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There was a time, in the late 1980s, when famed actor Danny DeVito and a production crew scouted La Conner as a setting for the dark comedy film “War of the Roses,” an eventual Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture.

Alas, the Hollywood suits chose Coupeville – often a high school sports rival of La Conner – for the film shoot.

But fast forward more than three decades to last weekend and the sweltering San Joaquin Valley city of McFarland, California, which did land a movie nod in 2015 for its role as a high school cross-country hotbed.

Kathy Herrera, formerly of Sh...