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• 101- SAG-AFTRA Awards George Heller Memorial Gold Card to Union Officers

LOS ANGELES (June 22, 2024) -- Today SAG-AFTRA announced Sheila Ivy Traister, Michele Proude, Janice Pendarvis and Stacey Travis as recipients of the George Heller Memorial Award gold cards in recognition for their outstanding contributions to SAG-AFTRA and its members.
•••• The George Heller Memorial Award is presented every two years at SAG-AFTRA's national convention and bestowed based on contributions and years of service to SAG-AFTRA or its predecessor unions. Honorees are selected by the National Honors and Tributes Committee members from around the country. This year's recipients are:
•••• SAG-AFTRA Former National Board Member Sheila Ivy Traister
•••• A tireless union advocate, Traister has dedicated more than 44 years of cumulative service to the labor movement, having served on the SAG-AFTRA National Board, as president of the Colorado Local and as a current member of five national committees. Traister puts particular focus on committees that help promote inclusiveness of her industry and the labor movement and expand equal opportunity in the industry, including for performers who are Asian American and Pacific Islander, and performers with disabilities. She also devotes her time to conducting workshops and lectures for film students, educating them about SAG-AFTRA and the benefits of union membership.
•••• SAG-AFTRA National Vice President, Mid-Sized Locals Michele Proude Compassionate, articulate, and determined, Proude has served on local and national committees and as New England Local president. She was first elected by her fellow SAG-AFTRA convention delegates as the national vice president of the mid-sized locals in 2019, and was elected to her third term in 2023. As a leader, she's known for being open and communicative and she cultivates an environment where people can disagree and debate respectfully. As an accomplished performer, she is an invaluable resource for her knowledge of SAG-AFTRA's constitution, union governance, and her ability to find solutions and get things done. Proude has managed to balance a very full home life, a busy career and union service, and is devoted to making SAG-AFTRA the very best that it can be.
•••• SAG-AFTRA National Vice President, Recording Artists/Singers Janice Pendarvis
•••• A singer and voice actor who has spent years fighting for singers legislatively and within the union, Pendarvis' priority has always been creating more union work for SAG-AFTRA members -- especially those working in the recording industry. Currently serving her second term as SAG-AFTRA's national vice president, recording artists/singers, her legacy in union service is almost as impressive as her career; she began as a songwriter and a singer working with artists such as Sting, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Peter Tosh and the Rolling Stones. Currently, she's an associate professor of voice at Berklee College of Music, assisting the next generation of musicians in the pursuit of their dreams.
•••• Former SAG-AFTRA National Board Member Stacey Travis
•••• For over three decades, Travis has been dedicated to union service. She was first elected to the SAG Board in 2008, and her extraordinary leadership accomplishments include revolutionizing SAG-AFTRA's low budget contracts and fighting fiercely for over a decade to remove ages and birthdates from IMDb. She also devotes her time and energy to ensuring that our members are educated about contract changes and opportunities, and helps to drive SAG-AFTRA's legislative agenda in California and Washington, D.C. Whether she's tracking state and national actions, researching vital legislation or educating members, Travis is always working to help members and strengthen SAG-AFTRA.

• About George Heller
Established in 1956, the gold card award was created in memory of George Heller, a stage performer and a legend in the union's history who co-founded AFRA, the American Federation of Radio Artists in 1937. Heller became AFRA national executive secretary in 1946, departing in 1949 to head Television Authority to organize and negotiate TV contracts for actors. When AFTRA and TVA merged in 1952, as AFTRA, Heller became its national executive secretary. Heller was also the driving force behind negotiating and achieving the AFTRA Pension and Health Plan -- an entertainment industry first -- shortly before his premature death in 1955 at age 49.
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• 115- NATPE BUDAPEST 2024 - First keynotes announced
Natpe Budapest will take place June 24 - 27 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Budapest.

KEYNOTE: AI & TECHNOLOGY: REDEFINING ENTERTAINMENT IN A CONNECTED WORLD
Producer, Tech Entrepreneur and Journalist Elif Dagdeviren will lead a thought-provoking presentation that puts AI center stage as a powerful tool for molding the business. This keynote will focus on the intersection of technology and entertainment today, and how it will evolve in the future.
•••• CEO-level executives from leading broadcasters across Central and Eastern Europe will lead insightful discussion around the trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the region's media landscape with a particular focus on the health of Linear TV & investment in local content. 
Featuring: Moderators
Stewart Clarke, SVP, Content, International, Deadline
Ralf Bartoleit CEO, bTV Media Group
Stella Litou
CEO, CME Adria; CEO, Pro Plus; President of the Management Board, RTL Croatia
Pavel Stantchev, CEO, TV2 Media Group Hungary, Planet TV Group Slovenia
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• 115- Cinematic gems to be presented at Munich 41st FILMFEST MÜNCHEN.

 ••• The Munich International Film Festival is the number-one platform for German filmmaking. Its 41st edition will see the premieres of 150 films from 53 countries, with the usual large number of guests attending. Both the general public and the film industry will find much to discover here. The complete festival schedule, which includes German co-productions involving Canada, Argentina, Somalia, and India, is now online, as are all of the events and talks, which feature lots of big names in filmmaking.
•••• The Munich International Film Festival will be held from June 28 to July 7, 2024. Its opening gala will be held at the Gasteig HP8 on Saturday, June 29. The festival center will once again be at the Amerikahaus in the museum district.
•••• The awards for the competition sections will be announced on July 6, 2024 at the festival center Amerikahaus.
•••• The works competing for the new CineWaves award trophies in the international and national competitions will be screened at twelve venues. This year also sees the return, after a four-year break, of the competition for Germany's most valuable co-production prize, the 100,000-euro CineCoPro Award.   
•••• The 150 feature-length fiction and documentary films address themes that cover the entire spectrum of human and societal experience. Some 40 % of the films are directed by women. All of the films are being screened in Germany for the first time. 62 productions are even celebrating their international, world, or European premiere in Munich.   
•••• As this is the first festival at which we've teamed up to set the creative tone, it's naturally very special to us. We're taking the festival back to its roots by presenting genuine finds alongside star-studded cinema, but are doing this in new, grand, and great locations. The return of the CineCoPro Competition makes the festival more complete, and CineYou, our laboratory for young audiences, finally gives us an avenue for making young people from Munich an active part of the festival. We and our fantastic team are looking forward to 10 days of unparalleled interactions, unforgettable experiences with cinema, and inspiring, open-minded discussions," say Christoph Gröner, festival director, and Julia Weigl, artistic co-director.
•••• Plenty of cinematic gems that we're able to present come to us straight from the Cannes and Tribeca film festivals. In "The Substance", Demi Moore returns to the big screen in a breathtaking female body horror film by Coralie Fargeat. Also fresh from Cannes is "Rumours", an absurdist satire starring Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance, and Alicia Vikander. Fourteen films in total are from the Croisette. "Samia", an Italian-German co-production, offers the perspective of a young sportswoman who confronts injustice in Mogadishu. In "Motel Destino", another film involving Germany in its co-production, Karim Aïnouz turns desire, intoxication, and violence into a colorful spectacle. From Brazil, there is the horror drama "Continent", which is celebrating its world premiere at the Munich International Film Festival (more information on the international world premieres here). "Xoftex" will be presented in a joint world premiere with the Karlovy Vary Festival.
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• 115- Michaela Pereira Returns to Host July 27th Emmys Ceremony
LOS ANGELES - June 4, 2024 -- The Television Academy today announced 124 nominations in 33 categories for the 76th Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards, to be presented Saturday evening, July 27, 2024, at the Four Seasons Hotel Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, hosted by award-winning journalist Michaela Pereira.
•••• The Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards honor locally produced programs in the categories of Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, the Arts, Human Interest, Sports, the Environment, and Live and Breaking News Coverage. 
•••• A complete list of today's nominations, tabulated by the Academy's accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP, is attached. The nominations are listed alphabetically by program within each category.
•••• Host Michaela Pereira has more than three decades of experience in the television industry and has made her mark on Los Angeles area news as the anchor for both the KTLA Morning News and KTTV's Good Day LA. Additionally, she has been on the national stage as a co-host of the CNN morning show New Day, and hosted her own daily show, MichaeLA, on HLN. She is currently hosting her own national weekly podcast, "The Michaela! of it All," which is the leadup to her national talk show.
••••Christie Lyn Lugo Leigh and Stephanie Hampton are the Los Angeles Area Governors.
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  • 115- CINEKINDL -- A VARIETY OF FILMS ABOUT THE WORLD OF YOUNG PEOPLE

MUNICH, June 7, 2024 -- The 41st edition of the Munich International Film Festival will give young audiences in particular a lot to look forward to. Programming director Tobi Krell aka Checker Tobi and co-curator Tobi Obermeier will once again present a thoughtfully compiled selection of films for the young and young-at-heart aged 5 and up. The former KINDERFILMFEST MÜNCHEN, a standalone competition section at the festival, will for the first time be held using its new name, CineKindl.  
•••• On the morning of June 29, 2024, the CineKindl section will officially be inaugurated by programming director Tobi Krell. The CineKindl trailer, shot by a group of young people under the guidance of director Axel Ranisch, will be shown on the big screen for the first time. The highlight at the opening of this section will be the world premiere of the documentary "Sisterqueens". In her graduation film from the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, director Clara Stella Hüneke gets up close and personal with a Berlin-based initiative that promotes feminist rap by and for girls. The film follows three young female protagonists for several years as they find their voice and begin to give artistic expression to their political demands. 
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• CineWaves motiv will be gracing the Munich Film Fest
The international FILMFEST MÜNCHEN is giving its awards a coordinated design that will be reflected across the festival
•••• Starting this year, the CineWaves will be the motif gracing the awards presented at Munich's international film festival.
•••• "FILMFEST MÜNCHEN has given itself a fresh iconography inspired by one of Munich's most scenic locations: the incomparable Isar River. The flow of the water is inspiring and surprising. It constantly delivers something new. It encourages interaction and refreshment, especially in the summer," say festival director Christoph Gröner and artistic co-director Julia Weigl.
•••• The design is based on footage of flowing water which was intentionally distorted by non-binary artist PPPANIK using a play of colors and other effects, thus becoming a cinematic statement in itself. We're drawn into a summery, lush, blue-green colorscape that will remind everyone in Munich of the Isar, the Eisbach, and the English Garden.
•••• During the festival period from June 28 to July 7, all of Munich's cinematic events will reflect this design, which will be featured prominently at the opening at the Gasteig HP8.
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• 115- 41st Munich International Film Festival and its jury 
•••• This year, the Munich International Film Festival will once again be joined by international and national juries. The juries are made up of an diverse selection of industry representatives with a variety of perspectives and expertise who will judge the unique films from the festival's competition sections.
•••• After a four-year break, the Munich International Film Festival brings back the 100,000-euro CineCoPro Award. Ten international co-productions involving German co-producers will vie for this exceptional award in the CineCoPro Competition. The winning film will be chosen by a three-member independent jury of international renown: Baran bo Odar (director and screenwriter), who established himself as an international filmmaker after the success of hit series "Dark", Leonie Benesch (actress), winner of the German Film Award for Best Leading Role for the Oscar-nominated film "Das Lehrerzimmer", and Sol Bondy (executive producer), known not least for Ali Abbasi's Cannes competition title "Holy Spider" (2022).
•••• The audience sits not only in the movie theater, but on the jury as well. For the Audience Award, festival attendees vote online to determine their favorite of all the films screened at the festival. Since 2024 the award has been sponsored by BR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
•••• The awards for the competition sections will be announced on July 6, 2024 at the festival center Amerikahaus.
•••• The Munich International Film Festival will be held from June 28 to July 7, 2024. Its opening gala will be held at the Gasteig HP8 on Saturday, June 29. The festival center will once again be at the Amerikahaus in the museum district.
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KATE WINSLET
CINEMERIT AWARD WINNER 2024  

• 115- Kate Winslet honored for outstanding artistic achievement 
••• The Munich International Film Festival will this year again have the privilege of presenting two CineMerit Awards. Alongside Jessica Lange, multiple award-winning actress Kate Winslet will be honored for her achievements in the service of film. Winslet will personally introduce the European premiere of her film "Lee," which she stars in and produced about photographer Lee Miller. It also stars Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Josh O'Connor, and Alexander Skarsgår. The film will be released to cinemas across Germany on September 26, 2024.   
••••Since 1997, the Munich International Film Festival has been honoring outstanding personalities in international filmmaking with the CineMerit Award for their achievements in the art of film. This event will include an Extended Film Talk with Kate Winslet.   
•••• Kate Winslet portrays a woman who was far ahead of her time and who left behind an extensive artistic and intellectual legacy. Winslet began developing the project in 2016 with Lee Miller's son, Antony Penrose. Struck by the defining decade of Lee's life which she spent as a war correspondent on the front line in Europe during World War II, Kate, alongside Antony Lee, immersed herself in Lee's personal archival material to in order to discover the experiences that drove Lee to use her voice as a witness to war.
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• 115- An Evening with Jessica Lange - International premiere of "The Great Lilian Hall" and CineMerit Award, June 30, 2024.
••• As part of this year's Munich International Film Festival, Oscar-, Tony- and Emmy-winning actress Jessica Lange will not only present a selection of her own photographic works at Deutsches Theatermuseum, but will also celebrate the international premiere of her new film "The Great Lillian Hall" at the Deutsches Theater. 
•••As beloved Broadway star Lillian Hall (Jessica Lange) pours her heart, soul, and time into preparing for her next role, she finds herself blindsided by confusion and forgetfulness. Battling against all odds to make it to opening night while holding on to her fading memories and identity, she must navigate a tumultuous emotional journey: balancing her desire for the spotlight and the stark demands of the real world.
•••In addition to Jessica Lange, "The Great Lillian Hall" also stars Kathy Bates, Lily Rabe, Jesse Williams, and Pierce Brosnan. 
•••An Extended FilmTalk with the Hollywood actress will accompany the screening.
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• 102- YouTube TV Rising: Do Traditional Media Companies Need a User-Generated Strategy - By Adrian Penninton
•••• YouTube comprises 10% of all TV viewing in the US, according to Nielsen in its latest monthly report on streaming, so why do advertisers seem reluctant to buy ads on YouTube streamed to connected TVs?
•••• Because they still think of Google's platform as a place for cat videos.
•••• The statistic unveiled by Nielsen is less remarkable than the claim that YouTube's whopping share of TV viewing time has gone under the radar of media buyers and sellers.
•••• YouTube comprises 10% of all TV viewing in the US, according to Nielsen in its latest monthly streaming report. Cr: Nielsen
•••• It's the latest in "the continued denialism in the media and ad communities about YouTube's scale, and prominence in the eyes of many users," says Mike Shields, writing on Substack. "The Google-owned video platform is a CTV juggernaut, like it or not."
•••• Shields, a strategic consultant and the host of industry podcast Next in Marketing, takes aim at TV and brand marketers who don't think of YouTube as "real TV," or the idea that advertising only works well in highly produced comedies and drama.
•••• Most of YouTube is either pirated from traditional TV -- or it's just dogs on skateboards -- the perception goes.
•••• Yet this is long out of date, says Shields. Ignore the reality of what YouTube is at your peril, he warns.

