[NU Sports] Hollywood Comes to Ryan Field

[mlinhardt at netzero.net]

Here are some I recall:

When Harry Met Sally(1989) - Northwestern was mentioned as an ex-
girlfriend of Harry.  Most of the references were to UofC though.

Blues Brothers 2000(1998) - Akroyd announced that the exotic dancers 
at the club were grad students of some sort at Northwestern

About Last Night(1986) - Demi Moore is doing laundry and the t-shirt 
on the top of the laundry basket is a Northwestern one

Wasn't there a TV show partially filmed at Norris in the late 90s?

-- MHRJGScott at aol.com wrote:
 
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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