In our latest installment of Hollywood Penn alumni you should know about, this fall season has been a busy one for Hollywood Quakers...
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Another story in this week's DT Halloween series for you...
Matt Blackstone (C'03) is not only a 10th grade English teacher, but he is the author of a new young adult novel, A SCARY SCENE IN A SCARY MOVIE (FSG/Macmillan), which released this summer and Seventeen magazine put it on it's Summer Beach Read list! Yep, this is another story about a Penn alum who is an educator and an author!
One liner is "It's about Rene, a male teen with OCD, and his lingo-inventing friend who tutors him in the art of playing it cool."
And if you're at Penn, you can meet him at the Bookstore at 2 pm tomorrow (this Saturday (10/29)).
After the jump, learn more about the book, Matt's perseverant path from Penn to becoming an author, and a great website for aspiring authors looking for agents!
Last week Los Angeles Penn alumni gathered in Hollywood to celebrate some great emerging Penn talent.
The night was filled with some dirty good comedy from host DJ Lubel (C'05) and great original music, improv, inspiring monologues, some over the top characters, a belting rendition of The National Anthem, and of course, a must-see musical(!) bit from the Bloomers alumni about what it means NOT to be Jewish at Penn. (hysterical!)
After the jump, check out some photos and videos from the night!
And congrats to Jeni Sue Birnbaum (C'08), Aimee Musil (C'06), Allison Karic (C'09), and EJ Baker (C'09) for putting together a spectacular event!
Over the past 4+ years, I've covered lots of alumni performing improv.
There is one particular style of improv that has really caught my eye, or I should say ear: the musical improv.
After the jump, watch how Tom Christensen's (W'03, Mask and Wig) mind works as he spins the suggested phrase "You go get her boy" into a one-man musical about: a boy who crushes on a girl, a dorky chemistry teacher, jealous friends ruling the school, a frank conversation between a mother and son, and "popular girls".
And don't blame if you find yourself humming the tune to his featured "I'm not a date rapist" song all day.
Seriously, watch how his mind works.
Comedian Whitney Cummings (C'03) is definitely getting around and becoming a Comedy Central favorite.
She roasted Joan Rivers (and it was harsh!) and recently David Hasselhoff (also harsh!).
This weekend, she has her own Comedy Central special airing (8/21, 11:30 pm/10:30c) and I'll let the title of the show, "Money Shot" speak for itself...
Check out her NSFW clip from the show after the jump!
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| David Price (C'03) on location in Egypt |
Sometime last year I came across this great "rant" that was published in the Wharton Undergraduate Journal by a Penn alum by the name of Fu-zu Jen (SEAS/WH, 2003).
"We thought of this idea during the worst part of the recession where my brother and I looked at each other and asked, 'There must be something out there that we can make faster and better?' I remembered how tough it was to learn the film budgeting software Entertainment Partners Budgeting and afterwards filmmakers would hire me to create budgets. Professional budget makers often charge at least $1,000.00 per budget and take a month to deliver. So my brother and I set out to create a budgeting website that asks several specific questions, like 'What is your desired total budget? What genre is your film? Are there child actors in your film?' and automatically creates a professional film budget customized to your script/project."It was a combination of Adam's experience producing films (Tortured
starring Laurence Fishburne released by Sony, Unrest
released by Lions Gate) and his understanding of mathematics and computers that allowed him to create the website.
". Since then he has set it up at Red Wagon and is looking for a TV writer to develop it.
*AHIP is the powerful insurance lobby that spends 5 million dollars a week trying to kill health care reform. Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network looking to stop them - with song.
• AHIP and other insurance and HMO interests spend nearly $5 million per week undermining real health care reform, including a public option.
• AHIP has resorted to out-right lying and scare tactics to block health care reform. They sent letters that lie to seniors about what health care reform means for Medicare, and they issued a report on the costs of health care reform legislation that is so misleading even the reports embarrassed authors distanced themselves from the way AHIP used their work.
• Every year, 45,000 people die because they cant get access to the health care they need. Yet AHIP continues to stand in the way of health care reform that would provide coverage to millions of Americans because the industry is more concerned with protecting profits than saving lives.
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