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• 115- The Hollywood Christmas Parade Most Magical Moments higlights past parades
The annual Hollywood Christmas parade traditionally was held on the first Sunday after Thanksgiving. It is on hiatus in 2020 on grounds of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there'll be a TV special that will include memorable highlights from previous parades, along with new celebrity shout-outs and some brand-new performances from your favorite stars.
•••• This year, more than ever presents a need to continue this celebration and bring the parade to millions of homes across the country.
•••In continuing the spirit of the season Associated Television International will present "The Hollywood Christmas Parade Greatest Moments," supporting Marine Toys for Tots and celebrating an 89-year-old American tradition with the most memorable moments of past Hollywood Christmas Parades over the last decade. Hosted by Laura McKenzie and Erik Estrada, joined by Montel Williams, Dean Cain. Elizabeth Stanton and other special guests.
••••  Renowned musical acts and performers, introduced by Dean Cain, will include: Band of Merrymakers, Village People, Olivia Newton-John, Bret Michaels, WAR, Kenny Loggins, Ruben Studdard, Mike Love and The Beach Boys, LeAnn Rimes, Daughtry, Donny & Marie Osmond, India Arie, David Archuleta and Bank of Harmony.
••••   The television special will also include montages of past parade Grand Marshals and animated characters, along with "Holiday Celebrity Shout Outs" from Dr. Oz, Olivia Newton-John, Penn & Teller, Joe Mantegna, Louis Gossett, Jr., Marie Osmond and Nancy O'Dell.  The parade will be capped off with the welcomed arrival of the Jolly Old Elf himself, Santa Claus, accompanied by Marine Corps Escorts.
••••   Elizabeth Stanton, Host of The CW's "World's Funniest Animals," will appear as a special guest along with star magicians, Ed Alonzo and Farrell Dillon from The CW's "Masters of Illusion."
•••• The two-hour primetime special will air on The CW Network on Friday, December 4, 2020 from 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. ET.  
Click for 2020 Hollywood Christmas Parade highlights on YouTube
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• 102- Virtual summit to rethink the future
REUTERS NEXT kicks off 2021 by gathering global leaders and forward thinkers to reimagine solutions to the challenges the new year brings.
•••• After the extraordinary upheavals of 2020, conference participants will take look ahead at opportunities for change and growth, as well as how to deal with the rifts and problems that our world an our societies face.
•••• No country, company or community can?tackle the future alone. To build a better world, thinkers and doers must come together to share ideas, collaborate and act.
•••• REUTERS NEXT draws on Reuters global reach to host diverse voices from around the world who will examine topics from different perspectives, bringing their passion, experience and expertise to find new ways forward.
Virtual Forum will take place on January 11-14. 2021.
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• 101- KISS THE GROUND documentary wins its 25th Film Festival Award todate.
LOS ANGELES, CA.  -- The critically-acclaimed environmental feature documentary, KISS THE GROUND, recently garnered its 25th film festival award after the Red Nation International Film Festival (RNIFF) bestowed its humanitarian honor, the Chief Dan George Award, to directors Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell (Oscar® short list for "Fuel," Official Selection Cannes Film Festival for "The Big Fix") acknowledging their contributions and commitment to environmental justice. To date, KISS THE GROUND has been invited to 46 film festivals as an official selection, including the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
•••• The Red Nation International Film Festival's Chief Dan George Award is its humanitarian award named for the famous Canadian actor, author, and activist who is known for his advocacy for First Nations and environmental rights, and as the first Native American to earn an Academy Award® nomination for his supporting role in "Little Big Man" (1970).  Previous recipients of the award include filmmaker Theda NewBreast and Dr. Jane Goodall.
•••• "Nurturing the land is a sacred tradition in Native American cultures, and 'Kiss The Ground' shows how we, as a people, are in desperate need to reconnect and repair our relationship with our original mother--Mother Earth," said Joanelle Romero, Executive Director of the RNIFF. "Josh and Rebecca expertly crafted an inspirational, urgent, and hope-filled documentary showing us exactly how to stop climate change and ensure our Mother is healthy enough to provide for future generations. Their film embodies the humanitarian values of the Chief Dan George Award, and the Red Nation International Film Festival is thrilled and proud to celebrate it with one of our highest honors."
•••• Adds Ray Archuleta, renowned Conservation Agronomist and one of the lead subjects of the documentary, "As a soil educator and a person of both Native American and Latino heritage, I'm proud to be part of the 'Kiss The Ground' family and find it appropriate that our 25th award is from the Red Nations International Film Festival. The documentary is a message of hope and forgiveness for the people and the land, and I congratulate Josh and Rebecca on their latest honor." Archuleta served the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for 30 years and is a respected expert on topic of soil health and the principle of Agroecology. 
The KISS THE GROUND trailer is available on YouTube,KISSTHEGROUNDMOVIE.COM
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114- Special Olympics Southern California Mourns the Passing of Founder Rafer Johnson
Special Olympics Southern California was saddened to hear of the passing of Rafer Johnson, founder of SOSC, humanitarian, and Olympic Gold Medalist. The entire SOSC community, including athletes, volunteers, partners, and staff, mourns this loss.   
•••• Today we lost one of our family members and one of the biggest champions for people with intellectual disabilities. With the ultimate goal of spreading acceptance and inclusion, Rafer Johnson  propelled our community to new heights through the power of sports. 
•••• Rafer Johnson had been active with Special Olympics since the very beginning. After experiencing the positivity and energy at the first Special Olympics Games in Chicago in 1968, he knew he wanted to help the movement grow.  
•••• In 1969, Johnson helped bring Special Olympics to the west coast by forming the Southern California chapter of Special Olympics. What started as a track & field and swimming competition for 900 athletes with intellectual disabilities from western states has now grown into an organization that serves 38,200 athletes in Southern California through year-round sports, wellness, and leadership programming.  
•••• Over the past 50 years, Rafer was involved in guiding Special Olympics and spreading acceptance and inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities throughout Southern California and the world. He had been a member of the SOSC Board of Directors for years and became President of Special Olympics Southern California in 1983. Johnson would use this time to grow Special Olympics, increasing fundraising and adjusting the team to appropriately serve the community. He was President until 1992, when he was elected Chairman of the Board of Governors.  
•••• His compassion, drive, and generosity has changed the lives of millions of people with and without intellectual disabilities. We are forever grateful to him and will continue to spread his vision of acceptance and inclusion for all. 
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•••• Rafer Lewis Johnson was born on August 18, 1935 in Hillsboro, Texas. Johnson graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1959. He won the gold medal in the 1955 Pan American Games for the decathlon in Mexico City while a student at UCLA. Five years later, Johnson won a gold medal in the decathlon in Rome at the 1960 Olympic Games in a legendary duel against fellow UCLA alumni, Yang Chuan-Kwang. Johnson was Team USA's flag bearer at the 1960 Olympics, becoming the first Black American to do so. He also lit the Olympic Flame and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum's Cauldron to highlight the Opening Ceremonies of the XXIII Olympiad in 1984.    
•••• Throughout his life, Johnson was widely recognized for his humanitarian efforts. Along with Special Olympics, Johnson also worked for the Peace Corps, traveling on behalf of the volunteer program run by the United States Government, providing international social and economic development assistance to millions around the world and for the People to People International Foundation. He was a Fellow with the Coro Foundation, a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness, and he served on the Board of Directors of the LA 84 Foundation, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, the Close-up Foundation, the March of Dimes, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Red Cross, the National Amateur Sports Development Foundation, the National Recreation and Park Association, the United States Athletic Foundation, the Athletic Advisory Panel of the U.S. State Department, San Fernando Valley Fair Housing Council, and the Voter Registration Program. Johnson was also active for many years as a spokesperson for Hershey's Track & Field Games.  
•••• Rafer Johnson participated in Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968 and was present when Kennedy was assassinated. Johnson helped subdue the gunman, Sirhan Sirhan. 
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• 115- Filmschoolfest Munich takes place, Nov. 12 - 22.
This year no waiting in queue to watch international films: FILMSCHOOLFEST will be streaming worldwide. 
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• 115- 2020 American Music Awards celebrates 48th edition
Los Angeles, CA -- KATY PERRY BRINGS 'ONLY LOVE' WITH WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE and first Award Show Performance at AMAs since giving birth to daughter Daisy Dove.
•••• Dick Cark Productions and ABC announced that singer, songwriter, and "American Idol" judge Katy Perry will light up the stage with a world premiere broadcast performance of her song "Only Love," from her most recent album Smile, at the "2020 American Music Awards" (AMAs). Hosted by Taraji P. Henson, the show will broadcast live Sunday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. EST/ PST, on ABC.
•••• Katy returns to the AMAs stage to spread a message of love and unity to her fans, adding to the anticipation of an evening of fan-favorite music. Katy is a five-time AMA winner, including the highly coveted American Music Award of Achievement in 2011, and three-time performer including her debut performance of "Firework" 10 years ago.
••••In addition to Katy, the AMAs performance lineup also includes Bad Bunny with Jhay Cortez, Billie Eilish, BTS, Dua Lipa, Jennifer Lopez and Maluma, Lil Baby, Megan Thee Stallion, and Shawn Mendes, making for a star-studded night of music.
••••The 48th annual American Music Awards will broadcast live from The Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles and is seen in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Nominees are based on key fan interactions - as reflected on the Billboard charts - including streaming, album and digital song sales, radio airplay, and social activity. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partners MRC Data and Next Big Sound, and reflect the time period of Sept. 27, 2019, through Sept. 24, 2020. The AMA winners are voted entirely by fans. Voting is now open for all AMA categories and fans can access the official voting ballot for the AMAs directly by visiting TheAMAs.com/Vote.
••••The "2020 American Music Awards" is produced by dick clark productions. Amy Thurlow, Barry Adelman, Mark Bracco, and Linda Gierahn as executive producers and Larry Klein as producer.
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• 115- Omni Cultural TV Fest's all-day event on interactive platform
Participants Will Use Personalized Avatars For A Superior Networking Experience 
•••• LOS ANGELES- PRNewswire/ - Omni Cultural TV Fest (OCTVF) in partnership with NATPE launched its second annual television festival showcasing 60 selections from thousands of submissions worldwide. As production and special events came to an abrupt halt due to COVID-19, OCTVF found an innovative way to execute this year's festival using an interactive platform at an all-day event on December 8, 2020.
•••• The inaugural all-day event last year attracted more than 6000 participants at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. This year, OCTVF partnered with the nonprofit organization S.T.R.E.A.M. Global Innovations, creators of the "virtual world" platform that allows live streamed content and offers interactive access to guests.
•••• Using their computers, guests will create an avatar to "walk" through the sponsor expo, attend panel discussions, screenings and an award show. They will be able to ask questions, network, and set up private meetings as if they were at the live festival. Participants using smart phones will have access to panels and shows.
•••• To date, the festival has been instrumental in getting five projects distributed through ShortsTV, a movie deal with Maverick Entertainment, and pitch meetings with GRB, Disney, and All 3 Media, and fulfill requests to view participants' content from prominent networks and studios.
•••• Festival supporters include Anannke Entertainment, Nickelodeon, Viacom, A&E, Lifetime, The History Channel, The Nacelle Company, CBS Diversity, NBC/Telemundo, Spectrum TV1, Azteca TV International, MGM Television, NYWIFT, Greenlight Women, HRTS, Vimeo, Latin Heat, TVMas, Latin Business Today, Maverick Entertainment, Serqet Production, JEAR Entertainment, The Dominican Republic Film Commision (DGCine).
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• 115- The American Film Market 2020 Online
•••• Los Angeles, CA -- The American Film Market (AFM®) is marketing its 2020 edition online, announced the Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®). 
•••• AFM 2020 Online will run over five days, Monday, November 9 -- Friday, November 13, shifting one week later than originally scheduled, so as not to overlap with Election Day in the United States. This year will be the 41st market with 72 sessions; 200+ speakers; 2 stages to give the global film community the opportunities to meet, share knowledge, collaborate, and discover tomorrow's films as they do every year in Santa Monica."
•••• AFM's Networking Pavilion presented by Film Liaisons in California Statewide ( FLICS) will be the most interactive experience for attendees to connect. Over 50 video discussions every hour will offer endless opportunities to join small groups that share vision, passion, and goals. Whether you are a producer, writer or filmmaker &endash; or any industry professional, AFM's Conferences, Panels, Workshops, Classes, Conversations and Presentations are serving as a guide in taking your film from concept to screen while navigating the rapidly evolving industry.
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• 115- CES 2021
• 115- Digital Hollywood - 2021
•••• Will take place at the world's most influential technology event for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. CES 2021 will be all-digital this year and is expected to have over 150,000 attendees worldwide. CES will take place January 11-14, 2021, and Digital Hollywood will be All-Digital and Online on the final day of CES, Thursday, January 14.
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• 14th Annual German Currents Film Festival
•••• Presented from November 9th -15th as a virtual cinema event, German Currents 2020 will showcase an exciting and diverse selection of award-winning films and engaging filmmaker discussions, representing the best of current German Cinema. 
•••• 10 Award-winning films will be showcased during the festival. Films by celebrated German filmmakers Christian Petzold (UNDINE), Caroline Link (WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT), and Jan-Ole Gerster (LARA) will be part of this year's line-up. The festival will also spotlight the North America Premiere of the light-hearted and fun musical I'VE NEVER BEEN TO NEW YORK.
•••• Cinema has the unique power to bring people from all walks of life together to learn, discuss, and engage in a dialogue with the world around us. Over the history of German Currents, the festival has presented groundbreaking and thought-provoking films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and has offered a platform for audiences in Southern California to discover these films together. 
Although there is no gathering in the cinema this year, the new and exciting format of a virtual cinema event offers audiences from all over California and across the US the opportunity to watch the best of current German film. In addition to the 10 award-winning films, a selection of Short Tiger Award-winning short films, filmmaker discussions and more will round out the program.
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115- Kane Brown, Swae Lee and Khalid team up to perform "Be Like That" plus a special performace from Doja Cat at 2020 Billboard Music Awards
LOS ANGELES, CA -- dick clark productions and NBC today announced new performers for the "2020 Billboard Music Awards," including superstars Doja Cat, Kane Brown, Swae Lee and Khalid. Hosted by Kelly Clarkson, the "2020 Billboard Music Awards" (BBMAs) will broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.
•••• Three-time 2020 BBMA nominee Kane Brown joins fellow nominees Swae Lee (4 nominations) and Khalid (12 nominations), tied for third-most nominations this year, for a world premiere performance of "Be Like That." Doja Cat, a first-time nominee this year, will make her BBMA debut performance with a medley of chart-topping hits.
•••• Previously announced "2020 Billboard Music Awards" performers include Alicia Keys, Bad Bunny, BTS, Luke Combs, En Vogue, Demi Lovato, Sia, Post Malone and SAINt JHN. Garth Brooks will receive the elite ICON Award, joining only eight other artists who have received the honor, and take the stage for a highly anticipated performance.
•••• Fan-voted categories this year include Billboard Chart Achievement Award, Top Social Artist and Top Collaboration. Voting is now open and available on TikTok, this year's primary voting platform, reflecting its increasing impact on music and role as a staging ground for chart-topping hits.
•••• "Billboard Music Awards" nominees and winners are based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital song sales, streaming, radio airplay, touring and social engagement, tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including MRC Data/Nielsen Music. The awards are based on the chart period of March 23, 2019 through March 14, 2020. Since 1940, the Billboard charts have been the go-to guide for ranking the popularity of artists, songs and albums, and are the ultimate measure of success in music.
•••• The "2020 Billboard Music Awards" are sponsored by TikTok and Xfinity and produced by dick clark productions. Amy Thurlow, Mark Bracco, Barry Adelman, Linda Gierahn, Kelly Clarkson and Robert Deaton are executive producers.
• About Dick Clark Productions:
dick clark productions (dcp) is the world's largest producer and proprietor of televised live event entertainment programming with the "Academy of Country Music Awards," "American Music Awards," "Billboard Music Awards," "Golden Globe Awards," "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" and the "Streamy Awards." Weekly television programming includes "So You Think You Can Dance" from 19 Entertainment and dcp. dcp also owns one of the world's most extensive and unique entertainment archive libraries with more than 60 years of award-winning shows, historic programs, specials, performances and legendary programming. dcp is part of MRC Live & Alternative, a division of diversified global entertainment company MRC.
• For additional information, visit www.mrcentertainment.com
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• AFI-FEST goes virtual, for its 34th edition, Oct 15 - 22
WORLD PREMIERES AT AFI FEST 2020
•••• Instead of hosting glitzy premieres at its usual site at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Holllywood,
this year people across the nation can be part of and enjoy the festival from their own home &endash; including 8 World Premieres!
•••• AFI's eight-day festival showcases the best in world cinema and features films, panels and conversations with both master filmmakers and new voices to enthusiastic audiences in Los Angeles. Now in its 34th year, the 2020 edition of AFI FEST presented by Audi takes place online October 15-22, 2020
•••• The virtual edition will have the same programming structure as previous years with sections highlighting new auteurs and world cinema, as well as filmmaker conversations and the AFI Summit, a festival favorite.
•••• Michael Lumpkin, Director of AFI Festivals, and his team already have one virtual festival under their belts: AFI DOCS. It was the first festival that shifted entirely online post-COVID, offering ticketed virtual screenings and events.
•••• Lumpkin recently said that we intentionally wanted to build a virtual version of what we usually do on the ground… the important thing is that the essential piece of any festival, the films, the voices and the stories that really are the heart of the festival, isn't changing." 

