Director Barry Jenkins has achieved something so rarely seen on the silver screen: an honest, heartbreaking portrayal of a gay black man devoid of stereotypes or oversentimentality. Read more...
Photo: New movie “Moonlight” is loosely based on the play “In Moonlight Black Boys Turn Blue” by Tarrell McCraney. The film is divided into three chapters based on the three stages in the main character’s identity development. (Creative Commons photo by Shadowandact via Wikimedia Commons)
Nine UCLA alumni joined the cast of “Frozen – Live at the Hyperion,” performing as Elsa, Olaf, Hans, Kristoff or the ensemble. The live adaptation of the 2013 Disney animated film “Frozen” currently plays three times a day at Disney California Adventure after opening in May. Read more...
Photo: Tiana Okoye (pictured) plays the role of the snow queen Elsa in “Frozen – Live at the Hyperion” at Disney California Adventure. The 2013 theater, film and television alumna is the first black actress to play the role in the live action production based on the original 2013 animated film. Okoye has also performed as the title role in “Carrie” at the Hollywood Bowl. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
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. Read more...
Photo: Environmental science professor Noah Garrison became friends with Carter Bays and Craig Thomas when they were all in college. Bays and Thomas later created the show “How I Met Your Mother” and used pieces of Garrison’s life to inspire the character of Marshall. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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. Read more...
Photo: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s do the Time Warp Again,” reimagines the first “Rocky Horror Picture Show” film with some novel casting choices, including actors of different races, gender identities and sexualities. Steve Wilkie/FOX
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. Read more...
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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. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Carolyn Omine wrote the 2015 episode “The Simpsons: Halloween of Horror,” which was Emmy-nominated in 2016 for Outstanding Animated Program. (Courtesy of Carolyn Omine)
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. Read more...
Photo: After Kim Kardashian West was robbed of $9 million worth of jewelry at a Parisian hotel on Oct. 3, the media was quick to speculate on the legitimacy of the crime. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
