Real Elis inspired fictional 'shepherd'
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.
But when a group of somber men in suits approaches Wilson backstage and taps him for Skull and Bones, the film quickly enters into territory familiar to most Yalies as well as many American moviegoers who have...
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