Sentences with phrase «professor whit»
It begins with Salinger's growing years at Columbia college, following multiple removals from other colleges, he finds a place for himself and a mentor in creative writing professor Whit Burnett (a shape - shifting performance from Kevin Spacey).
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Hoult is Salinger, Deutch is New York socialite and sometime Salinger love interest Oona O'Neill, and Spacey plays Columbia professor Whit Burnett, one of Salinger's early mentors.
He is soon disabused of his overconfidence by his Columbia writing professor Whit Burnett, played by Kevin Spacey as if a little too excited to play anything but a snarling villain.
Enter Columbia professor Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey).
The story picks up in 1939 when Jerry Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) enrolls in the creative writing course of Professor Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey), the editor of Story magazine.
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Hoult will star as Salinger and Spacey will play Whit Burnett, a professor at Columbia and editor of Story Magazine, who became a mentor to the young Salinger.
Salinger subsequently developed a mentoring relationship with one of his professors, the unorthodox Whit Burnett (Spacey), who had an eye for talent and could see into Salinger's having antiauthority issues and knew how to deal with them.