I'm sure the DUmmies will recognize that as a subterfuge, that coach actually is in the movie, and if they flock to their local theaters and watch the film very, very carefully, several times, they will get a glimpse of the real franksolich.
For the record,
Nebraska was filmed mostly in Plainview, Nebraska, which was renamed "Hawthorne" in the movie. I dunno why; "Hawthorne" sounds more Iowan than Nebraskan.
Plainview, population circa 1,500 is the next city west and north of Pierce, population circa 1,600, where that big automobile auction was held some weeks ago. Pierce is the largest city in Nebraska without a restaurant, not even a couple of sit-down booths in a convenience store, and when people from Pierce choose to dine out, they either drive to the big city thirty miles south, or to Plainview, fifteen miles the other way.
Plainview's got lots of places to dine.
However, franksolich was not "discovered," like Lana Turner behind the soda-fountain of a drug-store, at the VFW Club in Plainview. I was dining in the VFW Club in Creighton, population circa 1,500, which is about twenty miles north of Pierce (or a little bit east and north of Plainview).
Pierce is the county seat and largest town, but Plainview and Creighton have places to eat, motels, bowling alleys, and hospitals, none of which Pierce has.
Their casting people went all over the place, looking for "extras."
They found me, as mentioned, but I of course declined to be one.
To complicate matters further, the restaurant scene which would've included me if I'd been cooperative, was filmed at the bar in town where I live (i.e., the nearest town from here), which is a few counties over from Pierce, Plainview, and Creighton, even though it ostensibly took place in "Hawthorne."
Hollywood people don't do things the easy way. And pay through the nose because of it.