Missed this from last week:
As county officials and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo haggle over how best to make use of the Houston Astrodome, a new group has emerged with a novel idea. They want to turn the 8th Wonder of the World into a world-class movie studio."It's absolutely the least amount of change to this historical structure that you could possibly do and give it a new lease on life," said film and TV veteran Cynthia Neely. "Texas really needs a large-scale production facility, and I mean large, to be competitive."
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The idea to convert the Astrodome is similar to one in Austin where the city helped turn the old Mueller Airport hangers into a cutting edge studio. Filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez filmed portions of "Grindhouse" at the Austin studio.
I think a County subsidy is not out of line if it brings a whole new industry to town.
Posted by: Charles Hixon on August 20, 2008 8:28 PM