Each morning as I walk around my brother’s too-hip-and-cute Portland neighborhood in search of my next cup of coffee, I’m secretly waiting to run into Morgan Freeman. Yes, he is here, filming at a coffee shop a mere two blocks from my brother’s front door. What could be more Portland than that, for a girl from Illinois? Bringing film and coffee together. Ahhhh yes…

The Lakeshore Enetertainment film that’s causing traffic to be redirected all along Mississippi Street here in Portland is apparently called Feast of Love. Freeman plays a college professor at Portland’s private Reed College, and Greg Kinnear is the owner of the coffee shop, which is in real life called Fresh Pot, but for the sake of the film has been renamed Jitters. (Not a very impressive change, if you ask me.) Anyway, people here are generally excited, gauging from the conversations and blogging going on.

Even Oregon’s governor, Ted Kulongoski, wants to get in on the excitement by taking some credit for the three films now being shot in the state. Something tells me, though, that no matter what the governor of, say Nebraska, did, he would have had a tough time attracting the film.