Holed Up in Venice

Yes! It’s not just us! Look who also is laying low while working here in Venice!

Tom Cruise has been forced to hole up in a luxury hotel in Venice when the filming of Mission: Impossible 7 was halted after an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy.  He is staying across the Grand Canal from us at the 5-star Gritti Palace Hotel.  He was set to take a gondola through the city’s ancient canals and stage scenes in various medieval squares that are also popular tourist sights.

Cruise arrived Feb. 20 and is now stuck until March 1^st awaiting a decision on the future of the project.  The movie is set for the summer of 2021.  We are in good company!  Now….if only Page can figure out how to get him to come over and meet our students!  In London our next door neighbor was John Lithgow temporarily living there to film “The Crown” and we ended up getting to know him well!

Not much happening this week since all museums, universities, schools, large gathering places have been cancelled. I’ll just be watching out our windows!