wide on Friday, Sept. 21. Moorman has produced more than a dozen feature-length films and documentaries with major studios and networks, working with such top actors as Denzel Washington, Danny Devito and John Goodman. • John Henry Summerour is the writer and director of the narrative feature “SAHKANAGA,” (pronounced “sock-uh-nogga”) meaning “Great Blue Hills of God in Cherokee.” Inspired by the Tri-State Crematory scandal, the film imagines this event from the perspective of a teenager who stumbles upon the first body. After an traveling to film festivals all over the world and winning several awards, “SAHKANAGA” is coming home for a week-long run at Chattanooga’s Carmike Majestic 12 beginning Oct. 12 and running through the Oct. 18. • Reaves Avery Washburn, who won the Jefferson Drama Award in his senior year at the Baylor School, is writer and director of “Knocked Down,” a short film about a former boxer struggling to find redemption. The film will be shown at the upcoming Boston International Film Festival. The film won best picture and best actor at the Playhouse West Film Festival in Hollywood this year and has also been selected for the Ojai Film Festival in California and Cincinnati Film Festival. Washburn was most recently production coordinator for “1000 Ways to Die,” the popular Spike network docufiction anthology series and is currently production coordinator for “American Hoggers,” a reality series from the creators of “Deadliest Catch” and “Ice Road Truckers.” —Bill Ramsey
mistakes were made during the pulse’s weekly Intern Beer Pong Party, at which most of this and other sections of the paper are compiled and edited, “things”—as
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POLITICS & THE MEDIA
Mitt’s Local Money Grab even casual political observers know tennessee is so reliably Red on the Electoral Map that neither Mitt Romney nor President Obama plan on spending much, if any, time or money here at all. But that didn’t stop Mitt from dispatching his wife, Ann, to Chattanooga to scoop up tens of thousands during a fundraising dinner last week at the home of U.S. Sen. Bob Corker. For a mere $10,000, supporters were treated to dinner with Ann Romney, Corker and other ranking Tennessee Republicans. Toss in another $5,000 and you could have your photo taken with Ann. The cheap seats—sans dinner or photos—were $1,000 or $2,000 per couple. Because such an event clearly defines income disparity, we wonder how many takers there were for this opportunity to rub shoulders with a potential first lady in low-key Chattanooga. If a local power couple can cough up $17,000 for a night at Corker’s home for chicken, drinks, a handshake and photo, things aren’t half as bad in the Scenic City as the proletariat would have us believe. with the rise of the tea Party, Republican candidates on a national level have long since abandoned Ronald Reagan’s commandment that Republicans should not attack one another. Just a brief look back at the most recent crop, each proclaiming their superiority over the other while trashing their brethren at the same time, signals a breach of
modern conservative politics. On a local level, the trend seems to be win the primary, keep your head down and let the clock run out until Election Day. Even in states with deep Red tentacles such as Tennessee, it’s dangerous for such incumbents as Chuck Fleischmann to submit to a debate, lest his incompetence and ties to his party’s masters be exposed in a public forum not of his own making. At least that’s the stand of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, whose standard-bearers, including congressional candidate Dr. Mary Headrick and state senate candidate Andraé McGary, are taking in calling out their GOP opponents for failure to appear. “[Todd] Gardenhire wimps out and won’t debate—he’s a lousy candidate,” reads a recent post on the party’s Facebook page. Meanwhile, the Headrick campaign is clamoring for a debate with Fleischmann, who seemed reluctant to accept until last week when the congressman agreed to appear at a forum “in the same room” on
“things” often do here—got a little out of hand. Mistakes were made. Last week, we mistakenly placed The Enchanted Maize, the haunted field at Blowing Springs Farm created by Rock City, at the foot of Lookout
Mountain. In fact, the haunted farm is located at 271 Old Chattanooga Valley Road in Flinstone, Ga. For this, we apologize and also note the Maize, and it’s new Bagby’s Critter Coral, are now open Thursdays through Sundays
Oct. 8 at the Bradley County Public Library. Just before we went to press, Fleischmann agreed to debate Headrick in the hugely Republican county. “As a physician, I have not spent much of my professional career debating in public, but I expect that a lawyer like Mr. Fleischmann should be willing and able to engage in public debate,” Headrick said in a statement. our favorite titaniumlensed conservative TFP editorial page editor is on the defensive after his “shocking” commentary on openly gay city council candidate Chris Anderson’s coming out. Such orientation is the depth of depravity and should be condemned, in the view of many who read the paper’s right-wing Free Press-side editorials. But Drew Johnson didn’t “commend” Anderson, as many misguided readers believed, but rather rightly applauded his coming out as a landmark moment in Chattanooga politics. Still, Drew will surely burn in the fiery depths of hell for such imagined heresy and for openly suggesting Republicans ditch Romney and lay in wait for 2016. Drew—who mentioned that he is a lifelong teetotaler who’s never had a drink—apparently writes all this crazy stuff while sober. We’ll drink to that!
through Oct. 28. Admission is $9 for adults, $7 for children ages 4-12. For more information, call (706) 820-3220 or visit enchantedmaize.com. The weekly party rages on, but we’ll be more careful. —The Editors chattanoogapulse.com • SEPT. 20-26, 2012 • The Pulse • 5