SECRETS OF THE TOMB (2002)

Skull and Bones, the oldest of Yale's secret societies, counts Tafts, Rockefellers, and Bushes among a membership that's had a disproportionate role in crafting American foreign policy, covert and otherwise. As presented by Robbins, a Yalie and former New Yorker staffer, its history and traditions are precisely as interesting as those of Harvard's Porcellian Club or Princeton's Ivy Club or the UC Davis chapter of Pi Beta Phi -- that is, somewhat less compelling than a crate of musty alumni magazines. There's a lot of what Binky said to Bunky back in aught-six and what that meant for Old Blue. However, it warms the heart to know that George W.'s Bones name was Temporary, ''an appellation he used because he could not think of anything else and never bothered to change it.''