--it's easy to use
--it fits into your pocket
--it takes great video
--it's cheap for a good, portable video camera
--it has a USB port that pops up that plugs right into your computer
--at the push of a button you can easily upload videos to your computer and publish directly to sites like youtube.
--this camera now stores 120 minutes!
Gift Ideas:
--I got this camera for my cousin after she graduated from high school. I thought it would be great in college... and as I see on her facebook profile, she's certainly using it everywhere.
--my sister had a baby and since I live 2000 miles away, she and my brother-in-law video my niece and send me the videos weekly.
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And Craig is no stranger to cooking. A few years back he also published The Hemingway Cookbook and went on to become a food writer for the Boston Globe and elsewhere. The cookbook is a culinary bio of Hemingway, featuring more than 120 recipes from his life and writing.
Per Craig,
"I started the book after traveling to Paris and Spain after graduation. It started as a travel guide to The Sun Also Rises and morphed into a cookbook."
On a food related note, Craig has been been developing a story about three fictional meetings between Hemingway and another famous foodie, Pablo Neruda (first in Paris in the 20s, then Madrid during the Spanish Civil War and finally on the coast of Chile in the 50s). Per Craig, "Food, obviously, will play a key role in their tempestuous encounters."
Delicious nuggets from my "Penn Foodies" series HERE
Oscar Nominated Alum Colin Campbell (C'91, President of Intuitons, Without A Net, Penn in Pictures 2001 panelist) has created a great 4 minute video he directed for Instant Films, a 48 hour Los Angeles film festival. Colin drew the script and then the cast out of a hat on Saturday morning and by Sunday night he handed in the finished film.
And Colin is no stranger to directing films by any means. In fact his short film "Seraglio" was nominated for an Oscar back in 2000. This was a great film that we showcased in our first Los Angeles Pennfest 2002 (photos HERE, program HERE) and am trying to see if we can get it posted on DT at some point soon.
"Delicious" is definitely on the not-safe-for-work side. ...So much in fact that the video and the image I'm using for this post associated with this film can only be seen when you expand the post by clicking HERE.
Penn alumni and writing partners David Guarascio (C'91) and Moses Port (C'91), (former co-producers and writers of Just Shoot Me, last year's Aliens in America and 2001 "Penn in Pictures" panelists) are now developing a new single camera office sitcom for FOX.
"a twentysomething man who starts taking a mood enhancer called Blisstilan. Snapped out of his funk by the drug, the lead character applies for a job at the pharmaceutical company. Once there, he must navigate working for his new boss, a high-powered female exec who boasts the nickname "The Velvet Hammer."
Writer Joe Port (C’97, DP Cartoonist) hopes someone buys into his Five Year Plan.
Specifically the ABC network.
A month ago, Joe shot a pilot for ABC (produced by NBC) called Five Year Plan, that he and his writing partner Joe Wiseman created and exec produced together. It stars Steve Howey, Will Sasso, Brooke D'orsay, Lee Thompson Young, Joy Osmanski and Steve Rosen.
Per Joe,
“The basic idea is we introduce this young group of people, we learn what their respective five year plans are, and then we watch them as they try to make those dreams come true. The pilot was directed by Gail Mancuso. We're all done editing itnow and have gotten a lot of good feedback so far (my mother Phyllis Port (C'60) claims, "It's a winner!"). We should know pretty soon whether or not it will be picked up to series.”
Before this, Joe worked on The Office, Just Shoot Me and per Joe, “many shows that you've never heard of.”
Joe’s not the only Hollywood Penn writer in his family. His brother Moses Port (C’91) and writing partner David Guarascio (C'91) executive produced last year's CW show Aliens in America and are currently developing projects for Sony.
Another story of Penn alumni working together in Hollywood.
Thanks to a popular Penn publication, Adam Lebovitz (W'03) has now optioned Craig Boreth's (C'91, First male drummer in Bloomers pit band) (pictured below) book, "How To Feel Manly In A Minivan".