•••• Michael Beach, CEO of marketing and analytics firm Cross Screen Media, says YouTube inventory is underbought. "If you look at its TV share, it should at least be getting close to 10% of the TV market, but at best it's maybe 4%."
•••• Beach criticized media buyers for having siloed structures, leading to conflicting definitions of what even constitutes "video."
•••• A recent report by Accenture called on the media industry to radically reinvent itself in the wake of a seismic shift in entertainment preferences. The report found that nearly 60% of consumers regarded user-generated content as equally entertaining as traditional media.
•••• "Traditional media companies must reinvent themselves from the ground up," Accenture writes. "Legacy media companies need new sources of revenue; they need to take on new roles in the entertainment value chain. They need to rethink the customers they serve and even the industries where they chose to compete."
•••• "Instead of knocking platforms like YouTube as havens for UGC, do traditional media companies need a user-generated strategy?" poses Shields.
•••• Amazon recently struck a deal to produce a show with YouTube mega-star MrBeast. "You might ask," as Shield does, "why didn't CBS?"
•••• On YouTube, viewers aren't the problem. It's the perception of people who do not watch YouTube that is.
Basically, YouTube is 10% of all TV viewing in the US.
•••• Note, that doesn't include YouTube TV. This is just plain old YouTube-watching on TV. And this isn't 10% of streaming - it's all TV.
•••• That feels big - as evidenced by the reaction of many media industry observers:
•••• The media is still just barely covering how much YouTube (classic, not YouTubeTV) is viewed on TVs in the US, and how fast it's gaining share. I'd wager YouTube viewing on TVs is close to that of the top 3 broadcast networks combined.

"Last comparable numbers are from July, 2023.
Total day average viewership:
• YouTube 5.1 million
• ABC 2.0m
• CBS 1.9m
• NBC 1.6m

•••• To be sure, those numbers are total day. So we're not saying that more people are watching YouTube than ABC during any given hour. Still, this data and its trajectory are pretty remarkable.
•••• Also remarkable - the continued denialism in the media and ad communities about YouTube's scale, and prominence in the eyes of many users.
•••• Some call it the YouTube Derangement Syndrome.
•••• You still get this a lot -- YouTube isn't 'real TV.' Or the idea that advertising only works well in highly-produced comedies and drama. Most of YouTube is either pirated from traditional TV - or it's just dogs on skateboards.
•••• Note, that doesn't include YouTube TV. This is just plain old YouTube-watching on TV. And this isn't 10% of streaming - it's all TV.
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CEO Yves Padrines with the Best Managed Companies Award

• 115- Nemetschek Group Honored with Best Managed Companies Award
MUNICH, May 24, 2024 -- The Nemetschek Group, a leading global provider of software solutions for the AEC/O and media industries, is winner of the Best Managed Companies Award 2024. Deloitte Private, UBS, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung together with the Federation of German Industries (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, BDI) honored outstandingly managed companies from the German SME sector in an award ceremony in Frankfurt, Germany on 23 May 2024. The Nemetschek Group received the prestigious award for the sixth time.
•••••• For more than six decades, the Nemetschek Group has been a driver for digitalization, efficiency and sustainability in the construction and media industry.
• About Best Managed Companies
•••••• The Best Managed Companies program is a competition and seal of approval for successful mid-sized companies. The vision: to build a national and global ecosystem of excellently managed mid-sized companies. A key unique selling point of Best Managed Companies is its internationality: Best Managed Companies was launched by Deloitte in Canada in the 1990s and has since been successfully introduced in more than 45 countries.
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• 115- The 77th Cannes Film Festival, an annual destination for celebrities.

Merryl Streep accepting the Honorary Palme d'Or

Jane Fonda on the Red Carpet, Cannes

This year's Cannes Film Festival jury is led by Gerwig, are Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, U.S. actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, and Japanese director are tasked with deciding the winners of the various awards.
••• Mead Anya Taylor-Joy, Heidi Klum, and Helena Christensen were among the stars who arrived at the Opening Ceremony and the screening of "Le Deuxieme Acte" at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, on May 14, 2024.
••• The Opening Ceremony was highlighted by the presentation of the Honorary Palme d'Or to Meryl Streep, awarded in recognition of her illustrious career and contributions to film.
••• The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14 to May 25, 2024.
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• Meet the Stars: 100 Years of MGM Studios and the Golden Age of Hollywood at the Hollywood Heritage Museum
Hollywood, CA, (TVI Magagazine) 4/26/24
The Hollywood Heritage Museum's Spring 2024 exhibit "Meet The Stars:100 Years of MGM Studios and the Golden Age of Hollywood" opened April 6. celebrating Hollywood's Golden era and highlighting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 100th anniversary. The exhibit culls from the private vintage collections of over 20 motion picture memorabilia collectors to exhibit artifacts of the Golden Age of Hollywood - many items unseen by the public for decades! 
•••• The Hollywood Heritage Museum is a must-visit for cinema enthusiasts. It is located in the oldest surviving motion picture studio in Hollywood. Here, you can learn about the history of the studio and how it played a crucial role in the birth of Paramount Pictures Corporation in 1916. The first feature length film was produced here in 1912 by Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille. This 1901 barn turned studio was designated California State Historic Landmark No. 554 in 1956.
•••• Exhibit highlights: Among the over 20 screen-worn costumes, is a Judy Garland blouse from MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944), memorabilia from the 1937 MGM Exhibitors Convention, personal items from the career of child star Cora Sue Collins, Lewis Stone's QUEEN CHRISTINA costume, not seen for 91 years), the once-thought-lost 1937 "Farewell to Earth" portrait of Jean Harlow, commissioned posthumously by the actress' mother, a 1932 MGM premiere guest registry from GRAND HOTEL, signed by Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer and Cecil B. DeMille, vintage Disney dolls and dolls bearing the likenesses of Judy Garland, Shirley Temple, Carmen Miranda and Deanna Durbin, The fur coat worn by Best Actress Oscar winner Luise Rainer (THE GOOD EARTH, 1936) at the Academy Awards, Jean Harlow's lipstick blots saved by her makeup artist - and much more representing over 30 early 20th century motion picture stars!
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• 114- Sam Rubin, KTLA journalist and longtime entertainment anchor, dies at 64••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••- Television Int'l Magazine -
"KTLA 5 is profoundly saddened to report the death of Sam Rubin. Sam was a giant in the local news industry and the entertainment world, and a fixture of Los Angeles morning television for decades. His laugh, charm and caring personality touched all who knew him. Sam was a loving husband and father: the roles he cherished the most. Our thoughts are with Sam's family during this difficult time."
••••"Sam was a giant in the local news industry and the entertainment world, and a fixture of Los Angeles morning television for decades," KTLA said in an X post. "His laugh, charm and caring personality touched all who knew him. Sam was a loving husband and father: the roles he cherished the most. Our thoughts are with Sam's family during this difficult time."•
•••• Rubin died at his home of a heart attack. His last appearance on KTLA was on May 9. He did not appear Friday on KTLA's 7-9 a.m. "Morning News" as usual. KTLA reported that Rubin's colleagues said he "showed no outward signs of illness" the day before.
•••• Mr. Rubin's death was announced by a KTLA anchor, Frank Buckley. A tribute segment that aired on the station said the cause was a heart attack.
•••• The news of Rubin's death hit Hollywood hard with an outpouring of sadness and tributes from actors on both coasts.
•••• Sam Rubin was born on Feb. 16, 1960, in San Diego. He attended Occidental College in Los Angeles and earned a degree in American studies and rhetoric.
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After working as a correspondent for several local outlets covering entertainment news, Mr. Rubin joined KTLA in 1991 and quickly made a name for himself with his unexpected questions and easy charm. He enjoyed rare longevity with a single station throughout his career.
•••• Sam Rubin won multiple Emmy Awards for his coverage, and a lifetime achievement award from the Southern California Broadcasters Association. He used his celebrity acumen as co-author of two celebrity biographies, one about former first lady Jacqueline Onassis, and actress Mia Farrow.
•••• In addition to his work as an anchor, Rubin's television production company SRE, Inc. has produced more than 200 hours of broadcast and cable programming including "Live From" red carpet shows and 120 episodes of talk show "Hollywood Uncensored."
•••• "Sam's generous spirit, unfailing good humor and deep knowledge of "Hollywood" made him a legend in the entertainment business and a trusted friend to millions of viewers .
•••• Mr. Rubin is survived by his wife, Leslie Gale Shuman, and four children.
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115- LA Screenings is back at the Century Plaza, May 15 - 17
Los Angeles - May 2, 2024 -- The LA Screening annually held in May in Los Angeles after the NY Upfronts is being held this year at the New Fairmont Century Plaza, in Century City. It attracts over 1,000 top level television content buyers from all over the world to screen their content from independent companies to major studios. This event takes place days before the studios present their U.S. TV networks' upcoming lineup.
•••• LA Screenings is back at the Century Plaza! set on the backlot of the former 20th Century Fox Studios. Fairmont Century Plaza has a long history as a cultural epicenter originally deemed "The Hotel of the Future," Century Plaza has always been home to industry disruptors, beloved Hollywood stars, American Presidents, cultural trend setters, and those just looking to bask in the energy of it all. Major moment in history have taken place in its storied ballroom from the Emmys to the Grammys to presidential state dinners. In fact, the Hotel was known as the "Western White House" as it was President Reagan's preferred hotel on the west coast and has hosted numerous past presidents over the years. Fairmont Century Plaza's place in history remains unreplacable.
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 Courtesy of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Meryl Streep reading for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Meryl Streep joins a group of celebrities who are part of an initiative to get kids reading.

• 109- Meryl Streep Reads 'The Three Questions' for Children's Literacy Program Storyline Online
Los Angeles - On Friday, May 17, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation -- the actor's union non-profit which aims to help its guild members -- announced that the Academy Award-winning actress, Meryl Streep, had teamed up with the charity's children's literacy program Storyline Online.
•••• Her collaboration with the non-profit features a new installment in Storyline Online's celebrity book-reading program, in which she reads "The Three Questions," written and illustrated by Jon J. Muth.
••••The children's book, adapted from a story by Leo Tolstoy, is about a boy who asks the big questions in life, like: "What is the best time to do things?", "Who is the most important one?" and "What is the right thing to do?"
••••Along with Streep's reading, which is available on the organization's YouTube channel, Storyline Online provides teachers with activity guides (that follow Common Core Standards) to accompany each book reading. Readings by previous celebrity partners, including Terry Crews, Seth Meyers, Kristen Bell and more are also available on the platform.
••••"Aimed at 2nd - 4th grade students, these activities encourage children to engage in critical thinking activities and explore the themes of this book including knowledge, curiosity, kindness and friendship," the press release states.
••••SAG-AFTRA Foundation president and Heist 88 star Courtney B. Vance praised Streep's participation in the project.
••••"We are honored and thrilled to welcome one of the greatest actors and storytellers of all time, Ms. Meryl Streep, to our family of readers here at Storyline Online," Vance said. "Meryl volunteered to read for our children's literacy initiative because of her commitment to education and advancing literacy, and we could not have asked for a more brilliant actor to bring this beautiful and profound story to life."
••••"Meryl Streep's reading of The Three Questions is an exceptional addition to our library, and we believe it will have a significant impact on millions of children and adults alike," he added. "This story will not only inspire a love of books and reading, but will also stir souls."
••••Storyline Online's previously featured celebrity partners include Chris Pine, Angela Bassett, Rami Malek, Oprah Winfrey, Viola Davis, Michelle Yeoh, and Kyra Sedgwick and dozens more celebs have lent their voices to be paired with creative illustrations for the literacy program.
••••Storyline Online's read-alouds are available on storylineonline.net, or on the non-profit's YouTube channel.
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Photographic Images: The PaleyFest LA - The Paley Center

• 101- The Annual PaleyFest is headed back to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, February 2024 -- The Paley Center for Media announced the schedule for the 41st annual William S. Paley Television Festival, which will take place from Friday, April 12 through Saturday, April 20, at the DOLBY THEATRE in Hollywood.
•••• The nation's premier television festival celebrating creative excellence, PaleyFest LA brings audiences together with television's brightest stars from the most acclaimed and buzzworthy TV shows, and features screenings of special preview and premiere content with never-before-seen TV footage.
•••• The 2024 selections encompass a collection of the best programs that television has to offer featuring beloved shows celebrating their farewell seasons and milestone anniversaries, as well new shows certain to take their place among television's most iconic series and current fan favorites. This year's festival will open with a conversation with the stars of the award-winning The Morning Show (Apple TV+), which will be followed by events honoring Loki (Disney+), Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) and Young Sheldon (CBS) both celebrating their farewell seasons, the highly anticipated Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix), Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) celebrating its 10th anniversary, Family Guy (FOX) celebrating its 25th anniversary with a live table read, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS).
•••• The 2024 lineup includes Curb Your Enthusiasm, Loki, The Morning Show, Young Sheldon, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a 25th anniversary celebration of Family Guy. As you'd expect from that lineup of shows, the assortment of celebrities is just as stacked, including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hiddleston, Iain Armitage, Albert Kim, Seth Meyers, Larry David, Cheryl Hines, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis and Stephen Colbert. 
•••• PaleyFest LA supports the Paley Center's many education initiatives including education workshops serving 10,000 youth annually, the PaleyImpact series featuring programs centered on today's most pressing social issues and the role of media in our society, and the continued preservation of the Paley Archive, featuring more than 160,000 historically significant television and radio programs, as well as television commercials.
• About The Paley Center for Media:
•••• The Paley Center for Media is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has celebrated the cultural, creative, and social significance of media and its impact on society for almost 50 years and owns and operates the iconic Paley Museum in NYC. Through its respected programming, the Paley Center leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of media, drawing upon its curatorial expertise, an international collection, and close relationships with the media community. The general public can participate in Paley programs in both New York and Los Angeles that explore and celebrate the creativity, the innovations, the talent, and the leaders who are shaping media.
•••• The public can also access the Paley Center's permanent media collection, The Paley Archive, often referred to as a national treasure, containing over 160,000 television and radio programs and advertisements. Through the global programs of its Media Council and International Council, the Paley Center also serves as a neutral setting where media professionals can engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape. Previously known as The Museum of Television & Radio, the Paley Center was founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, a pioneering innovator in the industry.
•••• Citi Cardholders and Paley Members receive presale access to tickets. Additionally, the Paley Center Member community receives the exclusive Members-Only benefit of discounts on PaleyFest LA tickets, as well as presale access to tickets that allows for selection of the best seats in the house before they sell out, plus year-round benefits for Paley programs and events.

To become a Paley Member, please visit: www.paleycenter.org/join-us.
For more information about The Paley Center for Media, and to learn about the Paley Center's acclaimed programming, please visit www.paleycenter.org
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• 24th Beverly Hills Film Festival®
•••• The 24th Edition of The Beverly Hills Film Festival® is only 16 days out! The BHFF Film Schedule is NOW LIVE, Tickets & Passes are limited. We've simplified access for your convenience with our BHFF 2024 dropdown menu. Social Media will also be a good source for future updates. Below are quick access links.

• Filmmaker Official Selection-  2024 Film Schedule is finally live Click Here for film listings.

• At-a-Glance -- For a quick glance of the entire film schedule Click Here.
• Screenplay Writer(s) Official Selection -  Click Here to check out our fabulous writers.
• Venues -- For a list of festival venues, Click Here.
• Box Office -- Please Click Here for availablity.

Film Screenings and Expert Panels
• Location- All screenings and panels will be held at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on the THIRD FLOOR.
Parking Garage: located at Hollywood and Highland
Main Entrance: 6925 Hollywood Blvd
Side Entrance: 6801 Hollywood Blvd (recommended as it is easiest to access the third floor)

• Screenings- Films will screen for four days beginning Wednesday, May 1st - 4th, 2024. We ask that you show solidarity and support of your colleagues and by remaining for the entire screening block. Please be mindful that the films are screened as a block and DO NOT create distractions or disrupt the screening.

• Panels- Daily expert panel discussions begin Thursday, May 2nd with the final discussion taking place Saturday, May 4th. Panel discussions will be held at the auditorium of the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters at 12:00pm sharp. Each pass holder can invite TWO guests to the expert panel discussions. More information will be released regarding panels in the coming weeks. Make sure to take advantage of these events, don't miss your chance to interact with industry professionals.

• Film Screening Tickets & Passes- All pass purchases except Gala Awards Ceremony can be picked-up in person at the BHFF Welcome desk at the TCL Chinese Theatre any time after 12:00 p.m. May 1st, 2024. Film screening block tickets will only be available after 12:00 p.m. on their respective date. Tickets will be listed by name of cardholder who purchased. PLEASE HAVE THE FULL NAME OF THE CARDHOLDER WHO PURCHASED THE TICKETS.

• V.I.P. After Parties
Simply bring your passes to get into parties. No exception will be made.

More details regarding dates and all the fabulous venues can be found on our website at www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com/venues
*VIP parties are highly exclusive, and dress-code is enforced.

Wishing you safe travels whether you're coming from near or far. We are sure you will come with class and in style; see you all the 24th Beverly Hills Film Festival®! 
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•106- ICLE Statement on the FCC's Net Neutrality Rule
PORTLAND, Ore. (April 23, 2024) -- The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) offers the following statement on today's vote by the Federal Communications Commission (FTC) to adopt a rule classifying internet service providers (ISPs) under Title II of the Communications Act.

The following quote can be attributed to ICLE Senior Scholar Eric Fruits:

Title II is much more than net neutrality. It is the same type of expansive and heavy-handed regulation that governs public utilities. The FCC's rule is a sharp reversal from decades of light-touch regulation that has fostered America's leadership in broadband innovation and investment. The industry would face the yoke of onerous federal regulation and meddling that would stifle and slow future investment and experimentation.

For more on the topic, see ICLE's issue spotlight laying out the history of Title II and net neutrality, as well as our comments to the FCC on their notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
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• 106- Net Neutrality: Regulation for Ideology's Sake
IPI President, Tom Giovanetti
•••• Well, that didn't take long. After the Biden administration finally secured the necessary commissioners to form an operating 3-2 Democrat majority, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Wednesday that it will hold a vote to again reclassify broadband networks under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
•••• A brief history. Activists have been calling for federal regulation of the internet since the 1990s, but the Clinton and Bush administrations wisely took a light-touch approach, understanding that regulation would impose unintended consequences on this nascent technology.
•••• As the broadband revolution began in the 2000s, the FCC chose to classify broadband networks as Title I information services rather than as Title II common carrier services. The difference was significant, because under Title II the FCC would have almost unlimited regulatory power over broadband.
•••• We've all seen how broadband networks have thrived under a light-touch Title I regulatory authority, with the growth of ecommerce, streaming entertainment services, social media, and the smartphone revolution.
•••• But that innovation and economic growth has not deterred activists who simply believe in federal control for the sake of federal control. And in 2015 the Obama FCC, absent any compelling data, voted to dramatically change course and reclassify broadband networks as Title II common carriers.
•••• The ominous threat of heavy regulation had the consequence of discouraging private investment in broadband networks, which the FCC found to have declined by around $1 billion between 2014 and 2015.
••• Over the 20+-year history, broadband network were only classified as Title II common carriers for a brief two years, from 2015 until 2017. The Trump administration's FCC returned broadband services to their original Title I classification.
•••• Since then, broadband speeds have increased, and real broadband prices adjusted for inflation have fallen 12 percent since 2017.  In fact, broadband prices have remained mostly flat during a time when inflation has been driving up the cost of almost every other consumer service.
•••• In other words, there is evidence that Title II classification caused a harmful drop in infrastructure investment, but not a single piece of evidence of any benefit from Title II, much less any evidence that consumers have been harmed since that two-year experiment was wisely reversed.
•••• But now, here we go again. For purely ideological reasons, and without data or examples of harm, the Biden FCC is reasserting its power to regulate broadband networks under Title II.
•••• Not only is such a move unnecessary and in fact contrary to evidence, but these major policy pendulum swings every time the White House changes hands cause uncertainty for broadband companies and investors, which prevents the kind of long-term planning and financing necessary for major infrastructure investments.
•••• So, net neutrality is back. But the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) will be there pushing back against harmful regulation of the internet, just as we have since the internet was being called the "information superhighway."
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• CineWaves motiv will be gracing the Munich Film Fest
The international FILMFEST MÜNCHEN is giving its awards a coordinated design that will be reflected across the festival
•••• Starting this year, the CineWaves will be the motif gracing the awards presented at Munich's international film festival.
•••• "FILMFEST MÜNCHEN has given itself a fresh iconography inspired by one of Munich's most scenic locations: the incomparable Isar River. The flow of the water is inspiring and surprising. It constantly delivers something new. It encourages interaction and refreshment, especially in the summer," say festival director Christoph Gröner and artistic co-director Julia Weigl.
•••• The design is based on footage of flowing water which was intentionally distorted by non-binary artist PPPANIK using a play of colors and other effects, thus becoming a cinematic statement in itself. We're drawn into a summery, lush, blue-green colorscape that will remind everyone in Munich of the Isar, the Eisbach, and the English Garden.
•••• During the festival period from June 28 to July 7, all of Munich's cinematic events will reflect this design, which will be featured prominently at the opening at the Gasteig HP8. On Saturday, June 29, FILMFEST MÜNCHEN will hold its festive opening gala -- with a film and thousands of guests who will already be making waves on the first weekend of the festival.
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• The Annual PaleyFest is headed back to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, February 2024 -- The Paley Center for Media announced the schedule for the 41st annual William S. Paley Television Festival, which will take place from Friday, April 12 through Saturday, April 20, at the DOLBY THEATRE in Hollywood.
•••• The nation's premier television festival celebrating creative excellence, PaleyFest LA brings audiences together with television's brightest stars from the most acclaimed and buzzworthy TV shows, and features screenings of special preview and premiere content with never-before-seen TV footage.
•••• The 2024 selections encompass a collection of the best programs that television has to offer featuring beloved shows celebrating their farewell seasons and milestone anniversaries, as well new shows certain to take their place among television's most iconic series and current fan favorites. For more information about The Paley Center for Media, and to learn about the Paley Center's acclaimed programming, please visit www.paleycenter.org
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• 2nd annual benefit for Pasadena Playhouse
The PLAYHOUSE PARTY Raises Over $675,000
PASADENA, CA (April  18, 2024) -- The PLAYHOUSE PARTY, the 2nd annual benefit for Pasadena Playhouse, the official State Theater of California and recipient of the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award, created by Pasadena Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Danny Feldman and the PLAYHOUSE PARTY Committee, was held on Saturday, April 13, 2024.  Co-chaired by Elizabeth Hall,  Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Anita Lawler and Leigh Olivar, the event was created to strengthen the community through connection and celebration. The event was an enormous success, raising over $675,000 for Pasadena Playhouse.
•••• With El Molino Avenue cordoned off for the occasion, the festivities in Pasadena Playhouse's courtyard spilled into the street. More than 300 guests adorned in shimmering cocktail attire attended the one-of-a-kind evening, which featured surprise pop up performances from Rio Navaro, an accordionist from Pasadena Playhouse Conservatory of Music who appeared in the Pasadena Playhouse Holiday Spectacular and community partner McKinley Middle School Drum Core.
•••• The evening was presented in three acts, starting with cocktails and a silent auction, followed by dinner and a special performance by Jasmine Amy Rogers and the new Playhouse Players, and culminating with a "Late Nite at the House Party" hosted by comedian Kate Berlant, who also served as DJ for this one-of-a-kind event, with Bar Chelou supplying cocktails, mocktails, wine, food, and dessert.
•••• Speakers and performers at the event included Board of Trustee President Erin Baker, Event co-chair and Board Member Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Playhouse staff members Omar Avedanke (Director, Creative & Content) and Bonne McHeffey (Company Manager), Jenny Slattery (Associate Producer), Danny Feldman (Producing Artistic Director), Rich Caparella of KUSC, and Jelly's Last Jam cast member Jasmine Amy Rogers, who offered a sneak peek from the upcoming Playhouse production of  Jelly's Last Jam with a dazzling rendition of "Play the Music for Me."
•••• There was also a silent auction featuring curated experiences and artisanal items donated by the community. Dinner was provided by Heirloom LA, with additional food and beverages provided by Heirloom LA and Bar Chelou. Additional donations were provided from over 40 other businesses and individuals.

Supporters for the event included the following: PRODUCERS: Jerry & Terri Kohl  HOSTS: Ellen & Harvey Knell, Leigh & Harry Olivar ICONS: Erin & Jeremy Baker, Stephanie & Leo Dencik and Stephen & Chantal Bennett INNOVATORS: Anonymous

ADVOCATES Barajas Tavera Family, Greta & Peter Mandell, Sheila Grether-Marion & Mark Marion, Ken & Tracy McCormick, Sarah & Eric Miller, Beth Price, Bingo & Gino Roncelli, Ann & Steven Sunshine, East West Bank  INFLUENCERS Cristina Hernandez & Jeffrey Bernstein, Anita & Vince Lawler, Susan Shieldkret, U.S. Bank

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• 101- SAG-AFTRA, Record Labels Reach Tentative Sound Recordings Agreement
Deal Includes Groundbreaking A.I. Protections, SAG-AFTRA Executive Committee Unanimously Approves the Agreement, will go to Members for Vote
LOS ANGELES (April 12, 2024) -- SAG-AFTRA and leading record labels reached a tentative multiyear agreement on a successor contract to the SAG-AFTRA National Code of Fair Practice for Sound Recordings.
Covering the period starting Jan. 1, 2021, and ending Dec. 31, 2026, the agreement includes Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Disney Music Group.

• 101-Music Coalitions Respond to SAG-AFTRA Sound Recordings Code Tentative Agreement
Deal Includes 26.3% Compounded Wage Increase and Groundbreaking A.I. Protections 
Los Angeles (April 12, 2024) -- Today, SAG-AFTRA and the leading record labels -- Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Disney Music Group --  announced a tentative multiyear agreement on a successor contract to the SAG-AFTRA National Code of Fair Practice for Sound Recordings.

Music creator groups have lauded the new SAG-AFTRA Sound Recordings Code:
"The music business has historically lagged behind on technological developments. This time, with A.I., MAC, BMAC and SONA joined forces with SAG-AFTRA to ensure that artists are protected upfront. This collective bargaining agreement with our label partners is a great first step to make sure artists have creative control and get paid," said Music Artists Coalition Founder Irving Azoff. "Congratulations to Duncan, Jeff and the SAG-AFTRA team."
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• Last total solar eclipse for the next 20 years

 • 109- Last total solar eclipse for the next 20 years in the contiguous United States.
•••• On April 8, 2024, the contiguous United States will witness its last total solar eclipse for the next 20 years.
•••• The moon's total eclipse shadow will cross the Rio Grande into Texas at 1:25 p.m. Central time and trace an arc through 15 states all the way to Maine before crossing into Canada. The lower 48 states won't see another total solar eclipse until August 2044.
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• SAG-AFTRA Members Ratify TV Animation Agreements
LOS ANGELES (Mar. 22, 2024) -- In national voting completed today, members of SAG-AFTRA ratified the 2023 Television Animation Agreement and the 2023 Basic Cable Animation Agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Members approved the new three-year contracts by a vote of 95.52% to 4.48%.
• The contracts provide strong protections around the use of artificial intelligence and a pattern-busting 7% wage increase that applies retroactively to July 1, 2023.
••• For a full list of provisions achieved in the contracts, please see the summary.
••• Negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers were delayed due to last year's TV/Theatrical strike, and the previous contract was extended. On Feb. 22, SAG-AFTRA announced the tentative agreement with the AMPTPT.
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• 101- The Octogenerian - ATAS a glittering dream - By Syd Cassyd
Permission was given by Syd Cassyd to Josie Cory, TVI for publishing.
Hollywood, CA - The glittering dreams of the world for a new culture and perhaps world peace through television and radio turned to ashes when Hitler used all media to destroy the dreams and bodies of more than 30 million persons.
•••• When in 1946 seven industryites in communications joined me in founding the "first generation" of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, we didn't foresee that in 43 years we would get the recognition that the "third generation" TV Academy has today,
••••We weren't naïve, for since Jan. 6, 1884, the first TV system had already been patented. For those 62 years world leaders had already visualized the impact of the moving image of television on society. The problems in America was not when, but who would control the new technology.
••••Because there are three generations of the Academy, each of the latter two calling themselves the "new" Academy, undoubtedly when the foundation selects people for the Hall of Fame, no one will be around to know that back in 1946, he was a "founder."
••••As Fred Sage, the fine actor in the "Wonder Years" notes, each generation has their own heroes.
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• 107- Syd Cassyd, Remembered
Hollywood - (February 2024 ) Syd Cassyd was the Founder of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
••• Cassyd worked for the Army Signal Corps as a film editor under then-Col. Frank Capra during World War II. After the war, Cassyd moved to Hollywood, where he worked as an editor for Box Office magazine, as well as a grip at Paramount Pictures.
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• 101- History of the Television Academy - The Beginning: Syd Cassyd's Dream
The history of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) dates to the earliest days of the television industry itself. When Syd Cassyd, its founder, first conceived of the organization, he envisioned a serious forum where all aspects and concerns of the fledgling medium could be discussed. Flash and glamor were of no interest to Cassyd. Indeed, for years he refused to even consider the notion of handing out awards.

"He thought television was a really wonderful tool for education," recalled his daughter, Donna Cassyd. "He used to make us watch shows like Omnibus, with Alistair Cook."

Fortunately for Cassyd and the other founders of the Television Academy, the organization eventually became both a place for serious discussion as well as a place to celebrate the industry's finest achievements with its annual Emmy Awards ceremonies.
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• 115- NAB Show Get Ready to Walk the Show Floor at NAB, April 14
The NAB Show Daily brings First Look, a glimpse at the innovations in technology and new products you will see at the show, along with some exhibitor viewpoints and events happening on the show floor. The show will open its exhibit floor on April 14, Las Vegas.

HUNT VALLEY, Md. & ARLINGTON, Va. -- In an notable development that could help more public broadcasters get on the air with NextGen TV services, Sinclair Broadcast Group and America's Public Television Stations (APTS) have announced that in markets where Sinclair has deployed a NextGen TV Broadcast Service (aka ATSC 3.0) and a public television station has not, Sinclair will provide free carriage of a virtual channel from that public television station.
•••• Carriage of a broadcast-enabled virtual channel involves transmitting programming data within the NextGen signal that allows over-the-air viewers with NextGen TVs to see and select the channel in their programming guide and access the channel seamlessly over the Internet. 
••••Under this arrangement, Sinclair will provide hosting at no cost to the public television station. The public television stations will also have the option to pass through programming in high dynamic range (HDR), significantly enhancing the video quality to the viewers. Technologies such as Advanced HDR by Technicolor will allow content to be visually enhanced on NextGen TVs that support the improved picture format.
••••"America's Public Television Stations partner with Sinclair to offer more NextGen service to more public television viewers," said Patrick Butler, president and CEO of APTS. "We are proud to have helped public television stations in almost 30 markets make the transition to the NextGen TV broadcast standard. This partnership with Sinclair will help serve local communities while we work with other public television stations to transition to NextGen TV to advance their public service missions."
••••"We are thrilled to continue our partnership with America's Public Television Stations to help bring the next generation of television to all viewers," said Rob Weisbord, Sinclair's chief operating officer and president of Broadcast. "For public television stations that face challenges in launching NextGen service, we hope that this offer will help get them in the advanced TV game and set the stage for their eventual launch of this spectacular service over the air."
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  Cillian Murphy, wins Best Actor for "Oppenheimer"

Oppenheimer Scores Seven Wins during the night, including Best Picture, Actor,
Supporting Actor, Director, Original Score, Cinematography, Editing

In a surprise, Emma Stone won best actress for Poor Things, which also snapped up three crafts wins, for best costume design, production design, and makeup and hairstyling. She beat out perceived frontrunner Lily Gladstone, who has scooped up numerous awards for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting actress for The Holdovers.

Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki's "The Boy and the Heron" was named best animated feature, while Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest" won the Oscar for best international feature. 20 Days in Mariupol won the award for best documentary.

Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell won the Oscar for best original song for "What Was I Made For?" from Barbie.

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari won best original screenplay for "Anatomy of a Fall," while Cord Jefferson won best adapted screenplay for "American Fiction."

• 96th Oscar Complete Winners List 96th Academy Awards 96th Academy Awards

Best Picture "American Fiction" "Anatomy of a Fall" "Barbie" "The Holdovers" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Maestro" "Oppenheimer" (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers - WINNER "Past Lives" "Poor Things" "The Zone of Interest" Best Actor Bradley Cooper, "Maestro" Colman Domingo, "Rustin" Paul Giamatti, "The Holdovers" Cillian Murphy, (Oppenheimer) -WINNER Jeffrey Wright, "American Fiction" Best Actress Annette Bening, "Nyad" Lily Gladstone, "Killers of the Flower Moon" Sandra Hüller, "Anatomy of a Fall" Carey Mulligan, "Maestro" Emma Stone, (Poor Things) - WINNER Best Supporting Actor Sterling K. Brown, "American Fiction" Robert De Niro, "Killers of the Flower Moon" Robert Downey Jr., (Oppenheimer) - WINNER Ryan Gosling, "Barbie" Mark Ruffalo, "Poor Things" Best Supporting Actress Emily Blunt, "Oppenheimer" Danielle Brooks, "The Color Purple" America Ferrera, "Barbie" Jodie Foster, "Nyad" Da'Vine Joy Randolph, (The Holdovers) - WINNER Best Director Jonathan Glazer, "The Zone of Interest" Yorgos Lanthimos, "Poor Things" Christopher Nolan, (Oppenheimer) -WINNER Martin Scorsese, "Killers of the Flower Moon"Justine Triet, "Anatomy of a Fall" Best International Feature Film "Io Capitano," Italy "Perfect Days," Japan "Society of the Snow," Spain "The Teachers' Lounge," Germany "The Zone of Interest," (United Kingdom) - WINNER Best Animated Feature "The Boy and the Heron" (Hayao Miyasaki and Toshio Suzuki) - WINNER "Elemental" "Nimona" "Robot Dreams" "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" Best Adapted Screenplay (Best Writing) "American Fiction" - (Written by Cord Jefferson) - WINNER "Barbie" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things" "The Zone of Interest" Best Original Screenplay (Best Writing) "Anatomy of a Fall" - (Written by Justine Triet and Athur Harari - WINNER "The Holdovers" "Maestro" "May December" "Past Lives" Best Visual effects "The Creator" "Godzilla Minus One"(Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima) - WINNER "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" "Napoleon"

Best Original Score "American Fiction" "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Oppenheimer" (Ludwig Gorannson) - WINNER "Poor Things" Best Original Song "It Never Went Away" from "American Symphony""I'm Just Ken" from "Barbie" "What Was I Made For?" from Barie (Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas) - WINNER "The Fire Inside" from "Flamin' Hot" "Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)" from "Killers of the Flower Moon" Best Documentary Feature Film "20 Days in Mariupol" - Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath) - WINNER "Bobi Wine: The People's President" "The Eternal Memory" "Four Daughters" "To Kill a Tiger" Best Cinematography "El Conde" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Maestro" "Oppenheimer" (Hoyte van Hoytema - WINNER "Poor Things" Best Costume Design "Barbie" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Napoleon" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things" (Holly Waddington) - WINNER Best Animated Short Film "Letter to a Pig" "Ninety-Five Senses" "Our Uniform" "Pachyderme" "War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko" - Dave Mullins and Brad Booker, WINNER Best Live-Action Short Film "The After" "Invincible" "Knight of Fortune" "Red, White and Blue" "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" - ( Wes Anderson and Steven Rales) - WINNER Best Documentary Short Film "The ABCs of Book Banning" "The Barber of Little Rock" "Island in Between" "The Last Repair Shop" (Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers) - WINNER "N?i Nai & Wài Pó" Best Film Editing "Anatomy of a Fall" "The Holdovers" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Oppenheimer" (Jennifer Lame) - WINNER" Poor Things" Best Sound "The Creator" "Maestro" "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" "Oppenheimer" "The Zone of Interest" (Tarn Willers and L Johnnie Burn) - WINNER Best Production Design "Barbie" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Napoleon" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things" - (Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzaa Mihalek) WINNER Best Makeup and Hairstyling "Golda" "Maestro" "Oppenheimer" "Poor Things" (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston) - WINNER "Society of the Snow"

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• 115-Oscars No Shows, 1960 - 2016
• Hollywood stars who snubbed the Academy Awards
There have only been three people that refused the awards, actors George C. Scott and Marlon Brandon and screen writer Dudly Nichols.
Not everyone in Hollywood enjoys the gala event. Over the years, a handful of Hollywood A-listers have refused to attend the ceremony, and some who've sidestepped the show did so when they were up for awards of their own.
•••• From Katharine Hepburn to Will Smith, here are Hollywood stars who snubbed the Oscars.
•••• 2016 - Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith called for a boycott of the Academy Awards ceremony upon learning that the nominations, for the second year in a row, featured no actors of color. The actress and her superstar husband, Will Smith, were soon joined in the boycott by other Hollywood heavyweights including Oscar-winning directors Spike Lee and Michael Moore, while other stars -- including Oscar winners George Clooney and Lupita Nyong'o -- spoke out in support.
•••• 2003 - Peter O' Toole - In 2003, Peter O' Toole became the first actor to ever refuse an honorary Oscar. Maybe he did so out of pride. The legendary "Lawrence of Arabia" star, who'd been nominated eight times throughout his nearly 50-year career and lost every single time, wrote to the Academy, explaining, "I am still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright. Would the Academy please defer the honor until I am 80?"
•••• The Academy responded by telling him stars like Paul Newman and Henry Fonda were given Honorary Oscars and went on to actually win one shortly after. O'Toole was sold, and happily showed up to accept his award.
•••• 2002 - Woody Allen though he's been nominated several times throughout his decades-long career, has never shown up to receive an Academy Award, explaining, "I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things -- or who doesn't win them -- you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is."
•••• Allen did make one appearance on the Oscars stage. In 2002, just six months after the September 11 attacks, the director presented a montage of films made in his beloved New York City.
•••• 1987 - Paul Newman was nominated six times from 1961 until 1982, and although he attended the ceremony many times, he never took home an award.
•••• Newman was nominated a seventh time in 1987 for "The Color Of Money." All bets were on him, but by that point, the actor was over it, and decided ahead of time he wouldn't attend the ceremony. "It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired,'" Newman explained.
•••• 1981 - John Gielgud, British actor, charmed audiences as the unflappable, acid-tongued butler Hobson in 1981's "Arthur," but the actor didn't bother showing up to the ceremony to accept his award when his name was called.
•• Gielgud, who throughout his eight-decade career nabbed two Oscars, three Tonys, an Emmy and a Grammy (among other honors) -- once said of awards shows, "I really detest all the mutual congratulation baloney and the invidious comparisons which they evoke.""
•••• 1974 - Katharine Hepburn holds a Hollywood record for being nominated 12 times and winning four Oscars over her long career, but she never attended the ceremony to hear her name called. "As for me, prizes are nothing," she once said. "My prize is my work." Hepburn made exactly one appearance at the Academy Awards in 1974 to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer and friend Lawrence Weingarten. "I'm living proof that a person can wait 41 years to be unselfish," she quipped.
•••• 1973 - Marlon Brando caused a ruckus when he boycotted the ceremony in 1973 to call attention to Hollywood's misrepresentation of Native Americans. Brando, who won Best Actor honors that year for his performance in "The Godfather," had Native American civil rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather approach the podium to decline his award and give a protest speech on his behalf.
•••• 1970 - George C. Scott was the first actor to refuse to accept an Oscar. The legendary actor, who was nominated in 1970 for his gripping portrayal of Gen. George S. Patton in "Patton," telegraphed the Academy months before the ceremony to let them know he didn't want the award. On the night of the ceremony, presenter Goldie Hawn opened the envelope and cried, "Oh my God! The winner is George C. Scott," but the actor, true to his word, was home on his farm in upstate New York.
•••• Scott said of the Oscars, "The ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." Oops!
•••• 1960 - Elizabeth Taylor, screen legend, was a frequent Oscar nominee, nabbing her first award for her role as a high-class escort in 1960's "Butterfield 8." Six years later, Taylor was poised to win again for her riveting performance opposite husband Richard Burton, who was also nominated, for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" However, Burton had already lost four times at the Oscars and would almost certainly lose again, so both husband and wife boycotted the ceremony in protest -- though Taylor made up an excuse about Burton being afraid to fly back to the states from Paris. Taylor did win again and never issued a statement thanking the Academy.
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• 101- The 39th Los Angeles Marathon Runs its Course from Dodger Stadium to the Avenue of the Stars, on March 17th - By Gary Sunkin, TVI
•••• This year, the LA Marathon falls on Sunday, March 17, which happens to coincide with St. Patrick's Day. The forecast tells of sunny skies and afternoon highs in the 70s. Thousands of runners and spectators across the world will be in Southern California this weekend for the 39th Los Angeles Marathon. 
•••• The 39th running of the 26.2-mile marathon on Sunday will begin at Dodger Stadium. and continue through several Los Angeles neighborhoods before the finish at Avenue of Stars in Century City. About 25,000 participants are expected during race weekend, which features several events including the LA Big 5K and LA Kids run scheduled for Saturday, March 16 at Dodger Stadium.
•••• Runners will cover locations like Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Little Tokyo, Hollywood, and more and will pass iconic landmarks, including Rodeo Drive, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Pantages Theater, Capitol Records, and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels.
•••• Running participants will not only accomplish their personal goals but also support McCourt Foundation's mission to build a healthier world.
•••• The Los Angeles Marathon, inspired by the success of the 1984 Olympics, was first run in 1986. It is the most popular marathon in the western half of the United States and is also keen to boast that it is "one of the biggest parties anywhere."
•••• The Event has a maximum race day time of six hours and 30 minutes runners are expected to finish within the 6:30 hour space.

Last Year's 2023 Medal.

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• 115- "Oppenheimer" leads pack for the 2024 Oscars nominations
LOS ANGELES, (January 23, 2024) - The nominations for the 2024 Oscars were announced today with "Oppenheimer" leading with 13 nods.
••••• Tuesday's announcement brought a moment of surprise with no best director nomination for Greta Gerwig for "Barbie" - she and Noah Baumbach were nominated for the movie's adapted screenplay - and no acting nod for star Margot Robbie, who was also a
producer for the best picture nominee. ("To say that I'm disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement," said Ryan Gosling, who was nominated for his role as Ken.) Past Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in "Killers of the Flower Moon," also did not receive an acting nomination this year.

••••• Meanwhile, DiCaprio's co-star Lily Gladstone became the first Native American to be nominated for best actress. America Ferrera scored a best supporting actress nomination for her performance in "Barbie" and Justine Triet became the eighth woman nominated for best director for "Anatomy of a Fall."

THE 96TH ACADEMY AWARDS will be held on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, honoring movies released in 2023.

• Oscar Nominations
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	Best picture "American Fiction" "Anatomy of a Fall" "Barbie" "The Holdovers" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Maestro" "Oppenheimer" "Past Lives" "Poor Things" "The Zone of Interest"		Best actor Bradley Cooper, "Maestro" Colman Domingo, "Rustin" Paul Giamatti, "The Holdovers" Cillian Murphy, "Oppenheimer" Jeffrey Wright, "American Fiction" Best actress Annette Bening, "Nyad" Lily Gladstone, "Killers of the Flower Moon" Sandra Hüller, "Anatomy of a Fall" Carey Mulligan, "Maestro" Emma Stone, "Poor Things"

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• 101- The Octogenerian - ATAS a glittering dream - By Syd Cassyd
Permission was given by Syd Cassyd to Josie Cory, TVI for publishing.
Hollywood, CA - The glittering dreams of the world for a new culture and perhaps world peace through television and radio turned to ashes when Hitler used all media to destroy the dreams and bodies of more than 30 million persons.
•••• When in 1946 seven industryites in communications joined me in founding the "first generation" of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, we didn't foresee that in 43 years we would get the recognition that the "third generation" TV Academy has today,
••••We weren't naïve, for since Jan. 6, 1884, the first TV system had already been patented. For those 62 years world leaders had already visualized the impact of the moving image of television on society. The problems in America was not when, but who would control the new technology.
••••Last week when ABC's former chairman, Leonard Goldenson, gave the Academy Foundation $1 million the "first generation,' we founders, knew that we had arrived. Elton Rule, former ABC president, is president of the foundation. Delbert Mann, a Burnside Avenue resident, is a member of the foundation.
••••From 1949, when ATAS brought forth the Emmy, the "third generation" Academy, the present one, reorganized in 1977, owned a little figure worth $1.5 million. That's the price the network now pay to broadcast the awards. But over the 43 years of ATAS history there have been many problems. Though we in ATAS, in 1949, did not copyright the Emmy, wed did protect it.
••••At lunch last week with Karl Malden and other film Academy moguls, I heard their problem of copyrights. Owners of the Oscars wanted to sell them at auction. But a clause in the contract provided that the Academy should have first choice in buying back an unwanted Oscar.
••••We, in the TV Academy, back in 1949, had that same clause for our trophy. But when New York and Hollywood were fighting over a personnel problem of aid presidents, employees of the Academy, the problem of copyright ownership of the Emmy was a part of a $100 million suit.
••••Believe me, if I had known of the million dollar goldmine which TV brought to our little "first generation" Academy, I would have hired some of those $100,000 attorneys, too. We could have protected the growth of ATAS in a more dignified method. We wouldn't have "three generations."
••••Watching all these goings on over 43 years, I had a point of view. If any power group in this huge organization wanted me to take sides, they would have to ay. One president wanted to know who owned the Emmy. Was there any agreement, etc.? I told them if they would pay me $2,000 for the history I would hire someone to write it with me. Lionel Rolfe and Nigey Lennon obliged. Printing costs were billed to ATAS.
••••But the slick attorneys slipped me a "mickey." That's a good old New York talk for a pill. They demanded that I leave my archives about the Academy to them, when I died. Strangely enough because I was abut to move, I donated all that material to ATAS/UCLA and thy picked it up in three van loads. Everything pertaining to NATAS.
••••Two weeks ago, the new resident of ATAS wanted to know what I did with the $2,000 and the Archives. In the haste of takeover by the "third generation," no once know that they had my donation already.
••••Because there are three generations of the Academy, each of the latter two calling themselves the "new" Academy, undoubtedly when the foundation selects people for the Hall of Fame, no one will be around to know that back in 1946, her was a "founder."
••••As Fred Sage, the fine actor in the "Wonder Years" notes, each generation has their own heroes.
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• 107- Syd Cassyd, Remembered
Hollywood - (February 2024 ) Syd Cassyd was the Founder of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
••• Cassyd worked for the Army Signal Corps as a film editor under then-Col. Frank Capra during World War II. After the war, Cassyd moved to Hollywood, where he worked as an editor for Box Office magazine, as well as a grip at Paramount Pictures.
••• It was at Paramount that he met and teamed up with Klaus Landsberg, known for, among other things, pioneering live TV news coverage. Cassyd and Landsberg worked on an experimental Los Angeles television station that would eventually become KTLA-TV Channel 5.
•••While at KTLA, Cassyd felt that TV needed an organization in which people could share their ideas about the fledgling medium and talk about the future of the industry. He founded the academy with seven people who came to the first meeting. By the fifth meeting, there were 250 members.
•••Syd Cassyd founded the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1946, which has grown into one of the most influential organizations in the entertainment industry. In addition to sponsoring the annual Emmy Awards, which recognize outstanding entertainment and news achievement in television, the academy has a variety of outreach and archival programs.
•••Cassyd became the fourth president of the Academy in 1950 and over the years held various other positions. In 1991, the Academy's Board of Governors created the Syd Cassyd Founder's Award in his honor and presented the first to him.
•••In 1996, Cassyd received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
•••Cassyd died February 4, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. He was 91.
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• 101- History of the Television Academy - The Beginning: Syd Cassyd's Dream
The history of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) dates to the earliest days of the television industry itself. When Syd Cassyd, its founder, first conceived of the organization, he envisioned a serious forum where all aspects and concerns of the fledgling medium could be discussed. Flash and glamor were of no interest to Cassyd. Indeed, for years he refused to even consider the notion of handing out awards.

"He thought television was a really wonderful tool for education," recalled his daughter, Donna Cassyd. "He used to make us watch shows like Omnibus, with Alistair Cook."

Fortunately for Cassyd and the other founders of the Television Academy, the organization eventually became both a place for serious discussion as well as a place to celebrate the industry's finest achievements with its annual Emmy Awards ceremonies.
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101-SAG-AFTRA TV ANIMATION AGREEMENTS GO TO MEMBERS FOR RATIFICATION
LOS ANGELES (Mar. 1, 2024) -- The SAG-AFTRA 2023 Television Animation Agreements have been approved by the SAG-AFTRA Executive Committee, and the agreements will now be sent to members for ratification. The three-year contracts benefited from gains made to the TV/Theatrical Contract after the 118-day strike, particularly in the area of artificial intelligence protections.

"We were able to ride the wave of our strike victory to secure a better deal for members. That momentum paid off in terms of substantial wage increases, more than $3 million in back pay, two new holidays and the first SAG-AFTRA animation voiceover contract with artificial intelligence protections and gains," said SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. 

"Thank you to Negotiating Committee Co-Chairs Bob Bergen and David Jolliffe, who secured a top-tier deal for members. Notably, I appreciate that we have enshrined in the contract what all members know: that a voice actor must be human. This contract builds on what we were able to achieve in live action to offer additional protections and gains in artificial intelligence that meet the specific needs of our dynamic voiceover community. Now, more than ever, doing voiceover work without a union contract is playing with fire," said SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher.

We built on the gains of the TV/Theatrical agreement to secure improved protections for Animation actors, without a strike. Among the highlights of the contract are: 

• Specific language acknowledging that the term "voice actors" includes only humans and that acknowledges the importance of human voice acting.

• Retroactivity with salary increases: A pattern-busting 7% wage increase applies retroactively to July 1, 2023. That's worth over $3 million dollars in instant gains for the members.

• Substantial artificial intelligence protections and gains for voice actors: 

? Removed the requirement that a digital replica must exclusively sound like the recognizable natural voice of an actor in order to be protected. 

? "Employment-based digital replicas," need only be recognized and identifiable via contracts and other regular business documents, confirming that it was in fact the performer's voice used to make the replica.  

? "Independently created digital replicas" need only sound like the "character voice" from which the replica was created. 

? Confirmation that if the voice actor's performance is digitally altered into a foreign language, the voice actor shall be eligible for residuals based on the distribution of the foreign language version.

? When prompting a generative artificial intelligence system with a performer name or names, consent of those performers is required. We have removed the requirement, which exists in live action, that a "major facial feature" be included in the prompt with no substitute for that criterion.

? We have established regular, mandatory artificial intelligence meetings with producers, which will include discussion of methods and systems to track the use of digital replicas. 

• We were able to keep the High Budget SVOD threshold for Animated projects at its lower-than-live-action level, and we made the same significant improvements to the formula that were achieved in live action.

• Further reducing the producer's ability to "freely bargain" with voice actors for compensation below union minimums on certain made-for-new-media animated programs. 

• Actors who perform improvised lines in the nature of "omnies" will be treated as principal performers with applicable residuals, meaning all new TV/basic cable animation productions moving forward are prohibited from using this omni contract for looping.

• Achieves Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and Juneteenth as contractual holidays with retroactive holiday pay for anyone who worked on the recent MLK Day.

• Upon request, the producer must provide sheet music, if it is available, for a voice actor required to sing.

• We are implementing a system to improve a series of outstanding compliance issues including late payment, recoupment of overpaid residuals, providing voice actors with executed copies of their contracts, and informing voice actors and their representatives at the time of an offer whether the animated program qualifies for "high budget" terms, including application of scale.

The Executive Committee, on behalf of the SAG-AFTRA National Board, is recommending a "yes" vote.

Members will now be asked to ratify the contracts. Postcards were mailed today to all eligible affected members. The postcards contain instructions on how to vote online or, for members who do not wish to vote online, instructions on how to request a paper ballot.  

Prior to the voting deadline of 5 p.m. PDT, Friday, March 22, 2024, two online informational meetings will take place on March 7 to familiarize members with the contract provisions and answer questions. Visit sagaftra.org/tvanimation for details.

SAG-AFTRA 2020 Television Animation Agreements expired last year, but were extended due to the TV/Theatrical/Streaming Strike, with negotiations scheduled for February. The agreements cover animated programs produced for television, including network television, basic cable and streaming platforms such as Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime.
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• 101- SAG-AFTRA Statement On ON CBS Return Of Reporter's Files 
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 26, 2024) - SAG-AFTRA is pleased to confirm that earlier today a representative of our union monitored the return of several boxes containing Catherine Herridge's reporting materials from her CBS News office in Washington D.C. Herridge is currently reviewing the materials. 

We welcome CBS News' reversal which came after SAG-AFTRA's intervention and widespread media coverage that underscored shared concerns about press freedom and the First Amendment.

The resolution of this matter sends a strong message of protection for basic First Amendment principles. We further hope the public focus now turns to SAG-AFTRA's continued efforts to support a Press Shield law that provides additional federal protections for journalists and their confidential sources.
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• 101- PBS SoCal Rebrands KCET Broadcast Channel as 'PBS SoCal Plus' - TVIMagazine
Los Angeles (Feburyary 2, 2024) - KCET and local Southern California PBS stations are set to be consolidated into one name: PBS SoCal.
••••The broadcaster noted that KCET programming will not be impacted.
•••• Though the Los Angeles-based public broadcaster KCET will still exist, it will be referred to as "PBS SoCal Plus," so that both PBS flagship broadcast stations will be under one unified brand starting Feb. 6.
•••• "PBS SoCal and KCET merged in 2018, and since then, have grown into a strong public media entity serving Southern California that reflects the diversity of our region and provides a full schedule of beloved and trusted PBS programs," PBS SoCal president and CEO Andrew Russell said in a statement. "While the broadcast channel name may be changing, the programs that viewers love on KCET -- Artbound, Lost LA, Father Brown, Must See Movies and more -- will remain available on the channel and across all of our platforms."
•••• Viewers' favorite programs will also be available to stream on website, pbssocal.org. Local viewers will still be able to watch KCET (now "PBS SoCal Plus") programming on 28.1 while PBS SoCal viewers will continue on 50.1. Cable and satellite carriers will host "PBS SoCal Plus" content on the same channels previously carrying KCET, as well.
•••• Audiences will now only see the call letters of KCET during FCC-mandated station identifier breaks.
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• 101- SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP Reach Tentative Agreement on Animation Contracts
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 21, 2024) -- SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement on successor agreements to the 2020 Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Television Animation Agreement and the 2020 Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Basic Cable Agreement for Animated Motion Pictures.
•••• Full details of the agreement will not be provided until after the tentative agreement has been reviewed by SAG-AFTRA leadership in the coming weeks. The tentative agreement will be sent to the affected SAG-AFTRA membership for ratification upon leadership approval. 
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 • 115- America's Favorite Travel Show is Back
•••• The Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show is taking place on February 3-4, 2024, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
•••• Discover thousands of the newest vacation options from the top destinations from around the globe and meet the experts who are on-hand to help you personalize and book your trip.
•••• Learn the latest travel tips, trends and advice on 4 theaters located right on the show floor, and get the chance to meet your favorite travel celebrities including Rick Steves, Phil Rosenthal and Pauline Frommer.
•••• There will be access to over ten-of-thousands of dollars in travel savings, trip giveaways and exclusive show-only deals, all included with your ticket.
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 • 110- Switzerland Boasts the World's Highest Percentage of MAC Users
By Edith Read
•••• According to Stocklytics.com, Mac's popularity is highest in Switzerland, with 24% of households owning a Mac.
•••• The site's financial analyst, Edith Reads, comments: MAC products are renowned for their exceptional performance, state-of-the-art design and an unmatched user experience. The discerning choice of the Swiss underscores the enduring allure of innovation, making Mac a hallmark of both sophistication and functionality in the digital landscape.
•••• While Macs boast superior security and reliability compared to their Windows-based counterparts, they still need to cover ground in terms of sales. Dell, with its primary market in the U.S., overshadowed the Macs by recording an impressive revenue of over $102.3 billion, while the Macs generated nearly $30 billion, constituting about 8% of Apple's total sales in 2023.
•••• The full story and statistics can be found here: Switzerland Boasts the World's Highest Percentage of MAC Users, Dominating at 24%.
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 • Winners of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
'In The Summers', 'Dìdi', 'Daughters' Top Winners List

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	U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic In the Summers dir: Alessandra Lacorazza U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Porcelain War dir. Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Sujo dir. Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary A New Kind of Wilderness dir. Silje Evensmo Jacobsen Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award A Real Pain Writer: Jesse Eisenberg NEXT Innovator Award Little Death dir. Jack Begert		Festival Favorite Award Daughters dir. Angela Patton, Natalie Rae Audience Award: U.S. Documentary Daughters dir. Angela Patton, Natalie Rae Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic Didi dir. Sean Wang Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary Ibelin dir. Director: Benjamin Ree Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic Girls Will Be Girls dir. Shuchi Talati Audience Award: NEXT Kneecap dir. Rich Peppiatt

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Sundance 2024: Kristen Stewart, Saoirse Ronan and Steven Yeun lead lineup

• 115- Sundance Film Festival: the biggest films to look out for from this year's festival
•••• After a big, banner year for Sundance with acclaimed films such as Past Lives, Passages, Fair Play and 20 Days in Mariupol all premiering, all eyes are fixed on what will emerge from this year's edition, taking place from January 18 - 28 in Utah.
•••• With the festival's Covid-era digital element retreating further into the background and a new head honcho hoping to bring back a more independent spirit, the 2024 lineup teases some provocative on-the-ground question marks with fewer known properties and more what ifs, an excitingly rather unknowable set of films to open the new year with.

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• 106- FCC to consider new outage-reporting rules, soliciting comments on FirstNet, deployable usage - By Donny Jackson
Washington DC (12th January 2024 - FCC commissioners are scheduled to consider new rules regarding the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) and the Network Outage Reporting System (NORS), as well as a proposal seeking comments whether FirstNet should have reporting obligations and whether deployable coverage should be reported.
•••• Under the proposed new rules, all cable, wireless, wireline and interconnected voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers would be required to report outages when the DIRS is activated and must provide the FCC with a final report within 24 hours of DIRS being deactivated. The proposed rules also would suspend NORS reporting obligations for providers subject to DIRS, according to the FCC.
•••In the further notice, the FCC seeks comments whether FirstNet should be subject to NORS and/DIRS reporting. FirstNet currently is not required to file such outage reports, but its nationwide contractor--AT&T--does have to fulfill these obligations. The further notice also asks whether commenters believe "mobile recovery assets"--for example, deployable coverage solutions like cells on wheels (COWs) and cells on light trucks (COLTs)--should be noted in coverage assessments for NORS and DIRS.
•••In addition, the further notice proposes that DIRS reporting obligations be expanded to include broadcast, satellite and broadband providers.
•••FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel noted the proposed rules and a further notice of proposed rulemaking in a blog she released last week outlining the preliminary agenda items for the Jan. 25 open meeting.
•••"Fast and reliable reporting of communications outages during disasters can help emergency-management personnel make smarter and faster decisions when they matter most," according to Rosenworcel. "It can also offer valuable lessons to prevent service disruptions in the future.
•••"The Commission will consider rules to transition the current voluntary outage reporting structure to a mandatory structure for certain communications providers, as well as proposals to expand reporting from other providers."
•••Adopted in 2007, the DIRS reporting of commercial network outages has proven to be a useful tool to help the public gauge carriers' progress in restoring terrestrial communications networks to "normal" status after a disaster. However, many industry observers have questioned whether the daily DIRS maps may create an overly negative perception about wireless coverage in a given geographic area, because it does not reflect whether service providers have provided connectivity through deployable solutions like SatCOLTs in an area.
•••"We tentatively conclude that, if information regarding the location of mobile recovery assets were required to be supplied in DIRS, the Commission would obtain this information more efficiently and uniformly across providers than is currently the case, likely leading to better public safety outcomes," according to the FCC's draft further notice. "We seek comment on this conclusion. Should we require such reporting? If so, which subject providers should be required to provide such information?
•••"If reporting is adopted, we seek comment on what types of mobile assets should be reported (including COWs and COLTs) based on provider type, the level of granularity for which location information should be reported (e.g., on a zip code or street address basis) and on whether this information should be reported directly in existing DIRS forms or through other means. Should information on the time of deployment, coverage, or available power for such assets be reported as well?"
•••A potential wrinkle to the relevance of NORS and DIRS reporting is the expected development of satellite-direct-to-phone (Sat2Phone) technology that leverages low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites as cellular towers in space. If deployed as designed in cooperation with a carrier&emdash;the business model being pursued by companies like AST SpaceMobile, Lynk and SpaceX&emdash;Sat2Phone could provide seamless coverage to users outside a terrestrial-network coverage footprint in virtually all outdoor locations within the next several years.
•••Commercial wireless carriers have provided the FCC with network-outage information for years, but the requirement has not been extended to the FirstNet Authority's nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). The NPSBN is being built and maintained by AT&T, which is subject to NORS and DIRS requirements, which has allowed some officials to make inferences about the health of the terrestrial FirstNet system, according to the language in the proposed further notice.
•••"FirstNet is not currently subject to NORS or DIRS outage-reporting obligations and has never participated in NORS or DIRS on a voluntary basis," according to the further-notice draft.
•••"However, its importance to the public-safety community and the unique customer base it serves leads us to consider whether outage reporting is necessary and appropriate to provide a more complete picture of the overall health and resiliency of an increasingly important component of the nation's communications infrastructure, particularly during specific disasters during which FirstNet is specifically designed to provide more robust outcomes."
•••One question noted in the further-notice draft is whether the FCC has the authority to require such network-outage reporting from the FirstNet Authority, which was established by Congress in 2012 with statutory reporting requirements. This law mandated that the FCC grant the FirstNet Authority a license to the 20 MHz block of Band 14 spectrum in the 700 MHz band, but the FirstNet Authority is housed within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) branch of the federal government.
•••"Do the Commission's general Title III authorities, coupled with section 6003(a) of the Public Safety Spectrum Act, support our ability to seek information beyond FirstNet's statutorily mandated reports?" the further-notice draft asks. "What other provisions might support such reporting? What quantitative estimates of potential costs and benefits of this integration are available? What would be additional improvements to public safety and other measures of welfare due to specifically reporting by FirstNet? How would the magnitude of these benefits compare to the benefits estimated in the Second Report and Order?"
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 • 115- NATPE Global at the MiamiIntercontinental, Jan. 16-18
•••• NATPE Global is a Central and Eastern Europe's most established market featuring the US studios. To be held at the Miami at MiamiInterncontinental. With nearly 400 regional buyers in attendance.
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  •115- CES is right around the corner
with its focus on the latest trends and innovations in technology
•••• CES 2024 is unticipated to unveil some wild innovations -- and mind-blowing TV tech is expected to steal the spotlight. So the question is, what can we expect from CES 2024 in terms of TV innovation. The Show is to take place Jan. 9-12, 2024 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
•••• CES® is the most influential tech event in the world -- the proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators.
•••• This is where the world's biggest brands do business and meet new partners, and the sharpest innovators hit the stage. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, CES features every aspect of the tech sector.
•••• CES will be back in Las Vegas and the IMC will deliver the exclusive platform for attendees and exhibitors looking to experience the nut-and-bolts of IoT technology for consumer products. The IoT Infrastructure Pavilion at CES will showcase the latest technologies that are the backbone of all connected consumer technology. CES is simply the most important IoT venue for large-volume consumer markets in the world.
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• 115- The Most Captivating Tech at CES 2024 - AI is in everything
••••A cooking system that can bake a pizza in 2 seconds - A low-maintenance electric motorcycle of the future - The screen, reinvented. A device that can help provide health-care providers a quick medical diagnosis. They were just a few of the products that attracted big crowds at CES.
••• Thousands of tech media representatives poured into the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on Sunday for the media preview of CES, a four-day technology trade show expected to draw more than 130,000 people to the city, one-third of them from foreign countries.
••• CES Unveiled gave hundreds of companies the opportunity to meet the press with table-top presentations that were miniaturized versions of the booths that companies displayed in several locations around the valley.
••• Prior to the unveiling, industry experts gave their views on technology trends the world can look forward to this year -- many of them revolving around the pros and cons of artificial intelligence.
••• You have about as much chance of winning at the slot machines as finding a company that does not boast of its AI prowess at CES 2024. This is far from the first time AI-powered products could be found amid the booths, but this is truly the year that AI is dominating the show.
••• What we're witnessing right now is the integration of major breakthroughs in AI that have occurred in the past year or so -- such as OpenAI's ChatGPT -- into devices. "There's no question that AI -- specifically generative AI -- is going to be a big driver of new products and services.
••• Highlighted is Microsoft's decision to change up the Windows keyboard for the first time in nearly 30 years, adding a button that provides a direct link to launch its AI Copilot, as a key example. Another is Volkswagen adding ChatGPT as a standard feature in its vehicles later this year. "You can literally talk your car in a Knight Rider kind of way."
••• Along with the AI products we've experienced firsthand, companies are dropping hints left, right and center at CES about what we can expect to see from them in the year ahead. That supports everyone's take that "we're just starting to see how this foundational tech is going to change the way we work, live and engage with the world." 
••• Already curiousity is stirred how this rapidly evolving technology will have changed the game again by the time CES 2025 rolls around.
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• 106- Co-founded by AFL-CIO and SAG-AFTRA Union Leaders Unite During CES 2024 to Tackle Technology's Impact on Future of Work
LAS VEGAS -- The Labor Innovation and Technology Summit -- co-founded by the AFL-CIO, the AFL-CIO Technology Institute and SAG-AFTRA and sponsored this year by AFGE, AFSCME, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), the Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), National Nurses United (NNU), the Transportation Trades Department (TTD), the Transport Workers Union (TWU), the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA) and UNITE HERE -- will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 9-10,alongside CES 2024, focusing on how the tech innovation revolution affects the American workforce.
••• The unions will bring together notable labor and civil rights leaders, including AFL-CIO President Elizabeth H. Shuler, SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and President & CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Maya Wiley to address a critical gap in evolving technology and workers' interests. The summit will highlight the importance of including workers in shaping the future of technology and innovation.
••• The following panels will be present at session and discussion: Worker Rights in the Age of Tech; AI Goes to Hollywood 2024; Workers Winning in the Age of Tech; Technology in the Face of Worker and Civil Rights; AI and Democracy; When Workers Fight, We Win!
••• Closing remarks with SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.
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Nominations Announced for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
The SAG Awards® Ceremony will Stream Live Globally Saturday, Feb. 24 Only on Netflix

