Also I wanted to be first with this.
Posted on 06/07/2007 10:07:48 AM PDT by Rodney King
BLUE ASH, Ohio -- Independent moviemakers want the country to know about the Tri-state's favorite pastime, cornhole.
According to various records, Cincinnati is widely accepted as the birthplace of the game in which players take turns pitching bags filled with corn at a hole drilled into a raised platform.
"Cornhole, The Movie" is about four teams trying to make it to the national cornhole championship. One of the backdrops is Logos Bar and Grill in Blue Ash, where the cast and crew got into the action.
"Lots of energy," said movie director Tim Clarke. "You just feed off the crowd, the actors. Everybody just works off each other." Clarke said he wants to show when a hobby becomes more of an obsession.
Elaine Mello-Clarke, who plays one of the lead characters, describes what that obsession can do.
"I'm mean," she said describing her character. "I want to win. I do everything I can to manipulate the game to win."
Just happy to be in the mix are extras like Betty Baumiller, who said she has always wanted to be in a movie.
"Oh my gosh, doesn't everybody?" she asked.
The real-deal cornhole players said they are also having a ball.
"I like to describe it as stupid funny," said cornhole champ, Chu Farfsing. "We just have a great time with it."
The movie producers and actors hope this excitement eventually translates into more exposure for a film with a $20,000 budget.
"We want to make it go nationwide," said Mello-Clarke.
The director hopes to have "Cornhole, The Movie" finished in February in time for the Sundance Film Festival.
To find out more about the movie or to learn how to become an extra, click here.
Where I come from, that’s not what “cornhole” means.
too easy
Here ya go, this could be your big break.
Damn you.
I can't see myself going to the beach with my "Cornhole, The Movie" T-shirt.
well, for all we know it still means the same thing.
"Watch out for yer cornhole, bud."
sniff... *I* wanted to be first...
Damn you!! :)
Ick!
Yes, but how desperately? I mean, would you want the top of your CV to read, "Cornhole, The Movie?"
I personally don’t like cornhole.
Not at all!
I hope they don’t hold any casting sessions in San Francisco. Some people might get the wrong idea.
Perhaps if you're applying for a job on a Ron Jeremy film...
There’s gonna be a lot of disappointed moviegoers in San Francisco when this is released.
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