"...ready for my close up!"
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.
BWahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
OMG!!!
Talk about mental whiplash when I opened this thread!
LOLOL
I’m with ya on that!
Thought that was a casting call for the SanFran residents!
You sure that isn’t a Gen K/Y phrase?
One of my fav quotes from an older NBA player:
“Well, we got it going pretty good, then it just kinda CORNBAlled from there.”
I don’t know what it means.
I was just thinking. Do you think the Butthole Surfers will do the soundtrack?
I thought it was a prison flick.
We have ‘em down in Dupont Circle.
Slippery slope...
I think they are looking for you
Now THAT’S a movie I would camp out over night to see!!
That’s some diversity I could celebrate, you betcha.
;o)
Tough to reply to that given the threads...content.
YES!!!!
I read about some chick in Vegas trying to set a new cornhole record.
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