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Casting Call: Extras Needed For 'Cornhole' Movie
wlwt.com ^ | today | staff

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.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cornhole; funandgames; movie; sundance
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To: Xenalyte

Yes. This game has become more popular around here too. I was talking a walk with my son — aged 7 — on Memorial Day when we saw this game set up in several yards. When he asked me what it was, I told him they were throwing bags filled with corn and that the game was called “cornbag.”


21 posted on 06/07/2007 10:13:55 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Fred Thompson 2008)
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To: Rodney King; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Lazamataz; Darksheare; pissant; najida; r-q-tek86; blackie; ...
CORNHOLE, PING!!!!!

22 posted on 06/07/2007 10:14:02 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: Rodney King

I thought about being an extra when Jeff Daniels made Super Sucker in the area but not even the assless chaps could make me look like a gay biker.


23 posted on 06/07/2007 10:15:35 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Rodney King
I went to law school in Dayton, Ohio. That was the first time I had ever heard of the game referred to as “corn hole.”

Back east, we just call it “bean-bag toss.”

24 posted on 06/07/2007 10:15:50 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (Said the perpetually dejected Mets fan.)
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To: Constitution Day

"Call in Mr. Beatty's stunt double, please."

25 posted on 06/07/2007 10:17:21 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: CougarGA7

This ain’t right.


26 posted on 06/07/2007 10:20:04 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: CT-Freeper
Where do we go from here now that all other children are growin' up

And how do we spend our lives if there's noone to lend us a hand

I don't wanna live here no more,
I don't wanna stay
Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life,
Quietly fading away Games people play, You take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Honor Brite
If I promise you the Moon and the Stars,
Would you believe it
Games people play in the middle of the night

Where do we go from here now that all of the children have grown up
And how do we spend our lives knowin' nobody gives us a damn

I don't wanna live here no more,
I don't wanna stay
Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life,
Quietly fading away

Games people play, You take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Just don't make it right
If I'm telling you the truth right now,
Do you believe it
Games people play in the middle of the night

Games people play, You take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Honor Brite
If I promise you the Moon and the Stars,
Would you believe it
Games people play in the middle of the night

Games people play, You take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Just don't make it right
If I'm telling you the truth right now,
Do you believe it
Games people play in the middle of the night

27 posted on 06/07/2007 10:22:42 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Shore is a purty mouth.


28 posted on 06/07/2007 10:24:13 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I can’t wait to see this one on the theater marquee.


29 posted on 06/07/2007 10:25:13 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (I really don't know what I want to put here.)
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To: Rodney King
national cornhole championship

This'll separate the pitchers from the catchers.

Oh, wait. Guess it's the other way 'round.

30 posted on 06/07/2007 10:27:57 AM PDT by Sax
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To: wazoo1031
Ping!

'Course, they're not talking about the same kind of "cornhole" that is mentioned in, for example, Office Space.

31 posted on 06/07/2007 10:28:43 AM PDT by Allegra (Socks.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Xenalyte

The dateline on this article is “Blue Ash, Ohio.” Somehow I think, “Black and Blue Ash, Ohio” would be more appropriate....


32 posted on 06/07/2007 10:29:07 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: al baby; Allegra; Auntbee; BJClinton; Dashing Dasher; dfwddr; exile; feinswinesuksass; ...
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket TaЯd ping!
33 posted on 06/07/2007 10:29:08 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Rodney King

Damn, thought this was a sequel to “Bareback Mountain”.............


34 posted on 06/07/2007 10:29:25 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Xenalyte

Same here....

‘til my brother and sis-in-law got into it. They brough their set Mothers’ Day weekend and it actually is fun to play!


35 posted on 06/07/2007 10:29:35 AM PDT by kimmie7 (imwithfred.com - Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I think they need some nice soothing ointment...
36 posted on 06/07/2007 10:35:33 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: EveningStar; Xenalyte; agent_delta
Remember, Sheryl Crowe says only one corn cob per visit.


37 posted on 06/07/2007 10:36:04 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
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To: doorgunner69

I thought the title to that movie was “Bareback Mounting”


38 posted on 06/07/2007 10:36:26 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (I really don't know what I want to put here.)
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To: Rodney King

From the post title I thought it might be a sequel to “Broke Back Mountain”! LOL!


39 posted on 06/07/2007 10:37:49 AM PDT by Kolb
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Or better lube?
40 posted on 06/07/2007 10:43:44 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
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