‘Roadhouse Coup’ filmmaker treats Rotary, stars to sneak preview Filmmaker Lori Bailey treated Cooperstown’s Rotary Club to three preview clips of her upcoming moving, “A Roadhouse Coup,” filmed entirely in Otsego County and on track for a September 2022 release. “We’re just about done with shooting the film,” she told a full house of Club members during its March 8 meeting at the Otesaga Hotel. “I’m doing this in ‘docudrama’ style so we’re working hard on the editing. Soon we’ll be done with a feature-length film; I’m looking at an 80-to-90-minute piece when we’re done.” The film depicts the true…
SUNY lecture looks at ‘The 57 Bus’ incident By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — At 18, Sasha Fleischman was lit on fire while riding the bus home from school in Oakland. Fleischmann is gender non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. They fell asleep, and another teen, Richard Thomas, lit their skirt as a prank. Thomas was arrested at school; Fleischmann was hospitalized for weeks with severe third-degree burns. Dashka Slater, a journalist who lives close to the bus route, began covering the story. She spent three years following both instigator and victim. Slater’s book “The 57 Bus”…