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  "Charlie Korsmo (SB 2000) won the role of class nerd in the film "Can't Hardly Wait"—based on an audition tape made in his MIT dorm room. As a child actor, he made a memorable film debut opposite Jessica Lange in "Men Don't Leave" (1990), endeared himself to audiences as the streetwise ragamuffin Junior in "Dick Tracy"(1990) and in 1991 played the sons of Richard Dreyfuss (in "What About Bob?") William Hurt (in "The Doctor") and Robin Williams (in "Hook"). After graduating from MIT with a degree in physics he took a postion with the Missile Defense Team of the U.S. Government and currently serves as Deputy Domestic Policy Analyst for the House Republican Policy Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives.",
  ""Surveillances," a film starring Patrick Wang (SB 1998), won Best American Short at the Avignon Film Festival and Best Short for Originality and Experimentalism at the Wine Country Film Festival in 2003.",
  "Known for his explorations of civil rights themes and crises in the African-American community, independent filmmaker Louis Massiah (SM 1982) has produced and directed award-winning films for public television, including two films in the "Eyes on the Prize II" series and "The Bombing of Osage Avenue," about the burning of a Black section of Philadelphia as a result of the police bombing of the headquarters of the group, MOVE.",
  "In 1916, the inventor of technicolor was MIT alum Herbert Thomas Kalmus (Class of 1904). He  derived the name from the MIT yearbook, Technique.",
  "As reported in the Jan 2008 issue of Wired, film director Michel Gondry spent part of 2005 as an artist-in-residence at MIT, or 'Nerdland' as his 16-year-old son dubbed the Institute. 'They understand the connection between science and the arts,' Gondry said of the school. 'It's very blurry. It was brainstorming all the time.'"
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