1.   Academy members, including actor Tom Hanks, could be seen squinting back tears.

2.   Cummins, whose clients include the actor James Spader, brought several rare-book catalogs and wound up spending hours on the set.

3.   Darryl Strawberry and his wife stood in the middle of the room and posed for photographs with stars, including actors Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker.

4.   Egypt President Hosni Mubarak and his wife, Suzanne, were in the audience, along with opera fans from around the world, including actor Sean Connery.

5.   Former students include actors Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, John Voight, Joanne Woodward and Martin Landau and playwrights David Mamet and William Mastrosimone.

6.   Hasty Pudding is known for some of its alumni, including the actors Jack Lemmon and Fred Gwynne.

7.   He approached the characters through improvisations with the cast, which included the actors in the filmed version.

8.   He was a professor of English at Fordham University, where his students included the actors Denzel Washington and Dylan McDermott.

9.   Hill also has been visited by numerous celebrities at the protest site, including actor Woody Harrelson and singers Bonnie Raitt and Joan Baez.

10.   In addition to Harden, the cast includes respected actors like Regina Taylor as the college dean and Helen Shaver as the man-turned-woman.