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4:51 PM, Mar 26, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

Deadline.com reports that screen rights for WEEKLY STANDARD senior editor Andy Ferguson's Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College are being acquired by New Line Cinema. "The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Will Ferrell," the website reports.

The book is about one father’s adventures trying to brave the cutthroat competition to get his son accepted into the perfect college.

Obsessed with keeping his son from making that one wrong step that could dash the youth’s dreams, dad tries to get an audience with the most sought after and expensive private college consultant in the country, insinuates himself in helping his son past the SATs, and all the campus tours and stressful admissions interviews, all culminating in waiting for the fat envelope that will determine success or failure in getting into an elite school that will siphon off all dad’s savings.

9:53 AM, Apr 24, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, sat down with Peter Robinson to discuss his book on Uncommon Knowledge:

12:00 PM, Apr 16, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

On Sunday, April 17, Andrew Ferguson will be on C-SPAN's Q & A with Brian Lamb to discuss his most recent book,

10:14 AM, Apr 3, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the college admissions process:

11:11 AM, Mar 28, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

George Will devoted his Sunday column to Andrew Ferguson's latest book,

11:09 AM, Mar 21, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Ferguson's latest book, Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, was reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

10:35 AM, Mar 15, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Ferguson's latest book, Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College , was reviewed in the Boston Globe:

12:40 PM, Mar 9, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Ferguson -- with his son Gillum -- discusses his latest book, Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, on Reason TV:

"I've read it and savored every word like a delicious grain of crack cocaine."

2:28 PM, Mar 4, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Ferguson (with his son Gillum) was on Fox News's "Red Eye" earlier this week to discuss his latest book, Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College:

New York Times on 'Crazy U': 'Made Me Laugh Early, and Often'

4:44 PM, Mar 3, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

New York Times book critic Dwight Garner reviews Andrew Ferguson's latest, Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College:

Mr. Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, and he’s a valiant guide through this emotional territory. He’s got a big, beating heart, but he tucks it behind a dry prose style that owes a little bit to Mark Twain and Tom Wolfe — to name the first two white-suited writers who come to mind — and also to Dave Barry (whom I suspect wears Dockers).

Juan Diego Florez and Andrew Ferguson.

10:27 AM, Feb 28, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

Two memorable events in Washington, D.C. yesterday afternoon: a recital at the Kennedy Center by the spectacular Peruvian tenor, Juan Diego Florez; and a book party at a home in Northwest D.C. for the spectacular American author, our own Andrew Ferguson.

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"I've read it and savored every word like a delicious grain of crack cocaine."

Juan Diego Florez and Andrew Ferguson.

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