MARIAH CAREY ISSUES CALL TO MILITARY FOR BASE VIDEO.Byline: Karen Thacker Special to the Daily News Military personnel and their families from all over Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, have a chance to see Grammy winner Mariah Carey perform Saturday as part of a music video being filmed at the base. Video producers are planning to use thousands of uniformed military men and women for the audience in a scene depicting a United Service Organizations (USO USO: see United Service Organizations. (UNIX Software Operation) AT&T's Unix division before it turned into USL. See Unix. ) show. The filming will take place on the tarmac near the base flight line for the video of Carey's song ``I Still Believe.'' ``We want as many as we can get,'' Edwards spokeswoman Lt. Col. Vicki Stein Stein , William Howard 1911-1980. American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease. said. ``With a lot of die-hard Mariah Carey fans we expect to see a fair showing.'' Edwards officials were told Carey came up with the idea for the video after seeing a film clip Noun 1. film clip - a strip of motion picture film used in a telecast photographic film, film - photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies of Marilyn Monroe entertaining troops. Saturday's filming will be based on that idea. Along with taping Carey and the Edwards audience, video producers will film F-15 and F-22 fighters and a C-17 cargo plane cargo plane n → avión m de carga cargo plane n → avion-cargo m cargo plane cargo n → parked along the flight line. An HH-60 helicopter from the 129th Rescue Wing will take off and land for the video. Columbia Records For the Columbia Records label which was a unit of EMI, see . For the Columbia Records label in Japan, see . Columbia Records is the oldest surviving brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as will reimburse re·im·burse tr.v. re·im·bursed, re·im·burs·ing, re·im·burs·es 1. To repay (money spent); refund. 2. To pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred. the government for all costs of the filming, including the brief helicopter flight, officials said. ``Columbia is happy with the support . . . and we're happy with the positive depiction we're getting,'' said Maj. John Toniolli of the Air Force Motion Picture and Entertainment Liaison Office. The military's part in the video was organized with a week's notice, he said. ``If an artist sees a need to do another video . . . things happen quickly,'' Toniolli said. The mock concert is not open to the public - only military people in uniform, and their families. Invitations have gone out to bases from China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center The Naval Air Warfare Center was a former U.S. Navy military installation located in Warminster, Pennsylvania and Ivyland, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Navy purchased the grounds to establish this facility from the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation following its bankruptcy in the to the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. They can expect to hear ``I Still Believe'' numerous times while the video crew shoots Carey performing. But Carey will sing several other songs while the crew tapes the audience reacting. ``Instead of playing the same songs over and over they play different songs,'' Toniolli said. On Friday, Carey's crew will tape the singer greeting troops and a scene of troops processing through a mobility line. Carey's video is not the first for Edwards, which has provided the background for scenes for ``Air Force One'' to ``Armageddon.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Mariah Carey |
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