{"id":261,"date":"2008-03-23T23:21:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T05:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:14","slug":"drama-to-ponder-normal-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Drama to ponder NORMAL FOLK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><em>From March 13, 2008:<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Hollywood filmmaker planning shoot of austism drama in Bloomington-Normal :: The Pantagraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/13\/news\/doc47d9577a44d1e772382911.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Click to Read<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Article in\u00a0<strong>Bloomington (IL)\u00a0daily <u>The\u00a0Pantagraph<\/u><\/strong> about Hollywood filmmaker <strong>Graham Streeter<\/strong> visiting <strong>Bloomington-Normal<\/strong> to scout locations for his upcoming narrative feature\u00a0<strong>NORMAL FOLK<\/strong>, which will star Normal resident <strong>Marty Murphy<\/strong> as a woman living with severe autism.\u00a0(<em>Remember that the direct link to this article will expire soon<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/em>\u00a0Amazingly, Murphy has high-functioning autism in real life and speaks to audiences about how she handles the condition. It will also be interesting to see how Graham (who has cast disabled non-actors in prior films) straddles that precarious line between sentimentality and melodrama, although I think it&#8217;s pretty obvious from the article that he has something in mind other than stunt casting and <strong>Lifetime<\/strong>-level theatrics. Good luck to the production when they touch down in the Other Twin Cities later this year!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And on <em>that<\/em> note &#8230; <strong>Decatur<\/strong> gets filmmaking visitors this year, <strong>Bloomington-Normal<\/strong> gets filmmaking visitors this year, <strong>Springfield<\/strong> gets filmmaking (well, television-making) visitors practically every year with a dollop of <strong>Reese Witherspoon<\/strong> plopped on top, and <strong>Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> gets &#8230; the fading memory of when <strong>Warner Brothers<\/strong> sent the crew of <strong>WITH HONORS<\/strong> here to shoot one token scene 15 years ago. Anyone want to remedy this, already? <em>Please?<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article in Bloomington (IL) daily The Pantagraph about Hollywood filmmaker Graham Streeter visiting Bloomington-Normal to scout locations for his upcoming narrative feature NORMAL FOLK, which will star Normal resident Marty Murphy as a woman living with severe autism. Also, your editor says what has to be said about location shooting locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}