1. Marty Kaplan's career has spanned government and politics, the entertainment industry and journalism.
11 Facts About Marty Kaplan
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Marty Kaplan graduated from Union High School, finishing first in his class and was accepted at Harvard where he pursued a double major in both English Literature and Molecular Biology.
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Marty Kaplan was president of the Harvard Lampoon and of the Signet Society; at both, his tenure included a change in by-laws leading to the first admission of women members after 95 years and 100 years.
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Marty Kaplan was elected to the editorial boards of the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Advocate and was the first Harvard undergraduate to serve on all three of its oldest publications.
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Marty Kaplan worked with Boyer on education policy while a program officer at the Aspen Institute, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a senior advisor at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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Marty Kaplan worked at the Walt Disney Studios for 12 years, as vice president of production for live-action feature films and as a writer-producer.
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Marty Kaplan has credits on The Distinguished Gentleman, starring Eddie Murphy, a political comedy which he wrote and executive produced; Noises Off, a farce directed by Peter Bogdanovich, which he adapted for the screen from Michael Frayn's play; and the action-adventure MAX Q, produced for TV by Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Marty Kaplan's columns have won six First Place prizes from the Los Angeles Press Club.
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Marty Kaplan was deputy op-ed editor and a columnist for the Washington Star and a commentator on the CBS Morning News.
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Marty Kaplan was associate dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism for 10 years and is the founding director of the School's Norman Lear Center, a center of research and innovation whose mission is to study and shape the impact of media and entertainment on society.
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In 1986, Marty Kaplan married Susan Estrich, a lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and future political commentator for Fox News.