2E PRESS SUN-BULLETIN SUNDAY, OCTOBER28.2012 You TV betcha: Fargo awaits version of hit movie Going out this Halloween? Just walk on by surprised. This year's Halloween extravaganza follows a summer of excess. Plants in huge pots. Trees in boxes. Lemon trees even.
And now mums. Can't have Halloween without mums. Or gourds in every shape and color. I shouldn't complain. They could be Most everyone knows by now that Halloween has gotten out of hand.
No longer is it a cute little visit-the-neighbors-for-a-treat kind of holiday. The statistics are staggering. An estimated 41 million people are expected to trick-or-treat next week, visiting 85 million homes. And in the end, they will each eat 1.2 pounds of candy. On top of that, a record $370 million will be spent on costumes for pets (no comment); $1 billion on costumes for kids (perfectly fine); and some $1.2 The Craig Wilson In this photo taken March 21, 1996, "Fargo" Actress Kristin Rudrud poses at the movie screening, in front of the Fargo Theatre in Fargo, N.D.
ap Final Word By Dave Kolpack Associated Press FARGO, N.D. Ask folks in Fargo what they first thought about the 1996 movie that made their city famous, and some will tell you they were not fans. Some residents initially didn't appreciate the Coen brothers' dark humor or were offended by the extreme violence and depiction of Scandinavian culture. Not to mention those heavy accents on "you betcha" and "ya sure." But the fame and cash it brought Fargo eventually brought the city around. Now, 16 years later, Fargo awaits the debut of a new cable television show by the same name, and many residents here are less apprehensive about how their hometown will be portrayed this time around.
Just ask Kristin Rudrud. "Anything the Coen brothers are going to be involved in is going to be brilliant," said Rudrud, 57, who played a supporting role in the movie and has a hankering to promote everything about her hometown. "And they love Fargo. tures of them stuffing the leg of a mannequin into the Yard Shark. "A good majority of people come in here just looking for the wood chipper," said Jayne Rieth, who works at the tourism center.
She didn't like the movie on the big screen, but watched it at home recently so she could be better informed at work. And the tourism center and shops around town sell plenty of wood chipper T-shirts, shot glasses, koozies, mugs and of course ice scrapers. City boosters hope the TV show produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, the Minnesota-born brothers behind the popular film, will add to the notoriety. No timeline has been announced by the FX Network. They love this area.
So it will be done in a very fun and loving way." The Oscar-winning "Fargo" starred Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of murders, and William H. Macy as a car salesman who hires two criminals, played by Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare, to kidnap his wife. In one of the final scenes, Stormare feeds Buscemi's body into a wood chipper. Though the movie's story is mostly based in Minnesota, it made Fargo a household name for many across the country to the early dismay of some city folk who watched the premiere at the Fargo Theater in 1996. The theater was quiet inside and some moviegoers were offended, said Margie Bailly, who was executive director of the Fargo Theater at the time.
Some residents even walked out. "Those of us who were laughing were a little lonely," she said. But locals later warmed up as the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and Casino inia Nov 1 0-1 1 "The Spa Get-A-Way Weekend" $375 Dec 6-9 "The Holidays in Ohio's Amish Countryside" billion on costumes for adults (spooky in itself). But the statistic that impressed me most was that 1.1 billion pounds of pumpkins will be lugged home and put on display for the holiday. I'm not surprised.
Half of them are already on my block. It appears that most of my neighbors do not subscribe to the "less is more" theory of design, especially when it comes to pumpkins. They have pumpkins cascading down their front steps. They have pumpkins on every window sill. They have pumpkins in their plants, where they join stuffed scarecrows sporting straw hair with orange highlights.
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Boo! I like to think there's a certain beauty in restraint. We have two window boxes that still boast plump red geraniums, remnants of a summer past. But who tricks and treats at houses with red geraniums? No one. And maybe that's just as well. Adding to our restraint, we give out pretzels on Halloween.
Yes. I said pretzels. A healthy snack. I'm embarrassed by this, but I live with an epidemiologist who knows too much about what's good for you, even though I tell him no one wants a pretzel on Halloween. Anyone wandering my street next Wednesday would be wise to follow Dionne Warwick's advice from years ago.
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