Today’s story of night and day desert filming comes to us courtesy of Hilary Barraford, who did the background casting for the movie and is also acts in the opening scene. Hilary, our intrepid correspondent Tales From the Trenches: Just Deserts I know it’s sacrilegious to quote blockbusters on the John Sayles blog. But I’m still doing it. There’s a moment in Armageddon (1998) when the characters Oscar and Truman (played by two actors who have yet to work with John Sayles, and