Lol. That was the same thing I said. Don't you mean Kentucky? Mandolin lessons in Kentucky.
Terry Bullin <[email protected]> wrote: >Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. > >"I talked to Peter > on the phone the other day," Woodward said. "He was in New York taking >mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play >mandolin for the movie." > >Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in "NEW YORK", he will have no trouble >playing rawhide........yea right. What I want to know is who's going to >teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! > > >--- On Fri, 9/17/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe >To: [email protected], [email protected], >[email protected] >Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM > > >Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie >that's in the works... > > > > > >John > > > > > > > > >http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 > > > > > >Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro > > > > > > > > >Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of >1938. > >He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, >in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. > >But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved >Mauldin to Nashville and made her his "road girlfriend," Richard D. Smith >wrote in "Can't You Hear Me Callin'," his 2000 biography of "the father of >bluegrass music." > >Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that >inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including "Blue Moon of >Kentucky," Smith wrote. > >Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. >And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and >Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. > >"I've read the script," said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice >chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. "It's a love story about >Bill and Bessie Lee." > >And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge >Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. > >"My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill," Mercer, a keeper of >the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. "It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It >was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy." > >Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his >infidelities. > >But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. > >Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired >the song, "My Little Georgia Rose." > >And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two >decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. > >Reminded that the soundtrack for "Bonnie and Clyde," the 1967 movie about >gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music >and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, "This time I'm afraid >Bill is going to be Clyde." > >Funny stories out there > >Still, he says, "there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee >out there," including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's >girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. > >Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last >year's "Crazy Heart," recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray >Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. > >"I talked to Peter on the phone the other day," Woodward said. "He was in New >York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play >mandolin for the movie." > >Woodward said: "He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was >a big bluegrass fan." > >The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry "T-Bone" Burnett, who produced the >soundtrack for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," which sold 8 million copies, and >collaborated on "Crazy Heart" will do the music for "Blue Moon." > >Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote "Thelma & Louise," wrote the >script. "She and T-Bone are married," Woodward said. > >Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on "American Beauty" and >"The Whole Ten Yards" as well as on episodes of "Lost," "The Shield" and >"Alias," is producing. > >Finn Taylor ("The Darwin Awards," "Cherish," "Dream With The Fishes") will >direct. > >Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, >Woodward said. "One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous >Bistro for lunch," he said. "They said they liked some of the buildings >downtown and might want to film some here. I just listened." > >"Yes, hoping to shoot scenes at Rosine and Owensboro," Jolly said in an e-mail >Tuesday. "Too early for specifics though." > >Woodward says the movie should be filmed in Kentucky. > >Monroe was born -- and is buried -- in Kentucky. His band and the genre of >music he created use the state's nickname. And his "Blue Moon of Kentucky" is >the state's official bluegrass song. > >But Tennessee also wants the movie shot there. > >Battle of incentives > >And a battle of incentives is ensuing. > >"They didn't understand our incentives," state Rep. Tommy Thompson, who >represents Ohio County and eastern Daviess County, said Monday. > >"I had the film office call and explain it to them," said Thompson, who pushed >a film incentive package through the legislature in 2009. "I think we may have >a shot now. It's about bluegrass and Bill Monroe. It should be filmed in >Kentucky." > >Business Lexington reported this week that the 2009 legislation would make >filmmakers who spend at least $500,000 in Kentucky eligible to receive "a 20 >percent refundable tax credit for production and post-production expenses." > >Tennessee, the article said, "offers a 13-17 percent tax rebate, depending on >the production budget and percentage of in-state production." > >"Finn and them want to make it in Kentucky," Woodward said, "but the money >guys will probably have the final say." > >"Trevor came here 18 months ago," Mercer said. "He videotaped me playing a >fiddle on the porch. We had some coffee, and I showed him tapes of different >singers." > >Jolly wrote on Facebook in June: "Finn and I drove to Rosine to check out Bill >Monroe's hometown. Happened to be holding a benefit auction for a gal who is >suffering from cancer and the townsfolk raised $27,000 by selling chickens, >farm implements and pies etc. Local bluegrass bands were playing. I recorded >one and Finn shot some pics on his phone." > >Mercer said: "I'm sure they'll use the homeplace" in the movie. "They know >it's open to them. I've been putting off getting back in touch with them, but >I'll e-mail Trevor this week. I've got to get involved and help them make it >good. We've got a wealth of information here that should be tapped." > >Movie should help museum > >A major movie about Monroe, coming during the celebration of the centennial of >his birth (Sept. 13, 1911), is expected to give the bluegrass museum a major >boost, Woodward said. > >"I think it can be tremendous for the museum," he said. > >He owns the fiddle of Pendleton Vandiver, Monroe's uncle who inspired the >song, "Uncle Pen." It's now on display in the museum. > >"It's being used on the soundtrack," Woodward said. "I don't know if it will >be shown in the movie." > >He said, "with Bill's 100th birthday next year and this movie, we really need >to capitalize on it." > >Mercer said he's heard that Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard may attend Rosine's >Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Festival, scheduled for Sept. 30-Oct. 3. "They have >tickets," he said. > >But Woodward said Sarsgaard is supposed to be at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass >Festival in San Francisco that weekend. "They say they want to end the movie >with a montage of scenes from bluegrass festivals," he said. > >Thompson describes Mauldin -- "The Carolina Songbird" -- as "a hefty blond, >flashy dresser, strong, spirited and quite earthy." > >Monroe's wife, Carolyn, finally accused him of adultery and divorced him in >1960. > >The divorce decree forbade Monroe from marrying Mauldin as long as Carolyn >Monroe lived. > >"I don't know how that was legal," Mercer said. > >Maudloe died on Sept. 9, 1996. > >Keith Lawrence, 691-7301, [email protected] > > > > > >-- > >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Taterbugmando" group. > >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. > > >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > > > > > > > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Taterbugmando" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. 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