When kids were kids in most rural towns, there was gravel on the playgrounds, goat head stickers in the outfields of ball fields. And then if you were lucky? There was a tetherball set up beckoning ...

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Dozens of auditioners lined up in the rain outside Manifest Productions on Saturday waiting for a shot at a role in the upcoming film "Tetherball," set to be shot in Flint.