Story courtesy of Bill & Corey Clayton

A former Burger King on Banksville Road at the border of Pittsburgh, Dormont and Mt. Lebanon has been capturing a great deal of attention with shrieking new purple, yellow, orange and red paint.

The vacant building now bears the name Mooby's and advertises a Saturday breakfast special.

The transformation from Burger King's standard decor to psychedelic colors occurred during the past week and generated reports it will be a movie set for a Kevin Smith film with the working titles "Bear Claw" and "Dogma," featuring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Those reports jelled with Dormont Manager Deborah Grass' advisory to motorists to avoid Banksville and McFarland roads near the Dormont swimming pool tomorrow if they don't want to become trapped in a traffic jam.

Grass said filming will occur from 6 a.m. until dark on a number of streets near where Dormont, Pittsburgh and Mt. Lebanon meet and coincide with Dormont's cleanup day, which is expected to generate a lot of residents dropping off items outside the Dormont pool.

Grass said traffic would be stopped in all directions every half-hour tomorrow for a while at the Banksville-Potomac, McMonagle-North Meadowcroft, McFarland-Helen and Dormont-Dwight intersections.

Dawn Keezer of the Pittsburgh Film Office confirmed Miramax Pictures had been filming here for several weeks, but declined to give the company's shooting schedule.

"They're here. They've been filming. It's great for the southwestern Pennsylvania region," she said, noting that "Miramax has made this a completely closed set, so everything has to come from them."

Carrie Gerlach, a publicist for "Bear Claw," confirmed she had a security guard escort a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette photographer from the old Burger King site yesterday.

But, she said, she had no knowledge what segments of the movie are to be shot there or when such filming would occur.

Keezer said filmmakers closed a set so they could "get their work done" and that Miramax had high-visibility actors starring in the film and wanted to shield them from the public.

Grass said, however, that anyone hoping to find Affleck and Damon would be disappointed, because they won't be there.

Even if Mooby's isn't part of a movie set, its psychedelic decor hardly fits the Rite Aid drive-through drugstore destined to occupy the former Burger King property and two abutting homes.

Jodi Cook, a marketing representative in Rite Aid's Harrisburg office, said the drug firm still planned to erect a roughly 11,000-square-foot facility on the site. She said she didn't know anything about the site's present use.