Column: Dear Hollywood, next time choose to film in Kansas

Abortion rights supporters cheer Tuesday in Overland Park, Kan., as the proposed Kansas constitutional amendment removing the right to an abortion fails. Amy Poehler just announced she will be filming her new unscripted show “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” in Kansas City, where “Queer Eye” shot Seasons 3 and 4. But the last big feature film set in Kansas may well have been “Man of Steel.” And it was shot in Canada. Ironically, “we’re not in Kansas anymore” is perhaps the most famous phrase in which the state’s name is featured, but “The Wizard of Oz” was shot entirely on a Culver City soundstage. Though the 1967 film adaptation of that other Kansas-centric masterpiece, Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” used Kansas for Kansas, the 1996 miniseries was shot in Canada — as was Bennett Miller’s 2005 “Capote.” As for “Smallville,” The CW’s signature series about a teenage Superman living in Kansas?