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For many， college is a rite of passage1）， a means to a good job. For Hollywood stars， college is an opportunity to be like everyone else. And many of them do well in college.

1.Jodie Foster

Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster is the poster child2） for child stars who went to college.

By age 14， she had appeared in two dozen television series and 10 feature films， including Taxi Driver. Yet， this former high school valedictorian3） stepped away from the film business at the height of her career to attend Yale University. At the time， People magazine called it "the most startling4） movie career decision since Garbo5） chose exile".

It paid off6）： Foster graduated in 1985 with a degree in literature， and she was later awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts7）. Her career didn't suffer， either. She went on to win two Oscars， for The Accused and Silence of the Lambs， and to direct several films.

2.Jerry O'Connell

Actor Jerry O'Connell made a name for himself at age 11 as the portly8） star of Stand by Me. After a few more projects， he took a break from acting to attend New York University.

Now， at age 37， Jerry O'Connell is finishing up his law degree at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. He enrolled in night classes in 2009 before landing his most recent gig playing a lawyer on the CBS series The Defenders.

對很多人來說，大學(xué)是一項成人禮，是通往好工作的一條途徑。而對好萊塢明星來說，大學(xué)是做回普通人的一次機遇。而且，很多明星在大學(xué)的表現(xiàn)十分優(yōu)秀。

1. 朱迪·福斯特

拿過奧斯卡獎的女演員朱迪·福斯特是進入大學(xué)深造的童星的典型代表。

到14歲時，朱迪·福斯特已出演了24部電視連續(xù)劇并主演了包括《出租車司機》在內(nèi)的十部電影。然而，這位曾在高中畢業(yè)典禮上作為畢業(yè)生代表致辭的優(yōu)秀畢業(yè)生卻在個人事業(yè)的巔峰時期退出電影圈，進入耶魯大學(xué)讀書。當(dāng)時的《人物》雜志稱此舉為“自嘉寶選擇隱居以來最驚人的電影生涯抉擇”。

此舉獲得了好的回報。福斯特于1985年畢業(yè)，獲得文學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位，后又被授予藝術(shù)榮譽博士學(xué)位。她的電影事業(yè)也沒有受到影響。此后，她又憑借電影《暴劫梨花》和《沉默的羔羊》獲得兩項奧斯卡獎，并導(dǎo)演過多部電影。

2. 杰瑞·奧康奈爾

演員杰瑞·奧康奈爾11歲時就因出演電影《伴我同行》里的小胖子而一舉成名。接拍幾部作品之后，他暫停了演戲，進入紐約大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)。

現(xiàn)年37歲（編注：本文寫于2011年）的杰瑞·奧康奈爾即將完成在洛杉磯的西南大學(xué)法學(xué)院的學(xué)業(yè)，獲得法律學(xué)位。他在出演其最近的一部電視?。锤鐐惐葋啅V播公司出品的電視?。掇q護律師》中的一名律師前，于2009年又上了西南大學(xué)法學(xué)院的夜校。

"I had always planned on continuing my education， at some point，" the star told People in 2009. "It was either [law school] or play video games until 2 a.m.，" he joked.

3.Claire Danes

The former star of My So Called Life， Claire Danes was 17 and had just finished filming Romeo + Juliet with a baby-faced Leonardo DiCaprio when she exited Hollywood for Yale University in 1999.

Danes majored in psychology but returned to acting after two years. "I'm sure I missed something， but I learned how to think critically and read and write，" she told The Washington Post recently. "I felt basically fulfilled."endprint

4.Brooke Shields

Model/actress Brooke Shields essentially came of age on screen， playing a preteen prostitute9） in Pretty Baby and sexually awakened teenagers in The Blue Lagoon and Endless Love.

So when she went for her bachelor's degree at Princeton University， it seems she brought an insider's knowledge to her senior thesis， "The Initiation： From Innocence to Experience： The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films of Louis Malle， Pretty Baby and Lacombe Lucien".

