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Celebrities WE Care About: How you can break into movies this weekend!

By Collins Parker
Created Feb 22 2008 - 2:43pm

We've had some video issues this week on the website, so my Wrestling update will have to wait a week.

(But I promose you, I've got the Manchurians waiting for you in the wings)

Instead, let's talk about local show biz.


For the next 3 Sundays, you've got a chance to break into movies.

A local movie production is holding auditions here in town.

Casting calls will be held from 10 AM to 6 PM at 350 Walsh Rd., Chattanooga, TN 37405 in the Stringers Ridge area.

That's at the HGTV Dream Home, which will be featured in the film.

Here is their pitch:

 [0]Last Chance: Thick As Thieves is a prequel to Brigand Pictures’ groundbreaking all-digitally shot film, Last Chance, where Rob (Kristof Robinson) is sent on a mission to assassinate a mysterious old man and is forced to decide where his loyalties lie when he meets a beautiful woman with ties to his target. As he rediscovers his skills to fight for something he believes in, he realizes he must find a way to play both sides, or lose for good. Since the movie’s premiere ten months ago, Brigand has signed Last Chance for distribution to Los-Angeles based Unistar International Pictures. Production is set to begin on this film on May 5.

They are looking for people for both speaking and non-speaking roles.

They'll put you through a 15 minute audition. 

If you want to audition, call ahead to make an appointment with Mike Click at (317) 670-8282 or by email at mike@brigandpictures.com [1].

However, if you just walk up, they'll try you out.


 [1]An actress born in Dalton has her first leading movie role.

"A Dance For Bethany" shows at the Wink Theater in Dalton on Saturday, March 1st.

Lori Beth Edgemon plays Bethany, a woman who is trying to leave her life of stripping and prostitution behind.

Lori's first movie role was playing a babysitter in 1998's The Gingerbread Man.

She was a party goer in "Road Trip"... a Reaper in "The Other Side" along with roles in Sally Field's  [1]"Two Weeks" and Treat Williams's "The Substitute: Failure is not an option."

Lori has also landed roles on TV including Surface, Warm Springs and Army Wives.

But her biggest role was playing Dale Earhardt's first wife in the ESPN movie "3".

You can read more about her new role in an article this week in the Dalton's Daily Citizen [2].


Geneva and Kyle are turning into a hit on You Tube.

We posted Jason Law's story on the Copperhill couple that appeared on CMT's reality series "My Big Redneck Wedding."

And it's turning into one of our most popular stories.

I keep watching the series each Friday night, and I still say Kyle and Geneva's episode is the best so far.


 [2]I'm really bummed out this week after reading that one of my favorite music magazines will cease publication.

"No Depression" has been the Bible of alt-country and roots music for more than a decade.

Unlike other magazines, the readership hasn't dropped.  But advertising has.  They'll try to keep the website going, but not many of these migrations from print to the web actually work.

You can read the publisher's statement here [3].

I love magazines.  But like newspapers, books, movies and TV, we're all facing an uncertain future in the digital age.


 [3]Finally, I just won't let sleeping dogs lay.

Several months ago, a lot of you gave me grief for talking about Pat Summit's divorce.

My point was that while coach's are preaching discipline, achievement and setting priorities to their athletes, they struggle with the same thing in their marriages.

Since then, Vols mens basketball coach Bruce Pearl has gotten a divorce.

And now this week, we learn from the Tennessean [4] that Titan's coach Jeff Fisher's marriage of more than 20 years is also ending.

That's just about every high profile coach in Tennessee.

Don't get me wrong.  They're all great coaches and we're lucky to have them.  But that doesn't mean that the platitudes that work on the field or court, always apply to everyday life.

So I ask you.  Is coaching hard on marriages or are these cases just typical of the national divorce rate?


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