The university has granted Denzel Washington permission to film part of his new movie inside Sanders Theater.
According to the Boston Globe,
The director/star of "The Great Debaters" -- about a debate team from a tiny, all-black college that ate Harvard's lunch back in 1935 -- will be allowed to film the debate scene at Sanders next week .
Actually, sounds like wonderful movie material.
So why do you think the university allowed Washington to film when it routinely says no to other productions?
1) What Joe Wrinn says is true: "Sanders is regularly rented out as a music venue, so it's outside the rules that forbid filming on campus," said Harvard spokesman Joe Wrinn.
2) Big Denzel fans.
3) Jealous of Yale, where scenes from the next Raiders of the Lost Ark movie have been filmed this summer.
4) Reluctant to say no to a movie about a black debate team coming to Harvard. (Imagine the publicity: "Harvard Evicts Film about Black Heroes," etc.)
5) Under Drew Faust, glasnost.
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