A couple weeks ago we were sitting around reading the news, doing our general surfing when we found a press release that sparked our interest. It seems that James Franco and Selena Gomez are gearing up to film a new movie in the Tampa area and a casting company was looking for extras. Generally not something that would interest us, I mean, come on, Franco was a bad ass in Deuces Wild and Spiderman, but this movie looks like a snore fest. The thing that stood out in this press release was that the casting company was looking for young men and women in their late teens to early 20s to play extras in the film, primarily for a couple of beach scenes. In the press release they asked for anyone interested to submit their info and pictures via e-mail to a generic Gmail account. In the release they even stated “swimsuit poses are a plus”. We thought, that’s pretty stupid, any jerk could set up a Gmail account with a slight misspelling and receive submissions from people who accidently type the wrong address and get a bunch of pictures of young people in beachwear. About that time a light bulb flickered and off to Gmail we went.
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