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Over the past few weeks there have been a slew of Penn alumni featured on TV.
Last week a Penn alum appeared alongside Betty White on her hot new show "Hot in Cleveland"
More about this Penn alum after the jump!
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After not being back on campus for 5 years, this past September I returned to Penn and discovered its many changes. In the video above, I take a brief trip down memory lane to many of the locations you, my readers, requested of me on Facebook.
This week's roundup has Penn alumni acting, writing and performing music on TV shows...and then much more certain speculation about one alum becoming Hollywood's big cheese...
This week the "The Mouse House" (ABC/Disney) is all about the red and the blue.
From news pertaining to studio heads, actors, producers, and writers, find out what sorts of waves Penn alumni are making this week!
Carolyn Anne Dizon (W'90, Parliamentary Debate Team) is cooking her way through the entire Top Chef The Cookbook and has shared it with all of us. She is now over half-way through the cookbook, and along the way she blogs about the process on her BravoTV Blog "The Cookbook Chronicles", shows step by step photos and overall explains things to the home cook. In addition she discusses the episode the dish was featured on, and also blogged about the past season 5's Top Chef's weekly episodes. "I have always been cooking, was an avid follower of Julia Child since my teens, did tons of cooking in elementary school and high school, and at Penn, during my senior year, had a "cooking club" with my roommates where we would all rotate each night one of us taking on the role of making dinner. I also tried to perfect pumpkin pie my senior year at Penn - I think I may not have succeeded in that endeavor - I remember for one version (I made about 8 versions), I forgot the eggs, and the less-than-perfect results were launched out the window of my rowhouse apartment onto 40th Street, much to the dismay of my roommates and friends! But seriously, I believe that during my sophomore year when I lived in High Rise East, I was one of the few people who actually made use of the kitchen!
My blogging started rather spontaneously. I always had been doing my version of "blogging" by musing on "whatever" - often reality TV shows - to many friends via email and we'd keep a running dialogue going. Recently I met two women through friends of mine who both work at BravoTV.com. I told them what a fan I was of the show and "impressed" them with my knowledge of all kinds of trivia from the show. I guess they were impressed because they asked me if I wanted to audition to blog for the Top Chef cookbook. I jumped at the opportunity and after sending two sample blogs got the position." (find out more about why she's doing this blog HERE)
"I love my blog for this recipe because it is an AMAZING dish using classical French technique (which I feel is key to any properly trained chef - it provides the foundation for them to branch out from after). This recipe required a lot of steps, has great photos, was a huge success (totally a "clean plate club" meal), and the blog is a little funny because the blender basically exploded when I was blending the sauce - still I battled on, which is precisely what I would hope any home chef/cook to do as well.
This week I will be featuring exclusive videos from Alumni Weekend 2008 and Graduation 2008.
To kick things off, check out these videos shot during Alumni Weekend from 3 alumni about their most memorable undergrad moments (one of them was on a TV game show!):
Lolita Jackson (ENG '89, Counterparts)
Adam Sherr (C'90, Penn Band)
Ed Gold (C'93, Mask and Wig)
(*thanks to Kiera Reilly (C'93) for shooting these videos!)
Click here to read responses from me and a ton of our undergrads & alumni as to why we chose Penn!
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Debuting tonight on here!, America's premium gay television network, Robert Gant (C'90, Penn Six) stars with Shannen Dougherty and John Rhys-Davies in Kiss Me Deadly.
Per Business Wire, the plot is as follows:
"Jacob Keane (Gant) is a photographer living the family life in Milan with his loving boyfriend, Paolo, and Julia, the daughter he shares with his lesbian friend, Kyra. When a young woman, Marta (Doherty), arrives from his past life, he is pulled back into the high-stakes world of international espionage. Together they must elude a mysterious enemy threatening to disrupt their now-quiet lives. Out actor Ian Roberts (Superman Returns) co-stars as the villainous Vigo, while John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings trilogy) plays the heroic Yale, a former colleague of Jacob and Marta."
Watch the trailer hereWatch the PG-13 video from his magazine cover shoot!
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Garrett Reisman in the center of above photo
Garrett Reisman (EAS’90/W’90 (Fisher M&T program)) launched into space this morning aboard the Shuttle Endeavor!
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For today's Mardis Gras celebrations, I have an especially topical Hollywood post for all of you.
Here's one Hollywood writer with something to be happy about.
Josh Heald's (W'00, Editor-in-Chief 34th Street Magazine('99), Penn Jazz) first movie, Mardis Gras is getting produced. And this writer is working with another Penn alum producer to get it made.
Per Josh,
"The comedy follows three college seniors on a trip to Mardi Gras that is supposed to make up for their lackluster college experience. Once they're met with the reality of 100,000 sweaty people crammed into 8 city blocks, their challenges mount and friendships are tested, as they vow not to return to school without a story to tell. ...And there's naked boobs, of course, because boobs are awesome."Click here to find out how Josh got his start as a writer in Hollywood, who will be starring in the film and what other Penn alum producer he's working with!!
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Did you catch actor Robert Gant (C'90, Penn Six) on last week's "Magda and Jeff" episode of Nip/Tuck?
Robert played the gold digging husband of an eighty something year old(!) who insists her husband check into the McNamara-Troy plastic surgery center to add more hair to his body. Robert was very funny in this episode. See for yourself...
Watch Scene 1: "So Tell me what you don't like about yourself"
Watch Scene 2: He gets a mustache
Click here to check out a feature on Robert form the Sept|Oct 03 Penn Gazette
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