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...about them apples, indeed. The Bow and Arrow Pub and Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin Robbins duo made famous by Good Will Hunting seem to be doomed to the same fate as The Tasty. Because of the gentrification of Harvard Square and rising rents, these landmarks that added a dash of local flavor to our increasingly bland surroundings might soon be replaced by yet another Starbucks...
Especially in a thriving intellectual community like Cambridge, ideally the surroundings would effect a collegiate feel. But as the Square slowly becomes just another incarnation of the suburban strip mall, will we mourn the change? Perhaps next year the Bow and Arrow Pub, along with the Dunkin' Donuts, will just exist in the minds of upperclass students as first-years wander the brick sidewalks looking for "that bar in Good Will Hunting...
...Biederman's, a clean, cozy pub and deli, they relaxed with Kolmeister to watch McCain in that night's Republican candidate debate in Iowa...
Soon, the pub's small television room was filled with men, most of them advanced in age, all white-haired, wearing winter coats. Many coats bore the pin of a POW or of a military division...
Several scenes from the movie were filmed in Harvard Square, including one inside the Bow and Arrow Pub and outside the adjacent Dunkin' Donuts, where actor and former Harvard student Matt Damon, Class of 1996, pounded on the glass to taunt a rival...