Cornell in the Movies

I streamed the second episode of The Sinner last night. When the lead detective talks with the murder victim’s parents, the mother mentions that her dead son went to Cornell and worked “a hundred hours a week.” BTW, he got into medical school.

the ATF agent in the new Stallone series Tulsa King graduated from Cornell in political science.. maybe they work in a Cornell reference one day

A Cornell Hotelee just got a job working at the BNB on the tv show Ghosts ,,

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A Cornell Hotelee just got a job working at the BNB on the tv show Ghosts ,,

Was he/she alive?

Jeff Hopkins '82

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A Cornell Hotelee just got a job working at the BNB on the tv show Ghosts ,,

Was he/she alive?

Yes. And apparently *not* a murderer!

Jeff Hopkins '82

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A Cornell Hotelee just got a job working at the BNB on the tv show Ghosts ,,

Was he/she alive?

Cripe! For a moment I confused this with the shows of the Paranormal channel, which on our Verizon system you get to if you go one channel down below HGTV to Magnolia (sort of HGTV meets Jesus Loves You) to a Guy Fieri channel (warning it's getting weirder) to Paranormal. So you were warned.

Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.
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George64
Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Also, Dale Corson (CU president, 1969–1977) and Robert Wilson (synchrotron) worked on the Manhattan Project.
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George64

George64
Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Also, Dale Corson (CU president, 1969–1977) and Robert Wilson (synchrotron) worked on the Manhattan Project.
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Also Professors Kenneth Greisen, John DeWire, William Woodward, Lyman Parrot, and Boyce McDaniel. Those are ones I crossed paths with in addition to some of the above. There's a longer list on [en.wikipedia.org].

David Harding

George64

George64
Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Also, Dale Corson (CU president, 1969–1977) and Robert Wilson (synchrotron) worked on the Manhattan Project.
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Also Professors Kenneth Greisen, John DeWire, William Woodward, Lyman Parrot, and Boyce McDaniel. Those are ones I crossed paths with in addition to some of the above. There's a longer list on [en.wikipedia.org].

and George Santos also made significant contributions.

Roy 82

David Harding

George64

George64
Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Also, Dale Corson (CU president, 1969–1977) and Robert Wilson (synchrotron) worked on the Manhattan Project.
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Also Professors Kenneth Greisen, John DeWire, William Woodward, Lyman Parrot, and Boyce McDaniel. Those are ones I crossed paths with in addition to some of the above. There's a longer list on [en.wikipedia.org].

and George Santos also made significant contributions.

He calculated the drag coefficient.

Jeff Hopkins '82

Roy 82

David Harding

George64

George64
Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Also, Dale Corson (CU president, 1969–1977) and Robert Wilson (synchrotron) worked on the Manhattan Project.
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Also Professors Kenneth Greisen, John DeWire, William Woodward, Lyman Parrot, and Boyce McDaniel. Those are ones I crossed paths with in addition to some of the above. There's a longer list on [en.wikipedia.org].

and George Santos also made significant contributions.

He calculated the drag coefficient.

That jerk.

Roy 82

David Harding

George64

George64
Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Also, Dale Corson (CU president, 1969–1977) and Robert Wilson (synchrotron) worked on the Manhattan Project.
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Also Professors Kenneth Greisen, John DeWire, William Woodward, Lyman Parrot, and Boyce McDaniel. Those are ones I crossed paths with in addition to some of the above. There's a longer list on [en.wikipedia.org].

and George Santos also made significant contributions.

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In White Lotus, perhaps the most obnoxious character, among a host of really unlikable characters, Shane Patton, apparently went to Cornell, at least he wears a Cornell cap in episode 4, season 1. His put-upon wife, who’s the only likable character so far, went to SUNY Potsdam.

George64
In White Lotus, perhaps the most obnoxious character, among a host of really unlikable characters, Shane Patton, apparently went to Cornell, at least he wears a Cornell cap in episode 4, season 1. His put-upon wife, who’s the only likable character so far, went to SUNY Potsdam.

In season 2, the similarly (or even more) obnoxious character went to Yale. Mike White, the creator/director of White Lotus, went to Wesleyan.

Early on in Inspector Morse, season 1, episode 2, Donald Martin, who turns out to be the killer, has a Cornell pennant in his Oxford office.

