I guess anything could happen, but it seems good that T-bone and family seem to be heavily involved. I could easily be wrong, but it seems as if he is someone who respects the music totally, but can also do things with it in the interest of telling a story.
And Monroe's music deserves to be exposed to a wider audience as the passionate beast it is. 2010/9/17, Linda <lj...@intas.net.au>: > 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, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net 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 <sec...@bellsouth.net> >> >> Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com >> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:13:41 >> To: <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> >> Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com >> 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 <tbull...@yahoo.com> 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, johnhga...@aol.com <johnhga...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> >From: johnhga...@aol.com <johnhga...@aol.com> >> >Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe >> >To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, >> > taterbugmando@googlegroups.com >> >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, klawre...@messenger-inquirer.com >> >> >-- >> >> >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "Taterbugmando" group. >> >> >To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. >> >> >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> >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 taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. >> >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >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. > To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. 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