See It First! The Guide to World Premieres at FEST 2020
https://www.afi.com/news/see-it-first-your-guide-to-world-premieres-at-fest-2020/
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• 113- Happy Anniversary, PBS
•••• On Oct. 5, 1970, the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) entered the airwaves, with KCET as one of its 190 charter member stations. PBS was created to provide educational television programming and services that reflect the diverse interests of the American people. For half a century, PBS has delivered on its promise to educate, engage, and inspire the America people. PBS became the television constant of many a lifes.
•••• PBS is the successor to National Educational Television, and its roots in education still anchor it today. There's now a 24/7 broadcast just for children, as well as a website that extends educational programming beyond the airwaves: PBS Kids offers educational games, podcasts and videos, as well as advice for parents. PBS Learning Media, for classroom teachers, links to programming that is both grade-appropriate and searchable by state and national curriculum standards.
•••• These resources are especially valuable to families without access to broadband internet
•••• Public television today enjoys unmatched public trust -- at a time when those two words have become almost an oxymoron -- perhaps because PBS is an inherently democratic institution. The United States is "a big, complex, contradictory, controversial, majestic republic," Mr. Burns said, " and at PBS we're trying to include everybody."
•••• But not by ignoring differences. PBS is not backing away in addressing the most controversial divisions of race, class, religion and politics. "The NewsHour" is not just an in-depth recap of the day's events; it's also a careful exploration of the full range of issues surrounding those events. "Sesame Street" is not just an entertaining way for small children to learn numbers and letters; it's also a way for them to learn about the many cultures that make up American life.
•••• A canvas of communal experiences comes from Mr. Burns's own films. From their wide-ranging subjects (the Civil War, national parks, cancer, baseball, jazz, the Dust Bowl, the Vietnam War, the Brooklyn Bridge, country music, etc.) to their diverse central figures (the Roosevelts, Mark Twain, Huey Long, Jackie Robinson and others), this body of work is, collectively, nothing less than the story of the country itself. And it could have found a home only on PBS. "I've been making films about the U.S. for more than 40 years, but I've also been making films about us -- that is to say, the lowercase two-letter plural pronoun," Mr. Burns said. "And when you fully invest in that, you understand that there's only us. There's no 'them.'"
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PBS, with more than 330 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and digital content. Each month, PBS reaches over 120 million people through television and 26 million people online, inviting them to experience the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; and to take front row seats to world-class drama and performances. PBS' broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industry's most coveted award competitions. Teachers of children from pre-K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life. Decades of research confirms that PBS' premier children's media service, PBS KIDS, helps children build critical literacy, math and social-emotional skills, enabling them to find success in school and life. Delivered through member stations, PBS KIDS offers high-quality educational content on TV -- including a 24/7 channel, online at pbskids.org, via an array of mobile apps and in communities across America. More information about PBS is available at www.pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org websites on the internet, or by following PBS on Twitter, Facebook or through our apps for mobile and connected devices.
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• 114- October 4, marks the 50th anniversary of Janice Joplin's death By Maria Ludwig
•••• Her death was ruled an accident. A heroin overdose. Joplin died at the Landmark Hotel, at the corner of Franklin and North Sycamore in Hollywood, known now as the Highland Garden. She was only 27 when she was found in Room 105 on Ooct. 4, 1970. That was just three weeks after guitarist Jimi Hendrix died in London and nine months before Jim Morrison of the Doors died in Paris.
•••• Janice Joplin was known as the "hippie queen of show business, the biggest female star in the history of rock'n' roll when she died.
•••• Every time I pass the hotel in Hollywood I keep thinking of the day in Germany when my teenage stepson Keith came running into the room excitedly calling out loud "Janice Joplin died!" Obviously along with Led Zepplin she was a favorite of him. He is not with us any longer either, having gone from this life at a very young age, and that's why when passing what is now the Highland Garden I can't put the scene out of my mind. A young teenager almost shouting in disbelief about the death of a young singer.
•••• Influenced by artists like Bessie Smith, Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin, she possessed a command of blues styling, phraseology and melody. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and voted number 28 in Rolling Stone's greatest singers of all time in 2008.
•••• The origins of music are rooted in the emotional expression of the human voice. Expressive musical performances have been shown to activate the emotional centres of our brains.
•••• Joplin had a powerful and commanding voice. While she wasn't singing the protest songs of her contemporaries like Bob Dylan, a sense of protest comes through in her expression, her choice of repertoire. She was willing to express the deepest of human emotions -- emotions not easily allowed nor expressed in certain societies.
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• 106- US PresidentDonald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19
Washington, DC - On Friday, October 2, 2020, President Donald Trump announced that he and Melania Trump had tested positive for Covid-19. He was transported to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment.
•••• Many of the Trump aides or contacts who have recently tested positive for Covid-19 attended the White House festivities honoring Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on September 26, in the Rose Garden.
•••• At least seven people attending the event, including the President and first lady, have tested positive. University of Notre Dame President the Rev. John Jenkins, former counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway and Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who were seated relatively close to each other, tested positive. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also tested positive and checked himself into the hospital Saturday as a precautionary measure, because he has asthma.
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•106- PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
Location: Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio
Date: Tuesday, September 29, at 8 pm.
Time: 9-10:30 p.m. ET (6-7:30
The debate was moderated by Chris Wallace, anchor of Fox News Sunday.
•••• The United States presidential debates between the major candidates in the United States presidential election are being sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debate.
The CPD has sponsored general election presidential debates in every election since 1988.
•• The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is a nonprofit corporation established in 1987 under the joint sponsorship of the Democratic and Republican
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•••• Some 73 million people tuned in s to the first debate between US President Donald Trump and his White House challenger Joe Biden, according to Nielsen.
•••• The TV viewership for Tuesday's clash was lower than the 2016 debates, but final streaming counts are pending.
•••• The 2016 showdown between Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton, pulling in 84 million viewers, setting a new record in the sixty year history of televised presidential debates.
•••• That one shattered the previous viewership record of 80.6 million set in the 1980 Reagan-Carter debate.
•••• The Super Bowl 2020 had close to100 million viewers this year.
•••• President Trump on Wednesday responded to the preliminary numbers by saying "some day these Fake Media Companies are going to miss me, very badly".
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•106- VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) are slated to square off one-time-only at Kingsbury Hall on President's Circle
Premieres: Wednesday, October 7, 9:00 p.m. ET
PBS NewsHour provides coverage and analysis of the vice presidential candidate debate.
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• 114- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington surrounded by family.
•••• "Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice."
•••• Architect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member. Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, and it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.
••••Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
••••She knew what was to come. Ginsburg's death will have profound consequences for the court and the country. Inside the court, not only is the leader of the liberal wing gone, but with the court about to open a new term, the chief justice no longer holds the controlling vote in closely contested cases.
••••Though Roberts has a consistently conservative record in most cases, he has split from fellow conservatives in a few important ones this year, casting his vote with liberals, for instance, to protect at least temporarily the so-called DREAMers from deportation by the Trump administration, to uphold a major abortion precedent and to uphold bans on large church gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. But with Ginsburg gone, there is no clear court majority for those outcomes.
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• 101- TV/Film Production to Resume
Protocols based on "The Safe Way Forward"
Los Angeles -- September 21 - The unions representing casts and crews today announced they have reached an agreement with the major studios on protocols to allow the industry to safely re-open. The protocols pave the way for creative workers, who have been hard hit by the pandemic, to resume their crafts and livelihoods in workplaces redesigned around their health. Guiding principles include strictly enforced testing regimens and safety protocols, a zone-based system, and diligent use of personal protective equipment (PPE). The new measures will be implemented by employers in order to minimize the risk of transmission. To ensure workers' livelihoods are not burdened with added uncertainty during the pandemic, the agreement also includes COVID-19 sick leave and quarantine pay.  
•••• The agreement is the outcome of unprecedented coordination and solidarity between the Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and the Basic Crafts, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). This group worked with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for months to develop science-based protocols to minimize the risk of transmission, designed with the unique work environments of film and television production in mind. 
•••• The new guidelines are based on "The Safe Way Forward" report released by the unions in June, and developed in consultation with leading epidemiologists and experts; as well as the preceding industry white paper[1] delivered to state governments and agencies to examine the resumption of production. 
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• 115- The American Film Market resets 2020 Edition as online event
•••• Los Angeles, CA -- The American Film Market (AFM®) will bring its 2020 edition online, the Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®) announced. AFM 2020 Online will run over five days, Monday, November 9 -- Friday, November 13, shifting one week later than originally scheduled, so as not to overlap with Election Day in the United States. This year will be the 41st market.
•••• "By making this announcement four months in advance, AFM's stakeholders can move forward and plan with certainty," said Michael Ryan, Chairman, IFTA and Partner, GFM Films. "AFM 2020 Online will give the global film community the opportunities that are always critical to our success -- to meet, share knowledge, collaborate, and discover tomorrow's films as they do every year in Santa Monica."
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72nd Emmy Winners
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	• Outstanding lead actor in a limited series or TV movie Jeremy Irons ("Watchmen") Hugh Jackman ("Bad Education") Paul Mescal ("Normal People") Jeremy Pope ("Hollywood") Mark Ruffalo ("I Know This Much Is True") WINNER • Outstanding lead actress in a limited series or TV movie Cate Blanchett ("Mrs. America") Shira Haas ("Unorthodox") Regina King ("Watchmen") WINNER Octavia Spencer ("Self Made") Kerry Washington ("Little Fires Everywhere") • Outstanding lead actor in a comedy series Anthony Anderson ("Black-ish") Don Cheadle ("Black Monday") Ted Danson ("The Good Place") Michael Douglas ("The Kominsky Method") Eugene Levy ("Schitt's Creek") WINNER Ramy Youssef ("Ramy") • Outstanding lead actress in a comedy series Christina Applegate ("Dead to Me") Rachel Brosnahan ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") Linda Cardellini ("Dead to Me") Catherine O'Hara ("Schitt's Creek") WINNER Issa Rae ("Insecure") Tracee Ellis Ross ("Black-ish") • Outstanding lead actor in a drama series Jason Bateman ("Ozark") Sterling K. Brown ("This Is Us") Steve Carell ("The Morning Show") Brian Cox ("Succession") Billy Porter ("Pose") Jeremy Strong ("Succession") WINNER Outstanding lead actress in a drama series Jennifer Aniston ("The Morning Show") Olivia Colman ("The Crown") Jodie Comer ("Killing Eve") Laura Linney ("Ozark") Sandra Oh ("Killing Eve") Zendaya ("Euphoria") - WINNER Supporting Actor in a Drama Billy Crudup, "The Morning Show" WINNER Supporting Actress in a limited series or movie Uzo Aduba, "Mrs America" WINNER Supporting Actor in a limited series or movie Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, "Watchmen" WINNER Outstanding reality/competition series "The Masked Singer" "Nailed It"  "RuPaul's Drag Race" WINNER  "Top Chef"  "The Voice"		• Outstanding variety talk series "Daily Show with Trevor Noah"  "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee"  "Jimmy Kimmel Live"  "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" WINNER "Late Show with Stephen Colbert"  • Outstanding limited Series "Little Fires Everywhere" "Mrs. America"  "Unbelievable"  "Unorthodox" "Watchmen" WINNER • Outstanding comedy series "Curb Your Enthusiasm"  "Dead to Me"  "The Good Place"  "Insecure"  "The Kominsky Method"  "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" "Schitt's Creek" WINNER "What We Do in the Shadows" • Outstanding drama series "Better Call Saul" "The Crown" "The Handmaid's Tale"  "Killing Eve" "The Mandalorian" "Ozark"  "Succession" - WINNER ""Stranger Things DIRECTING Dircting comedy series Andrew Cividino and Dan Levy, "Schitt's Creek" WINNER Directing drama series AndrijParekh, "Succession" WINNER Directing limited series or movie Maria Schrader, "Unorthodox" WINNER WRITING Writing, comedy series Dan Levy, "Schitt's Creek" WINNER Writing drama series Jesse Armstrong, "Succession" WINNER Writing, limited series or movie Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson, "This Extraordinary Being" WINNER Governors Award Tyler Perry MORE at Emmys.com

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• 101- TV/Film Production to Resume
Protocols based on "The Safe Way Forward"
Los Angeles -- September 21 - The unions representing casts and crews today announced they have reached an agreement with the major studios on protocols to allow the industry to safely re-open. The protocols pave the way for creative workers, who have been hard hit by the pandemic, to resume their crafts and livelihoods in workplaces redesigned around their health. Guiding principles include strictly enforced testing regimens and safety protocols, a zone-based system, and diligent use of personal protective equipment (PPE). The new measures will be implemented by employers in order to minimize the risk of transmission. To ensure workers' livelihoods are not burdened with added uncertainty during the pandemic, the agreement also includes COVID-19 sick leave and quarantine pay.  
•••• The agreement is the outcome of unprecedented coordination and solidarity between the Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and the Basic Crafts, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). This group worked with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for months to develop science-based protocols to minimize the risk of transmission, designed with the unique work environments of film and television production in mind. 
•••• The new guidelines are based on "The Safe Way Forward" report released by the unions in June, and developed in consultation with leading epidemiologists and experts; as well as the preceding industry white paper[1] delivered to state governments and agencies to examine the resumption of production. 
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• 115- CALIFORNIA JAZZ & BLUES MUSEUM BARBARA MORRISON presents a viral streaming event.
The 3rd annual California Jazz & Blues Museum Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Concert Fundraiser will take place on Sept. 20, emceed by Jay Jackson & Albert Edmund Lord III, and directed and choreographed by Chester Whitmore.
••••• The 3rd Annual Hall of Fame Honorees Include: Howard Banchik, George Bohanon, Dante Chambers, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis,Jr., Roy Gaines, Marla Gibbs, Gloria Hendry, Freda Payne, Mickey Stevenson, Blinky Williams & Phil Wright;
••••• With Performances By: Barbara Morrison, Vocalist; Dante Chambers, Vocalist
Instrumental Quartet:  Charles Small, Guitar; Michael Saucier, Bass;
Peter Buck, Drums & Bernie Pearl, Guitar; and the L.A. Swing Dance Posse

••••• Aside from her prolific career as a renowned Jazz & Blues Singer, Barbara Morrison also serves as the Founder and President of the California Jazz & Blues Museum.
••••• Barbara Morrison said, "The 3rd Annual California Jazz & Blues Museum Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Concert is a viral fundraiser for our new up and coming 21,000 square-foot facility, the California Jazz & Blues Museum and Performing Arts Complex, which will be located at 4299 Leimert Boulevard at 43rd Street in Leimert Park, CA.  We have outgrown our former 2,000 square foot space we were in, and now it is time for expansion.  The space where there was once an auto repair shop, a dry cleaners and a gas station, will now be converted into a Performing Arts Complex.  We are hopeful, given the current pandemic, that we might be able to open sometime in 2021."
•••••  The California Jazz & Blues Museum and Performing Arts Complex will house state-of-the-art recording studios, classrooms, a Green Room, an outside Jazz Alley, a 200-seat theatre and the Museum itself, which will become a repository of artifacts chronicling the history of legendary Jazz & Blues artists, and the contributions they have made to the music industry.
•••••  Barbara Morrison continued, "In our newly expanded Museum we will have an interactive digital section which will give visitors an opportunity to learn more about the vast historical collection of Jazz & Blues available in both the Museum, and throughout Los Angeles.  We will also have naming rights for each different area located within the new complex."
•••••   Barbara Morrison, Vocalist and Event Producer; Jay Jackson and Alfred Edmund Lord III, Event Emcees; Dante Chambers, Vocalist; Charles Small, Guitar; Michael Saucier, Bass; Peter Buck, Drums; Bernie Pearl, Guitar; Chester Whitmore, Director and Choreographer; B'ANCA, Assistant Director and Camera Two; Ross Jordan, Streaming Coordinator and Camera One; Tim Morganfield, Technical Coordinator and Sound; Emmanuel Abdul, Camera Three; Foxy Brown, Camera Four; Alan Shay, Event Videographer; Ian Foxx, Event Photographer and Steve Moyer Public Relations, Event Publicist.
•••••    About Barbara Morrision: To learn more about Barbara Morrison and The Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center, please visit her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/barbaramorrisonpac/@bmorrblues
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• 106- SAG-AFTRA CONDEMNS THE ARREST OF JOURNALIST JOSIE HUANG
LOS ANGELES (September 14, 2020) -- SAG-AFTRA today released the following statement regarding the arrest of KPCC journalist Josie Huang on Saturday:
•••• This past Saturday, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department deputies tackled, held down, handcuffed and arrested SAG-AFTRA member Josie Huang, a public media journalist with radio station KPCC. Huang was visibly credentialed as a working journalist and verbally identified herself as a member of the press. She had done nothing to warrant questioning much less arrest.
•••• This is another deeply troubling interaction in a string of police arrests and often violent attacks on working journalists who are abiding by the law and simply trying to do their jobs.
•••• SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris said, "These unconstitutional attacks on the rights of a free press are appalling and must stop now. SAG-AFTRA champions the U. S. Constitution and the work of our journalist members, whose primary role is to provide citizens with the information they need to effectively govern a democracy."
•••• "The people's right to a free press is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution, which establishes that the press shall be free from government interference in the dissemination of information, ideas and opinions," Carteris added.
•••• SAG-AFTRA National Vice President, Broadcasters and journalist Bob Butler said, "Reporters cover the news so that the public is informed. It is outrageous that sheriff's deputies arrested Huang, whose station identification was clearly displayed while she identified herself as a journalist several times." 
•••• SAG-AFTRA and our members, journalists and non-journalists alike, support a free and unencumbered press and stand with any journalist who might find his or her ability to report on our government challenged or compromised.  
•••• SAG-AFTRA is calling on the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department to drop all charges and apologize to Josie Huang.

• Statement issued by our member journalists at KPCC: 
•••• "We offer condolences to the two sheriff deputies who were shot Saturday evening. These are challenging and stressful times for everyone, but Josie was arrested while doing her job. The charges should be dropped. Her arrest is the latest in a series of troubling interactions between our reporters and some local law enforcement officers. Journalists provide an essential service, providing fair, accurate and timely journalism and without them, our democracy is at risk."
•••• We unreservedly condemn the vicious attack on the deputies in Compton Saturday night and hope that their assailant is caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We send our heartfelt wishes for the deputies' full and complete recoveries, and express our deep gratitude to them and to their colleagues who work to keep our communities safe while respecting our rights as citizens in a democratic society.

For firsthand reporting on Huang's arrest, visit: https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1305331513592967168

To find out more about the First Amendment and the rights of a free press, visit: https://www.sagaftra.org/importance-free-press and https://www.spj.org/
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• 115-LA Auto Show Rescheduled To May of 2021
LOS ANGELES -- The LA Auto Show® held annually at the Los Angeles Convention Center will move six months into the spring of 2021. Originally planned for November 20-29, 2020, the Public Show will now be held on May 21-31, 2021. Press Days (also known as AutoMobility LA™) have been rescheduled from November 18-19, 2020 to May 19-20, 2021.
•••• "We are appreciative for the continued support from the LA Convention Center, the City of Los Angeles and all of our automotive partners," said Lisa Kaz CEO of the LA Auto Show. "Memorial Day Weekend is a fantastic time for enhanced outdoor activations and product debuts. The LA weather creates exciting new opportunities for a spring show."
•••• As an essential force in the new car sales ecosystem so vital to the Los Angeles economy, the new show dates provide a much-needed boost to local dealerships at a critical time. "We are extremely excited for the May dates of the LA Auto Show. The Memorial Day Holiday is always an important time for our dealerships. We eagerly anticipate the excitement the show creates amongst consumers, who look forward to experiencing the newest vehicles live and in-person," said David Ellis, President of the Greater Los Angeles New Car Dealers Association (GLANCDA).
•••• In keeping with its long-standing reputation as a premier global automotive event, attendees can expect to see the newest and hottest vehicles as well as experience engaging interactive exhibits, test drives and outdoor activations. While continuing to create a memorable and fun experience, the well-being of attendees and overall community remains the top priority of show organizers.

