WHAT PLANET IS HE FROM? It’s not Bruins coach Ben Howland, but actor John Lithgow, who seems exuberant in the fact that UCLA is finishing off a win over rival USC in a basketball game at Pauley Pavilion on Wednesday.
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The real connection for the Harvard grad who once shared a dorm room with Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones is that his current wife, Mary Yeager, is a faculty member of the history department.
And, apparently, Lithgow is also part of some UCLA trivia, far too trivial for even us to note here.