LOS ANGELES (January 10, 2024) -- This morning, nominees for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® honoring outstanding individual, cast and ensemble performances for the past year were announced by Issa Rae (Barbie, American Fiction, Insecure) and Kumail Nanjiani (Welcome to Chippendales, The Big Sick) via Instagram Live. The nominees for outstanding action performances by film and television stunt ensembles were announced by SAG Awards Committee Members Jason George and Woody Schultz with an introduction by SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher. 
•••• The 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, produced by Silent House Productions in partnership with SAG-AFTRA, will stream live globally on Netflix Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall. 
•••• To replay today's announcement, follow the SAG Awards® on Instagram @sagawards. To view the complete list of nominations and fast facts, please visit the SAG Awards® Press Kit page: 
https://sagawards.org/media/newsinfo/press-kit
• As previously announced, the legendary actor, singer, producer, writer, and director Barbra Streisand will be honored with the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievements and humanitarian accomplishments during the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony.  
•••• One of awards season's premier events, the SAG Awards annually celebrates the outstanding motion picture and television performances from the previous calendar year (SAG Awards Eligibility Period: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023). Of the top industry honors presented to actors, only the SAG Awards are selected entirely by performers' peers in SAG-AFTRA with 119,515 eligible voters.
Final voting opens on Wednesday, Jan. 17 and closes at Noon PT on Friday, Feb. 23.
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• 101- SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES 
Australia and Los Angeles -- January 9, 2024 -- Replica Studios (Replica), an artificial intelligence (AI) voice technology company, and The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced today the introduction of a groundbreaking AI voice agreement during an event at CES. 
•••• This new agreement paves the way for professional voice over artists to safely explore new employment opportunities for their digital voice replicas with industry-leading protections tailored to AI technology, allowing AAA video game studios and other companies working with Replica to access top SAG-AFTRA talent. 
•••• The agreement between the leading AI voice company and the world's largest performers' union will enable Replica to engage SAG-AFTRA members under a fair, ethical agreement to safely create and license a digital replica of their voice. Licensed voices can be used in video game development and other interactive media projects from pre-production to final release.
•••• Approved by affected members of the union's voiceover performer community, this contract marks an important step towards the ethical use of AI voices in creative projects by game developers, and sets the basis for fair and equitable employment of voice actors as they explore the new revenue opportunities provided by AI. In addition to establishing minimum terms and conditions, the agreement ensures performer consent and negotiation for uses of their digital voice double and requires that performers have the opportunity to opt out of its continued use in new works.
•••• "Artificial intelligence has dominated the headlines, and for most performers, the best protection against the unauthorized digital simulation of their voice, likeness and/or performance is a SAG-AFTRA contract. We are so happy to partner with Replica Studios, because this is a great example of AI being done right," said SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher.
•••• "Recent developments in AI technology have underscored the importance of protecting the rights of voice talent, particularly as game studios explore more efficient ways to create their games," said SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. "With this agreement, we have achieved fully informed consent and fair compensation when it comes to the use of our members' voices and performances. We are proud to work with Replica in leading the way to make it easy for these companies to access SAG-AFTRA's world-renowned talent in an ethical manner that ensures consent and fair compensation for their contributions. This agreement also paves the way for other companies to follow their lead."
•••• "Replica partnered with SAG-AFTRA to introduce an ethical approach to the emerging use of generative AI. We are excited by the new opportunities this opens up for world-leading AAA studios who can now access the benefits of Replica's AI voice technology while knowing that talent is recognized and compensated fairly for the use of their likeness," said Shreyas Nivas, CEO of Replica Studios. "Our voice actor agreements ensure that game developers using our platform are only accessing licensed talent who have given permission for their voice to be used as a training data set, as opposed to the wild west of AI platforms using unethical data-scraping methods to replicate and synthesize voices without permission."
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• 115- Golden Globe: Oppenheimer scores 5 wins
• See the full list of Winners at 2024 Golden Globe Awards
•••• As the industry comes out from under the cloud of two overlapping strikes lasting six months and the long tail of COVID-19, while bracing for a meager 2024 release calendar, the business of movies could certainly use the cheerleading that a healthy awards season is supposed to provide.
••• Ratings for the Globes, this year, were up.
••••The show drew an average of 9.4 million viewers, a 50% jump from last year's telecast on NBC, no doubt benefiting from an NFL game as a lead-in, in addition to having plenty of celebrities in attendance and popular movies in contention. In the pre-pandemic year of 2019, the Globes had more than twice that many viewers, reaching about 19 million.

Full list of 2024 Golden Globe nominees and Winners- (bold)

Best Picture, Drama "Openheimer" (Universal Pictures) - Winner "Killers of the Flower Moon" (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) "Maestro" (Netflix) "Past Lives" (A24) "The Zone of Interest" (A24) "Anatomy of a Fall" (Neon) Best Picture, Musical or Comedy "Poor Things" (Searchlight Pictures) - Winner "Barbie" (Warner Bros.) "American Fiction" (MGM) "The Holdovers" (Focus Features) "May December" (Netflix) "Air" (Amazon MGM Studios)

Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy   Ayo Edebiri -- "The Bear" - Winner Natasha Lyonne -- "Poker Face" Quinta Brunson -- "Abbott Elementary" Rachel Brosnahan -- "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" Selena Gomez -- "Only Murders in the Building" Elle Fanning -- "The Great" Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy  Jeremy Allen White -- "The Bear" - Winner Bill Hader -- "Barry" Steve Martin -- "Only Murders in the Building" Jason Segel -- "Shrinking" Jason Sudeikis -- "Ted Lasso"

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• 115- Golden Globe Nominations: 'Barbie', 'Oppenheimer' Top Movie List; 'Succession' Leads TV
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The 81st Golden Globe Awards will honor the best in film and American television of 2023. The ceremony will be held on January 7, 2024, from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, produced by Dick Clark Productions, Ricky Kirshner, and Glenn Weiss; the latter will also serve as director.
•••• Feminist "Barbie," played by Greta Gerwig that traces its origins to toy store shelves, dominated nominations for the 2024 Golden Globe Awards. With 10 nods it makes the movie the second most-nominated (Cabaret) in the 81-year history of the show.
•••• "Barbie" was followed closely by "Oppenheimer," Christopher Nolan's look at J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb, which tallied eight nominations. "Oppenheimer" was released on the same weekend as "Barbie," a rare confluence of blockbusters that inspired memes and, later,  Halloween costumes, while boosting the box office. 
•••• Unlike the Oscars, the Globes honor the best of both film and television and steer clear of recognizing excellence in most below-the-line crafts like editing or cinematography. They also distinguish between film genres, recognizing the best comedies and musicals separately from the best dramas. Thus, "Oppenheimer" will compete for the top drama prize alongside "Killers of the Flower Moon," "Maestro," "Anatomy of a Fall," "The Zone of Interest" and "Past Lives." For its part, "Barbie" will vie for best comedy or musical with "Air," "American Fiction," "Poor Things," "May December" and "The Holdovers." 
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• 115- 81st Golden Globe Broadcast will honor the best in film and American television of 2023.••••
•••• The 2024 Golden Globe Awards ceremony takes place Sunday, Jan. 7, from 8-11 p.m. ET (5-8 p.m. PT), and will be broadcast live on CBS as part of a new deal between the Golden Globes and the network. The ceremony will also be available to stream on Paramount+ and the CBS app. Paramount Global is the parent company of CBS. The Official Golden Globe 2024 afterparty will be hosted by Billboard.
•••• The Golden Globes come to CBS after its longstanding relationship with NBC ended, and as the award show works to rebuild its credibility under new leadership following a widely publicized scandal and boycotts over allegations of racism and ethical lapses within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organized the Globes and voted for years to determine its nominees and winners. CBS is hosting the Golden Globes live in 2024, CBS Entertainment announced in a statement on Friday, Nov. 17.
•••• CBS will air the three-hour award show extravaganza live on the network on Sunday, Jan. 7, starting at 5 p.m. Pacific Time (8 p.m. Eastern Time) following an NFL football doubleheader. The show will stream on Paramount+ and the CBS app as part of a "new deal between the Network and the Golden Globes."
•••• "Live entertainment and sports have been, and will always be, a hallmark of CBS, and the Globes adds an exciting new dimension to our first quarter schedule this year," George Cheeks, president and chief executive officer of CBS, said in a statement.
•••• This is the first time in more than 40 years that the Golden Globes will air on CBS, following the end of a long-time partnership with NBC. Scandals and boycotts had knocked the award show off television in 2022, when a Los Angeles Times investigation found that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which then organized the awards, had no Black members. 
•••• Many stars and studios boycotted the show, long known for its boozy dinner-party atmosphere, as other allegations of ethical improprieties surfaced in the then Hollywood Foreign Press Association-owned award ceremony. 
•••• The Golden Globes returned to NBC for the 2023 broadcast in a one-year deal -- a make-or-break moment after the HFPA sold the award show to Todd Boehly's Eldridge Industries, dissolving the nonprofit and its membership, earlier in the year. 
•••• The firm, which owns Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Globes, and the Beverly Hilton, the award show's longtime home, turned the show into a for-profit venture. 
•••• Started in 1944 as an informal ceremony honoring actors, the Golden Globe Awards are now viewed in 185 countries around the world. 
•••• CBS is part of Paramount Global, which also owns CBS News.
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• THEY TOLD HIM TO BE QUIET - by Adria Manary Adams
When the government tells you to be quiet, alarm signals should go off in your brain. Only a chosen few know the full extent of its power, and my uncle, Elwin Laurence Peterson, regrettably found out the hard way.

During World War II, he worked at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard in the optics and machine shop. While there, he received several awards for his contributions to the war effort. One concern that he became acutely aware of, was the difficulty that all facets of the military were experiencing in communications. Methods of transmitting vital information to and from ships, submarines, airplanes and troops on the ground had become increasingly problematic since the Germans were intercepting and/or scrambling our signals. In exploring the situation, Elwin realized that varying the frequencies on which the messages were sent would disable the enemy from capturing our communications. Since frequency variation was a prominent component of a television system that he had conceived of in the late 1920's, and patented in 1928, he suggested that the government use this significant piece of his "Transmitting System and Apparatus," patent number 1,747,791.

He absolutely believed that this method would provide clear, secured and unencumbered communication in military operations, thus saving many American soldiers.

After explaining how FM would benefit the Navy to the manager of his department, his
suggestion made its way up the ranks. In handwritten notes written by my uncle in 1945, he states:

"I was interviewed several times by various officers and engineers. At one of these interviews, a man who worked for Edwin Armstrong was in attendance. He had been called in because of his claim that Armstrong (now a Major in the Signal Corps), had been working on variations of wavelengths since 1931. At that point I informed the officers that I was well aware of his efforts, because I had demonstrated my version to Mr. Armstrong back in

Elwin Laurence Peterson

1929 and again in 1930, when Bell Telephone and the Postal Telegraph Company had requested his opinion of my invention."