About the LA Auto Show:
Founded in 1907, the LA Auto Show®, one of the world's premier auto shows and cherished LA icon will take place May 21-31, 2021 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. AutoMobility LA, the show's Press and Trade Days will take place May 19-20, 2021. AutoMobility LA is where the auto industry unveils groundbreaking new vehicle and tech innovations, while making strategic announcements in front of media and industry professionals from around the globe. The LA Auto Show is endorsed by the Greater LA New Car Dealers Association and is owned and operated by ANSA Productions.
To receive the latest show news and information, follow the LA Auto Show on Twitter,Facebook or Instagramand sign up for alerts at http://www.laautoshow.com/. For more information about AutoMobility LA, please visit http://www.automobilityla.com/ and follow AutoMobility LA on Twitter,Facebook or Instagram.
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• 101-Masters of Illusion Returns on the CW
Hollywood, CA &endash; MASTERS OF ILLUSION, hosted by Dean Cain, will return for Week Sixteen of their seventh anniversary season on The CW with two 30-minute encore episodes airing back to back on Friday, September 4, 2020.
       MASTERS OF ILLUSION features amazing magic performed by 45 acts, including 46 diverse national and international cutting-edge illusionists, escape artists and performers, 10 of which are women. performed by cutting-edge illusionists, escape artists and performers displaying skills ranging from perplexing interactive mind magic to hilarious comedy routines &emdash; all in front of a studio audience.  
•••• MASTERS OF ILLUSION airing Friday, September 4, 2020 at 8/7c on The CW, "Cell Phone Hack, Water Torture, and Alonzo's Shop of Horrors" in an encore presentation starring magicians Naathan Phan, Anna DeGuzman, Richard Turner, Ed Alonzo and Titou, followed by an encore presentation at 8:30/7:30c of "The Sound of Magic and the Intrusive Rope" starring magicians Chris Funk, Shoot Ogawa, Håkan Berg, Chipper Lowell, Nick Dopuch and My Uyên.  
•••• MASTERS OF ILLUSION is produced by Associated Television International (ATI) with returning Executive Producers David McKenzie, Gay Blackstone, David Martin, and Al Schwartz, along with Co-Executive Producer Jim Romanovich.
•••• To view a performance highlight of the September 4th Encore episode airing from 8:30 &endash; 9:00 p.m., please visit:  (Highlight of Chipper Lowell) https://vimeo.com/425998610/489f49176c  
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• 106- Red Cross LA Sends Volunteers to Northern California for Wildfire Response
LOS ANGELES, August 26, 2020 -- The American Red Cross Los Angeles Region concludes its immediate Lake Fire relief operations following the announcement that evacuation orders have been lifted. Caseworkers will continue to virtually support those affected as they begin the recovery process. The organization now shifts its focus to support Northern California as wildfires continue to spread across the state, with hundreds of thousands of acres burned and many more under threat.
••••• When the Lake Fire began on Aug. 12, the Red Cross mobilized its disaster workforce to aid those affected. Red Cross volunteers supported three evacuation points, providing snacks, water and shelter for anyone fleeing the fire. The Red Cross provided hotel lodging for more than 20 evacuees, delivering service in accordance with COVID-19 safety precautions. At the hotel, Lake Fire evacuees received constant care from Red Cross volunteers, including daily health checks, disaster mental health support and meals. In addition, the Red Cross provided emergency supplies and assistance returning to their homes.

 The Red Cross provided 179 overnight hotel stays and served more than 980 meals and snacks.

 Residents impacted by the Lake Fire, who still are in need of assistance, can contact the local Red Cross at 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

 VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED

Wildfires in Northern California continue, with hundreds of thousands of acres burned and many more under threat. The Red Cross has set up several shelters for those evacuating providing a safe place for more than 3,100 people.
•••••  However, we need help as the fires are predicted to continue to go and more people will need support. Those in good health and willing to deploy for a period of up to 14 days to support the shelters and evacuation sites in Northern California are urged to sign up and start their training today for one of two volunteer roles: Shelter services or health services.
••••• The Red Cross strictly follows and enforces all COVID safety guidelines provided by the CDC and the Department of Health Services. 

People need your help. The Red Cross workforce on the ground needs your help. Please sign up and volunteer. Visit redcross.org/la today or email volunteerservices.losangeles.ca@redcross.org.

RETURNING HOME AFTER A WILDFIRE

• •• Don't return home until officials say it's safe to do so.
• •• Inspect the roof immediately and extinguish any sparks or embers. Wildfires may have left embers that could reignite.
• •• Check your home for embers that could cause fires. Look for signs of a fire including smoke or sparks.
• •• Avoid damaged or downed power lines, poles and wires.
• •• Keep your animals under your direct control. Hidden embers and hot spots could burn them.
• •• Wet down debris to minimize breathing in dust particles.
• •• Follow public health guidance on safe cleanup of fire ash and safe use of masks.
• •• Wear leather gloves and shoes with heavy soles.
• •• Throw out any food that has been exposed to heat, smoke or soot.
• •• Download the free Red Cross Emergency App for more preparedness tips and safety checklists, localizable alerts, Shelter Locator and more. 

Please follow @RedCrossLA on Twitter for the latest updates. Visit redcross.org/wildfire for information on how to prepare for, respond to and recover from wildfires.

 About the American Red Cross:
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation's blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org/la or visit us on Twitter at @RedCrossLA.
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• Califoria is Burning - Wild Fires out of control.
•••• President Donald J. Trump Approves Major Disaster Declaration for California 
WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of California to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by wildfires from Aug. 14 and continuing. 
•••• The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Lake, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo counties.  Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.?   
•••• Federal funding is also available to the state, tribal, eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency protective measures by wildfire in Lake, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo counties. 
•••• Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide. 
•••• Willie G. Nunn has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. Damage assessments are continuing in other areas, and more counties and additional forms of assistance may be designated after the assessments are fully completed. 
•••• Individuals and business owners who sustained losses in the designated area can begin applying for assistance tomorrow by registering online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov or by calling 1-800-621- 3362 or 1-800-462-7585 TTY.
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• 115- The annual China International Import Expo keen to throw open more doors to multinationals
Multinational companies are banking on the forthcoming China International Import Expo from Nov. 5 - 10 to shwocase their confidence in the country's economic resilience.
•••• The annual CIIE wil take place at the Shanghai National Exhibition and Convention Center, (NECC) located at No. 168 East Yinggang Road, Shanghai, China.
•••• The scheduled hosting of the 3rd CIIE represents a steady recovery and longterm momentum of the Chinese exonomy as COVID-19 gets effecively controlled.
•••• By now, more than 1,000 enterprises have applied or registered to attend the expo, including about 200 Fortune 500 companies, and more companies are expected to join the event. The exhibition area has surpassed 270,000 square meters, according to data from the CIIE Bureau.
••••It is a significant move for the Chinese government to hold CIIE to give firm support to trade liberalization and economic globalization and actively open the Chinese market to the world. It facilitates countries and regions all over the world to strengthen economic cooperation and trade, and o promote global trade and world economic growth in order to make the world economy more open
••••The exhibition hall covers technology, automobiles, equipment, medical instruments and medical care, service trade, food and agriculture.
••••As the world's first national-level import exposition, CIIE provides a platform for companies to display their products, popularize their brands, and find more business partners in the world's second-largest economy.
•••• CIIE is also an important avenue for new product launches of such as the cosmetics company Estee Lauder, the tire maker Michelin, and the scientific services company Thermo Fishers.
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• 115- AFI Fest joins an array of festivals and conventions in going virtual in 2020.
•••• The revised fall festival corridor in the age of COVID has continued to take shape with recent announcements of hybrid virtual/physical events from Venice, Toronto and New York, along with the outright cancellation of Telluride. Now, L.A.'s own AFI Fest will officially be a virtual event when it takes place Oct. 15-22.
•••• Continuing their Thursday to Thursday run but moving up a month from their most recent dates in November, festival organizers plan to have much of the same programming structure as in past years, including sections dedicated to world cinema and new auteurs. According to Michael Lumpkin, director of AFI festivals, where other festivals are drastically scaling back the number of films being screened, AFI Fest will likely only have a 10% to 20% reduction in the number of titles presented, if any reduction at all. (The event screened more than 140 titles in 2019.)
•••• The organizers of AFI Fest have one advantage over other fall fests making the switch to virtual events -- they have already done it. The AFI Docs festival, based out of Washington, D.C., took place in June with ticketed virtual screenings and events. Michael Lumpkin, director of AFI Festials, noted that attendance was actually higher than in years past, drawing viewers from all 50 states, without the logistics of theater bookings and seat capacity.
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• 115- Los Angeles Festival Of Books Goes Virtual
•••• The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is opening a virtual chapter this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After being postponed from April to October, the 25th Festival of Books, Stories & Ideas will take place as a communitywide gathering online instead of being held on the University of Southern California campus, The Times announced.
•••• The virtual event launches Sunday, October 18, and continuing over the course of four weeks, The Times will celebrate storytelling with author panels, readings, and other events.
•••• Over the years, festivalgoers have listened to Eric Carle read about a ravenous caterpillar; the late Congressman John Lewis discuss his lifelong work for racial equality; Julie Andrews reminisce about the Swiss Alps; Luis J. Rodriguez wax poetic about life in Los Angeles; Viet Thanh Nguyen expound reclaiming historical narratives; Padma Lakshmi dish on food and life.
•••• This year, the festival will make that kind of inspiration accessible from home.
•••• The programming schedule will be announced in mid-September. For details, go to latimes.com/FestivalofBooks and follow the festival on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (#bookfest).
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• CES 2021 Canceled Over COVID-19, Moves to Online Format
••• The Consumers Electronics Show (CES) 2021, originally slated for January 6-9-2021 will not be held in Las Vegas, but presented "an all-digital experience," according to the show organizer, the Consumer Technology Association ( CTA).
••• The show takes place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is located just off the Strip and attracts thousands of attendees every year, bolstering the economy and employing many along the way.
•••• Industry professionals get a look at the latest and greatest in consumer technology and products before they're available for purchase to the general public. Typically, Las Vegas hotel rooms are filled to capacity and restaurants, casinos, and other nearby businesses reap the benefits.
•••• "With the growing global health concerns about the spread of COVID-19, it is not possible to safely convene tens of thousands of people in Las Vegas in early January 2021 to meet and do business in person.
•••• "An all-digital CES 2021 will allow the entire tech community to safely share ideas and introduce the products that will shape our future. You'll be able to participate in all the awe-inspiring moments of CES wherever you are in the world. We are designing a unique experience for the tech industry."
•••• The digital CES experience will include keynotes and conferences, an online product showcase, meetings, and opportunities for networking. It will take place the first week of January.
•••• Any show planned for 2020 has been canceled," says President of Creative Strategies Tim Bajarin, who has attended 46 CES shows. "I don't think we'll see live shows coming back until mid-2021 at the earliest."
•••• Apple successfully moved its Worldwide Developers Conference online.
•••• The Black Hat USA security conference, which provides security consulting, training, and briefings to hackers, corporations and government agencies, has moved online; it's set for early August. Dreamforce, the meeting put on by Salesforce that has previously taken over San Francisco, is set for November. And the bulk of the Republican and Democratic political conventions are expected to occur online
•••• Virtual shows, however, haven't found their usual assortment of buzz and media coverage online. The recent Comic-Con convention, a huge draw for fans of sci-fi and geek culture, was a "bust" according to Variety.
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• Primetime Emmy Awards Nomination announced
Staying closer to home in recent months has made viewers all more loyal to their favorite television series. Nominations for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards presented a diverse mix.
•••• With old favorites like "Game of Thrones" and "Veep" out of contention, shows like "The Mandalorian," "Insecure" and "Schitt's Creek" received multiple nods. 
•••• Leslie Jones, star of the forthcoming show "Supermarket Sweep" on ABC, was joined by Laverne Cox, Josh Gad, and Tatiana Maslany to make the virtual announcement.
•••• Netflix dominated with 160 nominations, as new services like Disney+, Apple TV+ also made their mark.
•••• This year's ceremony will take place (in some form) on Sunday, September 20 on ABC. Jimmy Kimmel is set to host.

72nd Emmy Nominations By Josie Cory
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	• Outstanding lead actor in a limited series or TV movie Jeremy Irons ("Watchmen") Hugh Jackman ("Bad Education") Paul Mescal ("Normal People") Jeremy Pope ("Hollywood") Mark Ruffalo ("I Know This Much Is True") • Outstanding lead actress in a limited series or TV movie Cate Blanchett ("Mrs. America") Shira Haas ("Unorthodox") Regina King ("Watchmen") Octavia Spencer ("Self Made") Kerry Washington ("Little Fires Everywhere") • Outstanding lead actor in a comedy series Anthony Anderson ("Black-ish") Don Cheadle ("Black Monday") Ted Danson ("The Good Place") Michael Douglas ("The Kominsky Method") Eugene Levy ("Schitt's Creek") Ramy Youssef ("Ramy") • Outstanding lead actress in a comedy series Christina Applegate ("Dead to Me") Rachel Brosnahan ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") Linda Cardellini ("Dead to Me") Catherine O'Hara ("Schitt's Creek") Issa Rae ("Insecure") Tracee Ellis Ross ("Black-ish") • Outstanding lead actor in a drama series Jason Bateman ("Ozark") Sterling K. Brown ("This Is Us") Steve Carell ("The Morning Show") Brian Cox ("Succession") Billy Porter ("Pose") Jeremy Strong ("Succession") Outstanding lead actress in a drama series Jennifer Aniston ("The Morning Show") Olivia Colman ("The Crown") Jodie Comer ("Killing Eve") Laura Linney ("Ozark") Sandra Oh ("Killing Eve") Zendaya ("Euphoria")		• Outstanding reality/competition series "The Masked Singer" "Nailed It"  "RuPaul's Drag Race"  "Top Chef"  "The Voice"  • Outstanding variety talk series "Daily Show with Trevor Noah"  "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee"  "Jimmy Kimmel Live"  "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver"  "Late Show with Stephen Colbert"  • Outstanding limited Series "Little Fires Everywhere" "Mrs. America"  "Unbelievable"  "Unorthodox" "Watchmen" • Outstanding comedy series "Curb Your Enthusiasm"  "Dead to Me"  "The Good Place"  "Insecure"  "The Kominsky Method"  "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" "Schitt's Creek"  "What We Do in the Shadows" • Outstanding drama series "Better Call Saul" "The Crown" "The Handmaid's Tale"  "Killing Eve" "The Mandalorian" "Ozark"  "Succession" ""Stranger Things

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• 114- Regis Philbin, long-time Talk Show Host, Dies (1931-2020)
••• Morning television personality, Regis Philbin,, known for hosting talk and game shows, died on July 24, 2020 at age 88. Having been called "the hardest working man in show business,"

