LAURENS, Iowa (AP) -- Sissy Spacek sees a little bit of Virginia in the people
of Iowa.
She is in town filming a David Lynch movie and said the locals are too busy to
pay much attention.
``It's refreshing to meet people who aren't completely swept away by a film
production,'' Ms. Spacek said. ``It's a very busy time here since this is the
harvest season, but still, people have been very helpful, very friendly.''
Ms. Spacek lives on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Her first
impression of Iowans was on an airplane stuck on a runway because of mechanical
problems.
``It was a plane full of Iowans, and for that entire hour nobody complained,
nobody said a word,'' she said. ``When I got on the new plane, I said to the
stewardess, `Have you noticed how patient everyone is? They haven't made a
peep.' The stewardess responded, `Well, they're Iowans.' Iowans are very
sensible people.
Copyright September 1998 by The Associated Press