Its dons were a Francophile who looked like a stage-Frenchman from a 1920s comedy and a Greek lady with no apparent qualifications save that she had been secretary to the former professor, who had fled two years earlier.
But for now, studios are premiering smaller films like the romantic comedy Killers, starring Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher, and the comedy Get Him to the Greek, featuring British comedian Russell Brand.