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Penn Alumni You Should Know About: Vol. 10

[ssba] It’s that time again for some more Penn Alumni You Should Know About! These alums are so cool that it’s spooky. So grab some candy and enjoy this treat of a post. No tricks required.

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4 Penn Alumni you should know about: Arts and Literature edition

After the jump, check out my DT roundup of these 4 Penn alumni making news on stage, literature and the arts. We last saw Jonah Platt (C’08, Off the Beat) in a flash mob singing Les Miserables with Megan Mullally on “It’s a Brad Brad World”. Jonah lends his great voice to a 2 week production of […]

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Alumni you should know about

After the jump, check out my DT roundup of these ___ notable Penn alumni and some of their very cool projects ranging from new films, to Emmy awards, to great TV appearances. wendy finerman and longevitysuperheroes, choose your own adventuresspring awakeningsnovels about OCDfamily guy2 year overall deal Joan Myerson Shrager (College for Women, School of […]

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What Faye Dunaway told this Penn undergrad at the Cannes Film Festival

Over the past three years (2008 coverage and 2009 coverage and 2010 coverage) DT has given you an insider’s look at the films and politics of the Cannes Film festival from the perspective of our Penn in Cannes program correspondents. This year DT correspondent Jonah Stern (C’13) recently returned from the 2011 Cannes film festival […]

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From the land of Oscars to the land of orphans

If you recall, last year I wrote a post about how Hollywood exec Norman Golightly (C’94, Mask and Wig) refocused his producing talents in the direction of an African orphanage. Norman lived at the rural Kenyan orphanage for a month last year, helping to raise funds for the development of the home which houses 50 kids who lost […]

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Is there a documentary here?

Last year, working artist Joan Myerson Shrager (College for Women, School of Education ’60) led the effort with the First United Methodist Church of Germantown to create stained glass windows to be sent to a school for AIDS orphans in South Africa. This year the group decided to donate their work to another school – […]

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