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FILM Many scenes in director Steven Spielberg 's '' Close Encounters Of The Third Kind '' were filmed in Mobile -- in the Bankhead Tunnel , in a large hangar at Mobile Downtown Airport (alien mothership arrival) and some exterior shots near the hangar, and in a West Mobile suburb (exteriors at the Neary residence). Nearby Bay Minette stood in for Moorcroft, Wyoming in the rail-station evacuation scene. Most of the Steven Segal movie '' Under Siege '' (co-staring Tommy Lee Jones ) was filmed on the USS Alabama , which is docked on Mobile Bay at Battleship Memorial Park and open to the public. In the movie '' Driving Miss Daisy '', Miss Daisy ( Jessica Tandy ) has her driver Hoke Colburn ( Morgan Freeman ) drive her to her brother's birthday party in Mobile. The film was nominated for numerous Academy Awards , Golden Globes , and BAFTA s. Much of the feature films '' Love Liza '' (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman ), and '' Hometown Legend '' (starring Terry O'Quinn ), and the TV movie ''Sacrifice'' (starrring Michael Madsen and Diane Farr ) were shot in Mobile. Brian Bosworth 's movie '' Stone Cold '' also featured scenes shot in Mobile. In the Coen Brothers comedy '' O Brother, Where Art Thou? '', the Soggy Bottom Boys are told their song Man Of Constant Sorrow is a hit with the explanation that it's played "all the way down in Mobile." In the movie Maverick Mrs Annabelle Bransford (played by Jodie Foster) claims that she is from Mobile and has tried very hard to forget the place. LITERATURE
MUSIC ''Mobile is mentioned in the following songs:'' SPORTS Five baseball players from Mobile have entered baseball's Hall of Fame in , Willie McCovey , Satchel Paige , and Ozzie Smith ). In tribute to the city's baseball history, the stadium for the minor league Mobile BayBears is named for Hank Aaron . OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS Among some Mobilians, there is a certain prestige associated with being a native. Those residents consider themselves blessed by the fact that they were "conceived under an Azalea Bush and raised in the shallow waters of Mobile Bay." The local pop band, The Ugli Stick , performs a song written by lead singer Eric Erdmann, called "The D.I.P. Song" which references his blue collar neighborhood in Mobile ("DIP" is Dauphin Island Parkway). Several people migrated from Mobile to an area in Arizona which was then named "Mobile" . It was founded in the early 1900s as an area for African-Americans to live and some of its early residents were Sharecroppers from Mobile, Alabama. Mobile gained some 2006 . Red Imported Fire Ants infesting the southern United States first arrived in Mobile from Brazil . SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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