Author Archives: Amy Crocker

Perhaps the most defining moment in TV in the past year occurred during the Super Bowl halftime show, but Janet Jackson was nowhere in sight. Following the complaints, fines and media circus that accompanied her breast-baring 2004 performance, CBS played it safe this year with an aging Paul McCartney leading the crowd in a sing-along […]

When Jonathan Wysocki graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television in 2004, he may have been ready to say goodbye to Westwood, but he wasn’t quite done with his thesis film. His thesis film, “The Vessel Pitches,” was shot two years ago, but postproduction dragged the process on for much longer. “The […]

“Who watches “˜Desperate Housewives?’” asked Duncan Shea, a first-year undecided student. “A lot of people; I’d be careful with that statement,” warned Stephen Pramme, a fourth-year chemical engineering student. But they are not worried about “Family Guy” getting cancelled again. “In the age of TiVo and whatever else, I’m sure if you wanted to watch […]

Fetching coffee and making copies are not the only jobs recent college graduates can find. Eric Winter, who graduated from UCLA in 2000 with a degree in psychology, works an average of three to four days a week, four to eight hours a day. “I don’t even get into work until one, and I’ll leave […]

UCLA alumna Sadaf Cohen Muncy always knew she wanted to work with children. Medical school, in her mind, was the way to go. “I was pre-med for a couple years,” Muncy said. “My whole goal was to go to medical school.” Though she ended up with a degree in Near Eastern languages and cultures, it […]

Squashed between “Conversations with History” and “A Prologue to Chaucer,” an episode of “UCLA Next” aired nationwide last Tuesday on the UCTV station. “UCLA Next,” a half-hour documentary-style show, is produced by a television production class. Hidden in a theater classroom in one of the northernmost buildings of North Campus, the roughly 10 students in […]

The Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Marathon generally features film directors who are crossing over into theater. But Michael Aspinwall, the director of the musical “High School!” said “(his) background is shady.” Aspinwall graduated from UCLA in 2004 with a degree in theater performance and is currently working on his masters degree in theater education and […]