In USC’s brand-new, self-proclaimed sports Mecca, amid thousands of screaming Trojan fans, one Bruin carried the day for UCLA. Cliff Galiher, a sophomore pre-history major, mopped the floor with the best and brightest college students from across the nation, including one from USC, winning $100,000 in the 2007 “Jeopardy! College Championship.” “I thought it was a huge cosmic joke when …
Beware the Puppets
A tunnel into the creepy, scary, tenebrous underworld of marionettes opens in October, when Erik Sanko brings his deliciously twisted play, The Fortune Teller, to UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. The two-foot-tall, wood and papier-mâché constructions are perverse puppets of all types: Some are emaciated and pallid, others corpulent and an unnatural dirty-dough color; there’s a ghastly alligator in a worn and …
Don’t call it ‘Bollywood’
As the world gets smaller, expect to see some changes in film-industry hierarchy. Indian cinema is growing in popularity and influence as its mother country’s presence in the global economy is becoming more noticeable, and Hollywood is taking note. Robert Rosen, Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, is helping to speed up the process; he’s a …
Fireproofing can reduce the spread of forest fires
Are you a Bruin living in or near the woods? It’s definitely time for you to fireproof your home if you haven’t already, say UCLA researchers in a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ September 4, 2007 print edition. And make sure your neighbors get the message, too. “The spread of forest fires is not just …
Moving people
Jaynie Ali Aydin, M.A. ’04 Ph.D. ’07 wants you to move — but don’t worry, it won’t cost you a cent. She’s offering four free hour-long belly dance workshops throughout July on the terrace of Fowler Museum. Aydin, an avid educator in a variety of Middle Eastern Folk Dances, from the Egyptian Country style to Zeybek, is coming to give …
Proof of Life
Dr. Dennis “Denny” Slamon, director of clinical/translational research at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, developed the breast cancer drug Herceptin that has saved thousands of women’s lives. Harry Connick Jr. is the actor and jazzman who’s made thousands of women swoon. This month, they’ll put both of those considerable talents to work on cable television. Lifetime is airing Living Proof, …
Sounds of the City: Los Lobos
If you could hear twilight, it would sound something like Los Lobos, East L.A.’s unofficial band for more than 30 years. Part punk, part Mexican garage band, part dance-hall power players, Los Lobos command a style all their own that’s impossible to categorize and as diverse in influences as Los Angeles itself. On February 1, their music will fill another …
Simpsons director Silverman speaks with UCLA
With The Simpsons Movie topping the box office, director David Silverman, ’79, MFA ’83, takes time out to talk with UCLA Magazine writer David Landau about being picked to direct the movie, the nuts-and-bolts of animation, and under-appreciation. Silverman studied animation at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. David Landau: THE SIMPSONS TV SHOW HAS BEEN ON THE AIR …