Photo LtoR: Gary Sunkin, TVI news; Regis Philbin

Philbin holds the Guinness World Record for the most face time on camera when he logged his 15,600th hour in 2004.
••• •"We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away last night of natural causes, one month shy of his 89th birthday," the statement said. "His family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with him -- for his warmth, his legendary sense of humor, and his singular ability to make every day into something worth talking about. We thank his fans and admirers for their incredible support over his 60-year career and ask for privacy as we mourn his loss."
••• Raised in the Bronx before attending the University of Notre Dame, Philbin served in the Navy before his career on television began, first as host of a local talk show in San Diego, "The Regis Philbin Show." He went on to co-star on ABC talk show "The Joey Bishop Show," before hosting "The Morning Show" beginning in 1983. It was later renamed "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee," launching an iconic talk-show hosting career. Kathie Lee Gifford left the show after 15 years. In 2001, the franchise became known as "Live! with Regis and Kelly," with Regis hosting opposite Kelly Ripa. He left the show in 2011 after hosting for 23 years.
••• Morning after morning, Regis Philbin would help America brace itself for another workday with a contagious blend of enthusiasm, barbed humor and laments about the mundane ups and downs of everyday life.
••• Philbin earned numerous Emmy nominations, Lifetime Achievment Award from the Daytime Emmys, hosted New Year's Eve specials, rode in parades, and helped reinvigorate prime-time game shows with ABC's wildly popular "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," a runaway hit he hosted for three seasons starting in 1999-2002. When he stepped away for good in 2011, it was an emotional goodbye that pulled in many viewers.
••• Philbin is survived by his wife of 50 years, Joy and their two daughters J.J. Philbin and Joanna Philbin, along with daughter Amy Philbin, from his first marriage.
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  • 2021 Roseparade canceled because of the coronavirus
PASADENA, CA, (July 15, 2020) The 132nd Tournament of Roses Parade will not take place on Jan. 1, 2021, because of the coronavirus pandemic, parade officials announced Wednesday morning. It's the first time in 75 years that the parade has been canceled.
•••• The last time the parade was canceled since its inception in 1891, was only three times &endash; the wartime years of 1942, 1943 and 1945.
•••• "Like most people having never lived through a pandemic before parade officials initially hoped they'd be able to hold the parade safely but after weeks of assessment it became clear such a feat would be impossible. Instead the Tournament of Roses is looking into options for celebrating the new year in a new way.
•••• With reluctance and tremendous disappointment, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association announces that, in accordance with Governor Newsom's Phase IV re-opening schedule, and after thoughtful consideration of the restrictions and guidelines in place as a result of COVID-19, we are unable to host the 2021 Rose Parade.
•••• "The health and well-being of our parade participants and guests, as well as that of our volunteer members, professional staff and partners, is our number one priority," said Bob Miller, 2021 President of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association.
•••• While the parade itself is more than five months from now, the preparation for such a large event typically begins in February. "In addition to the advance planning required by our band and equestrian units, the construction of our floats takes many months and typically requires thousands of volunteers to gather in ways that aren't in compliance with safety recommendations and won't be safe in the coming months," said David Eads, Executive Director/CEO. "While we are extremely disappointed that we are unable to host the parade, we believe that not doing so will prevent the spread of COVID-19, as well as protect the legacy of the Rose Parade for generations to come."
•••• The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association also hosts the Rose Bowl Game each January 1. The planning for this year's Rose Bowl Game, which will serve as a College Football Playoff Semifinal, is still ongoing. "We continue to work with the College Football Playoff and our collegiate partners to explore what this year's college football season will look like amidst COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines. While the safety and well-being of the student athletes, university personnel and fans is our top priority, we remain hopeful that the Granddaddy of Them All will take place on New Year's Day," continued Eads.
•••• "I know that I speak on behalf of our 935 volunteer members, and the hundreds of thousands in our community for which the Rose Parade is an annual tradition, when I say we will miss the joy of coming together and the making of memories," said Miller. "But know that we will not miss this opportunity to celebrate a New Year and healthy new beginnings on January 1, 2021."
•••• "We all know what the Rose Parade means to us here in Pasadena, as well as to New Year celebrations around the world. To know that we won't get to experience this great tradition on January 1, 2021, is extremely disappointing. However, we also know that we must act responsibly to protect our community in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek. "We look forward to working with the Pasadena Tournament of Roses on their reimagined New Year celebration, as well as the return of the Rose Parade on January 1, 2022."
•••• In considering the options for the 2021 Rose Parade, the Tournament of Roses commissioned a feasibility and safety report for hosting the Rose Parade during the COVID-19 Pandemic, conducted by public health experts from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. That report showed that even with intensive effort to ensure compliance with public health measures such as six-foot distancing and face masks, it is likely that Rose Parade activities before, during and after the event would inevitably lead to large numbers of individuals (many of whom represent high risk groups for COVID-19 complications, such as retirees over age 60) in close proximity to each other, potentially, in some cases, without masks. This creates a high-risk environment for viral spread, including super-spreader events.
•••• Although the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association will not be hosting its 132nd  Rose Parade, they will celebrate the New Year on January 1, 2021. Working in conjunction with our broadcast partners and sponsors, the Tournament of Roses has plans underway for a new kind of New Year celebration for those across the country and around the world. "Each year, the country turns its eyes to Pasadena for America's New Year celebration and we plan to deliver on that important promise," said Eads. "We may not be able to host our traditional five-mile march down Colorado Boulevard, but we are exploring new and safe ways we can collectively share in the celebration, and we look forward to announcing further details about our exciting new plans in the coming weeks."
•••• Decisions regarding some other traditions, such as the crowning of the Tournament of Roses Royal Court, haven't been made yet. A spokeswoman said "in the next few weeks, we'll make an announcement about the Royal Court and the theme and the tournament leadership."
•••• The Rose Bowl football game on Jan. 1, however, is still planned, whether it is with a socially distanced audience or an empty stadium, Eads said.
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• The American Film Market resets 2020 Edition as online event
•••• Los Angeles, CA -- The American Film Market (AFM®) will bring its 2020 edition online, the Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®) announced. AFM 2020 Online will run over five days, Monday, November 9 -- Friday, November 13, shifting one week later than originally scheduled, so as not to overlap with Election Day in the United States. This year will be the 41st market.
•••• "By making this announcement four months in advance, AFM's stakeholders can move forward and plan with certainty," said Michael Ryan, Chairman, IFTA and Partner, GFM Films. "AFM 2020 Online will give the global film community the opportunities that are always critical to our success -- to meet, share knowledge, collaborate, and discover tomorrow's films as they do every year in Santa Monica."

•••• The full program and participation details will be unveiled later this summer.

About the American Film Market
The AFM is the most efficient film acquisition, development and networking event in the world. More than US$1 billion in production and distribution deals are closed every year &endash; on both completed films and those in every stage of development and production. Over five days in November, 7,000+ professionals from 70+ countries access the entire global catalogue of available films and projects, attend world class conferences, and connect with decision makers. The AFM is produced by the Independent Film & Television Alliance.

About the Independent Film & Television Alliance
IFTA is the global trade association for independent film and television production, finance, distribution, and sales companies. The organization represents the independent sector before governments and international bodies and provides significant entertainment industry services to more than 135 member companies from 23 countries.
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• 107- Popular local Weatherman Fritz Coleman calls it quits after 39 years delivering weather reports - By Josie Cory
•••• NBC4 said good-bye to beloved weatherman Fritz Coleman who has delivered weather forecasts at NBC4 for almost 40 years and delivered his final weather report on Friday, June 26 during the 5 pm and 11 pm news. His news anchor team Colleen Williams, Chuck Henry and sports anchor Fred Roggin offered their words of sincere thanks with Williams bearly holding back her tears.
•••• After a year of planning his retirement, Coleman decided to spend more time with his family, appreciate his good health, and dedicate more time to his comedy and working with charities. 
•••• Coleman, who works on the side as a stand-up comic, is known for mixing humor with his forecasts. Coleman joined NBC4 in 1982, and has been part of one of the longest running news anchor teams in Los Angeles, working alongside co-anchors Colleen Williams and Chuck Henry and sports anchor Fred Roggin.
•••• "This career has been a gift," Coleman said in a statement. "To work in the greatest news operation in Southern California has been the greatest experience of my life. I have also had the opportunity of raising my children, while working with a wonderful team. I have made lifelong friends at NBC4 and in the community it serves. I'm so very thankful."
••••Coleman has received numerous awards and honors for community service, including an honorary doctorate from Woodbury University in Burbank for his extensive public service in the community. He has received awards from groups such as Shelter Partnership and the California Hospital Medical Center. He was named a "Treasure of Los Angeles' by the city of L.A. and he received a congressional "Humanitarian of the Year Award" for his fundraising efforts on behalf of the American Red Cross from the U.S. House of Representatives, among other honors.
•••• Coleman is the Honorary Mayor of Toluca Lake and known to light the Christmas Tree during 'Toluca Lake's Annual Holiday Open House' ceremony at Ramsey-Shilling with with 4th District council and actor Joe Montegna often in attendance
•••• For many years he is featured as celebrity guest auctioneer at the St. Charles Borromeo annual parish festival.
•••• Coleman appreciated for his work as a stand-up comic, appearing frequently at The Improv in Hollywood and The Ice House in Pasadena. His one-man show "Defying Gravity at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood and subsequently at the Gary Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake proved a
hit among local residents. He also made several appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and other NBC shows.
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December 2016 -TVI December Issue
LA's' beloved NBC4 weatherman, Fritz Coleman is bringing his one-man stage-show back to the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood for three performances only - Sunday December, 13, 20 and 27 at 2 pm.
••••He was named "Best Weatherman" in nearly every major paper in Southern California, including the Orange County Register, the San Bernardino Sun, and four times in the Los Angeles Daily News.
••• Fitz puts on his holiday hat to share the funniest show with his hilarious insight into our BOOMER generation!
••••The show resonates with people, and Fritz has observed, "Every generation has a similar feeling as they look back, hence the term 'good old days.' But these days we're living through global threats and national politics, and people are thinking 'what the heck's going on.' So I find that my show seems to crackle with people now because it harkens back to a time when life seemed more cut and dry, less complicated, and a little easier to cope with. So I provide a little nostalgia and fun."
••••Coleman said, "I have no delusions about what my comedy is. I'm not Lenny Bruce or George Carlin. I'm not trying to push the first amendment envelope. I'm not trying to educate people politically. I don't do political jokes. Honestly, my whole wish is to give people a show where they say 'That just felt good. Thank you, it was cathartic.' The highest compliment for me is hearing that I've taken you out of your present cares, made you laugh and feel better. If that happens, I've done my job."••
• Don't miss Fritz' hilarious insight into our BOOMER generation!
•••"...Surprising, incisive and powerful." - Daily Variety
••• "The easy?going, folksy charm that has made Coleman an LA?area television news favorite for a quarter of a century also follows him to the stage. On the Fritz, simply moves the former standup comic-°©?turned newsman from one stage venue to another." - Stage Scene LA
••• "His skills go beyond finding everyday humor in various topics. His relaxed style and gift for language add depth, as though he's having a one-?one conversation," - Daily Breeze
••• "An authentic and terrific performance." - TVIMagazine.com

El Portal Theatre is a historic landmark in the San Fernando Valley located in North Hollywood in the heart of the NoHo Arts District just minutes from Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, Disney, ABC, CBS-Radford and NBC Burbank. The theatre, originally built as a vaudeville house in 1926, sits across Lankershim Blvd from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Art Institute of California-Hollywood.
For tickets and information call 818-508-4200, or go to www.elportaltheatre.com
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• SMPTE Transforms Its Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition Into an Immersive, Interactive Remote Experience
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- June 22, 2020 -- The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers®, (SMPTE®) the organization that is defining the future of storytelling, will host its annual technical conference and exhibition on Nov. 10-12 as an interactive and immersive remote experience with a rich array of learning and networking opportunities. Within this highly customizable online format, SMPTE 2020 will provide unparalleled opportunities for attendees to explore the variety of new technologies and business models shaping the future of media and entertainment. The theme for this year's event is "Game On," with one full day focused on the convergence of esports/gaming and media technology and the unique requirements of the thriving esports industry.
•••• "By eliminating traditional barriers to participation such as travel, the cost of accommodation, and scheduling conflicts, we're making SMPTE 2020 a broadly accessible and truly global conference," explained SMPTE Executive Director Barbara Lange. "We look forward to increased participation from all SMPTE Sections around the world."
•••• Attendees will be welcomed into an immersive environment that incorporates a main conference hub, meeting rooms for a chance to "ask the experts," theater space for sessions and the annual Awards Gala, and an exhibition hall with private meeting space. SMPTE 2020 will offer flexibility in accessing technical presentations, practical hands-on training, product and technology demonstrations, peer-group discussions, virtual panels, and sponsored roundtable discussions, as well as networking events, social hours, and even trivia and esports competitions.
•••• Like last year's conference, SMPTE 2020 will include the popular SMPTE Storytellers series, expanded technical tutorials and training, and programming from SMPTE partners. New content will include bite-sized keynotes, quick "Standards 101" sessions, and shorter hot-topic discussions that allow attendees to build a custom conference experience that suits their own schedules and interests.
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• 113-Analysis of American media coverage during Covid-19
When it came to taking the Covid-19 pandemic seriously, was the America media fast enough to act?
•••• Digital Third Coast recently performed an analysis of Covid-19 media coverage in the early months of 2020 to see when publications began to pursue the subject. 
•••• Using the Internet Archive wayback machine, DTC studied snapshots of coronavirus-related news over the first 10 weeks of this year, across 18 of the nation's most prominent online publications. 

Here's what they found:
• No sector of the mainstream media was quicker and more vigilant in tracking the emergence of Covid-19 than finance-focused publications. By the end of January, Bloomberg, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal accounted for 46% of all Covid-19 headlines analyzed. 

• When looking at coronavirus as the lead story on a publication's home page, Bloomberg and Reuters had the most Covid-19 related lead stories in January, while the New York Times and ABC News had the strongest finishes, each with four consecutive weeks of lead stories heading into mid-March.

• When analyzing total coronavirus headlines over 10 weeks, these 10 publications had the most coverage: 1. Bloomberg 2. Reuters 3. Breitbart 4. WSJ 5. NBC News 6. CBS News 7. Politico 8. New York Post 9. ABC News 10. USA Today.
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• 115- FILMFEST MÜNCHEN postponed to 2021
Even FILMFEST MÜNCHEN scheduled for June 25 to July 4, had to be canceled for 2020 due to the corona pandemic. This still saddens us - festival director Diana Iljine and the whole team - deeply. But life goes on: we're highly motivated and are already working on the next edition.
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• 107-Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit fails first attempt to launch a rocket from jumbo jet.
"History is not terribly kind, necessarily, to maiden flights or maiden sea voyages."
••••• Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit rocket, carried by a Boeing 747, has failed to launch a test satellite into space on its maiden voyage.
•••• The inaugural launch had appeared to be going well until moments after the rocket was dropped from beneath the left wing of the jumbo jet, dubbed Cosmic Girl.
•••• An anomaly occurred early in first stage flight, and the mission safely terminated."
•••• The attempt was a key test for the company's plan to launch satellites into space, and followed five years of development on the 21.3-metre LauncherOne rocket.
•••• The modified jumbo jet took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in the desert north of Los Angeles, and flew towards the Channel Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, where the drop occurred.
•••• The booster was released from under the wing of one of the UK entrepreneur's old jumbos which had been specially converted for the task.
•••• Virgin Orbit's goal is to try to capture a share of the emerging market for the launch of small satellites.
•••• It's not clear at this stage precisely what went wrong but the firm had warned beforehand that the chances of success might be only 50:50.
•••• The history of rocketry shows that maiden outings very often encounter technical problems.
•••• "Test flights are instrumented to yield data and we now have a treasure trove of that said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. He further stated that they accomplished many of the goals they set for themselves, though not as many as they would have liked."
•••• "Nevertheless, we took a big step forward today. Our engineers are already poring through the data.
•••• "Our next rocket is waiting. We will learn, adjust, and begin preparing for our next test, which is coming up soon."
•••• Richard Branson is TVI's Person of the Month
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• 106- SAG-AFTRA Decry The Arrest of Journalist in Minneapolis
LOS ANGELES (May 29, 2020) -- SAG-AFTRA has released the following statement in response to the arrest of CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his colleagues, Bill Kirkos and Leonel Mendez, in Minneapolis this morning while reporting on protests.
•••• "As journalists it is our job to cover protests, demonstrations, marches and rallies -- some peaceful, some not. We do this without interfering with protesters or law enforcement.  The arrest of Omar Jimenez, who was clearly identified as a credentialed member of the news media, is unacceptable."
•••• SAG-AFTRA represents broadcast journalists in addition to actors, recording artists and other performers, and the union holds press freedoms in the highest regard. In 2017, SAG-AFTRA released a public statement on its support for a free press, and the union reaffirms that position now. It read:
•••• "As a union whose membership includes broadcast and online journalists, SAG-AFTRA champions the rights of a free press, whose primary role is to provide citizens with the information they need to effectively govern a democracy. These rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which establishes that the press shall be free from government interference in the dissemination of information, ideas and opinions.
•••• "SAG-AFTRA, journalists and non-journalists alike, supports a free and unencumbered press and stands with any journalist who might find his or her ability to report on our government challenged or compromised.
•••• "SAG-AFTRA believes first and foremost that citizens in a democracy need the truth. Furthermore, journalists have an obligation to monitor and question those in power, pointing out wrongdoing when they find it, noting when facts asserted are not supported by evidence, and reporting inconsistencies in the positions of public figures.
•••• "As working professionals, members of the news media have an obligation to verify the accuracy of what they report, with loyalty only to their readers, listeners and viewers and not to any political party, affiliation or ideology.
•••• "As a proud labor union representing more than 160,000 broadcasters, actors and entertainers, SAG-AFTRA stands with all of its members in ensuring that the basic rights of a free and independent press continue to be upheld."

• 106 SAG-AFTRA Protesting Louisville Police Officer Assault on Television News Journalist Kaitlin Rust and Photographer James Dobson
Los Angeles, CA, May 30, 2020 -- SAG-AFTRA, a national union representing 160,000 actors, broadcasters and recording artists today released the below statement protesting the attack on journalists Kaitlin Rust and James Dobson by a Louisville police officer:
•••• "Last night, a Louisville, KY police officer aimed and fired pepper balls at WAVE3 News reporter Kaitlin Rust and photographer James Dobson. Rust and Dobson are professional journalists represented by SAG-AFTRA who were on assignment covering protests arising out of the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
•••• "When the officer fired on them, they were following police instructions, behind police lines, and were not interfering with police activity. Both Rust and Dobson were obviously in performance of their duties as journalists. They were carrying professional production equipment and Rust was wearing a bright yellow reflective vest.
•••• "SAG-AFTRA condemns the reprehensible actions of this police officer who, without provocation or justification, fired upon journalists who were doing their jobs. The assault also had a traumatizing effect on viewers at home who watched the officer aim and fire repeatedly during the live broadcast.
•••• "This was a brazen attack on two unarmed citizens. It is also an attack on our democracy and the people's right to know how those on whom we confer power are using that power.
•••• "Whether perpetrated by the public or by the state, acts of violence on journalists bringing news to the communities they serve are a betrayal of our nation's founding principle that a free press is necessary for the maintenance of a free government. 
•••• "As citizens of this democratic nation, and as a labor union representing broadcast journalists and other media professionals, SAG-AFTRA unequivocally champions the First Amendment rights of journalists to gather information and report the truth. We stand with any journalist who finds his or her ability to report on our government challenged or compromised."

About SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond.
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• 106- Proclamation by Wallace G. Wilkinson, former Governor of Kentucky
• 1992 proclaimed Nathan Beverly Stubblefield year and
• Murray, Kentucky 'Birthplace of radio'
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• 112th Anniversary of the N.B. Stubblefield's Wireless Telephone Patent
1908 0512 - PATENT GRANTED: Stubblefield's U.S. Patent, Number 887,357, All Purpose Wireless Telephone, Filed April 5, 1907, Granted May 12, 1908. / Click MORE STORY TO GO DIRECTLY TO U.S. Patent Office - (Patent Expires May 12, 1925) CLICK ANY IMAGE TO VIEW PATENT
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Trivia: What other event occurred in 1902, the year of Stubblefields's public demonstration in 1902.

A: The founding of J.C. Penney stores by James Cash.
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• 102- Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History Overheard
By Harvey Geller
•••• In Life's current Bicentennial issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot "100 Events That Shaped America," 19 buttons behind Bell's telephone. Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's dots and dashes as the first wireless broadcast, a fable echoed by the World Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence offered on the following pages has not, until now, appeared in any national publication.
•••• The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of mystery, machination, ephemeral enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a two-room shanty constructed of pine and cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated architect is discovered 48 hours after his death, his records scattered, his equipment destroyed, his brain partly eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly Stubblefield, the man history over-heard and then overlooked.
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Radio-WITEL 1890-2017 - ®™©
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• SMART90
SMART90 stands for Stubblefield Nathan, Marconi Guglielmo, Ambrose Fleming, Reginald Fessenden, Tesla Nicola, DeForest Lee, Armstrong Edwin Howard, Alexanderson Ernst Fredrik Werner, Farnsworth Philo,

•••• SMART-DAAF Boys, Vol I, 'The Inventors of Radio & Televison & The Life Style of Nathan B. Stubblefield," by Troy Cory-Stubblefield and Josie Cory, Library of Congress Number 93060451. (ISBN) 1-883644-003, pgs. 580. •Copyright © 1993

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• 102- Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History Overheard
By Harvey Geller
•••• In Life's current Bicentennial issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot "100 Events That Shaped America," 19 buttons behind Bell's telephone. Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's dots and dashes as the first wireless broadcast, a fable echoed by the World Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence offered on the following pages has not, until now, appeared in any national publication.
•••• The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of mystery, machination, ephemeral enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a two-room shanty constructed of pine and cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated architect is discovered 48 hours after his death, his records scattered, his equipment destroyed, his brain partly eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly Stubblefield, the man history over-heard and then overlooked.

