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By David Miller While it certainly feels like the Middle East in Mesa during the summer, it was the look of the East Valley that attracted the major Hollywood production "The Kingdom" in 2006. In that intense action vehicle, stars Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner crouched for cover as deafening explosions rocked what appeared to be a Saudi Arabian expressway. Only they were actually blowing up our own windswept freeway. And while hosting that movie hasn't morphed Arizona into Hollywood-east,...