I suppose they will use original Monroe music tracks then. I admit the movie is going to be interesting to me. Mr. Monroe had a turbulent personal life, and it will be interesting to see part of the story. Might like to see about getting the book too. linda ps Nelson, I best you are right.
On Sep 18, 6:07 am, [email protected] wrote: > Surely they are just showing him how to finger-sync kinda. > > I'd bet his playing ain't no part of nuthin'. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Cantrell <[email protected]> > > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:13:41 > To: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe > > 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 > >athttp://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 > >athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > ... > > read more » -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. 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