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Lots of Penn news happening this week on-campus and off!...

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Catch This Alum's Film on DVD!

Jon Hurwtitz's (W'00) Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay now on DVD

My past posts about Jon here

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He's On a New Show and He's Looking for an Agent

Tom Christensen (W'03, Mask and Wig) just landed a co-starring role on the new series, Leverage, an Ocean's-11-Meets-A-Team series set to air on TNT in the next 6 months. Tom will play a "sweet, corn fed" guy from the Midwest" He is marrying a mob-boss's daughter, and that wedding is the setting for the episode. 

When Tom arrived in LA five years ago, fellow Mask & Wig member Brian Appel (C '01) introduced him to the show's casting director. After cutting his teeth with M&W, Tom still performs sketch and improv several improv groups around LA. You can see his upcoming shows on his website, http://www.tom-christensen.com

He is currently looking for an agent. Any alumni agents out there who will take a meeting? Contact Tom via his website!

Tom's Headshot
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Another Reality Show Debuts for This Alum

Mark Cronin's (Eng'86) next VH1 reality show, New York Goes to Hollywood premieres on Monday, 8/4.

More here
My past posts about Mark here

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This Alum Counterchecks Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus, star of the Disney Channel mega-hit, said in an interview the other day that the upcoming season of “Hannah Montana” could be the last one. “We’re thinking this is our last season,” she told E! Online.

Rich Ross (C'83), president of Disney Channels Worldwide, told the New York Post, “I fully expect we will continue production (beyond this season)—and I can stand by that.” Ross said Disney has a option for a fourth season of the show.

More here

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Wish They Had This When I Was an Undergrad!

The Kelly Writers House and the Fine Arts Department of the School of Design (at the University of Pennsylvania) are pleased to announce ArtsEdge, a new collaborative residency project to encourage the careers of emergent writers and artists.

Through ArtsEdge, the Kelly Writers House and the Fine Arts Department will subsidize the rent of a shared live/work space near Penn’s campus for an emergent writer and artist.

More here and here

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Last Day to Enter My July Contest!

Today's the last day to win Kyle Schroeder's (W'00), gift basket of 3 tubes of his new Cremo (shaving) Cream with fogless mirrors!

All you need to do is:
Click here to sign up for the DT Newsletter!



More about the Shaving Cream here + coupons if you want to purchase now ...+/-

The Astonishingly Superior Shave Cream

* Dramatically reduces cuts, nicks, scrapes and razor irritation.
* Gives you the closest, most comfortable. longest lasting shave.
* Leaves your skin astonishingly soft and smooth.

Try It Once to Believe it. Enjoy It For Life. It's Really That Good.

Most shave "creams" and "gels" are actually foam -- which is primarily air. Visualize a sharp blade scarping across your delicate skin with air as the main "lubricant." It tears your skin, creates little cuts and nicks that bleed, and leaves your skin looking and feeling rough.

Cremo has no air: It's an extremely rich cream (even more so than other similar/non-foam luxury shave creams). It contains unique, super-lubricating, highly-slippery molecules that have been compounded with powerful skin conditioners. Together, they make your blade glide smoothly over your skin astonishingly soft and smooth. I think you will find this is better than anything else you have ever used. Try it once to believe it. Enjoy it for life.

If you can't wait, here are some discounts to purchase his shaving cream at drugstore.com:

• New Customers: Receive $5 off $30 or $10 off $50 on your first non-prescription order! Offer ends 08.31.08.A great deal if you have never ordered from the website before. I think (but am not sure) that you can use it with the link above--definitely with the ones below. Drugstore.com carries everything from Frontline flea repellent for your pets to inflatable pool toys, so spending $50 is easy, plus you get free shipping and no tax (for those of us not in WA).
• Cremo Cream Shave Cream, with Free Fogless MirrorThis is a great promotion that we are running. Incredible value given that you can pay $20 for a fogless shower mirror in most stores.
• 20% off SALE for 6 oz Cremo Cream tube

Get the contest details here...+/-

*Contest Details:

• Only Penn undergrads, alumni, staff and prospects can participate
• 1 winner will be chosen at random from eligible applicants to receive (via mail) 3 tubes of Cremo Cream and 2 Fogless Shower Mirrors .
• Contest ends on Thursday, July 31, 11:59 pm
• Winner will be notified via the email he/she submitted for signing up for the newsletter the week of August 4

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Her Comic-Con Appearance ...Plus Her New Movie Trailer!

