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The man behind the leeches...

Postby shaz » Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:39 am

Steven Kutcher is Hollywood's top bug wrangler.

Here is the email I received from him this morning:

Hi Shaz,
I worked with live leaches. kept one as a pet Larry the leach. He would
have dinner with us . We would feed him raw meat. The Scene was shot on stage in a heated water cave set. The gag was the science character was supposed to shock the leaches off. by using two wires from a battery they had. We had live and fake leaches. Steven Spielberg helped me a bit by handling some. We had trouble making them stay on I seem to recall. It was fun and the actors were great.
All the best,
[steven kutcher]

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Cool :-)

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Postby Aussie_Goonie » Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:29 am

Shaz, WHO ARE YOU?! :)


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Postby shaz » Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:12 am

LoL ;) Just a Goonie!

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Postby bez » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:50 am

Wow, thats great Shaza!

ask him if he has any pics or anything like that.

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Postby AIDO » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:58 am

Thanks shaz, a cool bit of interesting info!! :) slothicon
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Postby kaz00_40 » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:28 am

That is so cool, thanks for that bit of interesting info shaz ;)

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Postby merk » Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:32 am

excellent :) i hadn't even heard of that scene before! thanks Shaz.

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Postby shaz » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:42 pm

You're welcome guys.
Merc, At the end of the oath scene (deleted), Andy screams "leech!" and the goonies discovers that they are covered with leeches. Data removes them by electrifying a puddle with a battery.

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Postby merk » Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:02 pm

Shaz you keep spelling my name with a 'c', it's 'merk'..... fair enough my name's actually Mark but well....... i must insist :)

so Corey Feldman got to film 2 leech scenes in as many years :) poor boy!

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Postby shaz » Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:29 pm

merk_the_goonie wrote:Shaz you keep spelling my name with a 'c', it's 'merk'..... fair enough my name's actually Mark but well....... i must insist :)


Oops, I do apologise. Will get it right from now on.

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Postby Barbossa » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:06 am

Aussie_Goonie wrote:Shaz, WHO ARE YOU?! :)
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She's WONDER WOMAN!!

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Postby Espresso » Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:53 pm

That is awesome Shaz!!!

I wonder how he ended up with a job as a leech wrangler.. hmmmm.... and how would you describe your job to someone when you meet them? That would be an interesting dinner conversation!!
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Postby Ron » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:06 pm

Good one Shaz! HAHA!!!
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Postby 1iwilly » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:02 pm

mindblowing!
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Postby Bmot2 » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:34 pm

thats some cool info shaz, you always search up the best stuff.
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Postby angelseyth » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:36 am

I did an interview with him last week ;) A nice man !!
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