Fifteen Minutes of Fame Young Harris College is basking in the glow of its own little Hollywood moment, thanks to the recently released Warner Bros. film Trouble with the Curve, which stars Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood, Oscar nominee Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake. Filmed in Georgia and directed by Eastwood’s longtime producing partner Robert Lorenz, the movie follows ailing Atlanta Braves baseball scout Gus Lobel and his power-attorney daughter, Mickey, on one last scouting trip to North Carolina. In between the baseball action is a moving story about a fragile fatherdaughter relationship. Young Harris College’s Zell B. Miller Field was selected as the location for one of the critical turning-point scenes in the film, and Hollywood descended on the Enchanted Valley in April for two exciting days, giving the campus community a sneak peak into cinematic magic. Twenty members of the YHC baseball team and several coaches were chosen to be extras, serving as the “opposing team” in the particular scene shot on campus, and hundreds of YHC students and local citizens had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to appear on the silver screen as extras—baseball fans watching the game. Celebrity spottings around campus and in town yielded several special photo ops for some lucky students, faculty and staff, and one excited YHC intern landed an exclusive interview with the director. (See sidebar on next page.)
Celebrities like Justin Timberlake (above) and Amy Adams and Clint Eastwood (left) were on the YHC campus to film a scene from the movie Trouble with the Curve.
30 Photos this page Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures