“Rain Man” proved to be a great rainmaker. Within a year, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell and Teri Hatcher were here making “Tango & Cash,” and Tom Selleck was starring in “An Innocent Man.” “A Rage in Harlem,” “Little Man Tate,” “City of Hope” (all 1990), “Lost In Yonkers,” “The Public Eye” (1991) “Milk Money” and “Aireborne” (1993) quickly followed. In recent years, Ohio film-making incentives have lured Hollywood back to shoot “The Ides of March,” Marvel’s “The Avengers” and Emilio Estevez’s “Johnny Longshot.” “It’s been a joy,” said Pompilio’s Mazzei. “It’s the kind of publicity you couldn’t plan for, and certainly couldn’t afford, if you had to pay for it.” ‘RAIN MAN’ LOCATIONS • Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate • St. Anne Convent, Melbourne • Home on Beechcrest Lane, East Walnut Hills • Pomilio’s restaurant, Newport • Dixie Terminal Building, Downtown • Roebling Suspension Bridge • Columbia Parkway • Vernon Manor, Avondale • WCET-TV studio, Downtown • Terminal 2, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport • Interstate 275 (Exit 11, Petersburg) • Hearthstone Motel, Metamora, Ind. 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ‘RAIN MAN’ 1. The script originally was set in Chicago. 2. Actress Bonnie Hunt (“Jerry Maguire,” “Cars,” “Life with Bonnie”) made her movie debut as Sally, the Pompelio’s waitress who dropped toothpicks. 3. Director Barry Levinson played the Los Angeles doctor who evaluated Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) near the film’s end. 4. No hotel suite scenes were filmed in Vernon Manor; all were shot in a WCET-TV studio. 5. Raymond’s obsession with K-Mart “at 400 Oak St.” was the Vernon Manor address. 6. Co-producer Gerald R. Molen was cast as Dr. Brunner, the Walbrook director, when a suitable actor couldn’t be found. 7. Three 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertibles were available here for the film. 8. Although publicity photos showed Hoffman and Tom Cruise sitting at a Wallbrook duck pond, the pond was never seen in the movie. It was filled before the actors returned two months later to re-shoot the scene. (Page 5 of 5) 9. Actress Beth Grant (“The Artist,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “No Country for Old Men,”) played the mother who let Raymond into her farmhouse to watch “People’s Court.” 10. Oscar winners Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack passed on directing the film. Movies shot in Cincinnati GREATER CINCINNATI IN THE MOVIES 1987: “Eight Men Out,” “Fresh Horses” 1988: “Rain Man” 1989: “Tango & Cash,” “An Innocent Man” 1990: “Little Man Tate,” “City Of Hope,” “A Rage in Harlem,” “A Mom For Christmas” 1991: “Lost In Yonkers,” “The Public Eye” 1993: “Milk Money,” “Airborne” 1996: “Crossing Fields” 1997: “The Mighty” 1998: “In Too Deep,” “This Train,” “April’s Fool,” “People Like Us,” “The Last Late Night” 2000: “Traffic,” “Summer Catch,” “Crocodile” 2003: “Seabiscuit,” “Artworks,” “Blue Car” 2004: “Mr. 3000” 2005: “Elizabethown,” “Dreamer” 2006: “Jimmy and Judy” 2011: “The Ides of March” 2012: “Seven Below” 2013: “Johnny Longshot” (August)
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