But it was the degree， in the end， that served her. "Without the four years of learning and growth that culminated10） in my degree， I would have never survived my industry， a business that eats its young11），" Shields told the 2011 Princeton graduating class last month when she spoke at "Class Day". "I would have become a cliché12）. I would never have been able to adapt and to re-invent： from movies to television， to stage， to author， to mom."

“我過去就一直盤算著什么時候能夠繼續(xù)求學(xué)?！边@位明星在2009年接受《人物》雜志采訪時表示。“要么就去法學(xué)院，要么玩電子游戲玩到凌晨2點。”他開玩笑說。

3. 克萊爾·丹恩斯

克萊爾·丹恩斯出演過電影《我的青春期》的女主角，她1999年退出好萊塢入讀耶魯大學(xué)時才17歲，當(dāng)時剛剛和長著一張娃娃臉的萊昂納多·迪卡普里奧拍完電影《羅密歐與朱麗葉》。

丹恩斯讀的是心理學(xué)專業(yè)，但只讀了兩年就重返演藝圈?！拔液芸隙ㄗ约寒?dāng)時錯過了一些東西，但我學(xué)會了如何批判性地思考以及閱讀和寫作，”她最近接受《華盛頓郵報》采訪時稱，“我當(dāng)時覺得基本滿足了?！?/p>

4. 波姬·小絲

模特兼演員波姬·小絲基本上是在銀幕上長大的（編注：她11個月大時就拍過廣告）。她演過《艷娃傳》里的童妓以及《青春珊瑚島》和《無盡的愛》里的情竇初開的少女。

因此，當(dāng)她進入普林斯頓大學(xué)攻讀學(xué)士學(xué)位時，她所撰寫的畢業(yè)論文似乎就有了行家卓見。她的論文題目是“啟蒙：從天真到成熟——論路易·馬勒電影《艷娃傳》和《拉孔布·呂西安》里的青春過渡期”。

不過，最終讓她受益的還是大學(xué)文憑。小絲上個月在畢業(yè)紀(jì)念日活動上做演講時對2011屆普林斯頓大學(xué)畢業(yè)生說：“如果沒有這四年的學(xué)習(xí)和成長，并且最終拿到文憑，我可能永遠都無法在殘酷的電影圈生存下來，我可能會成為一個過氣的明星，我也永遠不可能會完成從電影到電視劇到舞臺劇，再到作家，最后再到母親的這一系列轉(zhuǎn)變和重生。”

1. rite of passage： 成年禮；標(biāo)志人生進入新階段的重大事件

2. poster child： （海報上的）代表人物形象；典型

3. valedictorian [?v?l?d?k?t??ri?n] n. <美> （在畢業(yè)典禮上）致告別辭的畢業(yè)生代表（通常是班里成績最好的學(xué)生）

4. startling [?stɑ?tl??] adj. 驚人的

5. Garbo： 指葛麗泰·嘉寶（Greta Garbo， 1905～1990），美國20世紀(jì)著名電影女演員，是電影史上最著名的女明星之一，被譽為“默片女皇”，曾榮獲奧斯卡終身成就獎。1941年，嘉寶宣布息影，開始了50年的隱居生活。

6. pay off： 取得成功；得到好結(jié)果

7. fine art： 美（藝）術(shù)（指繪畫和雕塑等）；美（藝）術(shù)品

8. portly [?p??tli] adj. [舊、婉]肥胖的

9. prostitute [?pr?st?tju?t] n. 娼妓

10. culminate [?k?lm?ne?t] vi. （形勢、過程或行動）結(jié)果成為……，以……告終

11. eat one's young： 殘酷的。該短語源自一些動物為了生存會吃掉自己的孩子這一現(xiàn)象，用在這里指電影業(yè)競爭殘酷。

12. cliché [?kli??e?] n. [貶]陳詞濫調(diào)；老一套的想法（或辦法）endprint