Totally agree. Every time I catch Cumberland Highlanders I feel like they're dancing on the man's grave.
mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: >And Campbell Mercer hasn't made a mockery of Monroe? Maybe he oughta >read up on how he's handled things in his *own* backyard. I really >think that anybody who's looking to this movie to be anything other >than entertainment is just asking to be disappointed. I haven't seen >anything in print that's included the words 'historical' or >'documentary'. While the movie will probably bring in people who were >not aware of Monroe's music, it doesn't appear that Bill's artistry is >the focal point of the film. Like it or not, infidelities sell tickets >more readily to the masses than hill country music does. > >There's just no point in us all chasing our tails over this. It's >going to be what it's going to be and nothing will change that. >Tbug > > >On Sep 17, 11:32 am, 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. >> >> Maudlin died Feb. 8, 1983, after suffering a heart attack at 63. Carolyn >> Monroe outlived her by nearly 18 months, dying on July 31, 1984. >> >> Monroe 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 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]. 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