December 26, 2006 8:19 AM

Six years later? Maybe? No?

After hearing about the Daily Northwestern's involvement, I rented and enjoyed The Devil Wears Prada. Streep was great and so was seeing Hathaway's character shuffle the campus-built Daily clips at the very beginning.

But bonus great was the first exchange between Hathaway's character, Andy Sachs, and Streep's, an exchange slightly different than the shooting script. Sachs explained how was editor-in-chief at The Daily and won a national award for her work. They started getting into it, and Sachs — getting a little desperate-sounding — touted how she wrote a series of articles about the janitors' union and its troubles with the university.

I nearly fell off the couch.

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  1. How I ended up in Devil Wears Prada | Patrick Cooper: Greetings from Evanston, Ill. says:

    [...] the job, the girl boasted how she wrote for The Daily Northwestern about the janitors' union. As I blogged here at the time, I nearly fell off the couch. There was only one person in recent years who'd [...]

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