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'We have a love affair with Erie, even though we never shot there for the movie, but it's such a big part of the film.' 'Also, I just want to give a shoutout to Erie,' he added. Having the opportunity to raise money for a charity helping musicians seemed like a natural choice. 'We all came up with the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, which helps honor Adam,' said Scott. Of course, the reunion is bittersweet considering Schlesinger's death. 'This will be a respite from that - a chance to sing, dance, and laugh.' 'We're all just shut in and freaking out,' he added. Scott also added that there will likely be some other very special guests from the cast involved, including Liv Tyler. You will be able to access the live-streamed Zoom conversation this Friday via the YouTube channel for The Wonders (and if you want notifications, be sure to subscribe and set a reminder). Scott portrayed the movie's main character, salesman-turned-drummer Guy Patterson. 'On our side, we're going to be part of a Zoom session with me, Steve Zahn, Johnathon Schaech, Ethan Embry,' Tom Everett Scott told me in a conversation on Wednesday. There would be no Playtone without Adam Schlesinger, without his That Thing You Do! He was a One-der. 'You gotta be quick with me,' guitarist Lenny Haise, played by Steve Zahn, says to a couple of city guys during a card game. In the movie, of course, the movie's titular song becomes a chart-topping sensation, and the four wide-eyed bandmates leave Pennsylvania for a television appearance in Los Angeles, giving them an early taste of superstardom. The Wonders, fictional or not, were ours and the title song became an anthem, of sorts, for many of us living in the area. Hollywood seemed so mystical and other-worldly to me as a small-town kid, so the Erie connection made That Thing You Do! seem like it was somehow more my movie, our movie, that we somehow had a special claim on it living here. His directorial debut falling between roles in Toy Story and Saving Private Ryan, the film's record label even gave way to the real-life production company, Playtone.

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I was ten-years-old when the movie hit theaters and when I first heard 'Erie, Pennsylvania' and 'State Street' and 'Mercyhurst College' in a big-time Hollywood movie, it was shocking - especially being in a film that was a passion project for Tom Hanks. If there is one movie that Erie embraces as their own, that movie is likely 1996's That Thing You Do!Д®ven though it wasn't filmed here in our city, the story of its fictional 1960s one-hit-wonder pop band The Wonders (first known as The Oneders) begins in the heart of Erie, Pennsylvania. He Is Spartacus: Tom Everett Scott plays drummer Guy Patterson in That Thing You Do!

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