Despite the marvels of 21st-century computing, the Princeton University libraries form a byzantine system – one that makes sure us pampered youngsters need to work for our knowledge just as our forefathers did (at least every once in a while). This will apparently change with announced Firestone renovations, but the adjustments did not come in time for actress Carey Mulligan (of Drive and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps fame).
You'll probably remember Mulligan from that time your high school English class made you watch the Pride and Prejudice film adaptation
The starlet ventured onto campus (wisely during vacation) to research for her role of Daisy Buchanan in an upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Because, you know, F. Scott Fitzgerald went to Princeton way back when. In case you were too enthralled to click that IMDb link, Leonardo DiCaprio is playing famous Jay Gatsby and Toby Maguire is the eerily-dull Nick Carraway.
Unfortunately for Mulligan, research challenges didn’t end at finding the “folders of stuff about the 1920s” that she was looking for. If she had any notes, she needed to take them the old-fashioned way – with a laptop. Not even the future-Daisy was allowed to photograph the manuscripts for posterity.
Full story at the Times of India.
