April 21, 200619 yr "Coming Soon... Out of Place: a portrait of surfing the Great Lakes A film I've been working on for almost 5 years. Ninety percent is shot in Cleveland. I hope it will make a positive impact and change perceptions of how people view the coastline here. It should be edited and released by next fall!!" I'm sorry I missed this when you posted it - are you one of those people that surf in the winter? :-o clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
July 9, 200618 yr In a starring role, our fair city is poised to get oohs and ahhs Sunday, July 09, 2006 Julie E. Washington Plain Dealer
July 9, 200618 yr "What was once the Mistake on the Lake' is now the Roar by the Shore.' " You've got to be joking. Granted, it's wonderful to see good publicity for ANY Ohio city but "Roar by the Shore?" Umm...hmm... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 9, 200618 yr ^ Best news I've heard in a long time! I'm a PR major in Scripps and you can't buy publicity like this. Fantastic. "What was once the Mistake on the Lake' is now the Roar by the Shore.' " You've got to be joking. Granted, it's wonderful to see good publicity for ANY Ohio city but "Roar by the Shore?" Umm...hmm... Someone mad that NE Ohio is the most visible and publicised part of the state? :-D
July 9, 200618 yr "What was once the Mistake on the Lake' is now the Roar by the Shore.' " You've got to be joking. Granted, it's wonderful to see good publicity for ANY Ohio city but "Roar by the Shore?" Umm...hmm... I sense jealousy in this reaction.
July 9, 200618 yr ^ Best news I've heard in a long time! I'm a PR major in Scripps and you can't buy publicity like this. Fantastic. "What was once the Mistake on the Lake' is now the Roar by the Shore.' " You've got to be joking. Granted, it's wonderful to see good publicity for ANY Ohio city but "Roar by the Shore?" Umm...hmm... Someone mad that NE Ohio is the most visible and publicised part of the state? :-D Sure. Next. "What was once the Mistake on the Lake' is now the Roar by the Shore.' " You've got to be joking. Granted, it's wonderful to see good publicity for ANY Ohio city but "Roar by the Shore?" Umm...hmm... I sense jealousy in this reaction. Hailey Joel Osmont, you ain't. I'm saying that the name IS quite hilariously bad. If you take that as jealousy, that is sad. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 9, 200618 yr I'm in a PR job, and I agree: Great publicity! Hopefully the people who see the movie and experience Cleveland as a three-dimensional city that is more than its hang-ups and reputation, will want to visit and see what it's all about! It helps that this movie appears to be pretty good and has famous actors in it. By the way, I like "Roar by the Shore"!! I think that's actually a good/cute turn of a phrase. More than anything else, it probably fits in with how this movie's character speaks and writes. I think that is a great movie line.
July 10, 200618 yr "Roar by the shore" was actually the tag line for the Cleveland Grand Prix at Burke Lakefront Airport. I prefer Frank Deford's description: "The Fury on Lake Erie" Let's see how many more of these we can come up with before ColDayMan coughs up a smurf. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 10, 200618 yr "Roar by the shore" was actually the tag line for the Cleveland Grand Prix at Burke Lakefront Airport. I prefer Frank Deford's description: "The Fury on Lake Erie" Let's see how many more of these we can come up with before ColDayMan coughs up a smurf. Well, Brainy and Dizzy are already coughed up... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 10, 200618 yr What rhymes with Cuyahoga? Nicaragua. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 10, 200618 yr lol! I would have never thought of that. I suppose it doesn't get us to the image we would like, however.
July 10, 200618 yr lol! I would have never thought of that. I suppose it doesn't get us to the image we would like, however. Why not? You live in a 3rd World city like Managua! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 10, 200618 yr I KEED I KEED!!! Or do I?!?!?!?! mrnyc - No, he's not kidding X - Yeah, he's kidding KJP - He better be kidding! MayDay - What is he kidding about? He's COLDAYMAN! the pope - His mom was kidding when he had him Other Clevelanders - Huh? I don't get it! He attacked Cleveland! OFF WITH IS COLUMBUS JEALOUS HEAD!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 10, 200618 yr lol! I would have never thought of that. I suppose it doesn't get us to the image we would like, however. Why not? You live in a 3rd World city like Managua! It's nicer than that. Maybe Mississauga.
July 10, 200618 yr That's a little cooler than: Why don't we polka on the river Cuyahoka [sic] Note: requires long "o" version of pronunciation of "Cuyahoga".
