Watching the shooting of the Robin Williams movie "What Dreams May Come" at Phoenix Lake in Marin County, Calif., last week, the Manley family - Pop, Sam and Hannah - were dazzled by the silk flowers the crew had wired to the natural plants on the hillsides.
This included "a particular shrub sporting dozens of magenta blossoms," apparently attached by a "naive prop hand."It was poison oak.
- Leah Garchik