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- of many producers will hire an 840 pound
actress to bat her long, ,lush eyelashes for
a. close-up commercial advertising milk.
Fut if the milk comes from the actress, there's
really no better way.
" Holmdale Farms in Brant Township is an
impressive farming operation with 900 acres of
land,' 300 -cattle and 70 horses, but what's even.
more remarkable, is that its livestock often don-
bies as. thespians:
Since 1980,' George Holm has been hauling.
cattle and horses all over the province for small •
parts in Hollywood movies and national comrer-
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He works for..
C.anadian..
Wrangler.
Company, a firrn
`which' supplies •
animalsfor adver-
tising and movie.
agencies, Rick.
Parker, the owners
became friends
with. Holm while
attehding • rodeos
together. Holm has
him convinced
that -his livestock
has what ittakes.
to Make the,. big
time Todd; Holm fright), George's so•n,:.:: played a; Mountie M.
t" We. train them an episode of Due South:
and clean thein , •
and teach them to lead They behave well down goes and there's, still no need'
there.: In one commercially they said the. cow . 'saiddciays can be .completely
behaved better than.the actor's;' said Holm. ° unforeseen c rcurrstances that
• Over the years, Holm's livestock. has appeared While doing a commerc
or starred in a number of commercials and
s..tars
movies.
The ATT commercial,, Which now airs, shows
Holm's cow right ,off the bat. It stands beside a
young boy who is speaking on 'a cordless phone
while doing chores in the barn'
The most recent movie was Tommy, Boy:. Actor
Chris Farley decides to go cow tipping one night
and approaches Holm's cow. Instead,. he dives
under the ,cow into a puddle ()Amid..
"I was. just two inches away from being in that
shot," said. Todd .Holm, George's son,' as he
watched•• the movie. '
While the shot only lasts seconds, the work
involved in preparing it, takes days, sometimes
weeks.
rxi,
Hcxlo
h� r. six coves for that
movie, He hauled
kF
them . to Tprorontovided to
the movie site on
three different
occasions.
"We:had toFbe ort
t'heset_at7a.m.
even ,th.ough the
camera crew didn't
get there .until. 9
a.m. Then they say,
'Is there some$
here__ _ou Caro nYit
your cows? We"
don't need- 'hens.
until noon, ". said, ,,
Holm:
Noon comes and,
for the cows. ` Bolin
wasted because of
hold up filming
ial for a':foreign car,
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