News of another Penn alum filmmaker who not only produced a hot film, but is now getting his MBA at Wharton…. Zach Miller (C’01, Writer and Guides Editor for 34th Street) produced the film The Messenger which stars Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton and Ben Foster. The film revolves around a US Army officer assigned to […]
Penn folks seen in the Golden Globes audience: Disney President Rich Ross (C’83) (sitting at front table next to Jeff Bridges) Producer Marc Platt (C’79) and wife Julie Platt (C’79) (seen as Martin Scorsese walks up to stage to accept his award) Plus a L’oreal Commercial with Liz Banks (C’96) (seen right after her Seabiscuit […]
Adam Lebovitz (W’03, Hillel, Smokes Quizzo) and his brother launched a new website which is a revolutionary breakthrough for filmmakers in film budgeting technology. How and why did Adam come up with this? Per Adam, “We thought of this idea during the worst part of the recession where my brother and I looked at each […]
Before the ball drops tonight, I wanted to wrap up 2009 with what I am deeming my “2009 best of” list. If I could say one thing about the type of posts I did about our alumni in 2009, I would say that self-expression was very prominent this year via the spoken word, the […]
Lesley introduces her Fresh faces line up and does some stand-up about her love for Barry Manilow, followed by the very strange booty texts she has received. I’ve done great posts on this very funny and well connected Los Angeles stand-up/casting director before. And now Lesley Wolff’s (C’93, Bloomers) popular Los Angeles workshop starts up […]
In November of 2008, after the passage of Proposition 8 in California, one very inspirational (and good looking!) Penn alum decided to become quite the activist and model in all regards… You may remember Andrew Oldershaw (C’02 Phi Delt, DP) from a story I did on him last year on how he and some other […]