Entertainment, Featured - Wednesday, November 4, 2009 11:19 - 19 Comments
Under the Arch Wants to Make Your Reality TV Dreams Come True
We know the primary reason you came to NYU was for a shot at getting on The City, MTV’s sad excuse for a Hills NYC remake. Well, burgeoning reality stars, your time as come! According to a New York Post article and a Wall Street Journal blog from last week, Under The Arch, a web series started in October 2006 by NYUer Sean Patrick Murray, is hosting an “open call” for the second season of the show they describe as “nine NYU students living their dream.”
If you think you have a special enough life at NYU to make us watch the second season, head on over to David Barton Gym (yes that’s the new gym on Astor Place that looks like a nightclub for yoga lovers) from November 16-20. The trailer they released is pretty good. Murray’s honesty with his project, which MTV has rarely been with its pop-realities, was best described in this quote from WSJ:
Although he strives for realism, Murray says that there is an unavoidable element of artifice that goes with the show, so that the cameras know where to be to record what’s going on. “We’ll get together once a week and talk about the stories we want to tell in the same way that anyone who creates a play or movie does,” he says.
On Campus - Monday, October 12, 2009 12:57 - 2 Comments
Seasoned Porn Star Enrolled in NYU Fine Arts Masters Program
Let’s extend a warm welcome to one of NYU’s newest grad students, Lorelei Lee. She is 28, pursuing a masters in fine arts and wisely uses her time outside the classroom to earn the cash to pay for college. As a porn star.
In an interview with NY Daily News, Lee explains she is well accustomed to balancing life as an adult entertainer with her education. Lee has appeared in over 200 films since the age of 19. She graduated from San Francisco State University last year, but said earning her masters at NYU does not necessarily spell the end of her career in porn.
It may be a stretch, but I am assuming Lorelei Lee is not her real name. 1950s American film buffs will know Lorelei Lee is the name of Marilyn’s Monroe’s character in the Howard Hawks classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The film is most famous Monroe’s sultry rendition of the tune, “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
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City - Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:51 - 1 Comment
James Franco Reps Both NYU and Columbia– Finally
Bless New York Magazine for their optimistic covers week after week. This week’s feature issue compiles stories from characters that are New York fixtures (or new New Yorkers) who talk about their experiences moving into the city, while also highlighting the fact that the failing economy has actually motivated more people to move to the city because they no longer have jobs to tie them to their (less superior) city.
Some of these famous individuals’ stories are hilarious, like Lauren Hutton getting here in 1964 “to get to Africa and find LSD”; Andy Samberg’s eerily-prophetic account of post-graduation living situations ; Amy Sedaris’s first sight of a man shitting in public (I saw that two weeks ago– it was disconcerting.) Also notable is James Franco not snubbing NYU and acknowledging that he attends both Tisch and Columbia. Whew, about time.
Photograph by Andrew Eccles at New York Magazine. One hundred and sixty people who moved here in the past six months, April 3 at Pier 59 Studios.
On Campus - Thursday, April 9, 2009 13:27 - 8 Comments
Four Minutes to Class!
Video: A Shepherd for Students at NYU
John Votta, the kindly man who wears two watches and stands at the East side of WSP shouting how many more minutes you have to get to class on time, has seriously had more press than OctoMom and Ashley Dupre combined. Click the link for the vid, since it refuses to embed.(via the NYTimes) (Photo via WSN)
Featured, On Campus, On-Campus Developing - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:56 - 7 Comments
Haley Joel Osment Caught Drawing Snow Penis
Over the last couple weeks, East Village residents wrung their hands over the mysterious Penistrator, who has been furtively drawing inappropriate body parts on snowy cars. TMZ recently posted photographic evidence that it was none other than our beloved, dead-people-seeing NYU celebrity: Haley Joel Osment!
On Campus - Tuesday, December 9, 2008 13:54 - 4 Comments
Grown Up Matilda Puts on a Show
If there’s one thing that gives NYU its “#1 dream school” status, it’s the fact that a bunch of famous people come here to study. From famous actors to the children of famous actors and even British socialites, they are the people whose existence we pretend we’re too cool to acknowledge, but secretly check out (and perhaps even glare at) when they occupy nearby space.
But while NYU celebs like Peaches Geldof and the Olsens attention whore as much as possible, some are a little more low key, eliciting curiosity. Case in point: Mara Wilson, the now grown-up girl who played Matilda, every child genius’s role model. And yet the mere mention of “Matilda” brings out Mara’s wrath (or so I’ve heard). Seems like someone’s been trying to bury her former life as a child actor.
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