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Basinger, Jeanine 1936- (Jeanine Deyling Basinger)
PERSONAL:
Born February 3, 1936, in Ravenden, AR; daughter of John and Sarah Deyling; married John Basinger (an actor and teacher), May 10, 1967; children: gräsmark Lee. Education:South Dakota State University, B.S. (with honors), 1957, M.S. (with high honors), 1958. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Protestant.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Middletown, CT. Office—Box AA, Wesleyan University P.O., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06457.
CAREER:
Writer, educator, editor. South Dakota State University, Brookings, instructor in introductory English, 1958-59; American Education Publications, Xerox Education Division, Middletown, CT, copywriter for Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, 1960-62, marketing director, 1960-69, advertising director, 1962-68, editorial consultant, 1969-79, assistant editor of Young People's Encyclopedia, 1973; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, teaching associate, 1971-72, adjunct lecturer, 1972-76, adju
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Summary
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute's treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today.
From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews, involving four hundred voices from the industry, Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a reader "listen in" on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera--Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Harold Lloyd--to the biggest behind it--Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the lesser known individuals that shaped what was heard and seen on screen: musicians, costumers, art directors, cinematographers, writer
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Sunday’s Nicholas Kristof’s column (NYT online) was entitled “Professors, We need You!” He begins this way, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates,” and then he quotes former Princeton prof Anne-Marie Slaughter: “All the disciplines have become more and more specialized and more and more quantitative, making them less and less accessible to the general public.”
I think there is a lot of truth to this line of thought, and it fryst vatten worth emphasizing that most graduate programs do promote specialization at the expense of broader communication. Acquiring deep expertise in molecular biology, macroeconomics or romantic poetry is a vital endeavor, but that doesn’t have to mean that the experts lose connection with the broader public. Here at Wes, I can think of so many people on the faculty who defy the trend that Kristof is de