TWO SATURDAYS ago, on a movie set in Chicago, a UW-Madison student named John H. Bradley ate a catered late lunch with a film crew that included the director, Clint Eastwood.
The scene being shot was at Union Station on Canal Street. The lunch break was just a half hour, but when Bradley sat down at a table he found himself seated next to the actor Ryan Phillippe, and that was an interesting experience, because in the movie being filmed, “Flags of Our Fathers,” Phillippe plays a 21-year-old U.S. Marine named John H. Bradley – young Bradley’s grandfather.