Kitchen Comedy on Location

South for authenticity

"I'd only heard of one of them before, that Stacy Staysak or somethin'. * Someone told me she played in Farmer's Daughter. Celebrities are not unheard of here. Every year, Wilmington has an Azalea Parade, and one year they had Buddy Ebsen. He was on Beverly Hillbillies. I loved that program."

--Jim McMillion, 72, driver of one of two taxis in Southport, N.C.

They recognize Film Producer Freddie Fields and his friends in the Polo Lounge, but Fields is a long way from Beverly Hills, on patrol in deepest North Carolina. With him are Australian Director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Tender...

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