agree On Sep 18, 7:14 am, Robin Gravina <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]>: > > > 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 > > ... > > read more »
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