Lange says Stillwater has been 'yuppified'

Last update: February 25, 2008 - 9:07 PM

Oscar-winning actress and native Minnesotan Jessica Lange spoke openly recently of the change she saw in her former part-time home of Stillwater. Her observations weren't very kind.

"When we first moved to Stillwater, it still felt like a real place. It had a downtown with a hardware store, a furniture store, a clothing store," she said in an interview Sunday with the New York Daily News to promote her newest film, "Bonneville," which opens Friday.

"Now it's all gift shops and these terrible condominiums," she added. "It was a little town with a great deal of character. Everything gets yuppified, I guess."

Lange told the Daily News that she and her husband, playwright and actor Sam Shepard, still own a cabin in Duluth but have moved from the former bed and breakfast at 903 N. 4th St. in Stillwater. The house was placed on the market in May 2004. Lange and Shepard raised three children in the house for nine years.

ABBY SIMONS