Professor Noah Garrison invited his friend Carter Bays to an Alanis Morissette concert in spring 2006. Six months later, he watched their concert experience reenacted on TV. The creators of the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” Bays and Craig Thomas, borrowed from their own lives when writing the show. They created the character of […]
Category Archives: Film & TV
Review: Rocky Horror TV special fails to capture shock factor of cult classic
A man wearing a tight corset, thigh-high fish nets and bold, red lipstick descends in a castle elevator. He exits the elevator and in a deep voice he sings, “I’m just a sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania!” Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s arrival rattled the earth in 1975 when “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” was first released. The […]
Second Take: Celebrities’ support of presidential candidates not enough to sway
The popular vote totals for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary came within 1 percent of each other. And some scholars suggest one person may have helped push the nomination Obama’s way: Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey was one of several celebrities who endorsed Obama in 2008. People came to associate the trust […]
Alumna talks human side of ‘Halloween of Horror’ episode of ‘The Simpsons’
Forty-three UCLA staff members and alumni were involved in projects nominated for the 2016 Emmy awards in 16 different categories. Over the course of four weeks, the A&E staff will feature some of these UCLA affiliated nominees and their projects. Zombies surrounded Lisa from all sides. There was no escape. Lisa screamed at the top […]
Second Take: Celebrity privacy must be respected when no public statements are made
The world was quick to judge Kim Kardashian West after she was robbed of nearly $9 million worth of jewelry in an upscale hotel in Paris, on Oct. 3. A day after the robbery, Fox News Entertainment published the article “Kim Kardashian robbery story raises some eyebrows,” which posited the possibility of Kardashian West’s robbery […]
Recipients of The Big Bang Theory Scholarship bond with cast on set
Mia Reyes purchased a ticket to attend a live taping of her favorite television show as soon as she turned 18. “The Big Bang Theory” audience was already at full capacity when she arrived in August, and she was turned away. One month later on Sept. 29, the aerospace engineer student would visit the set […]
Alumna earns Emmy nomination for casting ‘Roots’
Forty-three UCLA staff members and alumni were involved in projects nominated for the 2016 Emmy awards in 16 different categories. Over the course of four weeks, the A&E staff will feature some of these UCLA-affiliated nominees and their projects. Victoria Thomas knew she wouldn’t find her show’s leading man in Los Angeles. Thomas didn’t want […]