Kind of random

Spike Lee's master's thesis at NYU was called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, which I think is a great title. His classmate, Ang Lee (of Brokeback fame), helped him on the project. Lee also directed the movie Clockers, which I am sad to say Wikipedia doesn't have much of an entry for. Sad times.... Nonetheless, the movie is based on a novel by Richard Price. No, not the 18th century British philosopher, Richard Price, as I'm sure you were all thinking. Richard Price the American author/screenwriter who has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Clockers and The Color of Money, starring our favorite Scientologist, Tom Cruise (actually, that's a lie. Wiki Karmel's favorite scientologist is actually Beck. Thank you loyal reader FGS for telling me that). Richard Price was a 1967 graduate of Bronx Science. As was your humble Wiki Karmel's dad. Had Price or my dad graduated only one year earlier, they would have graduated with Russell A. Hulse and H. David Politzer (Wiki Karmel is thinking of going by M. Scott. thoughts/questions/comments/concerns). Who are they? Nobel Prize winners. Both of them. Graduated from the same high school in the same year. Both in physics. Hulse for "the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation" and Politzer for his discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Politzer also has a cameo in the movie Fat Man and Little Boy as a scientist working on the Manhattan Project. The star of that movie? The other star of The Color of Money, Paul Newman. Weird.

If Bronx Science were a country, it would be tied for 21st in the world in most Nobel Prize winners with 7.