38th Notable: "Made in America"

If you're an Oaklander and haven't seen Made in America, you need to get with the progam. The 1993 flick stars Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith, Nia Long and the city of Oakland. Ted Danson runs a truck dealership on Broadway's auto-row, Will and Nia attend school at Oakland Tech (school scenes were filmed there) and Whoopi gets chased into Lake Merritt by a runaway elephant. Those are just a few of Oakland's starring moments and good reason to check out the film. And in case I forgot to mention it, it's also a good ass movie.