The Goonies are coming (again)
Published 5:00 pm Monday, August 29, 2005
The Goonies are rolling back into town this week, as the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema brings its Rolling Roadshow to Astoria.
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The Roadshow is traveling throughout the West, screening movies like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “North by Northwest” and “Planet of the Apes” in places where they were filmed, on a 50-foot-high inflatable screen.
The tour comes to Astoria at 8 p.m. Thursday, when “The Goonies” will be screened at John Warren Field, site of a scene in the beginning of the movie. One of the original Goonies will even be there, as Corey Feldman, who played “Mouth,” will be on hand to answer questions after the show (including, perhaps, how did the kids ride their bikes from the east end of Astoria to Ecola State Park?).
“The Goonies” was filmed at North Coast locations like the old county jail, Ecola State Park, the East Mooring Basin and, of course, the famous Goonies house on the hills south of Safeway. A celebration of the 20th anniversary of the film earlier this summer brought hundreds of fans to the area.
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“It’s been great,” said Alamo Drafthouse owner Tim League, four screenings into the Roadshow and heading to California for the next few. “The screenings in the Southwest, like in Lake Powell (of ‘Planet of the Apes’) and Monument Valley (of ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’), were amazing.”
More information is available on the Web site, (www.rollingroadshow.com), and tickets can be bought online up to an hour before the show or at the entrance, at Warren Field by Columbia Memorial Hospital.
No seating is provided, so moviegoers should bring a blanket or folding chair. There will be candy, popcorn, sodas and drinks for sale. Food brought from outside is allowed but not drinks.
But there’s no need to bring dessert – admission includes a Baby Ruth candy bar.