{"id":4181,"date":"2013-04-03T08:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2013-04-03T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T15:06:31","slug":"nurse-ratched-slept-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/03\/nurse-ratched-slept-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse Ratched Slept Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/01\/us\/cuckoos-nest-hospital-is-now-a-museum.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Once a \u2018Cuckoo\u2019s Nest,\u2019 Now a Museum<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by KIRK JOHNSON\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/j\/kirk_johnson\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">KIRK JOHNSON<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/01\/us\/cuckoos-nest-hospital-is-now-a-museum.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px\" alt=\"Thomas Patterson for The New York Times\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/04\/01\/us\/20130401-ASYLUM-slide-2DAY-copy\/20130401-ASYLUM-slide-2DAY-articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The movie &#8220;One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest&#8221; was filmed at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. The new\u00a0 Museum of Mental Health\u00a0 honors the experiences of the patients who have lived there over the decades.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2013\/04\/01\/us\/20130401-ASYLUM.html\" target=\"_blank\">More Photos \u00bb<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SALEM, Ore. \u2014 Nurse Ratched slept here.<\/p>\n<p>The punctiliously cruel psychiatric ward tyrant in the book and movie \u201cOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest\u201d was brought to cinematic life by the actress Louise Fletcher during filming here at the Oregon State Hospital in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>But the melding of real life and art went far beyond the film set. Take the character of John Spivey, a doctor who ministers to Jack Nicholson\u2019s doomed insurrectionist character, Randle McMurphy. Dr. Spivey was played by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolcurrents.com\/2012\/10\/an-interview-with-96-year-old.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Dean Brooks, the real hospital\u2019s superintendent at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brooks read for the role, he said, and threw the script to the floor, calling it unrealistic \u2014 a tirade that apparently impressed the director,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/f\/milos_forman\/index.html?8qa\" target=\"_blank\">Milos Forman<\/a>. Mr. Forman ultimately offered him the part, Dr. Brooks said, and told the doctor-turned-actor to rewrite his lines to make them medically correct. Other hospital staff members and patients had walk-on roles.<\/p>\n<p>Now jump cut to the present: the office and treatment rooms of the hospital, which opened in 1883, have been turned into a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oshmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Mental Health<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 one of only a few around the world that are part of a still-functioning hospital, which sprawls behind the old brick structure.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/01\/us\/cuckoos-nest-hospital-is-now-a-museum.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Once a \u2018Cuckoo\u2019s Nest,\u2019 Now a Museum By\u00a0KIRK JOHNSON The movie &#8220;One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest&#8221; was filmed at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. The new\u00a0 Museum of Mental Health\u00a0 honors the experiences of the patients who have lived there over the decades.\u00a0More Photos \u00bb SALEM, Ore. \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}