Holy Cross in Media and Popular Culture
- Former president John Brooks and a group of successful black alumni were profiled in an issue of BusinessWeek magazine in March 2007.
- Ernest Hemingway mentions Holy Cross in his novel The Sun Also Rises.
- James Patterson mentions Holy Cross in his book The Big, Bad Wolf in which the college is described to as "a Jesuit school that, justly or unjustly, had some reputation for being homophobic." In the book Holy Cross serves as the setting for the murder of one gay male student and the kidnapping of another by human slave traffickers.
- Philip Roth mentions the "smart, rowdy boys from Holy Cross and Boston College" in his novel American Pastoral.
- In the 2001 film Harvard Man, Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a Holy Cross cheerleader named Cindy Bandolini.
- Chris Matthews, 1967, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, films parts of his documentary reflecting on the 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, The Day America Changed, on the campus of Holy Cross. During the final segment of the documentary, Matthews, while walking on the lawn in front of Kimball Dining Hall, describes where he was when he learned about the president's death as a student.
- Holy Cross' Fitton Field provided the scenery for the climatic football scene in the Disney movie, The Game Plan. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays football for the fictional Boston Rebels in the film.
- Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into The Real World, a book by Maria Shriver, published in 2000, evolved from commencement address she had given at Holy Cross in 1998.
- In 1962, Time Magazine recognized Holy Cross as part of the "Catholic Ivy League".
- In episodes #21 and #26 of The Sopranos, Holy Cross is mentioned as a potential college for Tony's daughter Meadow.
- In episode 5, season 5 of Mad Men titled "Signal 30," Jim "Handsome" Hanson mentions that he has a track scholarship to Holy Cross.
- In episode 7, season 8 of "How I Met Your Mother", Holy Cross is mentioned as the alma mater of Marshall's boss as well as Marshall's friend from law school
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