July 11, 200618 yr Note: requires long "o" version of pronunciation of "Cuyahoga". Jeez, not to go even more off-topic here but this piqued my interest.. Maybe someone can post a poll on the appropriate forum: What's everyone's preferred pronunciation of the county in which Cleveland is situated? Ki-uh-HOE-guh, Ki-uh-HAW-guh? And do native Cuyahogans pronounce it differentlly then outsiders? Sometimes I prefer the Harry Doyle-style, "Comeback kids of the CUYahoga"
July 11, 200618 yr ^^Isn't it "ki-yuh-HOG-uh"? I have no idea. I know people who live in Medina County and think it's "Ki-yoo-guh". I don't think this discussion could possible be more off-topic :lol:
July 11, 200618 yr ^^Isn't it "ki-yuh-HOG-uh"? I have no idea. I know people who live in Medina County and think it's "Ki-yoo-guh". I don't think this discussion could possible be more off-topic :lol: I love Moo Lattes at Starbucks. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 11, 200618 yr Note: requires long "o" version of pronunciation of "Cuyahoga". Jeez, not to go even more off-topic here but this piqued my interest.. Maybe someone can post a poll on the appropriate forum: What's everyone's preferred pronunciation of the county in which Cleveland is situated? Ki-uh-HOE-guh, Ki-uh-HAW-guh? And do native Cuyahogans pronounce it differentlly then outsiders? Sometimes I prefer the Harry Doyle-style, "Comeback kids of the CUYahoga" it is definitively 'hoe' - lol!
July 14, 200618 yr hey i saw this blog blurb today for "the oh in ohio" opening night party. sorry it's in manhattan, but it's tonight -- should i go??: The Oh in Ohio 7:30 The Oh In Ohio @ The Loews 19th St East 6 890 Broadway 212-260-8173 Starring Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito, Mischa Barton, Heather Graham and Liza Minnelli. Then head down to B Bar (40 East 4th St) for the informal bi-coastal premiere party and get plastered. link: http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/
July 14, 200618 yr Yeah, it was. I'm going to see it tonight! Meanwhile, I stumbled on this negative review from the L.A. Times. A kind of back-handed shout-out to Cleveland at the end! MOVIE REVIEW 'The Oh in Ohio' By Kevin Thomas, Times Staff Writer .......Ohio, and Cleveland in particular, deserve much better than this.
July 17, 200618 yr Ugh, Time Out, on the other hand, managed to pan the movie and Cleveland in the same breath: There are plenty of ways to screw up a comedy about a careerist robotrix’s inability to achieve orgasm (set it in Cleveland, for one thing), and this movie is a veritable laundry list. Snarkily self-satisfied, casually misogynist and a colossal waste of Parker Posey (playing, implausibly, the frigid lead), The Oh in Ohio succeeds only in making sex seem tedious and dumb. More proof? Liza Minnelli appears as an orgasm coach, and our heroine finds happiness by becoming Danny DeVito’s sex toy. Ew. (Now playing) — Mark Holcomb Jerks.
July 18, 200618 yr Saw the Oh on Friday night. While it was a little uneven in pace (and included one entirely implausible waterslide skyline of the city), I think the critics were far too harsh. The acting was pretty solid and the dialogue and physical humor were hilarious. Plus, as an added bonus, the city of Cleveland looked extraordinary. There were some beautiful shots of downtown, including an aerial shot of the skyscrapers, river and lake. It wasn't exactly documentary in its accuracy (Parker Posey apparently lived in Cleveland Heights west of the city via the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge), but I will certainly forgive them. Definitely worth catching. And how great is it to live in a city where Ambiance distributes free gift bags to everyone at the opening? Ah, Cleveland.
July 18, 200618 yr Author The Cedar-Lee was packed last night for the half-off Monday showing. I went in not expecting a whole lot, laughed more than a few times, but overall, felt that the writing and thus, the movie, was sub-par. I mean, it had a low budget, but it also had a great lineup of actors, so I think they missed the ball on this one. The waterslide with the skyline view (from like 5,000 feet!) was my favorite part! It reminded me that the movie wasn't really aiming to fulfill any realistic purpose, but was just a movie. Oh, and Heather Graham is a fox...Parker Posey says so!
August 17, 200618 yr Hollywood is never going to move to the shores of Lake Erie. I wonder if the reporter knows that Cleveland was where the Warner Brothers started. Wasn't it the Film Building?
