxing. A simple game of catch with Mary Ryan, played by Kate Mulgrew, sends Jack leaping for a ball right into the drink. The stunt, which was filmed on location at a Greenwich village pier in New York, was well-attended by stars, press and curious onlookers. Stuntman Hock, whose wife was expecting a baby that very day, kept running back and forth to the dressing room trailer to see if nay news had come in on the new arrival. that was making him more nervous than the stunt itself! then, when everything was in readiness, and cast and crew and stuntman were poised in position, on stubborn Village resident decided he didn't want to move out of the way of cameras. The shooting was delayed while a kindly, Irish police man talked him into taking a seat elsewhere. Ryan's Hope has be come familiar to daytime viewers by now as the newest of the soaps. It also may become known as the most realistic of the soaps. The on-location shootings planned by producer George Lefferts and director Lela Swift will give Ryan's Hope a new look will shun the artificial for the natural in its New York City setting. May the wind always be at its back, as the Irish toast goes! |
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