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CLEVELAND — Despite starting off with a bye, the UCLA gymnastics team showed no signs of a sluggish start.

“The Princess of Montpensier” is a French romance set in 16th century France and is the story of the young Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry), heiress to one of France’s greatest fortunes. The film is an adaption of the 17th-century novel of the same name, generally recognized as the first historical novel in French literature.

As the title suggest, the story is as princess-centric as they come, and Thierry takes on the part of the fair-skinned princess whose extreme charms hypnotizes not one, not two, not three, but a total of four members of the French nobility including a prince, a count and two dukes.

It’s a soap opera, 16th-century style.

After last year’s release of “Forgiveness Rock Record,” the collective of musicians that comprise Broken Social Scene are back together to play a handful of U.S. and Canadian shows, including this weekend’s Coachella. The band’s animated guitarist Andrew Whiteman spoke with Daily Bruin Arts & Entertainment contributor Elia Rogers about his disdain for festivals, his taste in music, the family dynamics of the band and his dream tour.

Daily Bruin: What about Coachella are you looking forward to most this weekend?
Andrew Whiteman: Personally, I don’t really like festivals so I’m looking forward to doing a lot of reading in my hotel room. Other than that, the bands that I’m excited to see are playing right before Broken Social Scene. Erykah Badu, and also I love Gogol Bordello. I’d like to see P.J. Harvey, but in a giant Coachella situation it might not be great.

While little is known about De’End Parker, the JuCo guard UCLA signed on Monday, here are a couple of videos that offer a glimpse into his playing style.

Today, a friend greeted me by saying, “Coachella sucks. Cold Cave and Titus Andronicus are playing at the same time, ugh.”

So it finally happened: Coachella” set times”:http://www.coachella.com/event/set-times were released Tuesday night.

For the first time in program history, the media was allowed to attend the UCLA basketball end-of-year team banquet Tuesday.

Beside enjoying droves of catered food, getting a glimpse of the culture of the team was an interesting experience for all fans, boosters and media members in attendance at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel in Century City.