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TV Line has reported that Rob Reiner and Jamie Lee Curtis have been cast to play the divorced parents of Jess (Zoey Deschanel) on Fox’s New Girl in an episode that is also reportedly going to borrow from the plot of Parent Trap. Unfortunately, since it’s the Thanksgiving episode the part of the movie where long lost twins … Read more
Broadway star Ben Platt reached back to his summer camp days at Camp Ramah to sing a Hebrew version of a Guys & Dolls song he learned during his time at Camp Ramah on a recent episode of Late Night with Seth Myers. “We do all of our productions (at Camp Ramah) in Hebrew so I can give you a … Read more
Andy Samberg, star of the FOX comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is no stranger to organizing group games and events since he worked as a campfire coordinator at Skylake Yosemite Summer Camp in Yosemite National Park. He put those skills to work (sort of) in his role as Det. Jake Peralta recently when a white substance found in the precinct … Read more
Astronaut Sally Ride played in a doubles match against tennis great and personal hero Billie Jean King when she was a counselor at the TennisAmerica Camp in Nevada in 1972. According to the book Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space, Billie Jean King stopped by the camp after her latest Wimbledon victory in August 1972 … Read more
When a 17-year-old Marion Morrison attended a YMCA camp on Catalina Island in California in the summer of 1922 few of his fellow campers would have suspected that he’d one day have a camp of his own named after him. Morrison, who went on to become a movie star known as John Wayne, spent two … Read more
Upcoming Hulu series The Path was filmed in part at a summer camp in New York. The series stars Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul as a member of a cult who has a crisis of faith. The 10-episode season is scheduled to debut on March 30. Originally named The Way, the show also stars Michelle Monaghan, Sarah Jones, Hugh Dancy, Kathleen … Read more
Going Our Way 2Slovenia, 2014 CubBelgium, 2014 Standing UpU.S., 2013 Paradise: HopeAustria/France/Germany, 2013 Moonrise KingdomU.S., 2012 Bloody Bloody Bible CampU.S., 2012 Going Our WaySlovenia, 2011 The Heart That SingsU.S., 2011 Campamento FlipySpain, 2010Scooby-Doo: Camp ScareU.S., 2010 [wpcol_1third_end id=”3″ class=”” style=””]Stage FrightCanada, 2014 Summer CampSpain, 2014 BunksCanada, 2013 The Summer BeforeU.S., 2013 Fred 3: Camp FredU.S., … Read more
Camp Manna, a forthcoming movie starring Gary Busey as “a slightly-deranged born-again Vietnam vet who manages a Christian camp” is currently filming in Traverse City, Michigan. The film described as a comedy farce is shooting at Camp Arbutus Hayo-Went-Ha through September 8. The plot is outline on the film’s website: “A stylistic throwback to the summer camp films … Read more
Sarah Bennett finds a disturbing clue while looking through her old summer camp scrapbook in the season one finale of the Canadian-American horror anthology series Slasher. Sarah (Katie McGrath) is going through old boxes when she flips through a scrapbook from Camp Motega and finds a photo of one of her fellow campers that reveals the … Read more
The trailer for the new season of the wildly popular Netflix show Stranger Things opens with a summer camp reference when Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) is shown returning home from summer camp all decked out in a trucker hat and ringer T-shirt for Camp Know Where ’85. Based on the graphic, Camp Know Where appears to … Read more