I'll make a guess that C-O-H won't come close to being prepared for the magnitude of a motion picture company coming to shoot here, even for a day. Also, the fees that production companies are prepared to shell out for prime locations such as Donahue Park will probably go uncollected. A municipality with no clue how these productions operate is not only making life extremely inconvenient for residents, but is also not being adequately compensated financially for the disruption.

For those who don't already know it, Rick Gioia knows exactly what he's talking about, because working as part of major film productions is what he does for a living. I was a filmwriter for 25 years and also saw the magnitude of even small documentary projects and agree entirely with Gioia. As would anybody who has ever lived in Manhattan and had even a second-rate TV series shoot on their block. ("You want to go home? Sorry, no can do, we're shooting. We'll be done late tonight and your cats will be just fine until then. Call a cop? Be my guest. We have all the permits we need. In fact the cops are working for us..")

I know the Mayor has had this bee in his bonnet ever since he first campaigned--getting Hollywood to come to Cornwall, and good on him--but we shouldn't approach it naively. If I were Brendan Coyne, I'd call Gioia rat quick.