Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, December 1, 2008 at 5:54pm

Real Elis inspired fictional 'shepherd'

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Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, January 18, 2007
The first glimpse of Yale in Robert DeNiro’s “The Good Shepherd” is nothing like the traditional image of the stuffy Ivy League of the early 20th century: Matt Damon — playing Edward Wilson, a fictional Yale student — stands on a stage in full makeup and drag, singing a Gilbert and Sullivan tune in exaggerated falsetto, as a well-dressed audience chuckles appreciatively.
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