Event Date and Time:
May 17, 2008
11:00am-1:00pm
Location:
The Theater at Madison Square Garden
Attention all graduating seniors, The Tisch Salute to the Class of 2008 will be held at The WaMu Theatre at
Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell addresses the graduating class with a speech that reflects on previous achievements from the Class of 2008 and encourages those achievements yet to come.
The Tisch Salute will also feature:
- A student processional
- An academic processional
- Congratulatory remarks
- Student Speaker
- Hooding of PhD candidates
Congratulations to the Class of 2008!
Amy Heckerling's personalized biography reads as follows:
Amy Heckerling was born in the Bronx NY, in a hospital that was torn down, lived in an apartment building that was torn down, and went to a public school that was torn down. Amy divided her time between watching James Cagney movies on TV and watching The Three Stooges on TV. Her family moved to Queens in time for the racial strife and Amy decided to get out of town and go to the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan.
At art school, Amy discovered that she wouldn't make it as an artist and should find something easier to do with her life. Naturally, she chose film directing since she had never actually seen a movie camera.
Amy applied and was admitted to NYU's School of the Arts at the time the wonderful Haig Manoogian ran the film school. Martin Brest, Jack Rapke, and Joel Silver were also students. Amy's short films received prizes at the NYU Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the prestigious Bronx Film Festival, and secured her place at the American Film Institute.
Her AFI short got her into Universal, where she directed "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
She has a daughter, Mollie, who has just graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts. After raising Mollie for almost two years, Amy wrote and directed, "Look Who's Talking," "Look Who's Talking Too," "Clueless," "I Could Never Be Your Woman," and produced "A Night at the Roxbury," executive produced the TV series of "Clueless" and "Fast Times," and wrote and directed episodes, as well as an episode of "The Office."
She has written many scripts, been in and out of movie jail repeatedly, hasn't had red meat since she was fifteen, recycles everything, won't go in the sun or near cigarette smoke, drives an electric car. She loves James Cagney, Franz Kafka, Punk Rock, Eddie Cantor, NYU, The Museum of Modern Art, pre-war German movies, post-war Italian movies, Fred Astaire and "A Clockwork Orange." She hates California, it's cold and damp.
