To the folks living near L.A.'s rough-and-tumble Fifth and Main -- a hub of filmmaking activity -- a location shoot isn't always welcome. According to someone close to the production of ''The Million Dollar Hotel'' -- the millennial mystery starring Mel Gibson and directed by Wim Wenders -- locals have become so irritated, they've thrown garbage, bottles, even needles down on the crew. To protect themselves, some ''Hotel'' workers now wear hard hats, while one story (which a location manager doubts) has Gibson toting an umbrella when walking from his trailer to the set after being hit by a bag of rotten meat.
Another annoyance: The crew of the Arnold Schwarzenegger flick ''End of Days,'' also in the neighborhood, disrupted the ''Hotel'' set one night by filming helicopter flybys. (An ''End of Days'' publicist says the filmmakers were oblivious to the ''Hotel'' shoot.) Watch it, Arnold: Mel may have a big bag of bad meat with your name on it.
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