Half-Assed Internet Research
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.
