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Like this: Penn Alum sets up Social Network-inspired comedy at NBC
A couple years back I did a post on Sonny Lee (C’03, Penn Six, Full Measure, Penn Admissions) on how his entertainment job sucked and how he then took matters into his own hands which jump started his Hollywood writing career. (a very inspirational read) Well it’s certainly been getting sunnier for Sonny. More about […]
What a week! This Penn alum’s gameshow audition, Sundance films and table reads with Zack Morris (VIDEO)
Last month we introduced you to Jess Garvey (C’09), DT’s “Starter Reality Star” and watched her go on an actual audition for a Special K commercial. Today, Jess brings us her next installment and you’re going to see her be quite the busy actress filled with a week of auditions and meetings.. After the jump, […]
Snap! Alumni writing team takes “Awkward Family Photos” for ABC
Moses Port (left) and David Guarascio (right) at PennclubLA’s “Penn in Pictures” Penn alumni and writing partners David Guarascio (C’91) and Moses Port (C’91), (former co-producers and writers of “Just Shoot Me“, “Aliens in America” …and 2001 “Penn in Pictures” panelists) are now developing a new comedy for ABC that’s “very 2010”. Learn more about […]
Penn Alum Paul Provenza Brings Us Inside the Minds of These Celebrity Comics
A few years ago, Paul Provenza (C’79, Mask and Wig) showed us an inside peek of the comic world when he had his celebrity comedians deliver their own versions of the world’s dirtiest joke in his film, The Aristocrats. Starting this week, Paul serves up a lot more “celebrity insider” comedy that you’ll want to […]
Will He Have Harold and Kumar Getting High With Santa in 3D?
Some Penn in Hollywood bits and pieces for you ranging from a Penn alum TV show which debuts tonight to a Penn alum screenwriter in franchise heaven!: “Miami Medical”, the new Jerry Bruckheimer CBS drama that ER physician TV medical consultant Zach Lutsky (C’97, AEPi)‘s been working on debuts tonight (Friday, 4/2)! ….Next up for […]
Yes, A Penn Alum Wrote “Hot Tub Time Machine” and Another Penn Alum Helped Produce It (and it’s awesome!)
You’ve been seeing the funny commercials for it on TV for months now and tomorrow, Hollywood screenwriter Josh Heald’s (W’00, Editor-in-Chief 34th Street Magazine (’99), Penn Jazz) Hot Tub Time Machine hits theaters nationwide. The film is about 4 friends who travel back to the 80s after they discover that their ski resort hot tub […]