"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world
was round:
They all laughed when
Edison recorded sound . . .
Ha, Ha, Ha -- who's got the
last laugh now?"
--Ira Gershwin, 1937

When an inordinately eccentric young farmer suggested that he had invented a portable wireless telephone that could broadcast voice and music up over hight buildings and down through stone walls, most of Calloway County, Kentucky, chuckled. When he revealed his "crazy box, and odd assortment of batteries, rods, coils and kegs, they howled.
•••85 years after, their heirs are writing songs of love, christening radio stations, consecrating libraries and constructing memorial monuments in his infinite honor. The veneration is hardly widespread. 17,000 Murray, Kentucky, tobacco farmers may agree that Nathan B Stubblefield was the first man on earth to transmit and receive the human voice without wires. But most of our world is unacquainted with his improbable name and even his proponents are unaware of the precise date of his private discovery. Evidence points to a period between 1890 and 1892, at least seven years before Marconi sent the first wireless telegraph message across the English Channel.
••• Stubblefield's supporters maintain that telegraphy is far different from telephony; that they are, I fact, diverse discoveries. Wireless telephone is hip-to-shore radio, the walkie-talkie, the citizen band and portable radio, the mobile phone, the audio arm of television, rheostats, rectifying tubes, filaments, dials, microphones, AM and FM radio and every broadcasting booth on earth--not Marconi's Code signals.
•••Marconi's name is linked with Stubblefield's by Trumbull White in a book called The World's Progress, published in 1902. "Of very recent success are the experiments of Marconi with wireless telegraphy, an astounding and important advance over the ordinary system of telegraphy through wires. Now comes the announcement that an American inventor, unheralded and modest, has carried out successful experiments of telephoning and is able to transmit speech for great distances without wires . . the inventor is Nathan B. Stubblefield."
••• "This Fellow Is Fooling me."
•••"Hello, Rainey," according to Dr. Rainey T. Wells, founder of Murray State College, was the world's first radio message. Testifying before an FCC commission in 1947, Rainey explained that he had personally heard Stubblefield demonstrate his wireless telephone as early as 1892.
•••"He had a shack about four feet square near his house from which he took an ordinary telephone receiver, but entirely without wires. Handing me these, he asked me to walk some distance away and listen. I had hardly reached my post, which happened to be an apple orchard, when I heard 'Hello, Rainey' come booming out of the receiver. I jumped a foot and said to myself, 'This fellow is fooling me. He as wires somewhere.' So I moved to the side some 20 feet but all the while he kept talking to me. I talked back and he answered me as plainly as you please. I asked him to patent the thing but he refused, saying he wanted to continue his research and perfect it."
•••Dr. William Mason, Stubblefield's family physician, described a day during that same year when Stubblefield "handed me a device in what appeared to be a keg with a handle on it. I started walking down the lane . . . from it I could distinctly hear his voice and a harmonica which he was broadcasting to me several years before Marconi made his announcement about wireless telegraphy."
•••••• Stubblefield was born in Murray, Kentucky, 1860 the son of Attorney and Mrs. William Jefferson Stubblefield (Capt. Billy). In his teens he was reportedly an omnivorous student and researched everything available on the new science of electricity. When Alexander Bel phoned Tom Watson on March 10, 1876, to say "Come here, Watson; I want you," Stubblefield was already experimenting with vibrating communication devices. In 1888 (Patent #378,183) he invented a vibrating telephone. The Murray News Weekly carried this item: "Charlie Hamlin has his telephone I fine working order from his store to his home. It is the Nathan Stubblefield patent and is the best I have ever talked through."
•••Stubblefield manufactured and patented batteries which he later described as "the bedrock of all my scientific research in raidio" (his spelling).
•••••• "I have been working on this, the wireless telephone, for 10 or 12 years," he told a St. Louis Post-Dispatch correspondent in January, 1902. "This solution is not the result of an inspiration or the work of a minute. It is the climax of years. The system can be developed until messages by voice can be sent and heard all over the country, even to Europe. The world is it limits."

"Diamonds as Large a Your Thumb."
•••With the new industrial and scientific epoch at hand and the first Roosevelt in the White House, Stubblefield built his broadcasting station, a tiny workshop on the front porch of his modest farmhouse. It was barely wide enough to hold the transmitter and one char. The transmitting mechanism was concealed in a box four feet hight,tow and a half feet wide, one and a half feet deep. "In that box," said Stubblefield, "lies the secret of my success." Five hundred yards away was the experimental receiving station, a dry-good box fastened to the foot of a tree stump.
•••The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter noted that Stubblefield's 14-year-old son, Bernard, was left on the porch wile h and the inventor walked to the stump. The writer picked up a receiver and heard spasmodic buzzings and then: "Hello. Can you hear me? Now I will count ten. One-to-three-four-=five-six-seven-eight-nine-ten. Did you hear that? Now I will whisper." Later Bernard whistled and played the mouth organ.
•••"I heard as clearly as if the speaker were only across a 12-foot room" wrote the newsman.
•••When the article appeared on January 10, 1902, Stubblefield was besieged by capitalists, financiers, stock-jugglers, hucksters and hawkers. Dr. Mason recalled seeing a $40,000 check for a part interest in the invention, as titans of industry "wearing diamonds as large as your thumb" scuttled up industry dirt roads to Stubblefield's flinty farm.
•••"You and I will yet add luster to the Stubblefield name," wrote Nathan to his cousin, Vernon.
•••He refused all propositions, including one for half a million dollars. "It is north twice that," he insisted, entrusting only his son, Bernard, with the secret of his mysterious keg. On occasion he repelled over-inquisitive visitors with a shotgun.
•••Invited by leading scientist, he traveled with his trunk of mystery to Washington, D.C., where he demonstrated the practicability of his contrivance from the steamship Bartholdy on the Potomac to crowds along the river bank. On Decoration Day, 1902, he broadcast words and music form the Belmont Mansion and Fairmont Park in Philadelphia to hundreds of statesmen, investors and newsmen. He obtained patents in England, the U.S. and Canada.
•••• In the Canadian patent is a drawing of a "horseless carriage" with a broadcasting set, presaging the auto radio by 30 years. But perhaps even more remarkable are notations that by reversing a switch one could change a broadcasting station into a receiving apparatus.
•••• Articles appeared in major newspapers throughout the world acclaiming him as the distinguished inventor of the wireless telephone and a celebrated scientific genius. At lease one extravagant reporter suggested that Stubblefield ad crated "the world's greatest invention."

Decline and Fall.
•••• There are three conflicting theories on how this farmer-inventor sowed the wind of immortality and reaped the whirlwind of oblivion. His cousin, Vernon, claimed the invention was stolen

"Will I ever see my trunk again?" Stubblefield scribbled on the back of an old map after he returned from Washington.
•••• "All his valuables were in that trunk," said his cousin.
•••• Perry Meloan, newspaper editor of Edmonton, Kentucky, an ear-witness to the first public demonstration in Murray, declared that Stubblefield was inveigled into a partnership in the Wireless Telephone Company of America, located at Broadway 11, New York. Learning that the firm was not interested in perfecting his creation but merely in selling stock unscrupulously, Stubblefield returned home. "Damn rascals," was his bitter comment to friends, and he advised them to withdraw their investment in his project. Soon after, he renounced his wife, nine (5 surviving) children and all relatives and built his hermitage gut in Almo, six miles from his family farmhouse. That farmhouse later mysteriously burned to the ground.
•••• His son, Bernard, joined the Westinghouse Electrical Corp., the firm that introduced the commercial radio. Did Bernard utilize his father's secrets to produce those early sets?
•••• Wireless lights appeared in the trees and along the fences guarding Stubblefield's crudely constructed shanty and, according to neighbors, voices, apparently coming from the air, were heard by trespassers. "Get your mule out of my cornfield," Stubblefield's wireless voice was hard to say in the night.
•••• He curtly refused the aid of friends. "He was never insane," they insisted, "only queer."
•••• Robert McDermott found the body of Nathan Stubblefield on March 30, 1928. "Death due to starvation," was Dr. Mason's conclusion. In a unmarked grave in Bowman's cemetery, one and a half miles form Murray, Stubblefield lies alone.
•••• In 1930 a memorial to "the first man to transmit and receive the human voice without wires" was dedicated at Murray State Teachers College campus, less than 100 feet from the charred ruins of the world's first broadcasting station.
•••• In 1962 his tragic life was dramatized in an epicedial folk opera, The Stubblefield Story, composed by Murray State professor Paul Shahan and Mrs. Lillian Lowry and performed in the campus auditorium.
•••• Murray's only radio station, 1 1000-watt outlet, broadcasts "middle of the road and some rock music as well," according to owner Fransuelle Cole. Book-ended between Bruce Springsteen's "Borne to Rune" a a live commercial for Kroger's grocery, on hears. "You are tune to WNBS, 1340 on your radio dial in Murray, Kentucky: the birthplace of radio."
•••• The stations call-letters, not accidentally, are Stubblefield's initials.
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• Troy Cory remembers his friend, rock pioneer Little Richard
•••• Back in the days of Specialty Records, Art Rupe, Larry Williams, Sonny Bono, Lloyd Price, René Hall, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell and Little Richard, Troy remembers his friend Little Richard as having been a force to wrecken with. Pianist Larry Williams was one of the first black "rock 'n roll stars" for Specialty and the young teenybopper Troy Cory-Stubblefield was signed up as the label's first white artist.
•••• Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) passed away Saturday, June 9, at his family home in Tullahoma, Tennessee. He was 87 and had been battling bone cancer.
••••In early 1956, he formed an honored foundation of rock. Richard was one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's inaugural inductees in 1986, and he received the Recording Academy's lifetime achievement award in 1993.
•••• The Georgia native exerted profound influence on the Beatles and many other legends to follow, including James Brown (who succeeded him in one of his early bands), Jimi Hendrix (one of his backup musicians in the mid-'60s) and Bruce Springsteen.
••••His first top hit (1956) "Long Tall Sally," made the top 10, and was joined there later by "Jenny Jenny," "Keep a Knockin' " and "Good Golly, Miss Molly," and "Tutti Frutti." Richard's other notable singles were "Rip It Up," "Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' and Hidin')" and "Lucille. Most of his songs bore his credit as a co-writer.
•••• In the mid-'50s he met R&B star Lloyd Price, who advised him to contact his label, Specialty Records. Richard sent a demo tape to the Los Angeles company, whose owner, Art Rupe, was looking for someone to compete with Atlantic Records' new sensation Ray Charles.
••••Sensing some potential in the urgent voice on the crude tape, Rupe signed Little Richard and dispatched producer Robert "Bumps" Blackwell to record him in New Orleans in September 1955, with the cream of the city's studio players, including saxophonist Lee Allen and drummer Earl Palmer.
•••• Later Richard began recording religious music, and in 1962 he took an offer to tour England singing gospel songs. But when he saw the audience response to Sam Cooke, one of his opening acts, he dusted off the old hits. Little Richard was back.
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  • 115- FILMFEST MÜNCHEN postponed to 2021
Even FILMFEST MÜNCHEN scheduled for June 25 to July 4, had to be canceled for 2020 due to the corona pandemic. This still saddens us - festival director Diana Iljine and the whole team - deeply. But life goes on: we're highly motivated and are already working on the next edition.
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• 115- "We Are One' Online Film Festival" will kick off on Youtube, May 29.
••••• There are around 3,000 film festivals currently active (i.e. ran in the past two years) 9,706 film festivals have run at least once in the last 15 years.
•••• The majority of film festivals do charge for submissions (an average of $27 for short films and $40 for feature films), but this isn't their main source of income.• •
•••• One reason advertisers like film festivals is that festival attendees tend to have plenty of money to spend. For example, at Sundance, over 50% of attendees have a household income of $100,000, while 26% have a household income of over $200,000.
•••• Arguably there is not a single major film festival but, the most prestigious film festivals include Cannes, Berlin, and Venice film festival, sometimes called "The Big Three."•• •
•••• The major film festivals include "Venice International Film Festival" "The Cannes Film Festival" -- France; "Tribeca Film Festival" -- New York.; "Taormina Film Fest" -- Sicily; "Sundance Film Festival"-- Park City, Utah; "SXSW Film Festival " -- Austin, Texas; "Berlin International Film Festival" and "TIFF" Toronto, Canada.••••
•••• The oldest film festival in the world, founded in 1932, is the Venice Film Festival. Since World War II, film festivals have contributed significantly to the development of the motion-picture industry in many countries.••
•••• Tribeca And YouTube Join Forces to stream 'We Are One' Online Film Festival.
••••With the film festival calendar thrown into chaos by COVID-19 and major events canceled, Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube are teaming up to present a 10-day streaming event drawing from 20 global fests, including Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Venice.• •
•••• The online showcase, dubbed "We Are One: A Global Film Festival," will kick off on YouTube on May 29. Its lineup of films, shorts, documentaries, music, comedy, and conversations will be released at a later date, organizers said.
•••• All programming will be free for audiences to stream. Donations will benefit the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and local relief partners in various parts of the world.
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• 115- Cannes Film Festival Finally Admits It Won't Happen This Summer
 APR. 16, 2020 -- As huge theme parks and whole sports leagues around the world pause operations to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Cannes Film Festival, as the essential pillar for the film industry, has been reluctant to make an official declaration about this year's event. Today, though, organizers finally acquiesced and released a statement saying that even a delay until the summer (Cannes was scheduled to begin on May 12) would not allow the festival to go on with all its typical pageantry.
••• "We acknowledge that the postponement of the 73rd International Cannes Film Festival, initially considered for the end of June to the beginning of July, is no longer an option," reads a statement released by the organizers. Cannes "must explore all contingencies allowing to support the year of Cinema by making Cannes 2020 real, in one way or another."
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• 115- Venice Film Festival is going forward as planned
••• With conventions, festivals, albums, concerts, and more being pushed to the fall or canceled entirely due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Venice Film Festival is sticking to its plans for September 2 - 12.
••• In a recent interview with the Italian wire service ANSA, Venice Biennial president Roberto Cicutto once again confirmed the September 2 to12 dates for the 77th Venice Film Festival and downplayed plans for a Venice without Cannes Film Festival collaboration.
••• Strict social distancing regulations forced the Cannes Film Festival to postpone this year's event, once to mid-July and a second time indefinitely. While Cannes director Thierry Fremaux suggested  that Venice Film Fest and Cannes may combine their efforts, Roberto Cicutto told ANSA that there is no "hypothesis" for a collaboration at this time. "We are going forward with our program, and if Cannes is still thinking (about their course of action) then there is no dialogue."
••• Meanwhile, Venice is exploring options to make sure its September festival can still happen, including a digital option for foreign press and potentially using cinemas. They've given themselves until May to figure all that out, which seems to be the new rule of thumb for all coronavirus-related timelines. Remember back when it was April? As the oldest film festival in the world, Venice may be at a higher risk for the coronavirus, but it is not going down without a fight.
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• 101- 27 million tune into Easter Message of Hope from Milano, Italy - Andrea Bocelli livestreams coronavirus message
••••Andrea Bocelli would not be stopped by a pandemic from delivering a little hope on Easter Sunday.
••••Invited by the city of Milan, the Italian opera star on Sunday morning livestreamed a solo performance on YouTube -- "Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope" -- from the city's main cathedral, the Duomo di Milano, with 27 million people around the world tuning in.
•••• Showing sweeping views of the centuries-old city of Milano, the video's introduction carried Bocelli's voice-over Easter message, also a reference to the coronoavirus outbreak that has ravaged his country and weighs on most of the world.
••••"I believe in the strength of praying together. I believe in the Christian Easter, a universal symbol of rebirth that everyone whether they are believers or not truly needs right now."