August 17, 200618 yr Hollywood is never going to move to the shores of Lake Erie. I wonder if the reporter knows that Cleveland was where the Warner Brothers started. Wasn't it the Film Building? HUH?? Even I'm unaware of this..... the Original TIME Magazine started in Cleveland, but I'm unaware of Warner Bros. actually starting in Cleveland. We only indicate, "In 1903, the brothers began in the film business as traveling exhibitors, moving throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania...." and later , "By 1907, they were operating from a converted store in New Castle, Pennsylvania, which they named the Cascade Theatre." Don't make me (well actually my assistant :whip:) dig into a archive..........
August 17, 200618 yr Dr. Richard Klien (Ph.D., History, University of Akron and part time prof at Levin) told us during one of our classes about two guys who wanted to make Cleveland a movie making city back in the day. They decided to move to Cali because of the winters here. This was before hollywood. The two guys were named... you guessed it, Warner. I had always thought the Keith Building was there intended headquarters, but have since learned it was the Film Building. I could not find anything about this story in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, though... so I do not know.
August 17, 200618 yr I've heard the same story. I also heard that there were other studios in Cleveland in the early days. Most of the studios and producers moved to LA for the weather, and also to stay out of reach of the mob, which was trying to get a piece of the movie biz.
August 17, 200618 yr ok...now im intrigued! I hate NOT knowing things! Let me try to dig up the information.......details at 11
August 17, 200618 yr ^ When I took an urban studies class at CSU the prof said Warner Bros were from Youngstown and built several buildings in downtown Cleveland to use for movies. I think that Nortons Furniture is one of them.
August 17, 200618 yr I don't know about Hollywood, but a lot of TV/movie folks film in Wilmington, NC -- a few WB shows film there in fact. Cleveland could easily get some of that action as we are an urban area, and movie/TV types seem to prefer urban places in their programs.
August 17, 200618 yr There is also a Warner Bros. Building/Studio in Cincinnati from the early years as well. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 17, 200618 yr btw if you guys are in nyc on a rainy day and wanna see something obscure, just go to the museum of radio, tv and film. they will research and spool up anything you request. route 66 or whatever and cleveland? no problem. its an amazing place.
August 18, 200618 yr ^ When I took an urban studies class at CSU the prof said Warner Bros were from Youngstown and built several buildings in downtown Cleveland to use for movies. I think that Nortons Furniture is one of them. Norton's Furniture = The Film Building
August 18, 200618 yr I just caught the IMDB list for Cleveland ... wow, that's a lot of movies (albeit, it sounds like a lot of bad ones as well). I would love to see some of those old silents from the turn of the century - especially the one of Public Square. But the one I'm really excited about is "Three Days of Rain": Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm. Anyone see it yet? MGD, this definitely sounds like it would fulfill your requirements - sounds like they focus on Cleveland, rather than convert it to another city. And drawing from Chekhov, and with Lyle Lovett in the cast, I can't imagine it will be quite as lacking in plot as Howard the Duck (but then again, it probably won't have a big snake thing coming out of the guy from Beetlejuice's throat ... I suppose no movie is perfect). http://www.threedaysofrain.com/
August 24, 200618 yr Wow, this is getting cooler by the moment! Location manager's move a Cleveland coup Wednesday, August 23, 2006 Carolyn Jack Plain Dealer Arts Reporter
August 24, 200618 yr I can PERSONALLY say.....this is a good thing! Ivan is the real deal. I hope I don't have to eat my words.
August 24, 200618 yr That's absolutely amazing. And what a powerful message of the direct economic benefits of arts and culture as the levy approaches!!!!
August 24, 200618 yr I just caught the IMDB list for Cleveland ... wow, that's a lot of movies (albeit, it sounds like a lot of bad ones as well). I would love to see some of those old silents from the turn of the century - especially the one of Public Square. But the one I'm really excited about is "Three Days of Rain": Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm. Anyone see it yet? MGD, this definitely sounds like it would fulfill your requirements - sounds like they focus on Cleveland, rather than convert it to another city. And drawing from Chekhov, and with Lyle Lovett in the cast, I can't imagine it will be quite as lacking in plot as Howard the Duck (but then again, it probably won't have a big snake thing coming out of the guy from Beetlejuice's throat ... I suppose no movie is perfect). http://www.threedaysofrain.com/ I remember getting excited about that one and then just missing it at the TriBeCa film festival. I think it got pretty lousy reviews though, despite the good cast.
August 24, 200618 yr When was Three Days of Rain filmed? Its the first I've heard of it, and it looks really cool. I find it frustrating that it isn't playing anywhere in Ohio.
August 24, 200618 yr ^there is a number on the website for ordering DVDs if some selfless Urban Ohian wants to view it and report back...
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