Build It With Tax Incentives, and Hollywood Will Come

WSJ.com: "All summer long, this sober Midwest city rubbed shoulders with actors such as Forest Whitaker, Adrien Brody and Elisabeth Shue. No fewer than four Hollywood productions were shooting in town.
'It was very surreal,' says Michael Braun, a 25-year-old bartender at the Continental, a restaurant near the state capitol. He recalls watching Nick Stahl in the HBO series 'Carnivale' one day before work and then serving the actor dinner at the bar that night. 'You don't expect that in Iowa,' Mr. Braun says."