The Birdchaser: Steve Martin on shooting The Big Year

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Steve Martin was on Letterman talking about shooting The Big Year (see discussion from about 2:25-5:05).

(Hat tip: John)

Patrick B. said...: Glad to hear they're showing good ol' trash dump birding.; 9:14 PM
Birding is Fun! said...: That bit about the eagle over the water and the multitude of eagles at the dump was pretty good. Welcome to Birding!; 9:57 PM
Pat ODonnell said...: I still cannot believe that they made a major movie about "The Big Year" and honestly dont have high hopes for the movie but I sure hope it turns more people onto birding!; 1:37 PM
Anonymous said...: I've been waiting for 30 years for Steve Martin to be funny. Still waiting. Then again, I am the weirdo who finds Jerry Seinfeld annoying, boring, and not funny. And I don't like ice cream. So I am just off-the-charts weird.

Anyway, I had assume that Martin plays Sandy Komito but IMBD is saying that Owen Wilson is Komito, Dustin Hoffman is Levinton, and Jack Black is Greg Miller.

I always wish I could spend most of my time birding, yet this book, as well as To See Every Bird on Earth, and the books by/about Phoebe Snetsinger were oddly unsettling. Perhaps because in each, birding actually seemed to become a negative, destructive activity. The only book about obsessive birding I found to be mostly positive was A Supremely Bad Idea, as it was mostly humorous and the birders in question kept some perspective.; 10:03 AM

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