Mike and his guys — who, I must say, could not have been more polite and un-Hollywood — dropped by Monday and snapped endless photos as I showed them around. Many spots got a polite “nice” (= yawn) while others prompted whispers, which I took to be a sign of interest. They seemed to love the Phillips Wing and Aryeh Kosman’s office; they seemed to love Aryeh (who doesn’t).

“Central casting? Get me a philosopher!”

Mike says it’d be a 10-day shoot in March and the College would not be identified; a proposal (including script) to come.

Not sure whether their project is a good fit for us: in my experience as an extra (yep, that’s me in line at a restaurant in the 1987 classic ‘Mannequin’ starring Andrew McCarthy) moviemaking is a high-impact process that can be pretty disruptive. Fun to watch the sausage getting made, though.

-CM

Betcha didn’t know that actors Russell Crowe (above) and Ben Affleck were Fords, didja? Well…they aren’t! But it looks like they are going to play Fords on the big screen.

They’ve both been signed to star in “State of Play”, director Kevin Macdonald’s (”The Last King of Scotland”) tale of a muckraking DC journalist (Crowe) who takes on evil powerbrokers. Affleck plays a pol.

The production company has been ordering HC swag from the bookstore that’ll be used to dress up Crowe’s “apartment”, and just last week the guys on the cricket team posed for a shot that presumably will have Crowe (whose character played the game while a student here) photoshopped into place.

All that said, let’s see what happens — had I written this post last fall, you’d have seen a photo of Brad Pitt up top of this entry.

Last fictional filmic Ford I can recall was Twin Peaks’ Agent Dale Cooper.