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Enter the off-campus female. Boston is full of them—Wellesley, Lesley, Simmons and Fisher, all women’s colleges in the Boston area, have a combined population of about 4,000, and at Boston University, women comprise around 60 percent of the population. The climate is ripe for Harvard men to look elsewhere...
Jacobs, along with Michael A. Silverman ’05, served as an extra in Mona Lisa Smile, a Revolution Studios drama which recently wrapped up a week of filming on the Wellesley campus. Billed as a counterpart to the 1989 hit Dead Poets Society, the film stars Julia Roberts as an idealistic postgraduate who arrives at the prestigious women’s college in 1953 to teach art history. While Roberts has received the lion’s share of media attention over the past week (including a large front-page photo in the Boston Herald), her supporting cast...
After signing the necessary paperwork at Fennessy’s Harvard Square office, the pair reported to Wellesley for what Silverman described as a “rushed” costume fitting. He described his wardrobe—double-breasted suits, loose slacks, and old wingtip shoes—as simply “very ’50s clothing.” Jacobs, however, was much more blunt. “I looked as though I had borrowed my clothes from a recently deceased grandfather,” he said...
...Wellesley, the filming (which will return in January) capped months of preparation for the college’s first filmed-on-campus motion picture. Revolution Studios initially contacted Wellesley administrators about the project in late April, according to Mary Ann Hill, Director of Public Information and Government Relations. After college administrators reviewed the script and “[agreed] to the portrayal of the institution,” Hill wrote in an e-mail, preparations began to ready the campus for its role as itself circa spring...
Fennessy also held a casting call at Wellesley, which attracted over 900 students in search of silver-screen magic and an $81 daily stipend. Wellesley sophomore Laura Young, one of the 200 extras chosen, said the experience was authentic to a fault...