Just watching CSI now and a murdered couple are from Cincy. How do they know this? A unique type of chili was found in their stomach contents. dun dun dunt! . . .

I get a big kick out of any mention of Cincinnati in the world of entertainment. Another name dropped occurred during a Monk marathon on the USA Network this Sunday. (I refused to watch the Super Bowl with THAT team) Anyway, Monk was on the case of a muuuurder in San Fran, when he discovered his suspect also committed a murder in Cincinnati. How did the amazing Monk figure this out? It was in the girlfriend's suicide note that Monk uncovered. Case Closed.

 

Maybe I should be concern that Hollywood is taking advantage of Cincy's crime problems. ;-)

The 'Nati also got a name drop on "The Family Guy".  Last night's episode (might have been a repeat) had Stewie pretending to be an office manager with Brian being his only employee.  Stewie berated Brian for something he did while the rep from Cincinnati was in the office.

It's always cool when the C-bomb gets dropped here and there.

I recall watchin a Law and Order episdoe (forget which L&O show) where somebody was at the train station and was about to go to Cincinnati.  The thing that crossed my mind was that the poor soul was going to arrive in the middle of the night.

Anyone ever see reruns of WKRP in Cincinnati?  :wink:

The 'Nati also got a name drop on "The Family Guy".  Last night's episode (might have been a repeat) had Stewie pretending to be an office manager with Brian being his only employee.  Stewie berated Brian for something he did while the rep from Cincinnati was in the office.

 

Cool, Stewie rocks

I was telling my wife about this thread and she told me to tell you guys that she was watching 21 Jump Street and Johnny Depp was talking about Cincinnati and the Bengals... ;)

 

**Yes, this was recently... we (oops, I mean she does) rent the 21 Jump Street series on DVD.**

Harsh Realm (everybody's favorite !) had a whole episode in Cincinnati (not really) as well as one in Columbus. The Cinti episode was titled "Cincinnati".

What ? You missed it ?

:-)

 

 

I was watching the movie Traffic and... well never mind.

I posted this elsewhere, so I thought I would make this one thread.

 

<i>from Monday</i>

Just watching CSI now and they mention a murdered couple is from Cincy. How do they know this? A unique type of chili was found in their stomach contents. dun dun dunt! . . .

 

I couldn't believe it. They go on and say this chili is unique to Southern Ohio and that could be only one area, Cincinnati.

 

Ohio is the setting for a lot of stuff.

 

The Drew Carey show (Cleveland, obviously)

3rd Rock from the Sun (Rutherford, Ohio....imaginary city near Cincinnati I believe)

Hope and Faith (Glen Falls, Ohio......imaginary Cleveland suburb)

Extreme Home Makeover (had an episode in Boardman, a Youngstown suburb)

Three Wishes (NBC show that got cancelled this year, had an episode that helped people throughout Tuscarawas County)

 

 

And some movies like

 

Tommy Boy (with Chris Farley, was set in Sandusky)

Silence of the Lambs (supposedly set in Bellevue)

 

 

I know there are a lot more, but these few are off the top of my head

Family Ties - Columbus

Ed (or some other recent show on NBC) - NW Ohio

Family Ties - Columbus

 

Alex P. Keaton.

 

Sons and Daughters - Hamilton (we will see)

Mary Hartman Mary Hartman & Fernwood 2Night were in scenic Fernwood, Ohio.

Martin Sheen's press secretary in The West Wing hailed from Dayton. She attended a high school reunion in one episode.

 

 

Maryanne, the heroine of the "Tales of the City" series moved to San Francisco from Cleveland.

 

Scooter moves to Cleveland  in "Muppets Take Manhattan"

 

Cincinnati skyline was used behind credits in old soap opera "Edge of Night" (produced by P and G -- literally a soap opera!)

