Connecticut College in Film and Culture
- Connecticut College was mentioned on the television program The Office (in the episode "Night Out") Rainn Wilson's character wishes the Jersey State women's basketball team luck in a game against Connecticut College. One of the show's writers, Lee Eisenberg, is a Conn College graduate.
- In the AMC series Mad Men (in the episode "Red in the Face"), Pete Campbell's friend says "Connecticut College for Women, indeed..." in reference to Pete's attractive cousin.
- The protagonist in the film The Visitor is a fictional Connecticut College economics professor.
- In The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike, a character remembers "when after my mother died my father sent me east to Connecticut College for Women, everything so lush and old."
- In the sitcom series Kate & Allie, both women had gone to Connecticut College and sometimes wore a Conn College sweatshirt.
- The opening scenes of the 1966 film The Group (featuring Candice Bergen), were filmed at Connecticut College. The film is based on a book about a private women's college.
Read more about this topic: Connecticut College
Famous quotes containing the words college, film and/or culture:
“Mrs. Pilletti: This girl is a college graduate.
Catherine: They’re the worst. College girls are one step from the street, I tell you.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half- piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)