Northeast of Sun Valley on Trail Creek Road is the Ernest Hemingway Memorial. Overlooking Trail Creek, the memorial was established in 1966 by Hemingway's family and friends.

The inscription on the plaque of the memorial reads:
"Best of all he loved the fall
the leaves yellow on cottonwoods
leaves floating on trout streams
and above the hills
the high blue windless skies
…Now he will be a part of them forever."

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The igloo-like exterior of the Lars Homestead from the beginning of A New Hope is located in the salt flats of south-west Tunisia. The crater the film crew dug gives the illusion of the underground courtyard that was actually filmed 240 km away at a hotel in Matmata, Tunisia.

The igloo was dismantled after the filming of A New Hope, but it was rebuilt in the same spot to be used in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. After the prequels it fell into disrepair, and some Star Wars fans raised money and restored the small building in 2012.

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After his death from a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head, Ernest Hemingway was laid to rest at Ketchum Cemetery.

At the time of the funeral, the death was reported as "accidental." Hemingway had received several treatments of electroshock therapy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN prior to his suicide.

One of the theories of Hemingway's physical and mental deterioration is the genetic disease hemochromatosis, an afflication that inhibits the metabolization of iron. This disease was diagnosed in Hemingway in 1961 and compounded by heavy drinking. Hemingway's brother, Leicester, and sister, Ursula, also committed suicide.

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The interior scenes of the Lars Homestead, the moisture farm on Tatooine where Luke lives with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru at the beginning of A New Hope, were filmed at the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata, Tunisia, and Lucas and crew revisited it during the filming of the prequel Attack of the Clones.

Star Wars fans (or anyone for that matter, but let's be honest, it's mostly Star Wars fans) can spend the night in the hotel's underground cave-rooms and visit the Lars family kitchen and dining room.

The aboveground igloo exterior in the movie is located over 240 km west near Nafta.

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Very little of Grosse Pointe Blank was actually filmed in Detroit's upscale suburb Grosse Pointe. John Marshall High School in Los Angeles was used for Pointes High School where Martin Blank and Debi attend their ten-year high school reunion.

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