I guess indie film writers and directors like Sandusky for some reason:

 

Edge of Seventen (filmed in 1998); movie about a gay teenager growing up in the 80's in small-town Sandusky

 

Gypsy 83 (filmed in 2001); starring Sara Rue, about two goth misfit friends "escaping" from Sandusky to New York City where opportunities abound and people are more open-minded

 

the director of these two movies, Todd Stevens, was from Sandusky

 

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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Infestation from Mars (filmed in 2004) this movie was filmed entirely in Sandusky and Cedar Point (the first time Cedar Point has ever allowed a movie production at their park); local residents were included in many of the scenes.........looks like a fun movie.......I gotta see it sometime!

Ahem.  The greatest usage of Ohio ever:

 

The Brady Bunch AND the Partridge Family BOTH going to Kings Island in the 70's.  Utterly classic.

Rain Man of couse was in Cincinnati, I still can't drive over the Robeling Bridge w/o matching pitch with the tires as they humm over the grated deck like Raymond did in the movie.  And it also had a reference to WOXY with their slogan, 97X BAM! "The future of Rock N Roll"

 

Milk money was filmed in Cincinnati but took place somewhere else.  It was funny though they had shot where the city was in the background and you could tell it was the Cincy skyline (of course if you knew what the skyline looks like).

I recommend going to iTunes and search for "Cincinnati" There are all kinds of songs that pop up. Interesting to play the samples. A odd mix of blues, bluegrass, country, audio blogs, rap, etc. A real mixed bag, mostly unknown stuff. Dwight Yoakam has song.

 

The best is The Distillers song "Cincinnati" which I bought. Their song rocks and it doesn't hurt that Brody Dalle is a (rock)babe.

^ Yeah, I downloaded the Distillers song about 6 months ago... it is a very good song.

Speaking of Indie films, there was one on IFC or Sundance where two dog track betting guys decide to travel to Florida in a car(from NYC), and they stop in Cleveland on the way and pick up a female cousin.  The cousin lives in this desolate factory neighborhood with a polish(i believe) speaking grandmother.  They go see the lake and it looks like a barren permafrost scene from Alaska.  The movie is in black and white...but I can't remember the name!  Anybody know what I am talking about??... because it was a good movie and I'd like to see it again.

 

Weren't the "Banana Splits" from Kings Island too?

Shall I bring up Nick & Jessica?  ;)  I think they even had an episode where they went to King's Island.

>The cousin lives in this desolate factory neighborhood with a polish(i believe) speaking grandmother.  They go see the lake and it looks like a barren permafrost scene from Alaska.  The movie is in black and white...but I can't remember the name!  Anybody know what I am talking about??... because it was a good movie and I'd like to see it again.

 

I've seen it but I can't remember the name of it.  Also, don't forget Gummo, which was set in Xenia, OH but shot in Nashville. 

 

If you want to see a fun interview by an Ohio-born filmmaker, check this out:

http://www.cinemadmag.com/everson.html

 

He was my old professor at U of Tennessee, he was pretty influential on me and a number of other students.  He was a total wise ass, hated intellectuals, hipsters, and the East Coast.  All these hipsters would sign up for film classes because they wanted to be cool and then he would make fun of their clothes and music in front of everyone.   

 

The cousin lives in this desolate factory neighborhood with a polish(i believe) speaking grandmother.  They go see the lake and it looks like a barren permafrost scene from Alaska.  The movie is in black and white...but I can't remember the name!  Anybody know what I am talking about??

 

I actually found it on the net and answered my own question:

 

Stranger Than Paradise

Year: 1984 - Cinethesia Productions 

Director: Jim Jarmusch 

Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch 

Starring: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, and Cecillia Stark. 

 

Also, don't forget Gummo, which was set in Xenia, OH but shot in Nashville.

 

 

I just saw Gummo a couple of weeks ago with a group of friends here at college in Illinois.  To say the least, I was pretty offended by it.  I had to tell everyone there that Ohio is not that god-forsaken shit-hole as portrayed in the movie.  Even though I have never been through Xenia, I knew that the portrayal of rural Ohio was pretty much false. (Now I'm sure there are places like that scattered throughout the state--throughout EVERY state--but I could not believe this movie was suppose to be the average, everyday life of small-town impoverished Ohioans).

