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...theater and took small roles in such films as A Beautiful Mind and You Can Count on Me and has worked his way around to action-hero-dom. He got the Stealth role when a girlfriend of director Rob Cohen's talked Cohen into watching Sweet Home Alabama, and he noticed that Lucas looks a lot like Newman, his favorite actor. Sony wasn't so keen on building a $124 million film around an actor famous mostly for Sweet Home Alabama. So Cohen shot a $1 million screen test, which ended with Lucas, in Navy whites, saluting the camera while...
Once Lucas got Sony's nod (it didn't hurt that Jamie Foxx also signed on--at five times Lucas' salary), Cohen put him through hero school, teaching him the kinds of lessons that Method actors don't want to hear: unlike normal people, heroes don't flinch, and they don't reveal any backstory. "It was about constructing and deconstructing the male archetype," says Cohen. "He has enough male beauty without being pretty, he has the height, he has the physicality, but in the heart of Josh, he has the niceness and the intelligence. Plus...
...admissions processes are less rigorous than those at the College—SSP applicants need only demonstrate that they can handle college-level work. But attending SSP can offer real admissions benefits—just not for everyone, according to Katherine Cohen, the founder and CEO of IvyWise, a private admissions counseling company, and the author of several books on college admissions...
...helps you do your college research better, but just because you go to Harvard SSP and get an A in your course doesn’t mean you’ll get into Harvard,” Cohen says...
...depends on the individual student,” Cohen says. “There are some kids who are so academically inclined, they just want to do summer school every summer. Maybe for those kids [even] more academics doesn’t make sense...