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••• In a statement, Bocelli expressed how much of an emotional performance this was in terms of not only the holiday but also the state of the world during this crisis. 
••••"I will cherish the emotion of this unprecedented and profound experience, of this Holy Easter which this emergency has made painful, but at the same time even more fruitful, one that will stay among my dearest memories of all time. That feeling of being at the same time alone -- as we all are in the presence of the Most High -- yet of expressing the voice of the prayer of millions of voices, has deeply impressed and moved me."
•••In the empty cathedral backed only by organist Emanuele Vianelli, Bocelli ran through a program that included performances of "Panis Angelicus," "Ave Maria," "Sancta Maria," and ending with "Amazing Grace" in front of the magnificent Duomo di Milano, the seat of the archbishop of Milan.
•••• Images of other global landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Venice and New York were also a part of the presentation.
•••• On the YouTube page, there is also a link to the singer's Andrea Bocelli Foundation (ABF) GoFundMe campaign that aims to help hospitals purchase personal protective equipment necessary to protect local medical staff.
•••• Note: Italy suffered approximately 160,000 Coronavirus infected cases and more than 20,000 deaths.
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• 104- Germany to issue coronavirus antibody certificates
•••• Germany will issue coronavirus antibody certificates to allow quarantined to re-enter society. Researchers to test thousands for immunity as Berlin plans exit strategy for pandemic lock down.
•••• German researchers plan to introduce coronavirus 'immunity certificates' to facilitate a proper transition into post-lockdown life.
•••• The antibodies will indicate that the test participants have had the virus, have healed and are thereby ready to re-enter society and the workforce. ••••
•••• The researchers plan to test 100,000 members of the public at a time, issuing documentation to those who have overcome the virus and will use the information to determine how to properly bring the country's lockdown to and end, including re-opening schools and allowing mass gatherings.
•••• The immunity certificates are part of a research project being carried out at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig in coming weeks which will conduct blood tests to look for antibodies produced against the novel coronavius in the general public, reports German magazine Der Spiegel.
•••• "Those who are immune can then be given a vaccination certificate that would, for example, allow them to be exempt from any (lockdown-related) restrictions on their work," said Gerard Krause, the epidemiologist leading the project. 
•••• The test will give researchers a better idea of how many people have contracted the virus, with indications in Germany and elsewhere that large proportions of the population may have contracted it without knowing.
•••• The test is also an improvement on existing blood tests which would indicate a degree of immunity to coronaviruses, but not specifically to Covid-19.
•••• The project is yet to receive final approval but is expected to go ahead in April, with the first wave of results ready by the end of the month.
•••• Despite having the fifth highest number of infected cases anywhere in the world, Germany has one of the lowest death rates -- which has been at least in part credited to the government's proactive testing regime. 
•••• A German military plane yesterday took patients from eastern France, one of the worst-hit areas in the country, to Germany. A small group of patients from eastern France and Lombardy, in northern Italy, are already being treated in Germany. 
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• 108- Genie Gateway - Pay with your own phone number
Some customers still like to use traditional checks, but to save time and money new technology has allowed those paper checks to be converted into a digital version known as Check21. This is a fast, secure, and efficient way to offer an additional payment option to merchants while saving on transaction fees that are higher when accepting debit and credit cards.
•••• Check21 is the new way for you to receive payments for all your goods and services! Get Real-Time processing AND payment, 24x7x365, from any customer with a valid US checking account &endash; whether they buy in person, online, or by cell phone.
•••• Genie Gateway holds the Key to Unlocking a Wide-Open Opportunity by using its patented technology to create a unique environment where customers can communicate and send and receive payments, globally, in real-time through Telecommunications, eCommerce, Cable TV, and High Speed Internet, integrated on one platform into One Unified Solution.
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• 108- TELEVISION INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE receives 2019 Best of Toluca Lake Award
TOLUCA LAKE, December 17, 2019 -- TELEVISION INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE has been selected for the 2019 Best of Toluca Lake Award in the Magazine Publishers since 1956 category by the Toluca Lake Award Program.
•••• Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2019 Toluca Lake Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Toluca Lake Award Program and data provided by third parties.
•••• The Toluca Lake Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Toluca Lake area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
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• 104- What to Know about Viruses
The virus is not a living organism, but a protein molecule (DNA) covered by a protective layer of lipid (fat), which, when absorbed by the cells of the ocular, nasal or buccal mucosa, changes their genetic code (mutation), and convert them into aggressor and multiplier cells.

* Since the virus is not a living organism but a protein molecule, it is not killed, but decays on its own. The disintegration time depends on the temperature, humidity and type of material where it lies.

* The virus is very fragile; the only thing that protects it is a thin outer layer of fat. That is why any soap or detergent is the best remedy, because the foam CUTS the FAT (that is why you have to rub so much: for 20 seconds or more, to make a lot of foam). By dissolving the fat layer, the protein molecule disperses and breaks down on its own.

* HEAT melts fat; this is why it is so good to use water above 25 degrees Celsius (77 Fahrenheit) for washing hands, clothes and everything. In addition, hot water makes more foam and that makes it even more useful.

* Alcohol or any mixture with alcohol over 65% DISSOLVES ANY FAT, especially the external lipid layer of the virus.

* Any mix with 1 part BLEACH and 5 parts water directly dissolves the protein, breaks it down from the inside.

* The virus is not a living organism like bacteria; we cannot kill what is not alive with antibiotics, but the virus quickly disintegrate its structure with everything mentioned above.

* NEVER shake used or unused clothing, sheets or cloth. While the virus is glued to a porous surface, it is very inert and disintegrates only between 3 hours (fabric and porous material), 4 hours (copper), 24 hours (cardboard), 42 hours (metal) and 72 hours (plastic). If you shake or use a feather duster on above materials, the virus molecules float in the air for up to 3 hours, and can lodge in your nose.

* The virus molecules remain very stable in external cold or air conditioners in houses and cars. Viruses also need moisture to stay stable, especially n darkness. Therefore, dehumidified, dry, warm and bright environments will degrade them faster.

* UV LIGHT on any object breaks down the virus protein.

* The virus CANNOT go through healthy skin.

* Vinegar is NOT useful because it does not break down the protective layer of fat on the virus.

* NO SPIRITS, NOR VODKA, help. The strongest vodka has 40% alcohol, and you need 65%.

* LISTERINE helps if it has 65% alcohol.

* The more confined the space, the more concentration of the virus. The more open or naturally ventilated, the less.

* Wash your hands before and after touching mucosa, locks, knobs, switches, remote control, cell phone, watches, computers, desks, TV, etc. And when using the bathroom.

* Use MOISTURISER to humidify hands which tend to be dry from so much washing. Virus molecules can hide in the micro cracks of dry hands. The thicker the moisturizer, the better.

* Also keep your NAILS SHORT so that the virus does not hide there.

TAKE CARE & STAY SAFE
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 • 112- SAG-AFTRA to Adopt Dues Extension Program for Members Impacted by COVID-19 Work Loss
 LOS ANGELES (Mar. 30, 2020) -- SAG-AFTRA today announced that it has developed a program to provide dues relief for SAG-AFTRA members during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
•••• Under the program, SAG-AFTRA members who are in a position to pay their dues in full are urged to do so upon receipt of their May semi-annual dues bill. Members experiencing financial hardship resulting from work stoppages related to COVID-19 will be granted a due date extension and an installment plan for those payments. As part of that relief, no late fees will be assessed and there will be no adverse impact on members' work eligibility during this time. 
•••• SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris said, "As working people, we know the great difficulties our members are facing. In order to relieve some of the financial stress so many people are dealing with at this time, the Finance Committee worked to provide much needed relief."
•••• "I also want to thank the Executive Committee for their rapid response and diligence in launching this program to quickly bring help to our membership," Carteris added.
•••• With production slowed or halted across SAG-AFTRA entertainment, television and commercials contract areas, it is crucial that the union is able to collect the greatest portion of revenue possible to ensure critical services continue without disruption. Members who can pay on time are encouraged to do so when they receive their bills. Those members who require relief may request an extension of the May 1 due date.
•••• In light of the extraordinary challenges all organizations are facing during this global pandemic, the Executive Committee also approved a resolution designating the union as being in a status of resource conservation. This status ensures that SAG-AFTRA resources are exclusively devoted to essential, core functions, such as residuals payment processing, contract negotiation and enforcement, and organizing. During this period routine and non-essential meetings and activities will be deferred.

 • About SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at sagaftra.org.
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• Launch of MIPTV ONLINE+
Paris, -- Reed MIDEM announced the launch of MIPTV ONLINE+, a premium online experience available for free to all registered MIPTV, MIPDoc and MIPFormats 2020 clients.
•••• MIPTV ONLINE+ will launch on March 30. The new service offers connected access to exclusive content originally programmed for the 57th edition of MIPTV which, together with MIPDoc and MIPFormats, was scheduled to run March 28-April 2 in Cannes before being cancelled due to the coronavirus (Covid-19).
•••• MIPTV ONLINE+ will enable buyers to stream distributor programmes scheduled for the MIPTV Drama Buyers' Summit and the MIPDoc Screenings Library. The online service will also stream the In Development, MIPDoc and MIPFormats project pitches, as well as MIPTV's exclusive market intelligence conference sessions, Fresh TV and the Factual and Kids Content Showcases.  
•••• Lucy Smith, Television Division Deputy Director at Reed MIDEM said: " Our clients are unable to come to MIPTV in Cannes, so we are bringing MIPTV to them. Starting on March 30, delegates from 94 countries will be able to interact with one another online and experience originally scheduled MIP programming from the comfort of their office or home. Nothing replaces face-to-face meetings, but MIPTV ONLINE+ content, networking and access to the international entertainment business community is totally unique."
•••• In addition, the MIPTV online database, accessed via miptv.com , will be available during the months ahead, allowing users to connect and interact with the MIPTV community. 
•••• Details of MIPTV ONLINE+ features will be regularly updated and communicated on the MIPTV web site.
• About Reed MIDEM - Founded in 1963, Reed MIDEM is an organiser of professional, international markets that are essential business platforms for key players in the sectors concerned. These sectors are MIPTV, MIPDOC, MIPCOM, MIPJUNIOR in Cannes, MIP China in Hangzhou and MIP Cancun in Mexico for the television and digital content industries; MIDEM in Cannes for music professionals; Esports BAR in Cannes and in Miami for the esports business; MIPIM in Cannes, MIPIM Asia Summit in Hong Kong SAR, Propel by MIPIM &endash; Cannes, Propel by MIPIM &endash; Paris, Propel by MIPIM NYC in partnership with Metaprop, Propel by MIPIM &endash; Hong Kong; MAPIC and LeisurUp in Cannes, MAPIC Russia in Moscow, MAPIC Italy and The Happetite in Milan, and MAPIC India in Mumbai.
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• 106- Late-Night Talk Shows Canceled Tapings Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus outbreak is roiling the film and entertainment industries affecting Events, TV Shows, Movies, Sports, Theaters, Themparks, and more.
••The Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, which was first identified in China in December, has had sweeping effects in the public health, business, and travel sectors, among others. And while the repercussions for the entertainment industry may seem to pale in comparison to the clear threat the virus poses to human life, the ripple effects do have implications for the people around the world who make a living producing and distributing movies, music, and more.
•••• The immense and lucrative Chinese film industry was hit almost immediately as movie theaters across the country were closed and major releases were delayed. Hollywood soon began to feel the effects too, and as time passes, the impact of the coronavirus on the global film and entertainment industries will certainly grow.
•••• Consequences of the outbreak on these industries could range from lowered attendance at film festivals and disruptions in film distribution to delayed or canceled movie releases and concert dates to curtailed on-location film shoots. Financial ramifications will likely be felt by studios, filmmakers, theater owners, and more for months or even years.
•••• Things are moving quickly as Americans respond to the burgeoning coronavirus crisis. With public health officials warning that the best way to contain the spread of the new virus is to disband large public gatherings, many pop culture events are being delayed or canceled -- from movie premieres sports championships to music festivals.
•••• Beyond late-night, Hollywood has acutely felt the impact of the pandemic this week as a slew of major events scheduled for the comings months have either been postponed canceled outright in accordance with public health recommendations against large gatherings where the virus could easily be spread. Studios and agencies across town have also widely implemented work-from-home policies to protect their employees, and a number of film and TV productions have been postponed or delayed
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• 115- NAB SHOW CANCELLS CONVENTION
•••• National Association of Broadcasters says it is "reviewing options" in face of coronavirus, but will not hold the event in April.
•••• NAB has cancelled the April 2020 convention for health reasons, according to a letter that was sent out by the National Association of Broadcasters.
••••The NAB Show, set to take place April 19-22, 2020, has been cancelled due to concerns surrounding the Coronavirus. 
••••"This was not an easy decision," the letter states. "Fortunately, we did not have to make this decision alone, and are grateful to our NAB Show community for engaging with us as we grappled with the rapidly-evolving situation."
••••The NAB Show has expressed its distress over cancelling the event, but wants the NAB Show community to know that they take any health concerns seriously. 
••••"We had a good idea this would take place and have already begun working on a virtual LPTV Day to be held about the same time," According to Lee Miller, Executive Director of the Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance (ATBA). "Participants will be able to join us, virtually, to learn about some of the upcoming happenings in the LPTV industry."
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• 115- MIPTV 2020 CANCELLED
Paris, March 4, 2020 &endash; Reed MIDEM today announces that MIPTV 2020, scheduled to take place March 30-April 2 in Cannes, has been cancelled due to concerns related to the coronavirus (Covid-19).
•••• MIPDoc and MIPFormats, programmed for March 28-29, have also been cancelled.
•••• CANNESERIES Season 3 of the Cannes International Series Festival, originally scheduled to run parallel to MIPTV, will now take place October 9-14, alongside MIPCOM.
•••• The next edition of MIPTV will take place April 12-15, 2021 in Cannes with MIPDoc and MIPFormats scheduled for April 10-11, 2021. Season 4 of CANNESERIES will be held in April 2021 during MIPTV.
••••  "In the current context, many of our clients have expressed concerns about travelling at this time. Rescheduling MIPTV in the coming months is not feasible so the most appropriate course of action is to cancel MIPTV for 2020," said Paul Zilk, Reed MIDEM Chief Executive.
•••• "The well-being of our clients, partners and staff is our priority. We are grateful to clients for their support and constructive input during this challenging period. We look forward to welcoming everyone to MIPCOM in October 12-15 and we are delighted that CANNESERIES will be at our side again at the event this year," added Paul Zilk.

• About MIPTV - MIPTV (30 March-2 April 2020, Cannes) is the Global Content Market for the Future. MIPTV 20.20 is a reimagined experience that not only serves the needs of the distribution market today but also helps the content industry to prepare for the future. It will enrich the market experience by connecting people in new ways and presenting fresh content along with exclusive market intelligence alongside a redesigned exhibition experience. Last MIPTV, in April 2019, some 9,500 professionals from across the international TV and digital entertainment ecosystem connected to launch and discover new content, forge partnerships, negotiate financing and distribution agreements, find co-production opportunities and explore the latest trends. www.miptv.com
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• 101- L.A. Marathon taking precautions against coronavirus as 27,000 entrants expected - By Gary Sunkin
•••• On Sunday March 8th, the 35th annual Los Angeles marathon takes place. "All weekend activities are scheduled to take place as planned," a recent statement from the Los Angeles Marathon read. "Safety is always our first priority and our operations team has been in consistent dialogue with local authorities and monitoring developments related to all safety aspects of the marathon, including coronavirus."

•••• Health officials said the risk to exposure at the local marathon -- which will pass through Echo Park, Los Feliz and Silver Lake -- is "low" at this time.
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•••• The LA Marathon (formerly the City of Los Angeles Marathon) is an annual running event held each spring in Los Angeles, California. The 26.219 mile (42.195 km) footrace, inspired by the success of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, has been contested every year since 1986.
•••• Over the course of its 33-year history, the LA Marathon has become one of the largest marathons in the country with more than 25,000 participants, thousands of volunteers and hundreds of thousands of spectators.
•••• The historic race, which has seen unprecedented growth since introducing the iconic "Stadium to Sea" course, draws runners from all over the world to take a tour of Los Angeles running past every major landmark. The "Stadium to the Sea" route was not the original route: the original route ended at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and a route around the turn of the millennium both started and ended in Downtown Los Angeles.
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•••• According to the marathon's website, more than 27,000 athletes from all 50 states and more than 78 countries will set out from Dodger Stadium in an effort to reach the finish line in Santa Monica.

•Coronavirus Prevention
••• County health officials and race organizers said that they have taken steps to try to prevent the spread of coronavirus during Sunday's L.A. Marathon, including deferring entrants from countries deemed to have a high risk of exposure to the disease.
••• A "very small number" of entrants from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Italy, South Korea and Iran have been deferred.
••• Entrants being screened at airports will be quarantined and won't be able to participate in the race if they show symptoms.
•••• Marathon officials said they deferred entries for people who live in countries where the U.S. Department of State has issued a "do not travel to" advisory, although they said it was a "very small number" of entrants, about 0.06% of the field. Entrants with a home address in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Italy, South Korea and Iran have been deferred.
•••• Murphy Reinschreiber, the chief operating officer for The McCourt Foundation, which runs the marathon, said the deferrals will be honored for next year's race.
•••• On race day, officials said they will have an increased number of hand- sanitizer stations at the race expo, start line, along the route and finish festival. They are also telling participants to follow public safety measures, including frequently washing their hands, using hand sanitizer and to stay home if they feel ill.
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• 115- Homage and Honorary Golden Bear 2020 for Helen Mirren
•••• The 70th Berlin International Film Festival honored Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren with its Homage and awarded her the Honorary Golden Bear (German: Goldener Bär) for her lifetime achievement.
•••• The award ceremony included a screening of "The Queen" (2006, dir: Stephen Frears).
•••• With the Honorary Golden Bear, the Berlinale pays tribute to important figures in the world of film. The award is presented for an exceptional artistic career and is given to the guest of honour of the Homage.
•••• Not only is Helen Mirren one of the world's most renowned actresses, she was also one of the youngest ever to join the famed Royal Shakespeare Company. Over the decades, her range as an actress have been amply demonstrated in a wide variety of genres.
•••• Among the many accolades Mirren has received the 2007 Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe for her performance in The Queen. In addition to many international film prizes, her stage work has also been honored with the leading theatre tributes &endash; the Olivier Award, Tony and Drama Desk Awards. In 2003, Helen Mirren was awarded the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her services to drama.
•••• After working mainly in theatre, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mirren's first major film role was in Michael Powell's 1969 comedy Age of Consent. She subsequently made her mark in 1980's "The Long Good Friday" (dir: John Mackenzie), playing the assertive girlfriend of a top gangster. Her portrayal of Georgina in Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" (1989) was also legendary. Beginning in the 1990s, Helen Mirren increasingly expanded and diversified her roles in both film and television, among them Robert Altman's 2001 Gosford Park (Berlinale 2002). Her flair for comedy was once again in evidence with "Calendar Girls" (2003, dir: Nigel Cole). Between 1991 and 2006, she headed up the seven instalments of the TV series "Prime Suspect" as police superintendent Jane Tennison.
••••In "The Last Station" (2009), directed by Michael Hoffmann, she played Leo Tolstoy's wife Sofya. She was at the Berlinale in 2015, alongside co-star Ryan Reynolds, with "Woman in Gold" (dir: Simon Curtis). Since then, she has appeared onscreen in "Eye in the Sky" (2015, dir: Gavin Hood) and "The Leisure Seeker" (2017, dir: Paolo Virzì) among others.
••••Mirren gives another terrific performance in the thriller "The Good Liar" (dir: Bill Condon), co-starring with Ian McKellen, which recently opened theatrically in Germany and will also be shown in the Homage section.

