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...film crews roaming the Harvard campus freshman week, you were not imagining things. While the route from a prestigious Eastern prep school to Harvard may not be the most sensational of subjects, it is the focus of a new Hollywood comedy in the works...
Although the movie follows two prep school seniors to Cambridge, many of the scenes depicting Harvard were actually shot this fall at Northwestern University in Evanston...
Film producers said the film is appearing now because of "a general interest in prep schools," not because of any particular public demand for movies about prep school and college. "It didn't come out because of the 'Preppie Handbook,'" said Cathleen Summers, the film's executive producer...
...Hamilton's extensive biography of poet Robert Lowell, who confronted all of these dilemmas Born into the wealthy, heritage-ridden Lowell family, he was the only son of a weak-willed father and a domineering mother who made sure he went to the right schools--St Mark's prep. then Harvard. Until his freshman year at college. Lowell had shown only ordinary signs of rebellion against a stifling Boston social order. During that year he became romantically involved with Anne Dick, a 24-year-old cousin of one of his friends, beginning what would be a lifetime of stormy, shifting...
...whole thing was kind of shocking. I worked harder there than I've ever worked in my life," he says, recalling his prep school days. "I couldn't believe how fast everyone out here talked, and they all thought I talked funny, with a twang. I guess I picked it up at the rodeo, hanging around all those cowboys...