[NU Sports] Hollywood Comes to Ryan Field

[szeller at comcast.net]

Don't forget 1981's Four Friends, in which about half the movie takes place on the NU campus. 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082404/
Interesting side note: part of the movie also technically is supposed to be in the Hamptons, but is actually filmed in Lake Forest, with Lake Michigan pretending to be the Atlantic Ocean.

Scott Zeller MD
Med 86


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> 
> Whether it’s been mentioned by name or simply served as the backdrop for a 
> scene, Northwestern has played a supporting role in several major films 
> (sometimes without permission). An incomplete list of movies with a Northwestern 
> connection: 
> Nothing in Common (1986) — Several scenes for this Chicago-based film — 
> starring Tom Hanks, Eva Marie Saint and Jackie Gleason in his final movie role 
> — 
> were shot at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. 
> Major League (1989) — Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger), the washed-up catcher for 
> the hapless Cleveland Indians, tries to explain his one-night stand with a 
> flight attendant to the woman he is trying to win back (Rene Russo) in a scene 
> shot inside the Charles Deering Library. 
> Mean Girls (2004) — Northwestern is mentioned by characters (including a 
> high school student played by Lindsay Lohan) in the Evanston-based movie, even 
> though the filmmakers never sought or received permission from Northwestern to 
> use the University’s name. 
> Proof (2005) — Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) chooses to attend Northwestern 
> over the University of Chicago, where her brilliant but insane father (Anthony 
> Hopkins) works as a mathematician. 
> The Weather Man (2005) — Written by Steven Conrad (WCAS91), this movie 
> chronicles the struggles of a Chicago weather man (Nicolas Cage) and includes a 
> scene shot in a parking garage on the Chicago campus. 
> The Devil Wears Prada (2006) — Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is a Medill School 
> graduate and former editor in chief of the Daily Northwestern who snags a 
> job as an assistant to the demanding and difficult editor (Meryl Streep) of a 
> top New York fashion magazine. — R.H. 
> 
> 
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