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Article: The industry: an ivy league of their own.(Harvard and Yale graduates choose careers in entertainment industry)(Cover Story)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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A new generation of Harvard and Yale grads is forsaking lux and veritas for big money in Hollywood--really big money
SO CHRIS LEE FINALLY graduates from Yale--it's the spring of 1980--exits gloomy New Haven, heads south for Manhattan and all the open doors, smiling faces and stock options a four year Ivy League education promises, and then realizes two important things. First, after counting I up all his classmates in his head, it turns out he's the only one not entering a guaranteed job or a graduate school. And the reason this is so--the second important thing--is because no one recruits in the field he's desperate to enter: entertainment. Four years of his life ...