Many, many thanks to Susan Moneypenny and everyone at B98 for a sensational trip to Wichita and the Tallgrass Film Festival. I had a blast!
Opening night was the work-in-progress screening of What’s the Matter with Kansas, a documentary from Laura Cohen and Joe Winston that they say is a “sequel” to the best-selling book
I spent Friday morning in the studio with my beloved Brett, Tracy, and Kathy. I had a tour of the stunning Warren Theater, an art deco masterpiece with white-gloved ushers and a balcony with heated Tempur-pedic loveseats to cuddle in and a full-service menu delivered to you as you watch. And then we had lunch at the best place in town, the Old Mill Tasty Shop. Trust me, it’s worth the trip to Kansas to taste the tomato bisque, chicken salad, and hot fudge sundae brownie.
We saw the documentary shorts:
* Springed Migration (a six-mile portage of a trampoline through the streets of Austin)
* For Tomorrow, The Toms Shoes Story (TOMS shoes gives away a pair of shoes to a poor child for every pair purchased — 65,000 given away so far)
* From My Hands (Fulbright scholar Jessica Tibbits shows us a school for the deaf in Yemen)
* If a Body Meet a Body (the LA coroner’s office has to identify a dead body)
* I See the Music: Baron Wolman The Rolling Stone Years (interview with the man who photographed Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and others for the then-new Rolling Stone)
I got to host the family film screenings, which included <a href="http://www.jumpmovie.com
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It stars Camp Rock’s
Alyson Stoner along with Penny Marshall, Luke Perry, and High School Musical’s
Lucas Grabeel. Look for more about that film, which came in second for the festival’s audience award, in an upcoming DVD pick of the week.It all went by too fast!
posted October 27, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Nell, (Movie Mom) was certainly the “Belle of the Ball” to us here in the Plains. Eloquent, never arrogant – able to carry on a conversation with a teen aged film goer, a producer, a politician, or a radio audience equally fluently, and with a charming variety of anectodal stories to keep us all entertained!! Movie Mom, you have been adopted, .. you were as loved by Susan and Kathy as you have been by us; Brett and Tracy for all these years. You seem to have a knack for enchanting people.. Lucky us. hurry back. Tracy B98
posted October 27, 2008 at 9:30 pm
You made me feel like royalty! Thanks so much for a fabulous visit and can’t wait to talk to you again on Friday!