The Oregon State Hospital, the filming location for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , will be torn down in a few months. ( Photo from Wikimedia Commons.) From the Associated Press:
Although Cuckoo's Nest was filmed here, neither the movie nor the 1962 Ken Kesey novel on which it was based makes any specific references to Oregon State Hospital. Kesey drew on his experiences working at a veterans hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., and set his satirical story at an unnamed institution in Oregon.Pizza too expensive (National Geographic)
Actor Michael Douglas, co-producer of the movie, scouted various West Coast locations and chose the Oregon institution because then-Superintendent Dean Brooks agreed to give the wearer strength or power, he said. Moussavou added that he sold many skulls for use in a common initiation rite, known as Bwiti, in which young men and women drink a potion that is expected to bring on visions.
In total, pizza prices have gone up 13 percent since April 2007, according to Italy's National Institute for Statistics.
