E-Man,
Forgot to mention the fact that Mr. Holland's Opus was filmed in Vancouver, WA where I lived for about four years. In was filmed at "Van High" which is "Vancouver High School" where my two youngest children attended and where my youngest (who just turned 21 today. Yay!) graduated.
The filming of that movie was a BIG event in that relatively little and provincial community. The only other excitement they've had in the last several hundred million centuries was
1) The eruption of Mount St. Helens.
2) The California to Northwest Migration in the early 1990s.
3) What kind of gravy to order on their biscuits in a diner, as "biscuits and gravy" are nearly always the main course.
4) Whether John Deere will run out of hats and/or tractors before they do.
5) Trying to figure out that when they say "Yew bet," that non-locals think they are talking about something sheep-related.
6) Noticing that someone had the nerve not to carry a .357 magnum pistol in his car, and convincing themselves that as a result, that person must somehow be a "fairy."
7) When the only entrance exam question at Clark College is, "didja get yer deer, yet?" If the answer is "yes," you are admitted, and if you got two of them, you immediately made the honor role before you even took a single class!
Sorry, Lew (Dakota Red), but I lived there, too. For a full four years, and I faced major culture shock as a So-Cal boy migrating to the "Great" Pacific Northwest where I was neither welcomed nor liked.
I moved there to be near my two youngest children. My youngest daugher who just turned 21 today is enrolled in Clark College and she passed the entrance exam. But she never shot a deer in her life. She knows how to play the game.
If you folks want to hear something REALLY scary: seven006 and onoacruse has lived there for YEARS and they really LIKE it. Now THAT is really scary!
Farkel