{"id":9154,"date":"2018-07-05T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2018-08-20T13:47:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:47:02","slug":"madison-movies-i-love-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/madison-movies-i-love-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting I Love Trouble<\/em>, 24 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you\u2019re from New York or L.A., when your town appears on the big screen, it\u2019s kind of a big deal. In a new recurring series<\/a>, we aim to revisit the times Madison has gone Hollywood.<\/p>\n

First up is I Love Trouble<\/em>. Written by the husband and wife team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, and directed by Shyer, the 1994 film was released 24 years ago last week.<\/p>\n

Partially shot in Madison and Baraboo in 1993, I Love Trouble<\/em> stars Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts as Peter Brackett and Sabrina Peterson, rival Chicago newspaper reporters investigating a deadly train derailment.<\/p>\n

As they dig deeper into the conspiracy, they\u2019re forced to confront romantic feelings for each other, not unlike His Girl Friday<\/em>. And though I Love Trouble<\/em> is clearly meant to be a spiritual successor to that classic screwball comedy, its execution leaves something to be desired. (Perhaps this can chalk up to the juxtaposition of \u201cbig ass train crash\u201d and \u201cMay-December romance,\u201d and\/or because Roberts and Nolte hated<\/em> each other<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But while the film itself may not have aged that well, that doesn\u2019t take away from the fact that Madison plays a major, if brief, role in it.<\/p>\n

\"Exterior<\/p>\n

At around 57 minutes, there\u2019s a nice exterior shot of the state Capitol. We\u2019re then introduced to a fictional Wisconsin state senator, played by Marsha Mason, who does a walk-and-talk inside the building with Roberts, Nolte and Saul Rubinek. They discuss \u201cfranken-cows,\u201d which probably is not the first time that term has been used there.<\/p>\n

\"Interior<\/p>\n

The only other time we see Madison is a couple minutes later; around the one-hour mark, there\u2019s a brief establishing shot of King Street.<\/p>\n

\"Madison's<\/p>\n

Roberts, Nolte and Rubinek are seen leaving a fictional steak joint in the future location of Madison\u2019s, with the Majestic Theatre clearly visible in the background. Ominously, the marquee lights go out just before a car nearly runs over our intrepid reporters.<\/p>\n

\"Madison's<\/p>\n

So in retrospect, probably not a starring role for the city \u2014 but with the amount of public interest that was generated around it, I Love Trouble <\/em>was a pretty big deal around town in late 1993 and early 1994.<\/p>\n

For one thing, Julia Roberts was one of Hollywood\u2019s hottest young actors at the time. During filming, Roberts was constantly surrounded by a massive security detail, said to be ex-Secret Service. This is probably in part because the tabloids loved <\/em>her.<\/p>\n

Case in point: When rumors started circulating<\/a> that Roberts would be filming a nude swimming scene at Devil\u2019s Lake, several weasel paparazzi photographers contacted the state department of tourism in an attempt to get access to a compromised America\u2019s sweetheart.<\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/p>\n

Roberts wore a wetsuit to film the scene, preparations for which caused one irate Spring Green father \u2014 whose son auditioned to appear as part of a scout troop that discovers Sabrina swimming au naturel \u2014 to write to the Wisconsin State Journal<\/em> in October 1993 to air his grievances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moviemakers were not interested in making a film with traditional Disney scouting scenes,\u201d he wrote, \u201cbut were buying the innocence of youth to get a cheap laugh by having young boys act shocked when they come upon Julia Roberts skinny-dipping in the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Presumably after penning the letter, the father retreated to his man cave to watch Pretty Woman<\/em> again.)<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most bizarre local storyline to come out of this film was a clash between a group of Wisconsin dairy farmers and parts of I Love Trouble<\/em>\u2019s plot. Part of the conspiracy Nolte and Roberts are unraveling has to do with farmers using growth hormones to breed the aforementioned \u201cfranken-cows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farmers were concerned that the movie would cause a negative backlash against their product. In October 1993, then-state representative and future Wisconsin agriculture secretary Ben Brancel (R-Endeavor) said to the State Journal<\/em>: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to tamper with the minds of the public and the perception that the milk is not safe. It\u2019s one of the most pure and nutritious foods in the world that anyone knows of.\u201d (Word?<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I Love Trouble<\/em> isn\u2019t a great film, but it\u2019s not unwatchable. Though full of clich\u00e9s and suspensions of logic \u2014 like the concept of a newspaper reporter appearing in a Gap ad, as Peter Brackett does early on in the film \u2014 it\u2019s the kind of movie that could easily be enjoyed mid-afternoon on TBS as comforting background noise. And it will always hold a place in the heart of Madisonians, indicative of the time two of Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars fell in fake-love in the First Settlement District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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