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i believe it was St. Andrews in Delaware..with some exterior shots done at Storm King School in the Hudson Valley NY

Confirm St. Andrews in Delaware.

Don't know anything about the school in this movie, which I've never seen and never plan to see, but I did go to the summer camp where the original Friday the 13th movie was filmed. It was a Boy Scout camp in northwestern New Jersey, near Blairstown, called Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco. I think the scouts sold it some years after the last year I went there in the late 1960s and before the movie was filmed. It was spooky to see so many scenes in places I had been.

Wherever it was shot, it's hard to believe the story was based on a specific well-known boarding school, since the writer, Tom Shulman, did not attend one.

As I recall, the teacher, the Robin Williams character, was loosely based on a specific teacher Shulman had at the school he did attend, which is in Nashville.

St. Andrews School, Middletown. Big local coverage at the time, with the premiere shown in the old movie theater in Middletown.

BR,
Fritz
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The camp in Friday the 13th was renamed Camp Mason. My sister went there one summer in the 1980s.

In the film, the school is called "Welton", with the students re-dubbing it "Hellton".

I just noticed there is a thread that has no Conservative/Liberal bashing going on. Come on people, we can do better.

Well George Will liked the movie, which proves exactly how bad it was.

Sorry, that's the best I can do right now.

The teacher the Williams character was based on was Sam Pickering, who later went on to teach English at my alma mater, the University of Connecticut (I didn't take any classes with him, but he was the campus celebrity after the movie came out...)

Scott: I think David Thompson is out sick.

Davey:

It was bad, but The Emperor's Club made it look like Citizen Kane:-)

The school the author attended is Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville -- old, excellent, formerly boarding, still all male. It's got a pan-Southern reputation left over from its days as a boarding school.

The motto on the homepage is "Gentleman. Scholar. Athlete." That should tell you a little something about MBA that's no longer true about the New England Bigs.

from Robert:
It was bad, but The Emperor's Club made it look like Citizen Kane:-)

I found Dead Poet's Society to have a contrived, beat you over the head ending. On the other hand, I thought The Emporer's Club had a lot to say about character and Integrity. I was pleasantly suprised.

Bob

I agree with Robert and not Bob about DPS v TEC. While both movies were awful, DPS at least was filmed well.

On an unrelated note, I went to college where Real Genius and Teen Wolf Two were filmed. Now aren't you all envious of me.

On an unrelated note, I went to college where Real Genius ... [was] filmed.

Continuing this thread hijacking, I went to the school that Real Genius was based on (Caltech) for the two quarters before Real Genius came out, lived in the house it was based on (Dabney House), and actually lived in the dorm room for a while with the Jupiter mural. When I saw the movie in the theater, I actually blurted out (embarassingly) "That's my room!"

It was almost shot in my hometown of Bethany, WV, at Bethany College.

So, Tom, were you the guy they caught naked with the bowl of jello?

Hmm, I can't think of a way to bring politics into this thread, either. Maybe Hillary will do a movie soon, and then we can bring her into these sorts of discussions.

I remember them shooting a movie (A Change of Seasons, a terrible movie with Anthony Hopkins and Bo Derek [her first movie after 10]) right outside my dorm freshman year in college. Starting around 7 am, they had someone walking out the side door and whistling. Each time she (I think it was Derek, could be wrong) walked out the door, it would slam, and it was right on the other side of the wall from my bed. Since my first class was at 10, you can imagine I was sound asleep. But after, oh, 40 or 50 slams, I woke up enough to look outside and see all these lights and people standing around. Fortunately, the light changed soon afterwards and the people went away.

I see from IMDB that Shirley Maclaine was also in the movie. If only I'd known, I could have complained to her, since I chatted with her briefly at a Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. (There's some very tenuous family/friend connection.)

From Kate:
"While both movies were awful, DPS at least was filmed well."

Well, you've got me there. I can't argue with that.

"I thought The Emporer's Club had a lot to say about character and Integrity."

Its hard to disagree with somebody who shares the handle, but TEC said what it had to say without subtely, nuance, ambiguity or character growth. I think that its theme was once a doo-doo head always a doo-doo head and once a poopy-drawers always a poopy-drawers.

A little-known but interesting fact is that the universities portrayed in "Rudy" and "Knute Rockne All American" were both based to some extent on my Alma Mater, the University of Notre Dame...

So where was "Animal House" filmed?

Did anybody attend Huxley College?

Animal House (which recently had its 25th reunion) was shot at the University of Oregon (which is in Eugene, about halfway between the Washington and California state lines, and about 50 miles in from the Pacific). This site says more than 50 colleges turned down the opportunity.

If memory serves, the frat in Animal House was based on one at Dartmouth. Apparently Ivy Leaguers can party.

Revisiting Faber College (Toga, Toga, Toga!) Ny Times 8/25

PJ/Maryland-

I think I can. I grew up in a house just in front of a shopping mall in Lincoln, NE where scenes from Terms of Endearment were filmed (the Safeway parking lot scene. I remember when that Safeway finally closed...).

The film's lead actress, Debra Winger, and then-governor, future star Senator Bob Kerry met on that set and dated on-and-off for many years. There was a minor scandal at one point when she was caught speeding in a state limousine.

When I was twelve I went to the Nebraska State Fair, and as I was standing in line for the double-ferris-wheel I noticed the most ridiculous looking couple had gotten in line behind us...they were wearing khakis (long before it was the trend) and fedoras, a la Indiana Jones. My friend and I snickered at them for ten minutes or so as we waited. When we boarded the ride we were suddenly dazzled by dozens of camera flashes and a scurry of activity, voices saying 'This way please! Look over here!'...they posed smiling in front of their cab, and waves of adolescent horror washed over us as we realized it was, in fact, them.

We worked out our anxiety by screaming 'NO BRAKES!!!!!!!' throughout the rest of the ride.

RE Animal House.

The story in the Oregonian is that the head of the college read the script and hated it. It turns out that he had been at another school several years before and had turned down a script that turned into the Graduate. So when he got the Animal House script he decided he was too poor a judge of scripts to turn it down. So this is the guy who passed on the Graduate and accpeted Animal House. Not a man of sterling judgement

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