 

On the other hand, I would see the movie again.  It is very disturbing; but it does have some cinematic value.

I didn't really take any offense to it -- the point of that movie was to blur scripted and spontaneous action and the fact that it wasn't even shot in Ohio seemed to be enough for me to remove it from being confused for any kind of fly-on-the-wall documentary.  In fact I remember people in Tennessee actually being more offended by it, since the fact that it was shot there for some reason lurked higher in people's minds than its supposed setting. 

 

Anyway, something that I've always found offensive to Ohio was the "Ohio Project" by Nikki Lee.  These photographs got pretty damn big in the art world about 4 years ago since they fit perfectly into the east coasts's preconceptions.  She could have called it "the trailer park project" but instead called it "Ohio", and considering the best-known photo from that series featured a confederate flag, I thought she was just causing scandal for the hell of it.  #1 the confederate flag's meaning in the south is much different and richer than northern elitists will ever be able to understand and #2 I have hardly ever seen one in Ohio. I wasn't able to find the actual photo online but here is a bit from a review:

 

 

 

>Collected in a 111-page, glossy book, Nikki S. Lee: Projects, are 12 forays into what critics who write about Lee inevitably call "subcultures." In one project, she is a lesbian in plain wire eyeglasses, tank top, and frumpy jeans, intimately posing with a bleached-blond lover. In another, she mingles with East Village punks in pink-and-orange hair, distressed biker jacket, shredded tights, and sleep-deprived eyes. As an "exotic dancer," she is unsmiling, greasy; and carelessly wearing a series of hot pink, leopard-print, and metallic silver bikinis. In The Ohio Project, she is blond as can be, sporting denim overalls and gingham, straddling a tractor, hanging with a white man and his rifle in his living room, beneath a Confederate flag that bears the slogan: "I AIN'T COMING DOWN."

 

Mainstream reviewers call her transformations "astounding," "fascinating," and "uncanny." One puts her appeal quite bluntly "Lee is an outsider who brings you 'inside'...the sympathetic visitor going native." The art world elite has been so arrested by her boundary crossings, she is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. One daily newspaper critic wrote of The Schoolgirls Project, where Lee pals around with uniformclad Korean girls half her age, "It's hard to pick Lee out of the group." Eye of the beholder indeed--it took me a nanosecond to find her. Actually, it wasn't a matter of finding at all. I just looked, and there she was.

 

As with so many cultural producers of color, Lee's work is defined by the mainstream's frame of reference. In the universe of Chelsea art galleries and world-famous museums, that frame is moneyed, genteel, and white. Hence, the voyeuristic astonishment over her blending into these "subcultures"--threarening, bizarre underworlds to these viewers. Plus, Lee's youth and facility with clothes and makeup suggest a hipness, a certain "getting it," that those who don't get it must covet and envy. And boy, does Lee get it. Her background in commercial fashion comes up all the time, not without her doing, and she says she forsook her Korean name, Seung Hee, for Nikki, after the model Niki Taylor. "My work is really simple, actually," she has said. "I'm just playing with forms of changing." Yeah, but she's no fool.

 

When you get over how carefully she has mimicked the dress and ornamentation of the groups she picks, what is most intriguing and disturbing about Lee's work is that she really does stand out. In The Latina Project, she poses against the backdrop of New York City's Puerto Rican Day Parade, having gained weight and dressed skimpy in her version of looking the part. But not for a single moment does she cease seeming the outsider. She serves as the point of comparison, so that unfamiliar viewers can look at the rest of the group and say, "Ah ha, those are real Latinas." It is clear, Lee is not the person against whom the Fifth Avenue boutiques barricade their windows with thick sheets of plywood. It's not she who is hemmed in by thousands of cops in case she gets rowdy--or ignored by them when she needs help fending off the sexual attacks of groups of men in Central Park. She can hang, braided and disenchanted, with the hip-hop heads, but at the end of the day she leaves them behind and goes back to being a pop ular artist whose photos hang in major museums.

