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Penn Alumni You Should Know About: Vol. 17
[ssba]The weather isn’t the only thing that’s getting hot. Check out these Penn alums who are heating up in entertainment! FILM Marc Platt (C’79) is about to produce what could be one of his biggest projects to date. Platt has signed on to produce feature Ricki and the Flash, a rock ‘n’ roll film starring Meryl Streep, […]
Penn Alumni You Should Know About Vol. 23
Welcome back. Summer’s practically here and as usual we’ve got some juicy news and some great upcoming networking events – so lets jump in! Use these new tabs below to easily navigate between sections of this issue:
Blast from the Past (1995): A Locust Walk Pig Roast, Spring Fling and the LIDDS (VIDEO)
Recently, musician Jay Matsueda (W’95) sent me a video of a bunch of random footage taken during various public entertainment events on and near PENN campus in the 1994/1995 timeframe. The video includes: music by The LIDDS, Jay Matsueda (W’95), Pete Lee (C’95) and a band at a block party jeans wearing dancers at the Quad during Spring […]
The Lackluster Year that was Cannes 2010 and Why Audiences Were Leaving the Theaters
Yesterday, I introduced Chloe Castellon (C’11), our special Penn in Cannes DT correspondent for the 2010 Cannes Film festival. Today, Chloe give us scoop on: the winning films that kept her on the edge of her seat the “bitterly disappointing” films she saw and the surprisingly overall poor selection of films for this year’s festival. […]
