blueeagle
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Post by blueeagle on Apr 23, 2013 13:37:38 GMT -5
Obscure reference. Check out the video for "Don't walk away" by Jade (1992). Nice.
Another early 90's reference is Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) from "Boyz 'N the Hood" wears a Hoyas t-shirt as he takes the SATs.
The 90's rule!
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jgalt
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Post by jgalt on Apr 23, 2013 21:48:16 GMT -5
for children of the 90s, the exterior shot used for Pennbrook University in Boy Meets World is Healy Hall. (some people don't believe me when i point this out, but I'm not crazy on this one, right?) Wow thats awesome.
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PhillyHoya
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Post by PhillyHoya on Apr 24, 2013 11:48:34 GMT -5
The many references in West Wing associated with Zoe, culminating in her graduation at the end of Season 4. I got to be an extra in the graduation scene. I saved my tassel as a souvenir. Met Bradley Whitford and Joshua Malina too. Also, never forget that Benjamin Gates in the National Treasure movies was an alum. I think Will Smith in Enemy of the State was supposed to be as well.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 24, 2013 11:56:00 GMT -5
Enemy of the State...pretty sure Will Smith was a Gtown grad and def part of it was set in georgetown. One of my favorites because I saw it while a student on spring break in Paris.
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hoopsmccan
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Post by hoopsmccan on Apr 24, 2013 13:01:17 GMT -5
Enemy of the State...pretty sure Will Smith was a Gtown grad and def part of it was set in georgetown. One of my favorites because I saw it while a student on spring break in Paris. Having trouble processing your post. You went to Paris for spring break? And while in the beautiful city of Paris, in spring, you went to the movies? And the movie you saw was Enemy of the State? Please confirm and explain yourself. hm
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Apr 24, 2013 14:05:06 GMT -5
Went to Paris to see an ex-gf who transfered out of Gtown and whose family lived in the Marais. I went more than anything to take advantage of what would be basically a free week in Europe. Spent about $500 all-in for a week in Paris. She wanted to see a movie one day. Didn't think it was much of a loss since I was hitting the streets at about 7AM and crashing around 2AM every day and night.
That all check out?
No, I don't regret going not going to Cancun to Snr Frog's every night instead at twice the price.
The year before that a few friends and I did London for Spring Break when BA was having a blow out and we knew some kids studying at LSE.
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CWS
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Post by CWS on Apr 24, 2013 14:16:04 GMT -5
There are occasionally characters appearing on NCIS who have some connection with Georgetown U. [NCIS, btw, gets the award for having Georgetown scenes that look the least like Georgetown.] Two of the lawyers on "The Good Wife" are Georgetown Law grads. www.law.georgetown.edu/news/web-stories/It-rsquo-s-That-Georgetown-Thing-CBS.cfm"We made Alicia and Will Georgetown Law alums for a couple of reasons, Michelle King, co-creator and executive producer of the show with her husband Robert King, wrote to Georgetown Law. We wanted to highlight that they were smart, highly successful people without falling into the every-bright-fictional-character-went-to-Harvard-or-Yale trap. The fact that Georgetown [University] was in the national consciousness because of remarkable alums like Bill Clinton was also a plus."I wish I didn't know this, but Annie on Covert Affairs has some kind of Georgetown connection. Not really interested in seeing this (St. Elmo's remake), but I wonder if anything will become of it: www.aoltv.com/2009/08/14/st-elmos-fire-remake-heads-to-abc/
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hoopsmccan
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Post by hoopsmccan on Apr 24, 2013 14:25:27 GMT -5
Went to Paris to see an ex-gf who transfered out of Gtown and whose family lived in the Marais. I went more than anything to take advantage of what would be basically a free week in Europe. Spent about $500 all-in for a week in Paris. She wanted to see a movie one day. Didn't think it was much of a loss since I was hitting the streets at about 7AM and crashing around 2AM every day and night. That all check out? It does, thank you. I can sleep easy tonight. hm
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rosslynhoya
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Post by rosslynhoya on Apr 24, 2013 14:26:42 GMT -5
Kyra Sedgwick's character on The Closer was a Georgetown graduate, for whatever that's worth.
