What's the minimum amount of time someone has to spend at BU for them to be considered an alum? I know Marisa Tomei didn't graduate from here, but I'm pretty sure she spent a year here - or at least took a tour at some point. That counts, doesn't it? Screw it - I'm going to repeat it to everyone I see like it's something to be proud of anyway.

Well, the point is that she's all over the ridiculously well-reviewed new movie, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. I mean, all over. As in, all of her. All over it. Don't take my word for it - here's the NY Press' Armond White (in one of the film's few negative reviews) on the opening scene:

Is the naked, doggy-style sex scene between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei that opens Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead blunt and repellant because it reflects the personalities of the characters? Or is it just that director Sidney Lumet is incapable of sensuality and tenderness? We see Hoffman and Tomei bumping uglies, but they’re locked in self-gratification: He checks himself out in a nearby mirror, an image meant to shock but is just gruesome.

That's right - a naked Philip Seymour Hoffman. And, while he didn't graduate from BU, he is in a movie that's sort of set on the T's blue line. Let's call him a half-alum.