Monday, March 9

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April 9, 2:13 pm

Hooligan’s ‘Legally Blonde’ opens at Macgowan Hall Friday

Almost seven years after the fictional UCLA alumna first conquered Harvard Law School on Broadway, Elle Woods comes back to her alma mater in the Hooligan Theatre Company’s production of “Legally Blonde: The Musical.” The Hooligan Theatre Company, a student-run group that offers an opportunity for students of all majors to participate in educational theater productions, completed its run of “Fiddler on the Roof” this past weekend. Read more...

Photo: Following a recent run of “Fiddler on the Roof,” Hooligan Theatre Company’s performance of “Legally Blonde: The Musical” will begin Friday evening. Recreating the story of popular Reese Witherspoon film, which was itself adapted into a Broadway production, “Legally Blonde” follows Elle Woods, misguided woman who follows her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School. (Neil Bedi/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Arts

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April 9, 1:54 am

Saints, Sinners, and Magicians at the Fowler

The Fowler museum’s newest exhibit, “Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners at the Margins of the Americas,” opened to the public last week. The exhibit blurs the line between sanctity and sin by featuring a number of folk heroes and unconventional saints from across North and South America. Read more...

Arts, Film & TV

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April 9, 12:38 am

Students’ film ‘What We Need’ in Sprite Films finals

For a few UCLA film students, it’s time to swap out their signature blue and gold with the iconic lemon-lime of Sprite Films. UCLA students Merlin Camozzi and Rick Perry from the School of Theater, Film and Television are among this year’s six teams of Sprite Films finalists with their film “What We Need.” The competition gives filmmakers a platform to create and distribute a short film advertising Sprite soda. Read more...

Photo: Finalists in this year’s Sprite Films competitions, filmmakers Merlin Camozzi and Rick Perry recently attended CinemaCon in Las Vegas and were mentored by actor Michael B. Jordan. (Bryan Steffy/Getty Images)

Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV

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April 8, 12:05 am

Out of Focus: ‘Last Tango in Paris’ a classic ’70s film despite early controversy

In 1972, the New Yorker published a review of Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” in which famed movie critic Pauline Kael argued that the film “had changed the face of an art form.” More than four decades later, Bertolucci’s masterpiece stands as one of the great films of its era. Read more...

Photo: (United Artists) Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” plays this Friday and Saturday at the New Beverly Cinema and stars Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider.

Arts, Film & TV

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April 8, 12:01 am

Student wins Sloan award for screenplay exploring muscular dystrophy

Laura Alsum struggled through writing sections of what would become her award-winning screenplay not as a result of a creative block, but because of the painful memories that resurfaced. Read more...

Photo: Laura Alsum is a graduate student in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Student Grand Jury Prize for Screenwriting for her screenplay “Survival of the Fittest.” The award offers a $30,000 cash prize as well as an additional $20,000 to help develop the screenplay into a film. (Dang-Co Vu/Daily Bruin)


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