The Homage films:

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, UK / France / Netherlands 1989, director: Peter Greenaway
The Good Liar, USA 2019, director: Bill Condon
The Last Station, Germany / UK / Russia 2009, director: Michael Hoffmann
The Long Good Friday, UK 1980, director: John Mackenzie
The Queen, UK / France / Italy 2006, director: Stephen Frears

•••• As a partner of the Berlin International Film Festival for many years, the Deutsche Kinemathek has, since 1977, mounted the Homage section in addition to the Retrospective.
••••The Retrospective is the Berlinale's film history programme. In Berlinale Classics, digitally restored film classics and rediscoveries celebrate their premieres. The Homage and the Honorary Golden Bear pay tribute to a great film personality for their lifetime's achievement.
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• 115- "My Salinger Year," kicked off the Berlin Int'l Film Festival - 18 films are vying for the Golden Bear By Gordon Talbot
BERLIN -- The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival known as "the Berlinale" is currently taking place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. It is the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival heads, business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian who took over from Dieter Kosslick last year.
•••• The Berlinale is a unique place of artistic exploration and entertainment. It is one of the largest public film festivals in the world, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from around the globe each year. For the film industry and the media, the eleven days in February are also one of the most important events in the annual calendar and an indispensable trading forum
•••• The Festival got off to a somber start after news of a racially motivated mass shooting Wednesday night in the Frankfurt neighboring German city of Hanau rocked the country.
••••"I wanted to say something about the 70th anniversary of the Berlinale, but events in Hanau hit us all hard," said Berlinale executive director Mariette Rissenbeek.
••••Artistic director Carlo Chatrian added: "We stand here as a community. When we sit in the cinema, there is no distinction between class or religion. Cinema brings us together."
•••The opening night kicked off with the screening of Philippe Falardeau's "My Salinger Year," starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, who attended the premiere.
••••Philippe Falardeau also paid respects to the Hanau shootings, which claimed 11 lives, telling the audience, "I want to convey my unflinching solidarity with the German people in these troubled times," adding his hope that the film might "give you a little light."
••••Hosting the show, actor Samuel Finzi offered an often politically pointed speech that focused largely on the plight of immigrants and on his own life as a Bulgarian native in Berlin.
••••"We shouldn't isolate ourselves and build walls," Finzi said.
"Perhaps there is someone trying to come here that will be a great German hope. Cinema is about shared experiences."
••••Finzi replaced long-time host Anke Engelke, a Canadian-German comedian.
••••Some pointed out the change in tone between last year and this year's ceremony. Dieter Kosslick was known for his larger-than-life personality, and his antics seemed to be missed on stage, in contrast to the more serious, nature of the festival's new co-directors.
••••Later in the evening, German culture minister Monika Grütters also took the stage and delivered a rousing anti-terror message that brought the crowd to its feet  -- one of the ceremony's few highlights. 
•••• Also in attendance was Johnny Depp who arrived at the Berlin Film Festival Friday to support the film "Minamata," in which he plays celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith. In the film, based on real events, Smith is pitted against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning with mercury the people of Minamata in Japan in 1971.
•••• At the film's press conference, Depp said he had a "strange fascination" with Smith and his photography, which was enhanced when he'd "read a bit about his life and what he'd gone through, what he'd experienced, what he'd sacrificed to capture those moments, to capture those photos."
••••Over the next 10 days, the Berlinale will screen 18 films that are vying for the Golden Bear, among them Kelly Reichardt's "First Cow," Mohammad Rasoulof's "There Is No Evil," Natalia Meta's "The Intruder," and Burhan Qurbani's "Berlin Alexanderplatz."
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• 115- WHATS TRENDING at MIP-TV
•••• Paris -- MIPTV 2020 strengthens its focus on buyers with the launch of WHAT'S TRENDING, a bespoke market intelligence strand aimed at arming international executives with the strategies, insights and exclusive data to "future-proof" their business in the face of steep competition for international IP and programming rights.
•••• Ampere Analysis, Broadcast Intelligence, FTI Consulting, Glance, Greenlight Insights, K7 Media, MIDiA Research, The WIT and Wunderman Thompson are among nine market-leading data and analytics experts joining forces to co-create the programme with the MIPTV content team. WHAT'S TRENDING will feature a daily strand of exclusive presentations centred on proprietary insights and analysis assembled in Cannes for the first time in one location.
•••• Two months out from MIPTV, Reed MIDEM is reporting an upward trend in buyer registrations confirming MIP's expanded focus on "future-proofing" the business of acquiring content rights.
•••• WHAT'S TRENDING will also feature creative keynote speaker Alexandre Amancio, CEO of Reflector Entertainment and one of the visionaries behind Assassin's Creed , who will demonstrate how pushing the boundaries of creativity and experience are key to success in a rapidly evolving global content ecosystem.
•••• Market intelligence is a key pillar of the reimagined MIPTV experience, billed as The Global Content Market for the Future. WHAT'S TRENDING responds directly to Reed MIDEM's global survey of buyers who highlighted the need for MIP to differentiate its spring programme with a focus on "future proofing" their business.
•••• WHAT'S TRENDING will sit at the heart of MIPTV's re-imagined programme, featuring a streamlined schedule of conferences debuting twice daily on the main stage Debussy Theatre in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. The programme is open to all delegates.
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• 106- Britain officially leaves the EU
•••• October 31, 2020 -- Britain has officially left the European Union after 47 years of membership, marking the end of an anguished chapter in the country's history.
•••• The departure comes 3 years after the country narrowly voted to walk away from the 28-nation bloc, which set rules for trade, farming, environmental protection and much more.
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• 114- SAG-AFTRA mourns the passing of Kirk Douglas
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LOS ANGELES (Feb. 5, 2020) -- SAG-AFTRA mourns the loss of SAG Life Achievement honoree Kirk Douglas, who passed away today at the age of 103. 
•••• Douglas' career spanned more than six decades and more than 80 films, including Spartacus, Lust for Life, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Man From Snowy River and The Final Countdown. A union member since 1942, Douglas was honored with the 35th SAG Life Achievement Award in 1998.
•••• "One of the last remaining legends of Hollywood's golden age, Kirk Douglas was an extraordinary actor. He was also a powerful voice who helped end the blacklist in our industry." said SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris. "With his extensive body of work, he made an indelible mark on cinema. But, as a true humanitarian, his lifelong dedication to quietly supporting worthy causes may have made an even greater impact. Kirk will be deeply missed and we send our condolences to his family, friends and fans."
••••Douglas was a generous philanthropist, donating millions of dollars to schools, hospitals and facilities that help the homeless. He also remembered his fellow performers. Douglas and his wife Anne gave more than $40 million to the Motion Picture & Television Fund over their lifetimes and were responsible for the creation of a care facility for Alzheimer's patients. In 2015, in honor of Douglas' 99th birthday, the MPTF announced that it would build a new facility to be named in the actor's honor.
•About SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond.
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• 108- Genie Gateway - Pay with your own phone number
Some customers still like to use traditional checks, but to save time and money new technology has allowed those paper checks to be converted into a digital version known as Check21. This is a fast, secure, and efficient way to offer an additional payment option to merchants while saving on transaction fees that are higher when accepting debit and credit cards.
•••• Check21 is the new way for you to receive payments for all your goods and services! Get Real-Time processing AND payment, 24x7x365, from any customer with a valid US checking account &endash; whether they buy in person, online, or by cell phone.
•••• Genie Gateway holds the Key to Unlocking a Wide-Open Opportunity by using its patented technology to create a unique environment where customers can communicate and send and receive payments, globally, in real-time through Telecommunications, eCommerce, Cable TV, and High Speed Internet, integrated on one platform into One Unified Solution.
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• 115- Grammy Awards focuses on new stars
•••• January, the month of awards in Hollywood, is ending with the 62nd Grammy Awards taking place on Sunday, January 26, at the Staples Center, Los Angeles. The live awards will air at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS.
•••• The 2020 Grammy Awards is focusing largely on up-and-coming stars but that may become overshadowed by controversy surrounding allegations made by Deborah Dugan, the former head of the Grammys, in her lawsuit against the National Academy of Recording Arts.
•••• This was set to be the first edition of the Grammy Awards that the new Recording Academy President Deborah Dugan would have presided over; however, she was relieved of her duties as President and CEO and placed on administrative leave from the organization on January 16, 2020. Recording Academy Chairman Harvey Mason Jr. took over as interim President and Chief Executive Officer. He is currently slated to preside over the ceremony instead of Dugan
•••• After her critically lauded run as emcee of last year's GRAMMYs, 15-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys is returning to host the main telecast. She is only the fifth woman to host the Grammys and the first woman of color to host it twice. Before Keys, Queen Latifah hosted in 2005, while Rosie O'Donnell took on the duties in 1999 and 2000. Ellen DeGeneres hosted in 1996 and 1997. During last year's Grammy Awards, Keys stole the show as host. The theater audience and viewers at home raved over the musician's melodic performance, during which she impressively played two pianos at once. Whoopie Goldberg was the first woman ever to host the event, in 1992.
•••• Aerosmith was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast.
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• 115- 17th Brandon Tartikoff Award at NATPE, Founainebleau, Miami Beach
•••• The recipients of NATPE's 17th Annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards are award-winning actress Christine Baranski, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke, prolific television creator, producer and writer Courtney A. Kemp, President of NBCUniversal's Telemundo Global Studios, Marcos Santana, and Chairman, WarnerMedia News and Sports & President, CNN Worldwide Jeff Zucker. They will receive the prestigious awards during the NATPE Miami 2020 convention during a dinner gala on January 22, 2020, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. The dinner, with its A-list attendees, benefits the NATPE Educational Foundation, with a portion going to the Broadcasters Federation of America (BFOA). Bob Holmes is returning as Executive Producer of the show.
•••• Named in honor of Brandon Tartikoff, one of television's greatest programmers, the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards were created to recognize an exceptional ensemble of professionals who exhibit extraordinary passion, leadership, independence and vision in content programming. Brandon had an unmatched love for television, life and family. He will always be remembered among the most gifted programmers of his generation. 
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• 115- OSCAR Nominations
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will honor the best films of 2019 and will take place on February 9, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

• Academy Award Nominations
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	BEST PICTURE "Ford v Ferrari" "The Irishman" "Jojo Rabbit" "Joker" "Little Women" "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" "Marriage Story" "Parasite" "1917" ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Kathy Bates, "Richard Jewell" Laura Dern, "Marriage Story" Scarlett Johansson, "Jojo Rabbit" Florence Pugh, "Little Women" Margot Robbie, "Bombshell" ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Tom Hanks, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" Anthony Hopkins, "The Two Popes" Al Pacino, "The Irishman" Joe Pesci, "The Irishman" Brad Pitt, "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM South Korea, "Parasite" Spain, "Pain and Glory" France, "Les Misérables" North Macedonia, "Honeyland" Poland, "Corpus Christi" DOCUMENTARY (SHORT) "In the Absence" "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)" "Life Overtakes Me" "St. Louis Superman" "Walk Run Cha-Cha" DOCUMENTARY FEATURE "American Factory" "The Edge of Democracy" "Honeyland" "For Sama" "The Cave" ORIGINAL SONG "I'm Standing With You," "Breakthrough" "Into the Unknown," "Frozen II" "Stand Up," "Harriet" "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again," "Rocketman" "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away," "Toy Story 4" ANIMATED FEATURE FILM "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" "I Lost My Body" "Klaus" "Missing Link" "Toy Story 4" ADAPTED SCREENPLAY "The Irishman" "Jojo Rabbit" "Little Women" "The Two Popes" "Joker" ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY "Marriage Story" "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" "Parasite" "Knives Out" "1917" ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Antonio Banderas, "Pain and Glory" Leonardo DiCaprio, "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" Adam Driver, "Marriage Story" Joaquin Phoenix, "Joker" Jonathan Pryce, "The Two Popes"		ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Cynthia Erivo, "Harriet" Scarlett Johansson, "Marriage Story" Saoirse Ronan, "Little Women" Renée Zellweger, "Judy" Charlize Theron, "Bombshell" DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese, "The Irishman" Quentin Tarantino, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" Bong Joon-ho, "Parasite" Sam Mendes, "1917" Todd Phillips, "Joker" PRODUCTION DESIGN "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" "The Irishman" "1917" "Jojo Rabbit" "Parasite" CINEMATOGRAPHY "1917" "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" "The Irishman" "Joker" "The Lighthouse" COSTUME DESIGN "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" "Little Women" "The Irishman" "Jojo Rabbit" "Joker" SOUND EDITING "1917" "Ford v Ferrari" "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" "Joker" SOUND MIXING "1917" "Ford v Ferrari" "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" "Ad Astra" "Joker" ANIMATED SHORT FILM "Dcera (Daughter)" "Hair Love" "Kitbull" "Memorable" "Sister" LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM "Brotherhood" "Nefta Football Club" "The Neighbors' Window" "Saria" "A Sister" ORIGINAL SCORE "1917," Thomas Newman "Joker," Hildur Gu?nadóttir "Little Women," Alexandre Desplat "Marriage Story," Randy Newman "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," John Williams VISUAL EFFECTS "Avengers: Endgame" "The Lion King" "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" "The Irishman" "1917" FILM EDITING "The Irishman" "Ford v Ferrari" "Parasite" "Joker" "Jojo Rabbit"

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• Annual Critics' Choice Awards, January 12
The night's top prize for best picture went to "Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood."
Hollywood gathered Sunday night at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, to celebrate the best in television and film at the 25th annual Critics' Choice Awards, hosted by Taye Diggs.
•••• Eddie Murphy received a lifetime achievement award, while Kristen Bell, who was honored with the #SeeHer Award, moved the audience with an inspiring speech.
•••• "My immediate reaction is always to answer with words like 'strong' and 'brave' and 'powerful,' but if I'm being honest, to me, being a woman is not about being brave or being strong or being powerful. It's not about being anything specific," Bell said. "It's just about giving yourself permission to be the things that you already are, which seems very easy, but it is not. Because women have been conditioned to fit into boxes; usually tiny, pretty, sparkly boxes with bows on the them."

• Critics' Choice Awards - Winners
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	FILM BEST PICTURE 1917 Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood - Winner Parasite Uncut Gems BEST ACTOR Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory Robert De Niro, The Irishman Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Adam Driver, Marriage Story Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name Joaquin Phoenix, "Joker " Winner Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems BEST ACTRESS Awkwafina, The Farewell Cynthia Erivo, Harriet Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story Lupita Nyong'o, Us Saoirse Ronan, Little Women Charlize Theron, Bombshell Renée Zellweger, "Judy" - Winner BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes Al Pacino, The Irishman Joe Pesci, The Irishman "Brad Pitt, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" - Winner BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Laura Dern, "Marriage Story" Winner Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers Florence Pugh, Little Women Margot Robbie, Bombshell Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Julia Butters, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Roman Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit -Winner Noah Jupe, Honey Boy Thomasin McKenzie, Jojo Rabbit Shahadi Wright Joseph, Us Archie Yates, Jojo Rabbit BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE Bombshell The Irishman - Winner Knives Out Little Women Marriage Story Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Parasite BEST DIRECTOR Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story Greta Gerwig, Little Women Bong Joon Ho, "Parasite" (Winner - TIE) Sam Mendes, "1917" (Winner - TIE) Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY The Farewell -- Lulu Wang Knives Out -- Rian Johnson Marriage Story -- Noah Baumbach Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- Quentin Tarantino - Winner Parasite -- Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood -- Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue The Irishman -- Steven Zaillian Joker -- Todd Phillips & Scott SilverJojo Rabbit -- Taika Waititi Little Women -- Greta Gerwig - Winner The Two Popes -- Anthony McCarten BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Ford v Ferrari -- Phedon PapamichaelThe Irishman -- Rodrigo Prieto Joker -- Lawrence Sher The Lighthouse -- Jarin Blaschke Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- Robert Richardson 1917 -- Roger Deaki - Winner BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Downton Abbey -- Donal Woods, Gina Cromwell The Irishman -- Bob Shaw, Regina Graves Joker -- Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran Little Women -- Jess Gonchor, Claire Kaufman Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh - Winner Parasite -- Lee Ha Jun 1917 -- Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales BEST EDITING The Irishman -- Thelma Schoonmaker Ford v Ferrari -- Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- Fred Raskin Parasite -- Yang Jinmo Uncut Gems -- Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie 1917 -- Lee Smith - Winner BEST COSTUME DESIGN Dolemite Is My Name -- Ruth E. Carter - Winner Downton Abbey -- Anna Robbins The Irishman -- Sandy Powell, Christopher Peterson Little Women -- Jacqueline Durran Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- Arianne Phillips Rocketman -- Julian Day BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP Bombshell - Winner Dolemite Is My Name The Irishman Joker Judy Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Rocketman BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 1917 Ad Astra The Aeronauts Avengers: Endgame - Winner Ford v Ferrari The Irishman The Lion King BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Abominable Frozen II How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World I Lost My Body Missing Link Toy Story 4 - Winner BEST ACTION MOVIE 1917 Avengers: Endgame - Winner Ford v Ferrari John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum Spider-Man: Far From Home BEST COMEDY Booksmart Dolemite Is My Name - Winner The Farewell Jojo Rabbit Knives Out BEST SCI-FI OR HORROR MOVIEAd Astra Avengers: Endgame Midsommar Us - Winner BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Atlantics Les Misérables Pain and Glory Parasite - Winner Portrait of a Lady on Fire BEST SONG "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" -- Wild Rose (Winner - TIE) "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" -- Rocketman (Winner- TIE) "I'm Standing With You" -- Breakthrough "Into the Unknown" -- Frozen II "Speechless" -- Aladdin "Spirit" -- The Lion King "Stand Up" -- Harriet BEST SCORE Michael Abels -- Us Alexandre Desplat -- Little Women Hildur Gu?nadótti -- Joker - Winner Randy Newman -- Marriage Story Thomas Newman -- 1917 Robbie Robertson -- The Irishman		TELEVISION BEST DRAMA SERIES The Crown David Makes Man Game of Thrones The Good Fight Pose Succession - Winner This Is Us Watchmen BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES Sterling K. Brown,This Is Us Mike Colter, Evil Paul Giamatti, Billions Kit Harington, Game of Thrones Freddie Highmore, The Good Doctor Tobias Menzies, The Crown Billy Porter, Pose Jeremy Strong, "Succession" - Winner BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES Christine Baranski, The Good Fight Olivia Colman,The Crown Jodie Comer, Killing Eve Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies Regina King, "Watchmen" - Winner Mj Rodriguez, Pose Sarah Snook, Succession Zendaya, Euphoria BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES Asante Blackk, This Is Us Billy Crudup, "The Morning Show" - Winner Asia Kate Dillon, Billions Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Justin Hartley, This Is Us Delroy Lindo, The Good Fight Tim Blake Nelson, Watchmen BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown Gwendoline Christie, Game of Thrones Laura Dern, Big Little Lies Audra McDonald, The Good Fight Jean Smart, "Watchmen" - Winner Meryl Streep, Big Little Lies BEST COMEDY SERIES Barry Fleabag - Winner The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Mom One Day at a Time PEN15 Schitt's Creek BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES Ted Danson, The Good Place Walton Goggins, The Unicorn Bill Hader, "Barry" - Winner Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek Paul Rudd, Living with Yourself Bashir Salahuddin, Sherman's Showcase Ramy Youssef, Ramy BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Christina Applegate, Dead to Me Alison Brie, GLOW Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Kirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central Florida Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag" - Winner BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Anthony Carrigan, Barry William Jackson Harper, The Good Place Daniel Levy, Schitt's Creek Nico Santos, Superstore Andrew Scott, "Fleabag" - Winner Henry Winkler, Barry BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Alex Borstein, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" - Winner D'Arcy Carden, The Good Place Sian Clifford, Fleabag Betty Gilpin, GLOW Rita Moreno, One Day at a Time Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek Molly Shannon, The Other Two BEST LIMITED SERIES Catch-22 Chernobyl Fosse/Verdon The Loudest Voice Unbelievable When They See Us - Winner Years and Years BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION Brexit Deadwood: The Movie El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - Winner Guava Island Native Son Patsy & Loretta BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION Christopher Abbott, Catch-22 Mahershala Ali, True Detective Russell Crowe, The Loudest Voice Jared Harris, Chernobyl Jharrel Jerome, "When They See Us" - Winner Sam Rockwell, Fosse/Verdon Noah Wyle, The Red Line BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION Kaitlyn Dever, Unbelievable Anne Hathaway, Modern Love Megan Hilty, Patsy & Loretta Joey King, The Act Jessie Mueller, Patsy & Loretta Merritt Wever, Unbelievable Michelle Williams, "Fosse/Verdo" - Winner BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION Asante Blackk, When They See Us George Clooney, Catch-22 John Leguizamo, When They See Us Dev Patel, Modern Love Jesse Plemons, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Stellan Skarsgård, "Chernobyl" - Winner Russell Tovey, Years and Years BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION Patricia Arquette, The Act Marsha Stephanie Blake, When They See Us Toni Collette, "Unbelievable" - Winner Niecy Nash, When They See Us Margaret Qualley, Fosse/Verdon Emma Thompson, Years and Years Emily Watson, Chernobyl (HBO) BEST ANIMATED SERIES Big Mouth BoJack Horseman - Winner The Dark Crystal: Age of ResistanceShe-Ra and the Princesses of Power The Simpsons Undone BEST TALK SHOW Desus & Mero Full Frontal with Samantha Bee The Kelly Clarkson Show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The Late Late Show with James Corden Late Night with Seth Meyers - Winner BEST COMEDY SPECIAL Amy Schumer: Growing Jenny Slate: Stage Fright Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons - Winner Ramy Youssef: Feelings Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia Wanda Sykes: Not Normal (Netflix)

