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Feb 29, 2024 · Despite its origins in a true story, the film’s climactic final act, Melvin’s Debaters’ conclusive confrontation against Harvard students at a competition, remains a fictional plot point. In real life, the Wiley College Debate Team didn’t enter a debate with Harvard University during the 30s.
Apr 14, 2024 · Founder and principal of his own Porro Associates LLC firm in Washington D.C., Jeffrey Porro is an in-demand communications strategist and speech writer whose clients include CEOs of Eastman Chemicals, the McGraw Hill Companies, Office Depot, and Bristol Myers Squibb.
Feb 29, 2024 · In fact, Wells played a part in the film’s making in real life by consulting screenwriters Robert Eisele and Jeffrey Porro alongside Director Washington. She reportedly even encouraged the latter to star in the film as the central Melvin Tolson.
Dec 18, 2007 · Parker, Smollett and Williams give highly individualistic performances in composite roles inspired by former students Eisele and co-story writer Jeffrey Porro encountered through research or...
Dec 27, 2007 · Scherman's article came to the attention of Jeffrey Porro who showed it to his friend, writer and TV producer Robert Eisele. Eisele and Porro developed the idea and brought to Oprah Winfrey's...
Dec 18, 2007 · Eisele explains, ‘Jeff Porro is a Washington, D.C., speechwriter with a Ph.D. in political science who knew my taste for social realism and gritty, intelligent stories.’. “Eisele immediately...
Dec 8, 2007 · The movie, directed by Denzel Washington and written by Robert Eisele (from a story by Eisele and Jeffrey Porro), unfolds in 1935. Washington plays the team's coach, Melvin B. Tolson (in later...