 

 

Just watched The 40-yr Old Virgin and Cincinnati has it's own sex act  . . . Cincinnati bow-tie! Not too many cities can make that claim. ;-)  The movie was a rip-roaring laugh riot.

Yeah, when I was registering my website on Google AdWords, you can search by most search words for campaign management and "Cincinnati Bowtie" was obviously searched a hell of a lot of times, because it kept coming up.

 

I was wandering what the hell Cincinnati Bowtie was, until I watched the "40 year old Virgin".

 

There is obviously a ton of other people around the nation that want to find out as well! ;)

LOL, I'm going have to look into those.

Saw a Simpsons re-run last night where Crusty has a daughter conceived during a performance for the troops in the gulf war.  When he starts to bomb, he introduces the Cincinnati Bengals Cheerleaders for a performance who are quickly covered in a pile of sand from a sandstorm.

In the movie 'Just Friends' with Ryan Reynolds, there is a Cincinnati......blanket or quilt or something with a wood frame hanging up on the wall in the main characters loft.  On it is a list of a lot of towns in the area like Mason and Hamilton and Cincinnati, etc.  It is in the background towards the end of the movie but I recognized all the names and thought it was interesting.  Looked pretty cool too.

Oh, and don't forget that Metallica's video for "Wherever I May Roam" was filmed in the Riverfront Coliseum with I-74, I-75 road signs.  I am typing on a computer where both the type and the background are black so I have no Iidea what I'm typing.  So sorry for in any incoherence. 

Watching the new show "Sons and Daughters", one woman says "I'm Cincinnati pretty, not general pretty" There's a lot of characters on this show so I don't know who is who.

^Thats kind of a negative for Cincy. Did they mention Hamilton at all?

 

My favorite show right now has got to be The Office BTW, moonloop. Good Morning Vietnam!

Any Big N Rich fans?     "Comin to your City" 

 

The Nati one is obvious but is Marylin Manson from, or has anything to do with Canton.    Is it even Canton Ohio they are talking about :wtf:

^yes marilyn manson is from canton. his band first got popular in florida.

 

did anyone see this new show on fox called "free ride?" i dk where its set, i thought it sucked and did not pay attention, but the mother is orig from dayton (cdm if you see this she graduated from c-j w/ my spouse).

 

 

a wash post review of the show:

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801858.html

Interesting.  Another Eagles grad on television.  Not surprised ;).

Graeter's ice cream was on the West Wing tonight, and was referred to as "a Cincinnati delicacy."  The Democratic presidential campaign was in Dayton at the time.  Unfortunately the ice cream made the candidate's son throw up later because he ate too much of it before dinner (or something like that).

There was an episode of "Home improvement" where Al and Tim brouth the family to Cleveland while they hosted "tool time" from a convention show in Cleveland. They threw out names like Rock and Roll hall of fame and "tower city mall".

Does anyone remember the TV show "Profiler"?  One episode took place within the state of Ohio with a sniper shooting at cars on a freeway from a building (this was a few years before this acctually took place)  Anyway, I was watching it and was surprised when I saw a helicopter view of downtown Columbus used as a segway into the next part of the story.  I was disapointed though because they labled the Columbus Skyline as Dayton, OH.  Also, there is a new kids movie out by Disney called "Rebound".  I watched it with my little brother.  The movie is about a Mount Vernon Middle School basketball team, in it they showed a few shots of the Columbus Skyline. 

 

In the West Wing, the actress that play CJ the Press Secratary is acctually a native of Dayton. 

 

Third Rock from the Sun took place in a suburb outside of Toledo I believe.

 

Also, one of the characters, (Kate?), in "Lost" is from Shelby County, Ohio.

 

 

Kate is a hottie. Too bad the other hottie(shannon)Maggie Grace was killed off a month or two ago in LOST. She was actually born in Columbus.

thank you unusualfire, I have yet to see any of season two of Lost  :-P  I got the first season on DVD this past Christmas and got hooked and I am not going to watch any of season two until it comes out on DVD. 

