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degree daytime temps. Teams wearing headlamps installed an avenue of sixteen midway booths, four souvenir carts, a fiberglass lobster king high on a agpole, a stage where the Seafood Jam Queen is crowned, and a cannon into which said Queen is loaded and shot out to sea. Next came four weeks in Mexico City where locations included an authentic Jennifer Convertible showroom; a misbegotten pizza parlor where a toppling David statue triggers a Rube Goldberg sequence of gags; and most improbable of all, an enormous lone oak tree in an emerald green cornfield. Who knew such a match for the S heartland existed within an hour of the city Location manager and unsung hero Marcel Chan did. Back at Churubusco, three sound stages were filled with assorted sets a Nebraska attic bedroom sheathed in cozy matchstick, a glass-bottom boat interior, a submarine cockpit and exterior hatch. Stage held the hotel hallway and suite, complete with giant clamshells for headboards, rope trim on every door, and a swim-up patio complete with wading pool. That lovely backing outside Ram shot the original image on his smartphone. Stage contained the Art Department's magnum opus—the lair of evil Dr. Lady, she who hates all things Floridian, and probably listens to "Ride of the Valkyries with her morning coffee. This chamber deep underground served as her inner sanctum/laboratory/bedroom, where square slabs of black marble with gold veins oat on a lagoon of undulating waterways. The palette was primal earth, water, wind, fire, black, bronze, blood red. In a nod to grand opera, 0-foot-tall curtains of gold beads served as scrims between islands. One sloped wall carried war maps of Dr. Lady's obsession the earth's curvature with a bull's-eye on the Florida peninsula. Horizontal fire slots were cut in the far A. & B. JAM BANNERS. BY KARLA MANDUJANO, DONE IN PHOTOSHOP & ILLUSTRATOR. KARLA'S FADED BANNERS MIGHT HAVE BEEN PAINTED BY SCENIC ARTISTS ON LOAN FROM THE CIRCUS. C. LAIR CONCEPT. PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATION BY JUAN PABLO GARCÍA TAMÉS. D. LAIR SKETCHUP MODEL BY DAVID SOTO. E. & F. THE LAIR, SET PHOTOS. A STEEP RAMP LEADS TO AN ISLAND SURROUNDED BY WATER HOLDING A SUNKEN SEATING AREA AND GOLD BEAD CURTAINS. A B C