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Higher Learning The Rewatchables

Research covers the shooting's inspiration, cast backgrounds, deliberate isolation of Rapaport, and Kristy Swanson's politics.

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  • The campus sniper sequence is reported as based on Charles Whitman's 1966 University of Texas shooting.
  • Cole Hauser and Michael Rapaport are reported as Jewish.
  • Cole Hauser's family connections and early Affleck-Damon circle are noted.
  • Singleton reportedly asked Rapaport to avoid much of the cast so he would feel isolated during production.
  • Rapaport recalled feeling jealous while Omar Epps, Busta Rhymes, and Ice Cube listened to an early copy of Nas's Illmatic.
  • Kristy Swanson is reported as a vocal Donald Trump supporter on social media.