George Television Program

On the Sunset-Gower lot of Columbia Studios, there's a metal door inside a sound stage that bears bold, block letters that read "Big George's House of Pain." Behind the door lies a full-size canvas boxing ring and an assortment of punching bags. The training gym was not constructed as a movie or TV set, but as a serious workout arena where one of the newest actors on the lot heads every night to trade hard, heavy blows with 200-pound sparring partners.

On the Sunset-Gower lot of Columbia Studios, there's a metal door inside a sound stage that bears bold, block letters that read "Big George's House of Pain." Behind the door lies a full-size canvas boxing ring and an assortment of punching bags. The training gym was not constructed as a movie or TV set, but as a serious workout arena where one of the newest actors on the lot heads every night to trade hard, heavy blows with 200-pound sparring partners.

Housed among the da Vinci folios and Napoleon Bonaparte's hat in the UCLA library's special collections repository is a 94-box archive donated by activist Blase Bonpane: appointment books, reel-to-reel tapes, newspaper clippings and hundreds of personal letters. If Bonpane said or wrote something, UCLA wanted a record of it. Perhaps the most enlightening materials, however, are those that document his surveillance by the U.S. government.