Charlie The Movie Star!!!

Naw...being a star hasn't gone to my head, honest! You see after three days of filming and reading scripts my head ached, and my eyes burned. What's a guy supposed to do??? Sandy said they don't make headache pills for llamas and I wouldn't let her put drops of something in my eyes....yuck, why do humans want to put drops of stuff in their eyes?

My new career started on Friday, March 10, 2000 when Sandy's friend Betsy Ruble, came to do my makeup and wool. Sandy's brushed me lots of times before and I really like that. But Betsy had this big monster machine and when she turned it on, it made lots of noise. Then she pointed it at me and it started blowing my wool all over. I was afraid it was going to blow all my wool off! Thank goodness it just fluffed up my wool and got rid of lots of sticks and stuff. After she was finished everybody kept telling me how handsome I was. Oh, that was soooo embarrassing!!!

At 7:30 Saturday morning I was going for my morning stroll when I encountered these strangers with a bunch of stuff! I came to learn that this was Eric and Diane. Eric is the one holding the stick with wool on the end. Later Sandy told me that was his sound equipment and the wool around the end of the stick helped keep the sound of the wind quiet. Gee, wonder what they expected me to say that time of morning?

Diane had another monster thing with three funny looking skinny legs. I thought maybe she was like Betsy and thinking about blowing on my wool again. I wasn't going to get very close to her. Actually, I was pretending not to notice they were there. Sandy said that Diane was the Camera Lady who would be filming my story.

Diane and I had many conversations about which side of my face I felt would look best on film. We ended up being friends and having a fun three days together. I think she probably did a wonderful job. I'm very anxious to see the finished story and make sure I look my best! I was very luck because the whole three days of filming it didn't rain until just after the very end when we left the rest home. Thank goodness because Betsy would probably gone after me again with the thing that blows my wool.

Cyndi Haas was my Producer and we had many discussions over how she wanted me to play my scenes. I really wasn't kissing up to her here even though it may look that way. This was a new experience for both of us because I had never met a Producer and she had never met a llama. After spending hours and days together we became quite good friends. Cyndi lives far away from here but we still keep in touch with e-mail. We really liked Cyndi a lot and miss her, I hope she can come and visit again.

We hope you enjoy your visit here and learn lots of new things about llamas!!!