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What is this RED TOMATOES CROSSWALK filmmaking challenge for me?

by Elena Gorsheneva

  “THE ALIENS ARE RECRUITING
OVER HILL AND DALE THEY’RE LOOTIN’
FOR KINS AND COWS AND EVEN CHICKENS, TOO.
THEY TOOK MY COUSIN BILLY
NOW HE’S MORE THAN SILLY
I WISH THEY’D TAKE MY AUNTIE MARY LOU”.
  A fragment from Ozark Melody,
Music by Frederick Reed and Jeff Buckley,
Lyrics by Joe Tripician


Everybody knows that ghosts always speak truth. Steve’s taboo for red tomatoes is based on his Grandmother’s ghost statement that they are grown by aliens on satellites. But why would aliens do that here and not, say, somewhere near Sirius? Perhaps in this remote corner of our Galaxy the space is cheaper?

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