Not exactly a movie, but I stumbled on this kinescope from an early Merv Griffin Show that features the Chapin Brothers. Merv gives a shoutout to Cornell, but by 1965, classmate Harry Chapin was long gone from the Hill. We used to kid him, if don’t quit balladeering all the time, you’ll bust out and never be successful. Well, we were partly right. He returned in 1972, along with Phil Ochs and Eric Weissberg (Dueling Banjos), for a Barton Hall concert benefitting Ramsey Clark, who was vying for the Democrat nomination for president.

Harry’s family lived in the Bronx, so during my sophomore year, I drove Harry home several times on my way to Long Island. During his freshman year, he apparently took the Greyhound, as did I, that went through Scranton (30,000 Pounds of Bananas). Another of his popular songs was Old College Avenue. He tragically died in 1981, when the VW he was driving was rear-ended on the LIE.
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On a recent episode of the rebooted “Quantum Leap,” “Live. Die. Repeat.” (S1E11), we get about a 1/2 second glimpse of a Cornell diploma on the wall in nuclear physicist (played by Robert Picardo) Dr. Woolsey’s office. Looking on pause, I’m not even sure they went to the trouble of getting one that credibly looks like it says “Woolsey,” but it was a nice detail.

Beeeej
On a recent episode of the rebooted “Quantum Leap,” “Live. Die. Repeat.” (S1E11), we get about a 1/2 second glimpse of a Cornell diploma on the wall in nuclear physicist (played by Robert Picardo) Dr. Woolsey’s office. Looking on pause, I’m not even sure they went to the trouble of getting one that credibly looks like it says “Woolsey,” but it was a nice detail.

So there is a Quantum Leap reboot. Are there still 500 different series to choose from? I don't know which show is my favorite this year because I'm sure I haven't watched it.

marty

Beeeej
On a recent episode of the rebooted “Quantum Leap,” “Live. Die. Repeat.” (S1E11), we get about a 1/2 second glimpse of a Cornell diploma on the wall in nuclear physicist (played by Robert Picardo) Dr. Woolsey’s office. Looking on pause, I’m not even sure they went to the trouble of getting one that credibly looks like it says “Woolsey,” but it was a nice detail.

So there is a Quantum Leap reboot. Are there still 500 different series to choose from? I don't know which show is my favorite this year because I'm sure I haven't watched it.

Yes, and it's not a reimagining; it takes place in the present, thirty years after Sam Beckett's "final" disappearance. It has its weaknesses, but its two greatest strengths are a) a larger regular cast, since we get to see the Quantum Leap staff every episode along with the person leaping, and b) an underlying story arc. It's been renewed for a second season, so I guess enough people are enjoying it. Scott Bakula declined to be involved, apparently after much soul-searching; we'll see if that lasts the duration of the series.

And yes, there are still far too many original TV series for any one person to keep up with, but we try anyway.

My hope is that Quantum leap finds out when its gonna end with enough time to get Bakula into some kind of ending for his char. if its next yr to 5 yrs from now. Even if he wont come back to film anything they can do something with it

Maybe in some alternate reality, he already has

This tournament feels relevant lol:

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I am very proud of the fact that most of those entries mean nothing to me.

Perhaps the definitive Cornell in the Movies list, courtesy of Corey Earle ‘07

Here are the downloadable brackets.

Waiting for the ECAC playoffs to resume — Love Story

Those characters are both so magnificently punchable. But the movie does provide a valuable public service in demonstrating that, regardless of social caste, Harvard always has sucked and always will suck.

Rob Lowe's son's character in Unstable on Netflix went to Cornell and there's a quick clip of Rob Lowe's character giving a commencement speech at Cornell.

In So Help Me Todd the leads Girlfriend is now attending Cornell.

So, Hollwood uses Harvard and Princeton to indicate privilege and Yale and MIT to indicate intelligence. What are they conveying when they connect a character to Cornell? Is it "smart but relateable"?

Trotsky
So, Hollwood uses Harvard and Princeton to indicate privilege and Yale and MIT to indicate intelligence. What are they conveying when they connect a character to Cornell? Is it "smart but relateable"?