Dana Scully lived in a pretty brick rowhouse somewhere in Georgetown. That always made my heart all warm and glowy. Given her frequently tested Catholicism, I think it's a safe assumption she was listening to a lot of Jesuit homilies at Holy Trinity or possibly even Dahlgren. Many of the hospital scenes took place at (North/Northeast) Georgetown Med Center.
David Palmer managed to major in Political Economy a solid three decades before it was a hip late 1990s buzzword, let alone offered by Georgetown.
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Jack
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Post by Jack on Apr 26, 2013 16:43:06 GMT -5
There is a new film coming out written by GU alums Brit Marling (who also stars) and Zal Batmanglij (who directed it) called The East and GU shows up in the the trailer at :20. It doesn't look like its much about GU, or at all about GU, but I'm definitely interested in the movie otherwise.
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jgalt
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Post by jgalt on Apr 27, 2013 11:04:44 GMT -5
There was a movie a few years back with Russel Crowe where he was a reporter investigating some CIA stuff. Well there was a murder and it took place on Water street right under the Key Bridge. I think they also blew up a guy sculling under the Key Bridge.
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DallasHoya
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Post by DallasHoya on May 4, 2013 21:11:06 GMT -5
Around 1980 or so I was walking down a street in Georgetown (I think is was N or O) and stopped to watch the filming of a short scene of the movie First Monday in October starring Jill Claybrooke. She was walking out of one of the row houses, and some extras were walking back and forth on the sidewalk. I was wearing a navy jacket with "Georgetown" in big letters across the front. The director spotted me and asked to borrow it for one of the extras to wear when he was walking. Pretty cool at the time, except the guy and my jacket never made the final cut.
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Post by Hilltopper on Apr 25, 2014 6:59:24 GMT -5
Just finished Chuck Klosterman's novel Downtown Owl. Strange book. Set in 1983 in a small North Dakota town. One of the characters, a high school basketball player, is excited to wear a t-shirt under his jersey to be like Patrick. From the book, "Mitch was, in fact, obsessed with the Georgetown Hoya basketball program. And that was, in fact, because the Georgetown Hoyas were the blackest people he had ever seen. Mitch's understanding of African-American culture was completely based on how Georgetown played defense. They were the only black people he knew."
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nodak89
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Post by nodak89 on Apr 25, 2014 18:03:05 GMT -5
Just finished Chuck Klosterman's novel Downtown Owl. Strange book. Set in 1983 in a small North Dakota town. One of the characters, a high school basketball player, is excited to wear a t-shirt under his jersey to be like Patrick. From the book, "Mitch was, in fact, obsessed with the Georgetown Hoya basketball program. And that was, in fact, because the Georgetown Hoyas were the blackest people he had ever seen. Mitch's understanding of African-American culture was completely based on how Georgetown played defense. They were the only black people he knew." Okay. Now I have to read this.
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1789
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Post by 1789 on Apr 25, 2014 22:55:29 GMT -5
Julia Roberts and Denzel filmed scenes for the Pelican Brief at Georgetown Law.
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nodak89
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Post by nodak89 on Apr 27, 2014 18:10:59 GMT -5
Been reading Downtown Owl. It is like Garrison Keillor on absinthe.
As I get deeper into the book, I am getting that same disturbed, ill-at-ease feeling that I got from Confederacy of Dunces---and I can't put it down.
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DoctorHoya
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Post by DoctorHoya on Apr 27, 2014 21:42:29 GMT -5
Lil Wayne songs...
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on May 7, 2014 11:06:56 GMT -5
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Post by strummer8526 on May 11, 2014 19:33:22 GMT -5
So my mom just told me she was flipping channels early one morning and happened upon an old episode of Hangin' With Mr. Cooper. Just as she was going by, she heard "Georgetown." And a few minutes later JT Jr. made an appearance. I've looked around for a clip of it but can't find one, unsurprisingly.
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on May 11, 2014 22:53:30 GMT -5
Yes, he was on th first episode on season 4, which just aired on nickolodeon a few days ago at 6 am. Thanks imdb.
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