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Hollywood Returns for Homecoming Tinseltown is our theme for UB’s Homecoming festivities this year, October 18 and 19, 2002. Friday night, Hollywood director Rob Lieberman, B.A. ’71, returns to campus for the premier of his film Second String, starring Jon Voight and Gil Bellows. In this rousing sports epic, the Buffalo Bills—yes, the Bills—win the Super Bowl! On Saturday, it’s back to real football as the fast-rising Bulls take the field against Mid-American Conference rival Miami of Ohio. The game is preceded by our traditional tent party featuring food, festivities and friends from UB. Saturday night, stick with the showbiz theme and catch the comedy night headlined by Wayne Brady of ABC’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? Check www.alumni.buffalo.edu for full details, or call the UB Office of Alumni Relations at (716) 829-2608 or 1-800-BUILD-UB for information.
The entertainment and television industry owes UB a huge debt of gratitude. After all, some of the industry’s most preeminent talent once roamed the tree-lined walks of the South Campus and lived in the same off-campus houses. This October, many of these alumni will be returning to their former stomping grounds to lead intensive three-day student seminars on “The Business.” The first-ever Visiting Scholar Seminar series will focus on the entertainment and television business, while providing students with the rare and much sought-after opportunity to speak to individuals who have “made it big.” Speakers include five-time Emmy award–winning comedy writer Alan Zweibel, B.A. ’72, one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live; Alan Steinberg, B.A. ’68, best known for his sports interviews and biographies of Michael Jordan, Joe Montana, and others; actor Maury Chaykin, B.A. ’72, who is perhaps most widely recognized as A&E’s Nero Wolfe; actor Parry Shen, B.S. ’95, whose first starring role was Ben in the recently released Better Luck Tomorrow; and actor Peter Riegert, B.A. ’68, whose 30-year career includes Bojangles, Traffic, Utz, The Mask and Crossing Delancy. Also, David Brownstein, B.A. ’78, an agent with Writers and Artists Agency; agent Shep Gordon, B.A. ’68, whose diverse slate of talent includes Alice Cooper, Luther Vandross, Raquel Welch and many of the world’s famous chefs; Richard Lawrence, B.A. ’67, president of Los Angeles–based talent agency Rubaloff & Lawrence and producer of such shows as Judge Judy; Los Angeles casting director Linda Phillips Palo, M.A. ’75 & B.A. ’72, whose most recent work includes Shetan: The Young Black Stallion and Jeepers Creepers II; Hollywood director James Foley, B.A. ’74, whose credits include The Corrupter, The Chamber and Fear. Also, award-winning Los Angeles director Rob Lieberman, B.A. ’71, who has shot more than 2,000 commercials, 27 TV movies and four feature films; Emmy-nominated director James Patterson, B.A. ’67, who has directed numerous episodes of such popular TV series as Family Law, Providence and The Practice, as well as many episodes of the HBO smash hit The Sopranos; documentary film producers Chana Gazit, B.A. ’82, and David Steward, B.A. ’79, who together have produced more than 30 documentaries for public and commercial broadcast, including the PBS series The American Experience; Best Male Stand-Up award-winning comedian Bobby Collins, B.A. ’73; Ted Kryczko, B.A. ’76, vice president of product development for Walt Disney Corp.; San Francisco DJ and rock ’n ’roll historian Eric Isralow, Ph.D. ’72, Ed.M. ’70 & B.A. ’66; Abbe Raven, B.A. ’74, senior vice president and general manager of the History Channel; and John Reiss, B.A. ’81, senior producer for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
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