Actress Elizabeth Banks (C'96) seems to be everywhere ...doing everything these days!

• Last weekend she appeared at Comic-Con promoting her upcoming Kevin Smith film, Zack and Miri Shoot a Porno:

• She appears as Laura Bush in the newly released trailer for Oliver Stone's upcoming W film.

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Oprah and Spielberg Posed for This Penn Alumnus Photographer

Despite racial tension in the early 1970s, Michael Abramson (W'70) shot photos in the Chicago Southside nightclub scene which fueled his career as a successful photographer for numerous national and foreign magazines including Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Forbes and Sports Illustrated.

Michael has shot some prestigious subjects including former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan. Other photos subjects included workers in a recycling plant and wild mustangs in South Dakota.

His story has recently been told in the Chicago Tribune. (Read the article below!)


Check out more of his photos of Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard here!

Read this document on Scribd: Photographer Michael Abramson (W'70)

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Some Classic Film and TV Actors You Didn't Know Were Penn Alumni!

When I was an undergrad in Mask and Wig, there were a whole bunch of celebrity alumni whose caricatures were painted on the walls of our clubhouse that we always knew about, but you may not have...

Click here to discover some actors you've been watching for years on TV and film that I bet you didn't know were Penn alumni!

• Alumni such as the Ned Wertimer (C'49), who played Ralph the doorman in the Jeffersons.  
• Chip Zien (C'69), an accomplished Broadway actor who also starred as the title character in Howard the Duck and starred in Into the Woods.
• Another notable Mask and Wig alum is David Naughton (C'73) whom you would recognize from American Werewolf in London (see image above). While David has been doing lots of different projects since, last week a DVD of his came out called Brutal Massacre, "a mocumentary about a "a beleaguered horror director who sets out to make the movie that will put him back on the A list! Unfortunately for him, a quirky crew and penchant for mishaps don't make anything easier in this hilarious satire of low-budget filmmaking."  Check out the trailer below!
  

More Mask and Wig alumni doing cool things!

David Naughton (C'73) in Brutal Massacre
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David Naughton (C'73) in American Werewolf in London
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Chip Zien (C'69) in Howard the Duck
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Chip Zien (C'69) in Into The Woods (he's in the green cap):
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Ned Wertimer (C'49) as Ralph the doorman in The Jeffersons (minute 2:45)

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Penn Producer Turning Penn Writer's Book Into a Movie!

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.

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Craig Boreth's "How to Feel Manly in a Minivan" Excerpt 

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Find out how Craig got his start and what advice he has for you to get published!
(fyi, this link will pop-up a page will jump to Craig's section --give it a few seconds)

Before "husbandry", Craig wrote a book on how wives can turn their husbands into the perfect husband: "How to Iron Your Own Damn Shirt: The Perfect Husband Handbook Featuring Over 50 Foolproof Ways to Win, Woo & Wow Your Wife"

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She Did This How Many Times on Camera??!

A new interview with Elizabeth Banks (C'96) with the New York Times just got released.

In the video she talks about:

• the first movie she remembers seeing in the theater
• which movie she really wanted to be in
• how many commercials she did in her first year of acting..and how many times she was a bride in them!
• how she got the part of Laura Bush in the upcoming Oliver Stone movie
• the key to playing Laura Bush

Also, find out something she did on camera 3 times! The answer may (pleasantly) surprise you! (Warning: not safe for work!)

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