• Golden Globe Awards- Winners
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	FILM • Best Motion Picture -- drama: " 1917" • Best Motion Picture -- musical or comedy: "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" • Best Actor -- musical or comedy: "Taron Egerton, "Rocketman" • Best Actress -- musical or comedy: Awkwafina, "The Farewell" • Actor in a motion picture -- drama: Joaquin Phoenix, "Joker" • Actress in a motion picture -- drama: Renée Zellweger, "Judy" • Best supporting actor in a motion picture: Brad Pitt, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" • Best supporting actress in a motion picture: Laura Dern, "Marriage Story" • Best director: Sam Mendes, "1917" • Best screenplay: "Quentin Tarantino, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" • Best original song: "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again," written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin for the movie "Rocketman" • Best original score: Hildur Gu?nadóttir, "Joker" • Best animated feature film: "Missing Link" • Best foreign-language film: "Parasite" •		TELEVISION • Best television series -- drama: Olivia Colman, "The Crown" • Best television series -- musical or comedy: "Rami Youssef, "Ramy" • Best Actress in a televion series, musical ror comedy: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag" • Best actor in televsion series,drama: Brian Cox, "Succession" • Best actress in a television series -- drama: Olivia Colman, "The Crown" • Best actor in a television series -- musical or comedy: Rami Youssef, "Ramy" • Best miniseries or television film: "Chernobyl" • Best actor in a miniseries or television film: Russell Crowe, "The Loudest Voice" • Best actress in a miniseries or television film: Michelle Williams, "Fosse/Verdon" • Best supporting actor in a series, miniseries or television film: Stellan Skarsgard, "Chernobyl" • Best supporting actress in a series, miniseries or television film: Patricia Arquette, "The Act"

Golden Globe Awards Nominations and Winners
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	FILM Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" - Winner "Jojo Rabbit" "Knives Out" "Rocketman" "Dolemite Is My Name" Best Motion Picture -- Drama "The Irishman" "Marriage Story" "1917" - Winner "Joker" "The Two Popes" Best Motion Picture -- Foreign Language "The Farewell" "Pain and Glory" "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" "Parasite" - Winner "Les Misérables" Best Screenplay -- Motion Picture Noah Baumbach ("Marriage Story") Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won ("Parasite") Anthony McCarten ("The Two Popes") Quentin Tarantino ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood") - Winner Steven Zaillian ("The Irishman") Best Original Song -- Motion Picture "Beautiful Ghosts" ("Cats") "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" ("Rocketman") - Winner "Into the Unknown" ("Frozen II") "Spirit" ("The Lion King") "Stand Up" ("Harriet") Best Original Score -- Motion Picture Hildur Gu?nadóttir ("Joker") - Winner Randy Newman ("Marriage Story") Thomas Newman ("1917") Daniel Pemberton ("Motherless Brooklyn") Alexandre Desplat ("Little Women") Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Tom Hanks ("A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood") Anthony Hopkins ("The Two Popes") Al Pacino ("The Irishman") Joe Pesci ("The Irishman") Brad Pitt ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood") - Winner Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Kathy Bates ("Richard Jewell") Annette Bening ("The Report") Laura Dern ("Marriage Story") - Winner Jennifer Lopez ("Hustlers") Margot Robbie ("Bombshell") Best Actor in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy Daniel Craig ("Knives Out") Roman Griffin Davis ("Jojo Rabbit") Leonardo DiCaprio ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood") Taron Egerton ("Rocketman") - Winner Eddie Murphy ("Dolemite Is My Name") Best Motion Picture -- Animated "Frozen II" "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" "Missing Link" - Winner "Toy Story 4" "Lion King" Best Actor in a Motion Picture -- Drama Christian Bale ("Ford v Ferrari") Antonio Banderas ("Pain and Glory") Adam Driver ("Marriage Story") Joaquin Phoenix ("Joker") - Winner Jonathan Pryce ("The Two Popes") Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama Cynthia Erivo ("Harriet") Scarlett Johansson ("Marriage Story") Saoirse Ronan ("Little Women") Charlize Theron ("Bombshell") Renée Zellweger, "Judy" - Winner Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy Awkwafina, "The Farewell" - Winner Ana de Armas ("Knives Out") Cate Blanchett ("Where'd You Go, Bernadette") Beanie Feldstein ("Booksmart") Emma Thompson ("Late Night") Best Director -- Motion Picture Bong Joon-ho ("Parasite") Sam Mendes ("1917") - Winner Todd Phillips ("Joker") Martin Scorsese ("The Irishman") Quentin Tarantino ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood")		TELEVISION Best Performance by an actor in a Television Series Michael Douglas-- "The Kominsky Method" Bill Hader -- "Barry" Ben Platt -- "The Poltitian" Paul Rudd -- "Living with Yourself" Ramy Youssef ("Ramy") - Winner Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series -- Musical or Comedy Christina Applegate ("Dead to Me") Rachel Brosnahan ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") Kirsten Dunst ("On Becoming a God in Central Florida") Natasha Lyonne ("Russian Doll") Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag") - Winner Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series -- Drama Brian Cox ("Succession") - Winner Kit Harington ("Game of Thrones") Rami Malek ("Mr. Robot") Tobias Menzies ("The Crown") Billy Porter ("Pose") Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series -- Drama Jennifer Aniston ("The Morning Show") Olivia Colman ("The Crown") - Winner Jodie Comer ("Killing Eve") Nicole Kidman ("Big Little Lies") Reese Witherspoon ("The Morning Show") Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Christopher Abbott ("Catch-22") Sacha Baron Cohen ("The Spy") Russell Crowe ("The Loudest Voice") - Winner Jared Harris ("Chernobyl") Sam Rockwell ("Fosse/Verdon") Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Kaitlyn Dever ("Unbelievable") Joey King ("The Act") Helen Mirren ("Catherine the Great") Merritt Wever ("Unbelievable") Michelle Williams ("Fosse/Verdon") - Winner Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television "Catch-22² "Chernobyl" - Winner "Fosse/Verdon" The Loudest Voice "Unbelievable" Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Patricia Arquette ("The Act") - Winner Helena Bonham Carter ("The Crown") Toni Collette ("Unbelievable") Meryl Streep ("Big Little Lies") Emily Watson ("Chernobyl") Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Alan Arkin ("The Kominsky Method") Kieran Culkin ("Succession") Andrew Scott ("Fleabag") Stellan Skarsgård ("Chernobyl") - Winner Henry Winkler ("Barry") Best Television Series -- Drama "Big Little Lies" "The Crown" "Killing Eve" "The Morning Show" "Succession" - Winner Best Television Series -- Musical or Comedy "Barry" "Fleabag" - Winner "The Kominsky Method" "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" "The Politician"

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film, both American and International, and the American television.
•••• Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will be returning as co-hosts for the 78th Golden Globe Awards in 2021.
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• SAG AWARDS Winners The 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards honored the best film and television performances of the year
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	• cast in a motion picture: "Black Panther" • female actor in a leading role: Glenn Close, "The Wife" • male actor in a leading role: Rami Malek, "Bohemian Rhapsody" • female actor in a supporting role: Emily Blunt, "A Quiet Place" • male actor in a supporting role: Mahershala Ali, "Green Book" • stunt ensemble in a motion picture: "Black Panther" • female actor in a miniseries or television movie: Patricia Arquette, "Escape at Dannemora" • male actor in a miniseries or television movie: Darren Criss, "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story"		• actor in a drama series: Sandra Oh, "Killing Eve" • male actor in a drama series: Jason Bateman, "Ozark" • female actor in a comedy series: Rachel Brosnahan, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" • male actor in a comedy series: Tony Shalhoub, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" • an ensemble in a drama series: "This Is Us" • an ensemble in a comedy series: "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" • a stunt ensemble in a television series: "Glow"

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• 106- 1.1 BillJury Award to Caltech
•••• A Los Angeles jury on Jan 29, awarded $Billion damages to Caltech in litigation alleging that Apple and Broadcom infringed on four of the university's patents related to wireless data transmissions. Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc. must pay $1.1 billion in damages for infringing Caltech patents on Wi-Fi technology, a federal jury in Los Angeles ordered.
•••• The federal jury in downtown Los Angeles ordered Apple to pay $837 million while Broadcom was hit with a $270.2-million verdict, according to lawyers for Caltech. The school sued the technology companies over patents related to wireless data transmissions.
•••• The California Institute of Technology issued a statement saying it appreciates the jury's thoughtful attention throughout the trial. "We are pleased the jury found that Apple and Broadcom infringed Caltech patents."
•••• "As a nonprofit institution of higher education, Caltech is committed to protecting its intellectual property in furtherance of its mission to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education."
•••• It's the biggest jury verdict of any kind so far this year and the sixth-largest patent verdict of all time, according to Bloomberg data.
•••• Lawyers for the two companies have denied infringing the patents and said the school wasn't entitled to significant damages even if they were using the inventions.
•••• Apple said it plans to appeal the Caltech verdict. Broadcom said that it also plans to appeal, and that it disagreed with the factual and legal basis for the verdict.
•••• Caltech filed suit in 2016, alleging that Apple products including iPhones, iPads, iPods, Apple Watches and Mac computers used Broadcom's components, which allegedly infringed on Caltech's patents. e Watches and Mac computers used Broadcom's components, which allegedly infringed on Caltech's patents.
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• 2020 Rose Bowl Game will kick off January 1, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.••••
•••• Since 1890, the Tournament of Roses has produced America's New Year Celebration, bringing the traditions of the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game to Pasadena and the world for 130 years.
•••• The 106th Rose Bowl Game between Washington Huskies vs Ohio State Buckeyes and presented by Northwestern Mutual will take place on January 1, 2020, at the Rose Bowl Stadium and will feature top teams from the Pac-12 and Big Ten known as "The Granddaddy" of Them All. The Rose Bowl Game is the oldest bowl game and kicked off a myriad college football legacies in 1902.
•••• The first Tournament of Roses football game, which was the first post-season football game in the nation, was staged at Tournament Park on January 1, 1902. The game matched the West Coast's Stanford against Midwestern Michigan. (The teams would later become members of today's Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences, respectively.) Michigan routed Stanford, 49-0, prompting the football contest to be replaced with Roman-style chariot races inspired by the literary classic Ben-Hur. Football was permanently reinstated as part of the Tournament's traditions in 1916.
•••• The exclusive agreement among the Tournament of Roses Association, the Big Ten Conference and the Pac-12 Conference was born in 1946, and the first game played under the agreement took place on January 1, 1947. The pact is the oldest intercollegiate postseason bowl agreement between two major conferences in the United States.
•••• This collegiate classic has been the occasion of many firsts. The Rose Bowl Game was the first local radio broadcast of an East-West bowl game in 1926, the first transcontinental radio broadcast of a sporting event in 1927, the first local telecast of a college football game in 1948, the first national telecast of a college football game in 1952, the first coast-to-coast color telecast of a collegiate football game in 1962, and the first College Football Playoff Semifinal in 2015.
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• 101- OREGON AND WISCONSIN TO PLAY IN THE ROSE BOWL GAME - By Gary Sunkin
•••• Since 1890, the Tournament of Roses has produced America's New Year Celebration, bringing the traditions of the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game to Pasadena and the world for nearly a 131 years.
•••• The Oregon Ducks, champions of the Big Ten Conference, and Wisconsin, champions of the Pac-12 Conference, will play in the 106th Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET, on January 1, 2020, at the Rose Bowl Stadium.
•••• ••No. 9 Washington is headed back to the Rose Bowl for the second time since a 34-24 victory over Purdue on Jan. 1, 2001.
•••••••The Wisconsin-Oregon play will mark the second time in five years that the Rose Bowl has featured the Pac-12 and Big Ten champions. The last time that happened was after the 2013 season, when Michigan State defeated Stanford, 24-20.
• Back to Pasadena
•••• Pre-game festivities on January 1, will begin at 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET). The game will be televised nationally on ESPN.
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• 101- Oregon Defeats Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl
•••• No. 6 Oregon defeated No. 8 Wisconsin, 28-27, in the 106th Rose Bowl Game. The Ducks (12-2) completed their fifth 12- win season in program history behind Justin Herbert's three rushing touchdowns and Brady Breeze's career defensive performance.
•••• Oregon won the Rose Bowl with a roster that includes more then 30 players who grew up in Sothern California within 70 miles of the Rose Bowld. Oregon just used kids from So LA to Norco to Rancho Ccamonga to Mission Viejo to defeat a bunch of behemohts from Wisconsin 28-27.
••• With about one-third Sothern Calfiornia kids, they beat Wisonsin despite being outgained 322 yard to 204 because they stole the ball four times and shut town the Badger in crunch time. With Soouthern California kids, Oregon won by playing the sort of thghnes that USC uesed to have.
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• 115- Rita Moreno, Gina Torres and Laurie Hernandez will ride as Grand Marshals
in the 131st Rose Parade® presented by Honda, and join in the pre-game celebration of the 106th Rose Bowl Game® presented by Northwestern Mutual both are held on January 1, 2020.
PASADENA, Calif. -- The 2020 theme is 'The Power of Hope.' "With hope, we can aspire to do better and inspire others to reach higher; hope never quits; with hope anything, in fact everything is possible," said Tournament of Roses® President Laura Farber. "Rita Moreno, Gina Torres, and Laurie Hernandez epitomize hope. Through their talent, efforts, persistence, and dedication, they have achieved excellence and have given back to the world stories of hope, dreams fulfilled, dignity, respect and inspiration.  They have provided el Poder de La Esperanza para todo el mundo!"
•••• Rita Moreno has received four of the most prestigious awards in show business; an Academy Award®, a Tony Award®, two Emmy® Awards, and a GRAMMY® award. Her credits span more than six decades, beginning on Broadway at age 13. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor for her lifetime contributions to American culture, Moreno was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush and the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. In addition to her film, stage, television and concert accomplishments, Moreno gives her voice to important causes, including racial equality, hunger, early childhood education, as well as health issues like HIV, breast cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Moreno was among many celebrities to take part in the historic March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963 and has since been involved with many civic, cultural and charitable organizations, including the Jackie Robinson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
•••• Gina Torre, well-known for her roles on Suits, Alias, Firefly and Westworld, was born in Manhattan to a close-knit Cuban family and raised in the Bronx. Gina's character, Jessica Pearson, on USA Network's hit original series Suits garnered award-winning success which lead to the spinoff series, Pearson. Currently she is staring in the lead role and executive producing Pearson, which sees her Suits character take on the world of Chicago politics. The role of Jessica has been a life changing one, earning Gina the National Hispanic Media Coalition's Award for Outstanding Performance in a Television Series and the Visionary Award from the LA Femme Film Festival. Before entering the world of acting, she studied opera and jazz as a vocal major which lead her to appear in plays and musicals on Broadway, being directed by such legends as Tommy Tune and Pete Masterson in Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Jerry Zaks in Face Value. In addition to her work on television and Broadway, Gina's film credits include The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and Sundance Film Festival Critics Choice, Don't Let me Drown. Gina enjoys giving back through several philanthropic organizations; Heifer International, Dress for Success, Planned Parenthood and Save the Children.
•••• Laurie Hernandez earned Olympic Gold and Silver medals as a member of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team. Laurie is a second generation American, her grandparents are Puerto Rican, making her the first U.S. born Latina to make the U.S. team since 1984. Following her win at the Summer Olympics, she earned another title, champion on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. In 2017, Laurie became an inductee into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and was recognized as the 2018 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Sports Biggest Kid. Most recently, Laurie served as a cohost of America Ninja Warrior Junior, and as the voice of Valeria on Nickelodeon's Middle School Moguls. Laurie is the author of two books; "I Got This: To Gold and Beyond" chronicling her journey thus far and a children's picture book "She's Got This," each appearing on the New York Times Best Sellers list. When not in the gym, Laurie serves as Global Ambassador for Stomp Out bullying and travels the country inspiring young gymnasts and speaks to the next generation about following your dreams. Laurie will go for the gold again at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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