Smart but did not live up to their potential (or did not have the right connections).

(I’m reminded of the scene in the Netflix comedy Never Have I Ever from Mindy Kaling where the college consultant throws the Penn and Cornell mascots into the trash.)

Is there any distinction between Eng (best Ivy to go to, smart and perhaps Asian kid) vs A&S (Oh... So close, honeybunny. Maybe next year in New Haven)?

George64
Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.
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Oppenheimer opens in theaters July 21. Portrayed Cornell faculty include Hans Bethe (Gustaf Skarsgard), Philip Morrison (Harrison Gilbertson) and Richard Feynman (Jack Quaid), also Nobel Laureate, Isidor Isaac Rabi, BS ‘19 (David Krumholtz).

While at Cornell, Feynman lived at Telluride House, where he said “it's there that I did the fundamental work" for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1965.
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My first assignment as a freshman Cornell journalism student was to interview Hans Bethe.

I hope I was not a total jackwagon, but I have my fears.

(My second was Jason Seley -- one of the most wonderful people I ever met. He died only about a year later.)

Jason Seley ‘40, But where can I get bumpers this big?

Here's a few:

I was listening to XM radio and the radioclassic channel had a green hornet episode they were deciphering a clue of conrad and realized it wasnt a name but a phone number. it was CO 6723.. the CO was the exchange for CORNELL.. I think it was a mid 40s episode.

A new film festival in Ithaca cerebrates silent movies. [ithacavoice.org]

David Harding
A new film festival in Ithaca cerebrates silent movies. [ithacavoice.org]

Silent City Film Festival for anyone interested:

[www.silentcityfilmfestival.com]

Screening most films at Deep Dive along with a few features at Cinemapolis

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I was listening to XM radio and the radioclassic channel had a green hornet episode they were deciphering a clue of conrad and realized it wasnt a name but a phone number. it was CO 6723.. the CO was the exchange for CORNELL.. I think it was a mid 40s episode.

One of a number of excellent series on XM Classic, along with Johnny Dollar, Escape, Suspense, Broadway is My Beat, Lights Out, X Minus One, Quiet Please. God bless Greg Bell.

The book, Boys in the Boat, was great, the documentary was great, the movie should be terrific, too.

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As I recall, Cornell was prominently mentioned in the book, so we should get a mention in the movie.

[www.theonion.com]

Trotsky
[www.theonion.com]

Love it. Although when I was there, the biggest right-winger didn't wear bow-ties. He wore a monocolor double-knit shirt with monocolor slacks of exactly the same color (as in a kelly green shirt with kelly green slacks). Think "Revenge of the Nerds."

Not exactly Cornell in the Movies, but this morning I heard a song by the Chapin Brothers, Blood Water, that explicitly mentions Cornell.

[spoken intro]
In the Spring of 1964, at Cornell University
a young girl fell 98 feet to her death
in one of the gorges adjoining the campus
It is the custom at Spring Weekend
For the faternities to dye the gorges a color
And that year it happened to be red.

I don’t know if Harry ‘64 wrote it, as I think he had “busted out” by then.

I drove Harry to and from his home in the Bronx several times my sophomore year. I suppose it was better riding with me than taking the bus through Scranton, PA. BTW, several of his other songs allude to Cornell, e.g., Old College Avenue. I think that the “Sue” he mentions in Taxi is another Architecture student, but I’m not certain.

Cornell is name dropped in the Holdovers a few times

Highly recommend The Holdovers, I Loved it

In the 3rd episode of the new Frasier they are at Harvard discussing careers and how if not for Frasier the lady would have ended up at a backwater community college "Cornell"

Dunc
Cornell is name dropped in the Holdovers a few times

Highly recommend The Holdovers, I Loved it

Went and saw it yesterday. Nicely done, vintage filming, shows a nice story doesnt need a ton of action.

George64
The book, Boys in the Boat, was great, the documentary was great, the movie should be terrific, too.

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As I recall, Cornell was prominently mentioned in the book, so we should get a mention in the movie.

The 1936 Poughkeepsie Regatta, in which Cornell finishes fifth, is depicted in the film. Interestingly, according to Corey Earle, Cornell is the only school with more Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships than the University of Washington (26 to 19). In 1936, Cornell had 14 and Washington had only three. Of course, it helped that early on only Cornell, Columbia and Penn competed. The very first IRA race was held in June 1895 and Cornell won with a time of 21:25.0.

