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Jeanine Basinger’s name may never appear in lights, but to many Hollywood insiders, she’s a star in her own right.
A film studies professor at Wesleyan U. for almost 40 years, Basinger has shepherded hundreds of students through her program, yielding some of the industry’s biggest talents in the process. Her proteges include major helmers (Joss Whedon, Michael Bay, Paul Weitz), producers (Laurence Mark, Paul Schiff) and scribes (Alex Kurtzman, Bruce Eric Kaplan), but that’s just the (...)