Growing up in Los
Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it. Dori Berinstein
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Really, UCLA’s a great
Really, UCLA’s a great place as well, but they don’t have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion. Dick Vitale
In his recent book,
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA’s Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders–including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke–could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids. David Von Drehle
When I wrote Chuky
When I wrote Chuky script, I was a student at UCLA, an undergraduate and my biggest aspiration for it was that I would get my foot in a door somewhere, that I would get an agent or something and it was just beyond my wildest dreams that this big-time producer, David Kirschner. David Kirschner
Tim Robbins had real
Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him Daphne Zuniga
When I originally entered
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, ’cause I missed them from high school! Danica McKellar
By the end of
By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like ‘The West Wing’ and others. You just never know, do you? Danica … Read more
I took a break
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, … Read more
I took my first
I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that’s what Carol Burnett was doing – acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a … Read more
No matter what, when
No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then – I guess it’s still the same way – you had to take an acting class. Carol Burnett