Sorry All, WOOPS! It is on Thursday, I keep thinking today is Thursday. I have had my days mixed up! All the running back and forth to the hospital and out of town has me all confused, don't know if I am coming or going! <G> The show is on tomorrow, Thursday, July 31st. Gina ----- Original Message ----- From: <unicorn1945@comcast.net> To: <inrandol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Courthouse Girls to air on WIPB > Instead of Thursday like the paper said? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gina Richardson > To: inrandol@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:39 PM > Subject: [INRANDOL] Courthouse Girls to air on WIPB > > > For those interested, the documentary will be on WIPB tonight. > > There is a website about the Courthouse Girls with a store where you can > order calendars, T-shirts or a replica of the courthouse. Proceeds from > any > sales go to a Save the Court House Fund. > > The link to the website is www.courthousegirls.com > > > > MUNCIE -- By now, you know the story. > Seven old ladies showed some skin, posed for a calendar and caused an > uproar > in Randolph County. > You've read about them, and the even older courthouse they worked to > save, > for what seems like forever. And this week, you can see them (fully > clothed) > in your living room. > On Thursday, the Courthouse Girls of Farmland, a 51-minute documentary > that > showcases the women's fight, will air at 9 p.m. on WIPB, Muncie's PBS > station. > It's a story WIPB helped tell, as the station was hired to film it. > Farmland > native Jeff Crone, a videographer for WIPB, is one of the film's > photography > directors. > "People come to us with ideas but it usually fizzles out," said Alice > Cheney, general manager of WIPB. "This is probably an exception because > there was something happening of importance, which was saving the > courthouse, and we like to cover local things that will appeal to our > viewers." > For months covering the story meant Crone spent Monday mornings at > meetings > of the Randolph County board of commissioners. He stood in the corner > with > his camera and filmed the debate. > But just as the documentary is about more than commissioners' > decisions -- > first to demolish the courthouse in June 2005, then to reverse that > decision > in March 2006 -- Crone and his camera went outside the commissioners' > meeting room as well. > There's a singing scene from the courthouse lawn, tours that show the > bubbled paint and disrepair of the building and footage of events in > Farmland that proves this town will try anything once. There's a cameo by > former First Lady Judy O'Bannon and music (the song Naked People) by > Muncie > native songstress Jennie DeVoe. > And yes, there are interviews with the Courthouse Girls, as well as > members > of their families who were shocked with what their mothers and > grandmothers > agreed to do. > There also are interviews with a few who don't like what "The Girls" have > done. Convincing those people to appear on camera was one of director > Norman > Klein's biggest struggles. Klein, a friend of executive producer Angela > Soper (a Farmland native whose mother, Eileen Herron, 89, is Miss > October), > joined the project late and spent a week in Indiana pulling loose ends > together. > "I thought that this movie would not be revolutionary, but it would be > cute > and I thought it would attract an audience, and not a younger audience," > Klein said. "These women were doing what most of us have stopped doing. > They > were getting involved in their community." > The documentary already has premiered at two film festivals, and last > month > was judged the top audience pick at the Breckenridge (Colo.) Festival of > Film. The airing on WIPB will be its television premiere, but executive > producers Soper and Larry Francer (co-owner of Tanglevine Crossing in > Farmland) hope other PBS stations, especially the seven others in > Indiana, > pick up the film. > Brent Molnar, program manager for WTIU in Bloomington, said his station > will > air it this fall. A date hasn't been chosen. > The fact that the documentary showcases both the pros and cons of The > Girls' > fight, from both liberal and conservative points of view, is one Molnar > expects to speak to viewers of the station at Indiana University. > "It's nice to see how they got involved in the process and how they were > able to expose -- maybe that's not the right word to use -- they were > able > to bring the issue to light," Molnar said. "Anything that looks like it > has > a local or regional tie in, I definitely look at and give a serious > consideration." > Contact Henry and Randolph county reporter Joy Leiker at 213-5825. > ******************************** > Please Visit The Randolph County INGenWeb Project > http://www.ingenweb.org/inrandolph/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.7/1581 - Release Date: 7/30/2008 > 6:56 AM > > > ******************************** > Please Visit The Randolph County INGenWeb Project > http://www.ingenweb.org/inrandolph/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.7/1581 - Release Date: 7/30/2008 > 6:56 AM > >