Author Archives: Justin Scott

The road to Hollywood doesn’t always include a stop on the casting couch and a trip to the plastic surgeon. For UCLA alumna Renata Raksha, creating her own path into the film industry was one she accomplished with her education. A recent graduate of the department of Design | Media Arts, Raksha has used her […]

If Paul Krugman was a boxer, it’s safe to say he would have thrown enough punches at President Bush to knock him out. But so far Krugman has kept his boxing gloves at home, letting words and numbers do the talking. As a prominent political economist and New York Times columnist, Krugman ““ who will […]

If you’re anything like me, you enjoy reading tabloid magazines. Wait, scratch that ““ you live for reading the tabloids. Now before you judge me as a complete airhead, hear me out. I’m not talking about that mother-ate-her-baby-and-slept-with-Bigfoot junk that fills the bottom row of every news stand. I’m talking about the fancy, celebrity-studded gossip […]

Philosopher Thomas Hobbes once famously stated, “The life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” If you are a political science student like myself, it’s more than likely that one of your professors has asked or will ask you to ponder the meaning of these words. And while many of us attribute Hobbes’ […]

Politics and Hollywood are two things that will forever go hand in hand. Sure, they may not seem like the best of friends, but, like any relationship with a lifelong friend, sometimes you’ve been together so long that you don’t even like each other anymore. Yet still, like Britney’s new prenuptial-lacking engagement, you stay together […]

Hollywood has always been known as the home of film, with such landmarks as the Hollywood sign and the Chinese Theatre concretely in place to maintain it’s star-studded reputation. But what many people might not know is that the campus of UCLA has also been a film star, often serving in different roles and never […]

I swear I’m not an alcoholic. But when I heard that the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood were presenting special “21+” screenings of movies all summer long, I was so excited I must have squealed louder than Paul Hamm when he tumbled his way to a gold medal. I know not everyone is as excited about […]