 

Wow!  Maggie Grace is from Columbus and she was born the same year as me!  That rocks!  I wonder if I ever crossed paths with her in my lifetime.  That would be even cooler.  Oh well.  I was reading a mini biography of her and it doesn't say when she moved to LA.  Anybody know if she went to High School in Worthington?

Local Couple Featured On "Wife Swap"; Fist Fight Concludes Episode

 

 

Then, tune in Monday @ 8 p.m. for the episode of "Wife Swap" on WCPO-TV9.

 

A Tri-state family is featured on the Monday, May 1, edition of ABC's "Wife Swap".

 

"Wife Swap" is shown on WCPO-TV 9 Mondays at 8 p.m.

 

Hairdresser Kim Corrao, of Mason, is featured in the episode that ABC calls "the most explosive table meeting ever captured on the show."

 

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/04/28/wifeswap.html

 

Why did they have to choose Mason? Why not Clifton? lol

Oh, the Mom from Home Alone was from Ohio in the movie.  She says that her brother just drove her into Chicago from Ohio when she is paying the pizza delivery guy while talking to the "police officer" at the begining of the movie.

<i>Some big names are in this movie. Neat story.</i>

 

<b>‘Chasing 3000’

A Cincinnati lawyer weaved a tale about himself, his brother and a baseball star. Now it's a movie ...</b>

 

BY JOHN ERARDI | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

The story of how Steubenville-born Bill Mikita, who has lived in Cincinnati for more than 20 years, persevered to get his life's story on the silver screen is worthy of a movie itself.

 

It is the moonlighting equivalent of hitting the lottery.

 

It involves the death of a mother, the birth of creativity in a son and a wheelchair-using brother who, despite being physically disabled, is a soaring achiever.

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060429/SPT/604290411/1062

I saw The Simpsons episode today where Homer tours with the Hullabalooza tour, a take-off of the Lollapalooza tour.  On scene showed a Hullabalooza tour bus come to a fork in the road with two signs, Cleveland to the left and Cincinnati to the right.  The bus starts like its gonna head to Cleveland but quickly makes a three-point road turns and head back from where it came.

 

There's also an episode where Homer and Marge are leaving the kids to go on vacation to Dayton, Ohio.  Marge shows the kids a tour guide whose cover reads "Dayton, Ohio: Two whole exits of fun".

<b>'Deadwood' creator name-checks city</b>

 

BY JOHN KIESEWETTER | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

Who is "John from Cincinnati," and how did he get into surfing?

 

We won't find out until after TV producer David Milch ("Deadwood," "NYPD Blue") completes "John from Cincinnati," a pilot for HBO about the world of surfing.

 

Variety and The Hollywood Reporter said Milch is writing the one-hour drama with author surfer novelist Kem Nunn ("Tapping the Source," "Tijuana Straits").

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060515/ENT/605150311/1025

Guys, believe it or not, MTV's TRL used to use an After Effects graphic before commercial breaks that showed Cincinnati's skyline. You could clearly see the Carew and PNC Towers.

 

I actually watched the sweetest "Family Matters" ever last week. The whole episode revolved around a Seal concert in Toledo. Laura and her friends wanted to drive to Toledo for the Seal show, but her parents wouldn't let her, even though they were letting their son drive all the way to Canada to go camping. The episode ended with the parents realizing it wasn't fair to discriminate against Laura because she was a girl, and they let her go to Toledo.

 

There is also an episode of Family Matters (I LOVED that show!) at the beginning of the 1993-94 season where Laura had cheerleading tryouts in Cincinnati, and Steve drove her down there in his Isetta ("That's what I said-a!  Heh-heh-heh (snort! snort!)") and they wound up at a fleabag motel.  It rained, too, if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, and Ohio was referenced not once, but twice, on that ABC gem called The Wonder Years!  In one episode Kevin asked Norma about her family, and she replied that one of her relatives was from Ohio.  In another episode from the 1990-91 season, Jack had a business trip to Cincinnati, and he replied that it rained.