Once again—and for the last time—we returned to a campus environment, this time the University of California at Los Angeles. Cohosted by Blandings Castle and the Perfecto-Zizzbaum Motion Picture Corporation, “Hooray for Hollywood” was dedicated to Jan Wilson Kaufman, our late president who had started planning the convention prior to her death; her vice president, Jean Tillson, picked up the reins and directed the organization from the East Coast. Curtis Armstrong returned, not only as a convention speaker but as a guide on a bus tour of Hollywood. Our Friday evening reception featured a barbecue on a UCLA terrace, followed by a Clean, Bright Entertainment that included musical acts; a NEWTS skit (“Penny’s from Hades”); a reading from Frozen Assets; and the Great Wodehouse Movie Pitch Challenge, in which contestants tried to pitch a movie idea to Sigismund Glutz (Elliott Milstein), Isidore Fishbein (Pongo Mohamed), and Jacob Schnellenhamer (Elin Woodger)—Deborah Bellew was the deserving winner. All this on top of the usual excellent speakers, a letter from Sir Edward Cazalet (read by the U.K. society’s chairman, Hilary Bruce), browsing, sluicing, and camaraderie galore.
See the full report of this convention in Plum Lines, Volume 26, No. 3 (Autumn 2005)
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