So the station crew rented him a tuxedo and put him on the auction block.
The crew rents a discreet venue in the city and constructs an interactive version of the film, which they show at the end of the evening.
Even in Kabul, where journalists in droves have arrived from the north and from Pakistan to the east, the situation is tense: an NBC news crew rented a house over the weekend for $300 a month, only to find, in a closet they jimmied open after the landlord refused to unlock it, a 500-pound unexploded bomb.
For the flashback scene at the gas station, the crew rented out a 7-11 for a day.
Before buying their truck, the crew rented a similar van to test out the equipment and business model.
Starbucks uses the church to recruit employees; movie and TV crews rent out space to store equipment when filming in the neighborhood.
Under the strike timetable, British Airways will use planes staffed by attendants who choose to ignore pickets as well as eight aircraft and crews rented from charter companies.
Occasionally a movie or TV crew would rent out the theater for a location shoot--the Warner Grand stood in for Harlem's Apollo Theater in the film about pop diva Tina Turner, "What's Love Got to Do With It," Michaels says--but as San Pedro went, so went the Warner Grand.
The crew had rented him a blue Vespa, and Bourdain told me that the only way to see Hanoi was on the back of a scooter: "To be anonymous, another helmeted figure in the middle of a million little dramas and comedies happening on a million bikes moving through this amazing city — every second is pure joy".
Apparently that theory even holds true for the construction industry, where a little startup called EquipmentShare is making it easier for construction crews to make rent equipment they don't own from other contractors, while also allowing them to make money off their own idle gear.
