Eugene veteran filmmaker Katherine K’iya Wilson still remembers a private screening of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” she attended at Salem’s Elsinore Theatre in December 1975.
The film’s director, Miloš Forman, producers Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, and actor Jack Nicholson were visibly worried that their work might offend the audience: patients and staff of the Oregon State Hospital.
When the film ended, there was a five-minute silence, said Wilson, 74, who has family ties to the Nez Perce Wallowa Band. Then something unexpected happened…