In 1983 Diner was nominated for Best Screenplay.
Barry Levinson's 1982 critically acclaimed film about longtime friends facing life after college features a now famous "who's who" including Mickey Rouke, Paul Reiser, Kevin Bacon and Steve Guttenberg.
The movie poster showed a generic image but the interior diner shots were filmed in the beautiful Bendix Diner, a 1950s Master Diner located in Hasbrouck Heights, just over the New Jersey state line. The movie will celebrate its 30th Anniversary next year ... ROAD TRIP!
Screenplay of the Year in '83 went to Ghandi. And, when you think of it, Diner offered its own pearls of wisdom ... "If you want to talk, you always have the guys at the diner."
Paula, the diners interiors were not filmed at the Bendix. All shots were of a diner that Levinson leased from Paramount Modular Concepts (Paramount Diners)of Oakland, NJ. It was a used Mountain View Diner from Long Island that PMC took in on trade. They trucked it to the Fells Point area of Baltimore and set it up for the movie. As soon as the movie was done shooting, it went back to Oakland, NJ. A year or so later WBAL (not sure if it was radio or TV) bought the diner from Paramount and brought it back to Baltimore. It has been there ever since operating as Kid's Diner and then the Hollywood Diner. It is on Saratoga St. I believe.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Larry! That's what I get for listening to Wikipedia!! Guess the week's worth of blogs were off!
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