01-28-2026, 03:43 PM
UCLA is a good guess, but the only Bruin thespians I remember are Carol Burnett and Mark Harmon. I don't think either one has won an Oscar, though. Pretty sure that most of their work has been on TV. But like you said there must have been others.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)