With the job market being what it is now, graduates of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television would kill to apply to their first job with the sort of resume their commencement speaker can boast.
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Shorttakes Student Film Festival showcases top 15 finalists
Tonight, fame, glory, prizes and coast to coast bragging rights will be bestowed upon the best films submitted to the Campus Events Commission’s 16th annual Shorttakes Student Film Festival.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros rock out Royce Hall
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are coming to UCLA, so get ready ““ if you managed to get tickets.
Prime | Behind the plastic
The catchphrase featured on the cover of the “Dr. 90210″ season one DVD reads, “Beverly Hills. Where everyone accepts plastic.”
Television show “˜Glee’ inspires audience to take center stage
The members of McKinley High School glee club, the fictional subjects of the hit FOX television show, “Glee” wanted to make artistic expression socially acceptable at their school.
Annual Lebowski Fest celebrates quotable cult classic
It’s Friday night, and there’s a guy dressed up as Jesus walking with another guy in a skin-tight, forest-green dance costume. That’s when you know Lebowski Fest is in town.
‘Race to Nowhere’ chronicles the high-stress lives of high-school students
Between half a dozen Advanced Placement classes, tests, essays, obsessions over class rank, SAT prep, basketball practice, piano lessons, etc., high school students are worse off than ever. One documentary says it doesn’t have to be that way.