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08/05/2007Film Festival OuttakesIn a stroke of brilliance, Grand Traverse Pie Company distributed individually packaged wedges of fresh cherry peach cobbler, with forks, to the crowd in line waiting to attend Saturday's 1 p.m. sold-out showing of "Waitress” at the State Theatre — and to anyone passing by who wanted one. The movie is set against the backdrop of Joe's Pie Diner, where the menu is all pie— dinner pies, dessert, quiche, you name it. The movie opens with scenes of pies being made, and the story is told in part through pies with quaint names like "I Don't Want Earl's Baby Pie” and "Falling in Love Pie.” GT Pie Company owners Denise and Mike Busley sponsored the screening, and were there along with other people from their company handing out the treats to an enthusiastic and pleasantly surprised crowd. • If viewers of Wednesday night's showing of "The Black Butterfly” noticed something a bit different in the format part-way through the film, it wasn't just their imagination. A chunk of the print shown at the City Opera House was damaged, so operators inserted a portion from the DVD version of the film in its place. • Six degrees of Hampshire College: Grant Parsons, TC lawyer who attended Hampshire College and is an enthusiastic Film Festival attendee. Doug Stanton, cofounder of the film festival, attended Hampshire College. Brett Morgen, director of two of this year's festival films, Hampshire College alum. Soren Nielsen, Traverse City West grad reprising his role as festival driver, current Hampshire College student and an aspiring filmmaker. Ken Burns, famous Hampshire graduate. (OK, he's not really connected to the film festival but he's been to TC and he makes documentaries and we need him to get to six degrees.) Hampshire College is actually in Massachusetts and is known for turning out filmmakers, not giving grades and not having tests. (Again, a lame one, but we made it to six!) • While grabbing lunch at Amical earlier this week, Michael Moore ran into Barry Reardon, the former president of Warner Bros. who was one of the few to champion Moore's 1989 movie, "Roger and Me.” Reardon says he won a trip to Traverse City in a charity event. (Trips to Traverse City are prizes in charity events?) Moore swears he didn't know Reardon was going to be here. Compiled from Record-Eagle employees and others. If you have a slice of life-type Film Festival story to share, send it to: kgibbons@record-eagle.com
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