He’s a movie star, but you won’t find W. Nicholas G. Hitchon chasing the villain or sweeping the heroine off her feet. Instead, he taught an undergraduate electrical-engineering course this morning, and now he chats with two students in a cafeteria at the University of Wisconsin here.
Two days later a camera crew arrives and films Mr. Hitchon talking with the same two students at the same cafeteria — only this time at an outdoor table, where the light is better.