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Stuntman in Nicolas Cage film injures two in Manhattan
BY DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN | Special to Newsday 9:43 PM EDT, May 4, 2009 Talk about your smash Broadway hits - a stunt man for the latest Nicolas Cage flick crashed a Ferrari into a Times Square Sbarro's early Monday, apparently injuring two pedestrians, police said.
Reel life imitated real life just before 1 a.m. Monday when stunt man Jeremy Eugene Fry apparently skidded out on the wet streets during a chase scene involving a Mercedes, police said.
Fry bowled over a lamppost with the black Ferrari, crashed into a newspaper box and then slammed into Sbarro's at Seventh Avenue and West 47th Street.
"I saw the [Ferrari] fishtail and clip the pole with the back end of the car," said Damion Tarpley, 35, who saw the crash from the 15th floor of his hotel room. "And then I saw the pole fall."
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Police said Babou Mamadou, 23, appeared to suffer a minor head injury. But a police source said two witnesses saw the homeless man throw himself to the ground after the pole was struck, suggesting he may have made up his injury.
The other injured pedestrian, Sheully Salma Khaton, 21, of Jamaica, Queens, hurt her foot. Both were treated at Bellevue Medical Center.
The stunt called for the two cars to speed down West 50th Street, where they were to go into a "power slide" onto Seventh Avenue -- then for the cars to exit Times Square at West 46th, police said.
Cage was not on scene at the time. The film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," is due out next year and is a live action version of the Disney animated classic, with a wizard, Cage, searching for an apprentice in modern-day New York City.
The original animated version starred Mickey Mouse as the apprentice, and was part of the feature "Fantasia."
BY DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN | Special to Newsday 9:43 PM EDT, May 4, 2009 Talk about your smash Broadway hits - a stunt man for the latest Nicolas Cage flick crashed a Ferrari into a Times Square Sbarro's early Monday, apparently injuring two pedestrians, police said.
Reel life imitated real life just before 1 a.m. Monday when stunt man Jeremy Eugene Fry apparently skidded out on the wet streets during a chase scene involving a Mercedes, police said.
Fry bowled over a lamppost with the black Ferrari, crashed into a newspaper box and then slammed into Sbarro's at Seventh Avenue and West 47th Street.
"I saw the [Ferrari] fishtail and clip the pole with the back end of the car," said Damion Tarpley, 35, who saw the crash from the 15th floor of his hotel room. "And then I saw the pole fall."
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Police said Babou Mamadou, 23, appeared to suffer a minor head injury. But a police source said two witnesses saw the homeless man throw himself to the ground after the pole was struck, suggesting he may have made up his injury.
The other injured pedestrian, Sheully Salma Khaton, 21, of Jamaica, Queens, hurt her foot. Both were treated at Bellevue Medical Center.
The stunt called for the two cars to speed down West 50th Street, where they were to go into a "power slide" onto Seventh Avenue -- then for the cars to exit Times Square at West 46th, police said.
Cage was not on scene at the time. The film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," is due out next year and is a live action version of the Disney animated classic, with a wizard, Cage, searching for an apprentice in modern-day New York City.
The original animated version starred Mickey Mouse as the apprentice, and was part of the feature "Fantasia."