Talk of the Town: Blowing a fuse at disruptive local

Published on Tuesday 7 September 2010 11:31

FILMING is finally under way on the "sparky" Edinburgh superhero movie Electric Man.

The movie producers were overwhelmed by the number of people who turned out to the Pleasance earlier this year in the hopes of becoming a superhero - if only on film. But it seems not every Capital resident has been quite so helpful to budding movie-makers David Barras and Scott Mackay.

Recording their excitement on a Electric Man Twitter feed, the crew noted: "At last! Day one of principal photography on Electric Man. We started our adventure on location at Dead Head Comics on Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh."

They then listed a high point as being sticking to their schedule, before admitting that the low point was a rather unhelpful local.

"Low Point - the slightly disturbed fella who wandered through the external shot shouting 'The ghosts are coming!'"

Surely a star is born?

Radio station is making waves across the Atlantic

ABSENCE makes the heart grow fonder, which perhaps explains why a fan of a Lothians internet radio station has undertaken a 4000-mile transatlantic pilgrimage to meet friends she made in the chatroom.

Ohio-listener Sandi Ronald, 47, is East Coast FM's number one American fan and even plays the online station while at work. So taken with the Scots banter on the station's chatroom that she booked a fortnight's break in East Lothian to shake hands with the station's DJs and online friends.

She said: "I don't have any Scots family or anything I just love the station. I would never change it."

Pounding the streets

SHOULD Peter Snow be called upon to report on the Liberton/Gilmerton by-election, then he may feel the need to employ a swing-o-meter of a different kind.

Independent candidate Mev Brown reports losing half a stone in recent weeks after covering so many miles canvassing door-to-door. Mev - a stalwart of the city's homelessness services - must be in poll position in that contest.

Trumpeting the Prince

IN comedy, they say that timing is everything - and so it proved for a children's theatre act who found themselves putting on an impromptu Royal command performance in St Andrew Square.

The theatrical group were in the process of explaining the science behind global warming - through the medium of the fart - when VIP guest Prince Charles walked up. Unlike his great-great-great-grandmother, the prince - patron of the Start in Scotland environmental campaign - was amused.

It takes a lot to shock one, especially after organic farming.