Craig's book is a survival guide for new dads, helping each guy facing fatherhood to make the transition with his masculinity, sanity and lower back intact. It's not really a parenting guide, but more a guide to fatherly self-preservation, covering such subjects as:
How to have sex for procreation
How to remain conscious during delivery
How to see your wife as a MILF
How to Get That #%&%$ Song Out of Your Head
Per Adam (pictured right), his story on how he found Craig's book is very much a "feel good" Penn alumni story:
"I actually found the book by reading about it in the Penn Gazette. The title was so funny that I immediately bought a copy and read it. The book was hysterical! Craig Boreth's writing has such a genuine and fresh voice. Even though the book was written from a guy's perspective, both men and women can appreciate the humor of finding yourself on the verge parenthood and then all of the comedy of being a parent.
I am in the early stages of development on it. I am exploring both paths of setting it up in television and features. Working on a comedy will be a much different experience than my last project I produced which was a crime thriller called Tortured, starring Laurence Fishburne and Cole Hauser. Sony recently bought it and will be releasing it in September."
FYI, Adam owns his own production company called "Five Star Pictures" where he is partnered with his brother Nolan Lebovitz.
Writing partners David Guarascio (C'91) and Moses Port (C'91),(former co-producers and writers of Just Shoot Me and 2001 "Penn in Pictures" panelists) debut their CW show, Aliens in America Monday, October 1. Check your local listings for times.
Joey Volpe (W'09) recently emailed me to let me know that he worked on The Bachelor this summer and that we should all check it out on Mondays on ABC.
In addition to America's Most Smartest Model mentioned above, Mark Cronin (Eng '86) also has another 2(!) shows: I Love New York 2 on Monday nights at 9 pm on VH1 as well as Gotti's Way. Check your local listings for times.
CBS has ordered Mike Sikowitz's (C'88, Sigma Alpha Mu) pilot called My Best Friend's Girl - A comedy series about a guy who falls in love with his best friend's ex-wife. Mike's credits include being a writer/producer for The Class and Grounded for Life.
A few years ago, my (former) writing partner and I attended the pilot taping of a show Mike had called Grown Men - a single-camera comedy about a group of five frat brothers who meet up at a friend's funeral. I really liked the pilot but it wasn't picked up.
Alumni out there, do you have something on the TV Schedule? Add your comment below!
speak in Los Angeles' 2001 "Penn in Pictures" event
Penn alumni and writing partners David Guarascio (C'91) and Moses Port (C'91), (former co-producers and writers of Just Shoot Me and 2001 "Penn in Pictures" panelists) just got their pilot Aliens in America picked up on the CW Fall Schedule.
Per Variety,"Aliens" is set in Altoona, Wis., where Justin Hobgood is an awkward, lanky 16-year-old having trouble fitting in at school. His mom hears about the school's foreign exchange program and signs up her family, figuring the new arrival will give her son a hipness transplant. Things don't go as planned, however, when the exchange student turns out to be a Pakistani Muslim who wears a kufi on his head and a shalwar kameez over his body.
Todd Lieberman (C'95, AEPi, Mask & Wig) will be producing the film Parental Guidance with another Penn alum/writer, Stu Gibbs (C'91).
According to Variety, the film is a "romantic comedy which revolves around parents who try and get their son back together with his old girlfriend after he brings home the fiancee from hell."
Stu most recently sold the pilot "Shooting Blanks" to ABC and Touchstone. He also wrote the films "Repli-Kate" and "See Spot Run".
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It seems like a guy who wrote a book about fatherhood should also know a thing or two about how to cook.
And Craig is no stranger to cooking. A few years back he also published The Hemingway Cookbook and went on to become a food writer for the Boston Globe and elsewhere. The cookbook is a culinary bio of Hemingway, featuring more than 120 recipes from his life and writing. 
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