Author Archives: Amy Crocker

Smothered across billboards, it was the TV catchphrase of the year: “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”

Singing her way into millions of young hearts as Mary in “Mary Poppins” and Maria in “The Sound of Music,” Julie Andrews has been many children’s first conception of a movie star.

For celebrities, having one’s life exposed on the front page of a magazine is part of the job. Putting one’s name on a book, though, is optional.

Mike Werb met his writing and producing partner, Michael Colleary, when they were both graduate students at the UCLA School of Film and Television. Werb sold his car to go to film school, but the high price may have been a good thing in the long run. “(Colleary) started giving me rides to school,” Werb […]

When Professor Delia Salvi was a graduate student at UCLA, she attended screenings of student films and quickly she noticed a troubling theme common in almost every one of them. “The story was terrific, the editing was terrific, the sound, everything was perfect,” Salvi said. “(But) the acting was lousy.” Salvi, who was a professional […]

Disney movies tell audiences that dreams do come true. At the El Capitan Theatre, students are given the chance to see this happen firsthand. Last June, as a resident assistant for Dykstra Hall, fourth-year Design | Media Arts student Jonathan Bobrow went as part of a floor event to a midnight screening for the opening […]

Married at the height of both their careers, the union of box office superstar Ingrid Bergman and highly acclaimed Italian director Roberto Rossellini was not a typical Hollywood love story. When they met to make “Stromboli” (1950), each was married to another person. But soon Bergman became pregnant with Rossellini’s child. After she was denounced […]