227 Television Program

Steve Salas left his job as an extra on an episode of NBC's "227" about homelessness just in time to get some sleep--in the Cameo movie theater downtown. Don Beckemeyer, who like Salas played a homeless man on the program, couldn't afford such luxury. He'd used part of the $3 that the producers gave him for transportation that day to buy cigarettes, so he couldn't afford the theater's admission.

Steve Salas left his job as an extra on an episode of NBC's "227" about homelessness just in time to get some sleep--in the Cameo movie theater downtown. Don Beckemeyer, who like Salas played a homeless man on the program, couldn't afford such luxury. He'd used part of the $3 that the producers gave him for transportation that day to buy cigarettes, so he couldn't afford the theater's admission.