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There were plenty of Ivy League grads in my mailroom class. Even a few MBAs, and a Harvard JD. Was this type of prestigious degree more or less required? I get

• jonnathanson 15y ago
  "Was this type of prestigious degree more or less required?" Yes and no. It's kind of funny, actually. My degree certainly helped get me in the door. But once in, I encountered a virulent strain of anti-intellectualism that runs pretty rampant in Hollywood. More often than not, my Ivy degree was viewed with disdain by various bosses and co-workers. Somehow it made me soft, or "entitled." (The latter claim being patently absurd, precisely because I earned entrance to my college by dint of having sacrificed my entire waking life to studying and grinding in high school).
  • andrewem 15y ago
    That anti-intellectualism seemed to be more or less the theme of "Barton Fink", a Coen Brothers movie where John Turturro is a socially conscious Broadway playwright who gets lured out to Hollywood where he agonizes over writing a script for what the producer intends to be just a dumb formulaic wrestling picture. (Though the movie eventually gets really weird, and it's been several years since I've seen it, so maybe I've gotten something wrong.) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101410/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101410/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Fink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Fink