Article: Rumors receive top billing as town prepares for `War'.(Capital Region)

Byline: STEVE BARNES Arts editor

ATHENS - Two days before the Martians were to arrive, Mathew Sovern still didn't know exactly what he was supposed to do.

"I asked, `Am I going to be running around screaming, "The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming!"?' The answer was, `Basically, yeah.' ... I said, `OK, I can do that.' " On Saturday afternoon, Sovern, who lives in this Greene County village, was standing on North Washington Street, a few yards from the intersection where he and 1,100 other movie extras will be doing their screaming and running for four nights. The action starts Monday during local filming of a key scene in the $200 million, ...

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