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This New Emmy-Award Winning Entrepreneur Knows How to Get To (and On) Sesame Street

After working in children’s television for nearly 10 years, most notably  creating, producing and writing for: an award-winning series of animated shorts for “Sesame Street” Bill Cosby’s Emmy-winning Nick Jr. series “Little Bill,” and “Whoopi’s Littleburg,” (as lyricist) a series of specials also seen on Nick Jr., last month …Eric Weil (C’97. UTV-13 News, The […]

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There’s Always Somebody Hooking Up, Screwing Up or Breaking Up on Her Hollywood Site

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Earlier last fall, I posted about how Lindsey Rosin (C’07, The Excelano Project, The Writers House, Kappa Alpha Theta) joined forces with her father Charles Rosin (Executive Producer of Beverly Hills 90210 for the first five seasons) to create www.showbizzle.com, a new form of internet entertainment that combines daily updates of original, scripted video content […]

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Winning Thoughts From a Two Year Old

Woohoo! DT is two! This week we’re celebrating the second anniversary of Dueling Tampons! DT is now connecting the largest group of alumni, undergrads and pre-Penn peeps in one place. And this year we’ve also seen more people from high school reaching into the DT community as prospects interested in Penn. Maybe this year’s influx […]

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These 2 Penn Alumni Wrote Tomorrow Night’s NBC Muppet Christmas Special

(l to r): Scott Ganz (C’01) and Andrew Samson (C’01) Set your DVRs! Penn alumni Scott Ganz (C’01) and Andrew Samson (C’01) co-wrote tomorrow night’s TV movie “A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa” (Wed. Dec. 17th at 8pm on NBC). Both Scott and Andrew were Co-Editors of Punch Bowl Humor Magazine for three years, moved […]

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He’s Won Two Prestigious Grants For His Tasty Short Film

More news of Hollywood alumni working together. Jake Avnet (C’05, Co-Chairman of Undergraduate Film Advisory Board, Founder of the Lecture Series, “Talking Film”) produced a short film called LAST MEAL with Penn alum writer Tracy Park (W’05), Micah Fitzerman-Blue (Harvard grad), and director Mark Stern (Princeton grad). This short film has been the recipient of two very prestigious […]

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DT Hollywood Bits & Pieces

Lots of Penn news happening this week on-campus and off!… Catch This Alum’s Film on DVD! Jon Hurwtitz’s (W’00) Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay now on DVD My past posts about Jon here He’s On a New Show and He’s Looking for an Agent Tom Christensen (W’03, Mask and Wig) just landed a […]

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