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If you want to read a real history book, read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. That book will knock you on your ass.

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Matt Damon namedrops The People’s History of the United States by local academic Howard Zinn, in the Harvard bar scene of Good Will Hunting.  Damon and Zinn have teamed up for an upcoming History Channel program.

Regarding the inclusion of the reference in the film, Damon has told The Boston Herald about his first exposure to Zinn’s work in fifth grade:

My mother had read me the passages about Columbus, that two years after Columbus discovered America, more than 100,000 Indians were dead. And I wondered, ‘How is this guy so celebrated that we take a day off from school to bask in his greatness?’

There was a whole other side to the story. What Columbus did, coming here, was a big achievement, but there was more to the story. And that was a great lesson to get at an early age.

Damon and Zinn

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Mr. Damon: What’s with the hair?

Friday, November 13th, 2009

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In revisiting Good Will Hunting one of my reactions is always, dude, what’s with the hair?

Seemingly incongruent with Will’s character as a lower class, no-frills, anti-elitist, true-blue guy from Southie — his hair is always perfectly coiffed, gently gelled, and always bounces back into place.  It’s like a Vidal Sassoon ad.  Watch the fight scene.  His hair whips back and around in slow motion, like that of the best of Loreal models. 

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Perhaps he just gives his hair a lot of attention.  Is that why he always does math in the mirror? 

Or maybe he’s just unshowered and his oily, voluminous hair is just a part of who he is?  Like his inborn gift of mathematical skill, he didn’t choose this gift of beautiful bouncy hair either.  He’s sitting on yet another winning lottery ticket, and owes it to us all to be in a shampoo commercial. 

Or he just uses great shampoo?  I don’t know.  Regardless, his hair is always beautiful.

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I of course don’t recall his hair being that distracting back in 1997, and so perhaps it is simply a product of the late nineties.  Will is a tough guy, but he still wants to look cool.  I suppose we can give him that.

I was trying to remember if I could think of any similar hairstyles from the era. I don’t think I need to explain the startling similarities I discovered. 

Ladies and gentleman, the Will and the Rachel. 

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Damon freaks out

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Following up on Mike’s post, here’s the ultimate Damon freak-out sequence.  It plays after the credits in this season’s finale of Entourage.

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I really don’t remember there being so much yelling

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Recent Good Will Twittering.

Good Will Hunting is on in the background and I really don't remember there being so much yelling. On 4:09 AM Sep 25th 2009 from TweetDeck
found out today that there really are people in Boston who talk like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, not the apples part, just the accent On 1:51 PM Sep 23rd 2009 from TweetDeck
i'm like matt damon from good will hunting i'm a janitor at a school and i feel smarter then every body else and i solve hard math problems On 12:16 AM Sep 23rd 2009 from txt

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