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.
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Lawrence: I’ll tell you what I’d do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
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Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; ‘cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
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One of my ex-girlfriends told me “You can’t be first, but you can be next”.
Just don’t cross your ping list with the homosexual agenda one, missy! That could real ugly, real fast...
We have a lot of cornholers in Chicago, mostly around north Halsted
A week or so ago it was a panties ping....
Who knows what is next????? ;o)
Heh. Well, you can’t always get what you want, right? :)
No it was Bareback Mountin'.
You have enough vatation time to star in a movie?
In all my years on this forum I can honestly say I never thought I’d see a Cornhole Ping.
Hey, at least Lawrence came over and talked to him in person!
It’s...it’s...it’s just that it wasn’t what I was expecting from the title...
I am there, dude!
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