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 their parents to HIV/AIDS.  As an amateur photographer he wanted to share his hobby with the kids and brought over donated cameras from the US and taught them the basics.

After the jump learn about Norman's return to Kenya this month, watch a very moving video as the children warmly welcome his return and see the moving letter he received from one of the children!

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Last week, Nicolas Cage was interviewed on Craig Ferguson promoting his film, Sorcerer's Apprentice.

During his interview, Nic talks about his experience great white shark diving with the film's (Penn alum) executive producer.

After the jump, find out who Nic was talking about ...and other Penn alumni who have been affiliated wtih Craig Ferguson.

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What happens when one Hollywood Exec has a spiritual awakening and decides to make a life change?

Ask Norman Golightly (C'94, Mask and Wig) who used to run Nicholas Cage's production company, Saturn Films...

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This week here are some tidbits of some upcoming films from some Mask and Wig alumni film producers:

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Norm Golightly (C'94, Mask and Wig) will be producing The Sorcerer's Apprentice for Saturn Films.

Per Variety,
"The plot centers on an average college student (Jay Baruchel), who is unwillingly recruited to work for sorcerer Balthazar Blake (Nicholas Cage). The sorcerer gives him a crash course in the art and science of magic to prepare him to fight the forces of darkness, including the evil magician Horvath (Alfred Molina), in modern Manhattan. Teresa Palmer will play Baruchel's love interest."

Norm's other Nic Cage movie Knowing comes out in theaters on March 20.

My past post about Norm here

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Todd Lieberman (C'95, AEPi, Mask and Wig) will be producing a remake of The Man With the X-Ray Eyes.  .

Per Variety,
"The original starred Ray Milland as a scientist who is near a breakthrough in X-ray vision technology when his funding is cut off. Desperate to show results, the doc applies eye drops that eventually cause him to lose control over his growing powers."

Todd also has a great looking movie coming out in June called The Proposal. Per Yahoo movies, the synopsis is as follows:

"A book editor (Sandra Bullock) is forced to marry her male assistant (Ryan Reynolds) in order to stay in the country. When they travel to Alaska to meet his family, the new couple has to fake their way through a surprise wedding thrown by his parents. "

Check out the trailer below:

Also, Todd's Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie also just came out on DVD

My past posts about Todd here

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Jon Avnet's (C'71) film Righteous Kill starring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro comes out in theaters today.

Logline: "Two Veteran New York City Detectives hunt a vigilante who may be one of their own."

Check out the trailer below!

My past posts about Jon here

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Executive Producer for Saturn Films, Norm Golightly (C'94, Mask and Wig) debuted Bangkok Dangerous in theater's last week.

Check out the trailer below.

My past posts about Norm here

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Merv Griffin Executive Producer Roy Bank (C'94) will oversee Lifetime "Lisa Williams" show (working title).  Per Variety, it will be "bringing the eponymous medium/clairvoyant back to the network for a week of half-hour episodes starting Oct. 27."

My past posts about Roy here

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Elizabeth Banks (C'96) will be Women's Health's first-ever celebrity cover for the October 2008 issue. Click here to check it out

In a recent interview, it was revealed that it was Liz Banks' husband Max Handelman's (C'95, AEPi) idea for her to make THIS brilliant NSFW video:

My past posts about Liz here

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Matt Kap's (C'97) band's (The Moving Picture Show) song "The Boy Who Lives Backwards" is featured in the season premiere of MTV's Road Rules Challenge: The Island. It was played at the end of the show when the cast decided to vote off one of their own. Check your local listings for the show's reairing.

Listen to "The Boy Who Lives Backwards" here:



The story behind the song?   Per Matt:

"The Boy Who Lives Backwards" basically came out of a regret. I was going to take some summer classes at NYU and met a girl the first day in the dorm through a friend. She'd had a bad day and her friend wasn't around so I decided to try and cheer her up. We had a really incredible night but I was so shy at the time and thought she had a boyfriend so I didn't ask her out. Years later I thought of that while singing a melody and began thinking about regrets we have in life - the person we didn't kiss, the bully on the playground we didn't stand up to, the clever comebacks that we wished we'd said in an argument and that's what the song is about. It also really reminds me of New York City in the fall which is my favorite time of year."

Check out Matt's performance at our very own Pennfest 2007:

My past posts about Matt here

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Mask and Wig performs in the buff at Spring Fling 2007

Back in the Fall of 1992 Norm Golightly (C'94) wrote Mask and Wig's "Nude Bit" for our fall show. The following spring (1993) the guys decided to perform it for Fling and it has been a Fling favorite for (come this Fling weekend) the past 15 years!

The fun of the bit is that each class has creative freedom to update the bit's "dick" jokes and (barely) cover themselves in a more creative way than the year before.

As you'll see in the 1993 photo below, Dan Bisbee (C'94) (left) and Norm Golightly (C'94) (right) are all about Christmas Trees and Guitars.


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Some wild 2007 Fling videos (including some Mask and Wig performances)!

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Outside of the Elizabeth Banks (C'96) announcement I posted earlier today, here are two more Penn (/Mask and Wig) alumni tidbits from today's Hollywood Reporter:

--Norm Golightly (W'94, Mask and Wig) to produce documentary on Police guitarist Andy Summers in a similar narration/photography style as the Robert Evans documentary "The Kid Stays in the Picture"

--Todd Lieberman (C'95, AEPi, Mask and Wig) to produce sci-fi comedy "Grounded" for Disney. (plot details not revealed as of yet)

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Norm Golightly (W'94, Mask and Wig) will be producing Darren Aronofsky's drama The Wrestler starring Nicolas Cage.

Per Variety, "the story centers on a a 1980s-era wrestling star, who scrapes by doing small-time matches in New Jersey's backwaters."

Norm currently runs Nicolas Cage's production company Saturn Films. I have known Norm since our Mask and Wig days and it's been great to see all the success he's had. For those of you reading this now, Norm actually wrote/created the "nude" bit that the Mask and Wig troupe performs to this day every spring fling.

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Mask and Wig closes fling this year with the group's 14th annual rendition of their much acclaimed "Nude" bit (written by Norm Golightly (W'94, Mask and Wig))

(Photo Credit: Alyson Kruger (facebook photos))

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