Not a Cornell mention but the last episode of Reacher had a mention of Cortland.. You know that little town just north of Manhatten.

Is there another Cortland in ny?

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Not a Cornell mention but the last episode of Reacher had a mention of Cortland.. You know that little town just north of Manhatten.

Is there another Cortland in ny?

Yes! It's known to me because it's a stop on Metro North. The spelling is not the same.

marty

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Not a Cornell mention but the last episode of Reacher had a mention of Cortland.. You know that little town just north of Manhatten.

Is there another Cortland in ny?

Yes! It's known to me because it's a stop on Metro North. The spelling is not the same.

I grew up in the Town of Cortlandt (with a "t"
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It was a real town but never seemed to have a postal address with its name. So we used Peekskill NY - where, FUN FACT, the Facts of Life sitcom was set. In recent years, the Van Cortlandt Manor name was allowed to be used because it sounded more pretentious for purposes of selling real estate.

Dunc
Cornell is name dropped in the Holdovers a few times

Highly recommend The Holdovers, I Loved it

And I know it takes place and was filmed in New England, but the bar they go to (pinball scene) reminded me a lot of The Palms.

I was reading a book on Ty Cobb and there is a mention that in 1900-01 a pro baseball coach drove a car into into an unlit Cornell Swimming pool. Wonder where that would have been at the time if its true.

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I was reading a book on Ty Cobb and there is a mention that in 1900-01 a pro baseball coach drove a car into into an unlit Cornell Swimming pool. Wonder where that would have been at the time if its true.

Ask unofficial Cornell historian Corey Earle ‘07, cre8@cornell.edu.

if only cornell had a way to present maps of the campus over the years.. Someday someone will invent that ability I suppose.

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if only cornell had a way to present maps of the campus over the years.. Someday someone will invent that ability I suppose.

Check out The Cornell Campus by Kermit Parsons, 1968.

George64

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I was reading a book on Ty Cobb and there is a mention that in 1900-01 a pro baseball coach drove a car into into an unlit Cornell Swimming pool. Wonder where that would have been at the time if its true.

Ask unofficial Cornell historian Corey Earle ‘07, cre8@cornell.edu.

Perhaps the Old Armory, razed in late 50s to make way for Hollister Hall?

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if only cornell had a way to present maps of the campus over the years.. Someday someone will invent that ability I suppose.

I'm pretty sure Cornell does not want to trace the evolution from this to this.

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I was reading a book on Ty Cobb and there is a mention that in 1900-01 a pro baseball coach drove a car into into an unlit Cornell Swimming pool. Wonder where that would have been at the time if its true.

Beebe Lake?

To me the story is better if it was still in Teagle even then.

George64
Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Streamed Oppenheimer free on Peacock yesterday. Professors Bethe, Feynman and Morrison appeared briefly, but future Nobelist Isidor Rabi ‘19 had a bigger role. A good friend to Oppenheimer, a real mensch.

Good article about Oppenheimer by Corey Earle ‘07.

I have been misremembering Altered States for 40 years. I thought Edward Jessup was at Columbia, but he is at "Cornell Medical College." Emily is at Columbia. Note Wikipedia makes the same error.

George64

George64
Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, “The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.“ As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Oppenheimer opens in theaters July 21. Portrayed Cornell faculty include Hans Bethe (Gustaf Skarsgard), Philip Morrison (Harrison Gilbertson) and Richard Feynman (Jack Quaid), also Nobel Laureate, Isidor Isaac Rabi, BS ‘19 (David Krumholtz).

While at Cornell, Feynman lived at Telluride House, where he said “it's there that I did the fundamental work" for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1965.

Best Picture, Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography . . .

Not a movie, but I just ran across this:

Jonathan Silver is an English musician who was the second drummer for the English rock band Genesis. He replaced Chris Stewart in the summer of 1968 and appears on their first full-length album, From Genesis to Revelation, and on the Genesis Archive 1967-75 box set. He left the band in August 1969 and was replaced by John Mayhew after leaving to study at Cornell University.