Word: hollywoodizations
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Damon and Ben Affleck, who not only star in the film but wrote the script, grew up in Cambridge, and Damon attended Harvard before dropping out to pursue his Hollywood career. The plot involves a mathematical prodigy from Southie working as a janitor at MIT, that school two T stops from Harvard. I walked into the Kendall Square Theater prepared to criticize or applaud the movie's school and our cities. The audience was a tough crowd; the seat were filled with MIT professors and students and a smattering of Harvard folk, all anxious to see how their academic worlds...
...Hollywood...
...gamble, the result of a fierce White House battle. While Clinton had for days been urged by adviser Mickey Kantor and others to toughen his denial, the Monday morning statement was finally worked out in a post-midnight strategy session with former deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and Hollywood imagineer Harry Thomason. Ickes, the street-smart infighter who had steered Clinton's re-election campaign only to be bumped out of a second-term job, flew in from California and went straight to the White House. Ickes' prescription for the President: Look the people straight...
Most actors, at one point or another, construct some sort of "discovery" fantasy. Spotted by an agent in a mall or in a school production, they dream of being whisked off to Broadway or Hollywood for a glamorous career on stage or screen. But not all stage success stories begin with a bang...
REAL LIFE: Well, this ain't Hollywood...