Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The Flint Tropics
After Roger & Me made Flint famous, or perhaps infamous, how do you follow up Michael Moore's tale of industrial and economic decline? With a movie about a semi-pro basketball team in Flint starring Will Ferrell, of course.
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Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.
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I just watched this movie tonight and found your blog googling the movie. Its great. As a former MI resident myself, I appreciated the setting in 1970's Flint!
ReplyDeleteHow did you see this movie? It's not out until February?
ReplyDeleteInteresting blog. I am a Flint Expatriate. Attended Summerfield Elem, Longfellow JH and C-A HS. Left Flint after HS for college and never moved back. I now reside in Connecticut. I will continue to checkout your blog.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it, ctsparty. If you have any Carmen news, feel free to pass it along.
ReplyDeleteSemi-Pro is hilarious!
ReplyDeleteFlint Tropics jerseys/shirts can be purchased at:
http://www.FlintTropicsShirts.com/
I would like to know the people that were shown in the movie if they did ok later in life. I went to Cook School on Welch and loved it. Any comments. I was there from 1959 to 1964. Did any one know Jan Logston.
ReplyDeleteI left Cook the year you started, moving on to Emerson followed by Longfellow. You must have been there when they filmed To touch a Child in 1962. If you haven't seen the film, you can find it on Shawn Chittle's Flint History website at http://flinthistory.com/movies/to-touch-a-child-1962/
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