Word: astrophysicist
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...attracted to characters as unlike me as possible," says Kelly McGillis. Well, they certainly are a varied lot: a coltish charmer in 1983's Reuben, Reuben, her film debut; the gravely innocent young Amish widow in Witness a year later; an astrophysicist who out-sexed the F-14s in last summer's top-grossing Top Gun. A small but highly successful collection for an actress who was waiting on tables right up until the release of Reuben, in case it flopped. Now swamped with scripts, McGillis, 28, has just finished a romantic thriller, once titled The House on Sullivan Street...
...part, co-director Rupak Bhattacharya ’05 contends it was his empathy for South Asian actors that drew him to the work, “Indian [actors] frequently have to play the cabdriver, the doctor, the astrophysicist. But this play gives giving us a chance to play people—to [really] play us and to share...
NBC’s latest attempt at a prime-time hit stars Bill Pullman as a Harvard astrophysicist whose biggest discovery is that, as the show’s posters advertise, “The End is Near...
...Robert Langdon, hero of The Da Vinci Code, is a “Harvard symbologist.” NBC’s forthcoming miniseries based on the Book of Revelation (and catchily entitled Revelations—I can’t wait!) features a skeptical Harvard astrophysicist, Professor Richard Massey. All of this augurs well, we feel, for the success of our novel: America is plainly interested in Harvard...
...values of those key cosmic numbers, and when we find it, the anthropic problem will go away. Others think the answer is even simpler: if the numbers were any different than they are, we wouldn't be around to argue about them--case closed. "The anthropic principle," complains Fermilab astrophysicist Rocky Kolb, "is the duct tape of cosmology. It's not beautiful or elegant, and it sure as hell is not going to be permanent...