Love Week: His Unsatiable Flavor of Love

Is there a better way to kick off our Love Week than to promote one our alum’s shows about a man who despite two unsuccessful attempts at finding love will be going back for one final time?

Click here to find out more about this show which debuts tonight!


That’s right, your favorite bachelor, Flavor Flav is back for a final time to find a his love. The third and final season of "Flavor of Love", produced by mega-reality producer Mark Cronin (Eng’86, Mask and Wig) premieres on VH1 tonight (Monday, February 11) at 9:00 PM.

This time, the woman Flavor Flav's looking for will be all about sophistication…

Per Tradingmarkets.com:

“This season, every challenge Flav poses, from nursing his broken heart on a hospital gurney, to composing a hip-hopera about Flavor Flav's life, will be engineered to make those women, who truly have love for Flav, shine. Whether it's jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet, or swimming with sharks, these women will constantly be put to the test. The last two remaining contestants will travel to the international city of love in a final showdown for Flav's heart. In the end, Flavor Flav will pick the girl he believes is the one true love that he can finally settle down with. Hopefully, this time it will stick.

To help Flav find true love, he enlisted the help of his fans. Last summer, women from across the country uploaded profiles to VH1's Flavor of Love casting site and five were chosen through online voting to vie for Flav's love.”

Check out all the other reality shows Mark Cronin has produced!

Check out all my posts from the DuelingTampons' "Love Week" series

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This Week Love is In The Air, On The Air and On This Site

Starting today, I have 9 great Penn related stories coming up all having to do with all sorts of love to celebrate Valentine's Day Week. Stay tuned!

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Alum editor bets his bottom dollar on this show

The three month old Hollywood writers strike could be hopefully coming to an end tomorrow (2/9) when writers guild members gather in L.A. and New York to consider a proposed contract.

In the event that there are further delays, Brian Appel (C'01, Mask and Wig) has a fun new reality show video (spoof) he edited that he wants us to consider:

"As the writers strike -- FOX gets REAL. "Annie...the REALITY!" is a feel good family show in which 12 orphans compete for the heart -- and home -- of Daddy Warbucks. You can bet your bottom dollar it's a hard knock life, but for ONE of these girls the sun will come out TONIGHT...on FOX! 8pm"

Click here to watch this HYSTERICAL video

I wonder if reality producer Mark Cronin (Eng'86) has this one somewhere in development.

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He’s Got the Girl of the Moment

After recently reporting about his next Jessica Biel film, Neil Parris (C’01) will now be executive producing a film adaptation of the book "Girl of the Moment" for Fox Atomic.

Per Variety, the book “is a comedy about a teen girl who lands a once-in-a-lifetime chance to intern for a famous teen starlet, thrusting the heroine into a glamorous and catty inner world of young celebrity.”

Speaking of Hollywood internships, undergrads, have you applied for the Academy of Television of Arts and Sciences Internship yet?

Click here to find out how Neil got his start in Hollywood
(aspiring "entertainment career minded" undergrads: you should read this!)

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Now and Then Thursdays: Competition in the Library

Over the decades there’s always been competition in the Penn libraries. It is true now as it was back in my day.

As we saw in one of my previous posts, Ben Grinberg (C’11) shows us that there are all sorts of characters one can find in Penn libraries. Specifically, he noted the “Library Ostrich” and how this character is “territorial and easy to anger” and “it would be a bad idea to cross her.”

Well in my “Now and Then Thursdays” series this week, I want to show you a class project video I did back in 1996 for Paul Buck’s class featuring one of these “Library Ostriches” and the comedic consequences of when she is crossed.

Featuring Jared Miller (C’97) and Julia Oh (C’98)

Click here to see my 1996 video: “Stacked Competition”

Check out Ben Grinberg's 2007 "I hate Finals" video

Check out my past "Now and Then Thursday" posts

Check out my other 1996 video: “Love to Go”

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Broke and Homeless Ivy Leaguer goes Viral

Eric Augenbraun's (C'10) and Stephen Stewart's (C'10) idea for a prank may very well turn into a potential web video series called "The Collegiate Bum".

Apparently Eric and Stephen were thinking of a way to prank their friend. They were determined on creating a fake DP article talking about how their friend was homeless and managed to make his way through Penn without having a dorm or apartment, never paying for books, etc. ("owing in part to the ridiculous price of a Penn education" Eric says).

Eric tells me, "we thought the idea was too good to waste on a prank and we were both interested in making a web series. We made the little trailer that night and we liked the response to it so we decided to go through with it."

The team is working on the writing for the first episode right now and it should be out by Feb. 28. Stay tuned!

Click here to check out "The Collegiate Bum"
Starring Eric Augenbraun (C'10), Isaiah Greene (C'10), Paul Pennington (C'10), Chidi Ahaghotu (C'10), RJ Ferguson (C'10), and Erin Marshall (C'10).

Speaking of broke Penn kids, this reminds me of Angela Nisel (C'98) and her book The Broke Diaries. Angela was an early blogger back as an undergrad who documented her daily humorous accounts of her struggles trying to make it through Penn on little money. As a result of her unique voice, she landed up in Hollywood writing for the TV show Scrubs (and was even featured on an Oprah episode!).

Check out Angela's Book The Broke Diaries

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President Amy Gutmann "Makes History" in Los Angeles

Were you at the Los Angeles Penn event on Monday night (February 4) where Penn President Amy Gutmann announced "Making History", Penn's new $3.5 Billion Capital campaign?

President Gutmann talked about the exciting changes coming to Penn's campus, showed a very engaging promotional video and even quoted Woody Allen!

The fancy event was at the Beverly Hills Hotel and was packed with 500+ alumni(!), many of whom I haven't seen in years! (I spent much of the night filling alumni in on DuelingTampons.com and was happy to hear the great response I got from people of all ages about this site and its name!)

If you missed the event, check out these DuelingTampons.com exclusive videos below from the event!

Amy Gutmann visits LA-Part 1

Amy Gutmann visits LA-Part 2

Amy Gutmann visits LA-promotional video-Part 1

Amy Gutmann visits LA-promotional video-Part 2

Amy Gutmann addresses Penn's Southern California Regional Advisory Board - Part 1

Amy Gutmann addresses Penn's Southern California Regional Advisory Board - Part 2

More about the campaign here!

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