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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!
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DT's B&P: 6 Reasons Why ABC Is Really Loving On Penn Alumni This Week
Friday, September 25, 2009This 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!
This Blogger Is Cooking Her Way Through the Entire "Top Chef" Cookbook
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
For my Penn Foodies series, this week we've featured a restaurant entrepreneur, a couple who had their blog turned into a cookbook, and now today a chef (and blogger) on a mission!
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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. How did Carolyn become such a foodie? Her roots started at Penn...
Per Carolyn,
"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)
The hardest dish to prepare for Carolyn?:
Halibut with Grapes and Fried Leeks
Per Carolyn,
"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.
+ Carolyn's BravoTV blog: "The Cookbook Chronicles" HERE
+ Carolyn's personal blog: TheSassyFoodie.com where she'll be blogging all about the current "Top Chef Las Vegas" season which starts tonight!
+ Follow Carolyn on Twitter
Delicious nuggets from my "Penn Foodies" series HERE
More posts about Penn Alumni Bloggers HERE
Alumni Weekend 2008: Their Favorite Penn Memories
Monday, July 7, 2008
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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DiggHe's Playing the First Gay Spy
Friday, May 2, 2008
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 hereAs to what he's up to now, Robert told me that he just wrapped:
- a Lifetime movie called Special Delivery that will air in December for Lifetime with Lisa Edelstein of House and Brenda Song, one of the young Disney stars.
- a part for a film for Spike TV called Mask of the Ninja.
Read the interview with Robert
Watch the PG-13 video from his magazine cover shoot!Other Penn actors here
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Alumnus Launches Into Space
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Garrett Reisman in the center of above photoOur alumni are all over the place and as of this morning, they're now in space!
Garrett Reisman (EAS’90/W’90 (Fisher M&T program)) launched into space this morning aboard the Shuttle Endeavor!Watch this amazing launch here
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Penn Alum Flashes Goods, Hollywood Throws Beads
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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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Playing the victim of a sugar momma
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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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