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Tuesday Tips: Advice for the Writer who Wants to Move Out to LA
Penn writers Phyllis Zimbler Miller (WG’80), Eric Barker (C’94), Hadley Davis (C’93), Josh Heald (C’00) In this week’s Tuesday Tips series, I have enlisted the help of my Penn alumni writer friends out here in Los Angeles to offer advice to the Penn undergrad or alum who has decided to move out to Los Angeles […]
One of their alum worked on the new Hummer H3
Did you know that the Penn engineers build a race car every year for an annual collegiate competition? Formula SAE is a collegiate competition held every year in May in Michigan. Around 120 schools compete with open cockpit race cars powered by motorcycle engines. According to Gregor Zetsche (Eng ’08), “Formula SAE started 4 years […]
They’re running a film festival in Philadelphia
Believe it or not there’s another Penn related film festival outside of the Los Angeles based Pennfest film & music festival. It’s the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival (GPSFF) and this one is only for current Penn (and neighboring Philadelphia college) students and alumni one year out. You hear that undergrad filmmakers I posted about […]
His documentary debuts this week at Slamdance
From documentaries about oil spills to prison baseball teams, filmmaker Loren Mendell (C’95, Friars) has quite a variety of films under his belt. This week, Loren not only debuts another documentary, but this one’s featured on Tuesday & Wednesday at Slamdance! Click here to check out what new documentary genre Loren has chosen!Loren’s latest film […]
She’s doing a Western
Image from cbs.com Actress Elizabeth Banks (C’96) has been doing everything from comedies, to dramas to horror films. Well, come this Sunday, she’s about to saddle up and do a Western in CBS’s Comanche Moon, the 3 part series prequel to the Pulitzer prize winning book, “Lonesome Dove”. Liz plays Maggie Tilton, a young prostitute […]
Penn alumni make millions on holiday song
What better way to celebrate Christmas day than to give you some Penn alumni Christmas related entertainment news? While Ray Evans (W’36, Mask and Wig) and his songwriting partner Jay Livingston (C’37) wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals, TV and films (including the Mr. Ed theme song), they were probably best known for writing […]
