Penn Wins VH1's The Great Ivy League Debate Showdown (VIDEO)

This week VH1 celebrated its new show "The Great Debate" with an Ivy League showdown in New York City between Penn, Columbia, Harvard and Yale.

Watch the video above to find out how Penn won(!) by defending both the "YMCA" dance craze and Obama as "the world's savior" in this "pop culture blood bath."

I'm sure you'll agree that Noah Becker's (C'09) mad rapping skillz helped Penn win the title!  Plus major points out to Noah for using the phrase "magnum opus" in describing the "YMCA" song.

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Chef Bobby Flay Thinks She Should Have Her Own Show

Recently Jordan Zucker (C'97, Theta) appeared alongside Chef Bobby Flay in the entire half hour "Rib-Eye Episode" of "Grill It! with Bobby Flay".  Jordan grilled up some tasty football inspired dishes alongside the grill-master himself.

Check out the 6 minute edited down video above.  As you'll see the 2 of them have great chemistry together ...and Bobby even says that Jordan should get her own show!


The recipes Jordan grilled up with Bobby include:

• “Rib-Eye”k Hillard in an Earnest “Gremolata” Marinade
• Smokey Anthony “Poblano” Cream Sauce
• Tyler “Fig”pen Balsamic Glazed Red Onions
• “Waterm”ellen Winslow Salad:
• John Daly Cocktail (aka “The J.D.”)
  

Find out how to make these by visiting Jordan's Girls Guide to Fantasy Football Website HERE!

Follow Jordan on Twitter HERE

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$350,000 Netflix Competition: She's In The Final 10 and Needs Your Vote! (VIDEO)

Kristin Fairweather (Penn Grad '01, Masters in Government Administration, Alumni Relations) is in the running for winning a  $350,000 production grant and a guarantee of a premiere at next year’s LA Film Festival. ...and they need your vote!

Once producer Kristin and writer/director Jenny Deller found out they were one of the top 10 semi-finalists in the Netflix Find Your Voice competition, they were tasked with creating the above 3-minute short that reflected the feature in style or theme. 
 
Tasked with shooting a 3-minute short they decided against doing a traditional trailer and shot a stand-alone script called "Save the Future" that we bill as "a companion piece" to the feature length film (and recent Nantucket Film Festival screenplay award winning) Future Weather.  If they are selected as the winner of the Netflix contest then they get the funds to shoot the feature.

"Save the Future" Netflix Short description:
In Deller's 3-minute companion short for the Netflix competition, FUTURE WEATHER's protagonist reimagines a day in her life as a public service announcement, blurring the lines between family struggles and fear of environmental apocalypse.

 Future Weather Feature logline:
Future Weather, is a coming-of-age tale about a 13-year-old environmentalist. Central to the stories of three rural women, is the gifted but lonely Laduree, an aspiring conservationist whose experiments to save the planet from global warming are destroyed when her single mom runs away to find herself.

Check out the film above.  It really is a beautiful piece of work!

Help Kristin get to the final phase of the contest by VOTING HERE or voting within the video module above! (voting ends July 5)

Find out why Kristin left her career in Politics and how she got started in entertainment HERE

Other Penn alumni who followed their passion and changed careers HERE

On an environmentally related note, check out all my posts about Penn going green HERE!

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The Humor in Being an LA Actor (VIDEO)

What does it mean to be an actor in Los Angeles?

Perhaps boasting about your training ....or exhibiting the extremes to which actors will go to "bring it".

Check out the above very funny "Office"/documentary-ish video on what it means to be an LA actor. In this short, a documentary crew follows around a group of LA actors (co-starring Penn alum Jill Magilone C'00) trying to rehearse for an Industry Showcase. Things get out of control when Ben and Renee show their true colors...

Jill is great in this. Her tone reminds me of a cross between Anna Faris and Julie Hagerty (from Airplane! fame). Very castable!

(Be sure to check out the Joaquin Phoenix reference in there...or at least I think it's a reference as the guy looks like him!)

Check out:

• my Penn Actors Headshot Gallery HERE!
• the new Penn Actor Video Reel section HERE (add yours HERE)
• Advice for the actor who wants to move out to LA HERE

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Paying Tribute to Michael Jackson With This Penn Performance

Today the world was saddened with the news that Michael Jackson passed away.

As a special tribute, I dug up this video of "Thriller" being performed by the Penn Glee Club and Penn Dance for their 2008 fall show.

Rest in peace, Michael.

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