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...learned the math like you might learn a passage of Chinese—syllable by syllable, inflection by inflection,” he says...
...level of inaccuracy was comical,” he says. “The math was really egregious...
Gross helped introduce Clayburgh to the rough-and-tumble life of a math wonk, referring her to three female colleagues of his so she could get an idea of what it was like for a woman in academia. When she visited them, Gross says, the movie star was crestfallen to learn that female professors in the male-dominated field of math weren’t as confident and commanding as the role Bergstein had written...
...wasn’t all an uphill climb, Gross says. In fact, teaching the secret quirks of math professors to Clayburgh, still glowing from her 1978 triumph in An Unmarried Woman, had a distinct upside...
...math was just for show,” he says regretfully. “They got everything wrong…My credit should be the first 30 seconds of the movie, and then as far as I’m concerned you can shut it off.” In fact, Gross insisted that his name be removed from the film. It’s only now, 23 years later, that he can laugh about what he calls “that ridiculous movie...