Our Friend in the East: Dinah Lord
In the summer of 2023, a small city of Winnebagos and cranes sprang up overnight, covering the fields where I live in rural north Hertfordshire. The roads were closed as A-listers were filmed driving up to the school featured in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
The location was a huge former boarding school that had gone out of business during the pandemic. And then, 48 hours later, Hollywood disappeared, leaving no trace.