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Article: Michelle's odyssey.(actress Michelle Pfeiffer)(Cover Story)(Interview)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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Michelle Pfeiffer, renowned homebody, really hates to go on location. But when it came time for her to decide where to shoot A Thousand Acres, the movie adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley's grimly hopeful story of incest, sisters and a sprawling Iowa farmland, Pfeiffer, one of the movie's producers, caved. "Even I had to admit that we couldn't do it here," she says.
So she packed up her kids, 4-year-old Claudia Rose and 2-year-old John, and gamely headed for Rochelle, Illinois, population 9,048. Well, maybe not so gamely. In fact, "I dreaded it," Pfeiffer says with a laugh. "But we stayed on this little hog farm, and there was a big trampoline in ...