Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, August 22, 1995 TAG: 9508220088
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: KATHLEEN WILSON
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Maciorowski and her son, Kurtis, 12, have been making long road trips to Charlotte and working 13 hour days in ``Eddie,'' a movie currently in production at the Charlotte Coliseum, which is doubling as Madison Square Garden.
Goldberg's character, Eddie, is a New York City limo driver and rabid Knicks fan who wins a chance to coach the team when she wins a halftime free-throw contest.
Maciorowski knows nothing of basketball.
``I'm getting the hang of it, but we don't have it where I come from,'' she says with her thick British accent. She plays a fan with season tickets, placing her in the second row directly behind Whoopi and the Knicks.
For all but one day, the Maciorowskis have played Knicks fans. Last week, during a scene where the team had flown to Los Angeles to play the Lakers, they donned Laker gear and cheered for the other team.
But the big news is that Maciorowski met Fabio last week.
``He has a small part, and asked if I wanted to have my photograph taken with him,'' she said. When Maciorowski pointed out there was no place to sit, Fabio pointed to his knee.
``I didn't quite know what to say,'' she said. ``I don't really like sitting on strange men's knees.'' Fabio, she says, looks in real life exactly as he does on television.
Another notable talent on the set is dancer Gene Anthony Ray of both movie and television ``Fame'' fame.
by CNB