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(September 28, 1999 12:26 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - There were some scary times for Melissa Joan Hart and Stephen Collins while they were shooting the "Drive Me Crazy" movie that opens Friday

The "7th Heaven" lead plays Hart's father, a ballooning enthusiast, in the feature in which she's a modern-day femme Pygmalion -- and there is a ballooning scene. Tackling it required courage from Collins, who had a harrowing ballooning experience while making a beer commercial years ago -- ending with a crash in the yard of a shocked homeowner in Princeton, N.J. "I thought, this scene could never possibly be that bad," he says. But filming the "Drive Me Crazy" scene, near Park City, Utah, turned out to be extremely tense.

"We had seven people in the cab and nine minutes of film to get a master shot and two close-ups. By the time we got to Melissa's close-up, we had to bring the balloon down soon, or we would be going over a mountain where it would be very, very difficult to reach us. What really impressed me was how Melissa stayed completely cool." He says of the lead of the ABC sitcom "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," "There aren't a lot of 19-year-old actors who could do what Melissa did. We rolled camera, she did two takes, got it, and the balloon went right down -- in the last possible spot before going over the mountain."

Collins is in very fine form indeed with his "7th Heaven" scoring the highest-rated season premiere in the history of the WB network -- plus "Drive Me Crazy" in release this week and a CBS TV thriller ("As Time Runs Out") due Oct. 6. "It's just luck," says the actor. "You couldn't schedule stuff to come out like this if you tried."