Harvard Boulevard
Once upon a time, America’s oldest university dispatched its graduates to the well-known worlds of the East Coast: Wall Street and Washington, law, medicine, and journalism. Then, nearly a century ago, a few risk-taking outsiders, iconoclasts, and eccentrics ventured west to the unsettling new frontier of the movies. Today, Harvard and Hollywood are inseparable. From William Randolph Hearst to Natalie Portman, here is a map to Harvard’s stars.
Lone Star
By
Richard Bradley
Tommy Lee Jones is a man of few words—but when he talks about movies, morality, and the "madness" of immigration politics, a few words can say a lot.
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Feature Stories
Crimson Tide
By
Ari Posner
From Conan O'Brien to Natalie Portman to Homer Simpson, Harvardians have painted Tinseltown red. On the pages that follow, meet the actors, writers, directors, and dealmakers who have brought 02138 to 90210.
When Harvard Met Hollywood
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Peter Rader
Harvard’s presence in Hollywood is nearly as old as Tinseltown itself, yet the uneasy alliance between the country’s most prestigious academic institution and the nexus of mass entertainment is fraught with a singular tension: Can a highbrow university and a pop culture world just get along?
Scenes From a Marriage
By
Mike Robbins
The connections between the two H’s are nearly as old as the film industry itself. Some of the highlights ...
Al Franken. Seriously.
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Nina Burleigh
The SNL scribe toiled in the trenches of late-night comedy until he became the Democrats’ answer to right-wing media. Now Al Franken wants not just your laughter, but also your vote. Why is this man running?.
Under the Knife
By
Allison Hoffman
Boasting a Harvard degree and the blessing of Oprah Winfrey, Jan Adams was a medical celebrity. But when the beloved mother of hip-hop artist Kanye West died one day after Adams operated on her, a different face of Adams came to light.
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Smarts
Popcorn Diplomacy
Jehane Noujaim believes that “Once you get to know someone, you can’t kill them.” Her new global film project, Pangea Day, puts her thesis to the test.
Best Foot Forward
With his new motorized foot, determined inventor Hugh Herr moves prosthetics technology closer to the bionic man.
Passions
Golden State Glamour
The Harvard-meets-Hollywood lifestyle: where to live, where to go to get away, how to get there in style, and the clothes and jewelry that will guarantee you look the part.
Rising
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Square
Talking Out of School
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Justin W. Ravitz
A Horace Mann teacher's decision to spill insider secrets cost him his job. Now he wants payback.
Accountability in the Air
By
Stacy Sullivan
After the death of their son on American Airlines Flight 77, two parents fought the government to find out what really happened.
Secret History
By
Michael Colton
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John Aboud
How Harvard really came to rule Tinseltown.
Vanitas
Planet Harvard
What’s in the cards for some of Harvard’s most prominent players? Astrologer Noel Tyl reads the horoscopes of three stars.
Book Ends
Here’s how a quartet of much-discussed recent books fared at the cash registers.
Founder's Letter
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