What Mr. Peterson did not mention in this meeting was that after seeing these demonstrations, Edwin Armstrong later used what he saw to further his efforts in transmission technology, which eventually helped him to become who many refer to as the "Father of Radio". If Armstrong was to be given this title, then Elwin Peterson should have been credited for being the "Grandfather of Radio". (The Armstrong patent was filed in 1933. Peterson's patent was submitted in 1928, five years earlier, and finalized in 1930, three years before Mr. Armstrong's.)
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Norman Lear, TV Legend and creator of 'All in the Family' dies at 101
LOS ANGELES (December 6, 2023) -- SAG-AFTRA today honors the legacy of iconic writer-producer and SAG-AFTRA member Norman Lear, a television institution, who died Tuesday at age 101.
•••• SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said, "I grew up watching Norman Lear sitcoms that made me think and question so much about the way we look and feel about a myriad of topics that were never a part of comedy. He took real issues and made them a part of sitcom families, and he showed life as it was. Not white-washed, not oppressed, but real, for young people, for women, for people of color, for people with and without money. 

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Norman Lear and Fran Drescher at the Hollywood Museum's LGBTQ+ Real to Reel Awards, June 9, 2022.
Photo by William Kidston/Courtesy of the Hollywood Museum

• The first time I worked for him, the first day of the reading of the script, I was late and I was so nervous. I walked into the room, everybody was sitting around the table, and I said, 'I'm so sorry that I'm late,' and Norman said, 'That's ok, anyone that can look that good at this hour of the morning deserves to be late,' and I never forgot his generosity and his brilliant need to elevate people and to think differently with a greater capacity for understanding each other. I saw him as recently as one year ago when I was being honored at the Hollywood Museum and he was presenting. We sat together and talked about so many things. I marveled at how sharp his mind still was even at a few months shy of 100 years old. He was a great man, a great producer, and a great American who will be greatly missed but long remembered."
•••• Lear joined AFTRA in 1953 and SAG in 1991.
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• 115- 15th Edition of Languages & The Media
•••• After a hugely successful conference in 2022, with a record breaking number of particpants, we are delighted  to announce that the 15th edition of Languages & The Media, the International Conference and Exhibition on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media, will take place from November 13 - 15, in Budapest, Hungary.
•••• For its 15th edition, Languages & The Media is discovering new frontiers by moving to Budapest. Embark on this journey with us! After so many years in Berlin, we are very excited about this change of location and hope you'll be joining us in this new adventure!
•••• The conference will be held under the overriding theme "New Frontiers in Media Localization" and you can find out more about our overall theme and our sub-themes here and submit to the call here.
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• SAG-AFTRA Statement to Members Regarding End of Historic TV/Theatrical/Streaming Strike

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9 -- SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher and SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator sent the following message to members today: 

We did it! Our historic TV/Theatrical/Streaming strike is over as of 12:01 AM this morning. After 118 days on strike, we are set to change the future of our industry with a transformative contract that includes gains for every category of SAG-AFTRA member who works this contract. 

This revolutionary agreement achieves major breakthroughs in addressing compensation via residuals and protections from generative artificial intelligence technology while reaffirming the role human performers play in the production of film, television, and streaming entertainment.

Tomorrow, the National Board will meet to review the tentative agreement and vote on whether or not to send it to you, the membership, for a ratification vote. 

Although full details will not be shared in advance of tomorrow's meeting, we wanted to share just a few key deal points: 

• More than one billion dollars in new wages and benefit plan funding;
• A streaming participation bonus;
• Minimum compensation increases that break the so-called "industry pattern;" 
• For the first time, consent and compensation guardrails on the use of AI;
• Raised Pension & Health caps that will channel more value into our funds; and 
• Critical protections for diverse communities.

We're proud of the phenomenal efforts of our TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee, and send our sincerest thanks to you -- the members -- who made these gains possible by granting a strike authorization prior to negotiations, and remaining resolved throughout the 118 days of our strike. Your solidarity helped us achieve the necessary leverage to secure these unprecedented gains.

We're also grateful to our union siblings who stood by our side -- literally and figuratively -- from the very beginning. We truly could not have succeeded without your unwavering support. 

Effective immediately, all SAG-AFTRA members should fulfill their contractual obligations and return to work. Members and influencers may resume services relating to publicity and the promotion of motion pictures produced under the CBA and Television Agreement, without consequence or conflict with the union. 
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Troy sings: "My Claire De Lune" accompanied by Redwood & Company‚ Players: Troy Cory; Priscilla Cory; John Perkins Barrymore; Jr.; Inge Maria Pinser; The Passionettes: Caroline Nering; Debbie Midget; Evelyn Cortes; Jacquelyn Lombard; Jeep Ransaw; Susan Jackson; Guest Stars: Sammy Fain; Larry Storch; Alan Hale; Clint Walker; Foster Brooks; Jack Foreman; Sugar Ray Robinson; Florence Marly; Byron Matson; Lieutenant Robert Helder; Wanda Hendrix; Nick Lucas; Zina Florentine; Ron Fischer; Liz Renay; Dee Arlen; Sumatran tiger; Renee Valenti; Dave Macklin; Tommy Cooper; Sandy; Marve; Pam Warsham; Jessie White; Priscilla Stubblefield; Jackie Stubblefield; Linda Nering; David McFarlane; Janice Wilson; Rayme Whitenack; Hilda Fuchs; Estelle Prince; Harry Ashley; Dennis Grimes; Mario Feninger; William Lasky. For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5300tcs.htm <•> < 07c - 5400tcs> • 54 • Troy Cory Show TCS187 Sammy Fain "To Get To You" VRA5400-00 • http://www.lookradio.com/5400tcs.htm • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct-rWGwGJeY • 540000 Troy Cory Show TCS187 Classics. Sammy Fain opens the Episode Series. Troy sings: To Get To You VRA5400. Players: Troy Cory; Priscilla Cory; John Perkins Barrymore; Jr.; Inge Maria Pinser; The Passionettes: Caroline Nering; Debbie Midget; Evelyn Cortes; Jacquelyn Lombard; Jeep Ransaw; Susan Jackson; Guest Stars: Sammy Fain; Larry Storch; Alan Hale; Clint Walker; Foster Brooks; Jack Foreman; Sugar Ray Robinson; Florence Marly; Byron Matson; Lieutenant Robert Helder; Wanda Hendrix; Nick Lucas; Zina Florentine; Ron Fischer; Liz Renay; Dee Arlen; Sumatran tiger; Renee Valenti; Dave Macklin; Tommy Cooper; Sandy; Marve; Pam Warsham; Jessie White; Priscilla Stubblefield; Jackie Stubblefield; Linda Nering; David McFarlane; Janice Wilson; Rayme Whitenack; Hilda Fuchs; Estelle Prince; Harry Ashley; Dennis Grimes; Mario Feninger; William Lasky. For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5400tcs.htm <•>    • <07c+> • 54 • Troy Cory Show TCS187 Troy Sings "Sugar To Tea" VRA5400-01 = "Sugar To Tea" • http://smart90.com/dvdstore/vravmusic/sugartoteaktla4032.htm • http://www.lookradio.com/5400tcs.htm = "To Get To You" • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvldXVhld1s&t=181s • 540001 Troy Cory Show TCS187 Classics. Troy sings one of Sammy Fain's Songs: "Sugar To Tea" VRA5401. Players: Troy Cory; Priscilla Cory; John Perkins Barrymore; Jr.; Inge Maria Pinser; The Passionettes: Caroline Nering; Debbie Midget; Evelyn Cortes; Jacquelyn Lombard; Jeep Ransaw; Susan Jackson; Guest Stars: Sammy Fain; Larry Storch; Alan Hale; Clint Walker; Foster Brooks; Jack Foreman; Sugar Ray Robinson; Florence Marly; Byron Matson; Lieutenant Robert Helder; Wanda Hendrix; Nick Lucas; Zina Florentine; Ron Fischer; Liz Renay; Dee Arlen; Sumatran tiger; Renee Valenti; Dave Macklin; Tommy Cooper; Sandy; Marve; Pam Warsham; Jessie White; Priscilla Stubblefield; Jackie Stubblefield; Linda Nering; David McFarlane; Janice Wilson; Rayme Whitenack; Hilda Fuchs; Estelle Prince; Harry Ashley; Dennis Grimes; Mario Feninger; William Lasky. For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5400tcs.htm <•> • <08c - 5500tcs> • 55 • Troy Cory Show VRA5500 The Best of TCS187 "Movie Star" R&B Plus Kenny G, George Duke, Jeffrey Osborne, Mel Carter Seg01 ••••••••VRA5500: Players: / Troy Cory; Kenny G; George Duke, Jeffrey Osborne, Mel Carter, Beau Williams; Rockwell; Nona Hendrix; Jimmy Vee; Philip Baily; Cameo; Timmy Thomas; R.J. Reynolds; Joe Williams; Madison Cole; John Harris; Darlene Hoyer; Cathy Pierce. VRA550002 Troy Cory Show The Best of TCS - R&B Plus "I've Been Missing You" VRA5500-02. Players: / Troy Cory; Kenny G; George Duke, Jeffrey Osborne, Joe Williams; Madison Cole, Tina Kincaid, Angelica Bridges. • Producers: TCS83; VRA TelePlay Pictures; VRA WebPlay, "I've Been Missin' You" Don Butler; Josie Cory; • PreProduction: Eddie Barber,Tony Nicholof; Angel Domino; Linda Velar; Linda LeClerg; Jossi Sigl; William Adrian; Shelton Elkins; Bob Barrows. • PostProduction: Online Computer Editing: VATS Firewire Media; Post Production Facilities: Rosemont Studios; Video Record Albums (VRA). • Distributor: VRA • Sponsor: Special Thanks To: Arista Records, Mowtown; Capitol Records; Polygram; Warner Bros.; MCA; CBS; Epic; A&M; Cinema Prize. For Full Production Participants: http://lookradio.com/5500tcs.htm TAGS • WebPlay WebCast Rosemont Studios: Victor Caballero; TCS90, WiFi90, TCS187; S90tv. VRAWebPlay; Vine Street Video Centre; A VRA TelePlay Preview; LookRadio Movies; RnB Plus, R&B plus Troy Cory Show with Ambros Seelos Orchestra. For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5500tcs.htm <•>   • <09c - 5600tcs > • 56 Troy Cory Show> VRA5600 The Best of Interviews Pete Simon Bonnie and Clyde Episode 1973 http://www.lookradio.com/5600tcs.htm VRA5600tcs Variety-type Television Talk Show out of Las Vegas, hosted by Troy Cory and featuring various celebrities and film clips. Featured Guests: Pete Simon; Priscilla Cory, Larry Taylor, Suzanne Vegas, Fawn Maureen. Troy sings various songs from his albms. In  1973 the Bonnie and Clyde Death Car was purchased by Peter Simon of the Oasis Casino in Jean Nevada for $175.000.  It was on display at Whiskey Pete's Casino for several years and is now on permanent display at the Primm Hotel and Casino at Primm Nevada just of Interstate 15 on the Nevada and California Stateline. Players: Troy Cory; Priscilla Cory; Suzanne Vegas, Virginia, Hill, Jack and Tom Lambie, Hang Glider Innovators, Karen Lafrenz, Sherry Teranto; Paul Oesterle, owner-operator Howard Johnson Hotel, Las Vegas; Allen Pinson, Inge-Maria Pinson; Fawn Maureen; Peter Simon, Suzanne Vegas, John Harris.   For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5600tcs.htm <•> • <10c -5700tcs> •57 VRA5700 The Best of R&B - LJ Reynolds"Touchdown" • 570000 Troy Cory Show L.J. Reynolds sings: "Touchdown". The Best of R&B+ TCS187 Episodes feature top R&B recording artist of the era. The Rosemont Estate Studios referred to in this segment as the popular R&B Mansion: Jeffrey Osborne, George Duke, Mel Carter, Kenny G; Beau Williams; Rockwell; Nona Hendrix; Jimmy Vee; Philip Baily; Cameo; Timmy Thomas; R.J. Reynolds; Joe Williams; Madison Cole; John Harris; Darlene Hoyer; Cathy Pierce. Producers: VRA TelePlay Pictures; VRA WebPlay, Don Butler; Josie Cory; PreProduction: Eddie Barber, Tony Nicholof; Angel Domino; Linda Velar; Linda LeClerg; Jossi Sigl; William Adrian; Shelton Elkins; Bob Barrows. PostProduction: Online Computer Editing: VATS Firewire Media; Post Production Facilities: Rosemont Studios; Video Record Albums (VRA). Distributor: VRA WebPlay WebCast Rosemont Studios: Victor Caballero; TCS90, WiFi90, S90tv. VRAWebPlay; Vine Street Video Centre; A VRA TelePlay Preview; LookRadio Movies; RnB Plus, R&B plus TCS187, Ambros Seelos. The Rosemont Estate referred to in this segment as the popular R&B Mansion features appearances of a variety of RnB artists on the R&B Plus TV Show that aired on Channel 9 in Los Angeles, California. For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5700tcs.htm <•> • <11c - 5800tcs> • 58 VRA5800-00 The Wireless Telephone - 5800-02 The NBS1908 Legacy "The Wireless Telephone™ Legacy" - Part Two • http://www.lookradio.com/5800tcs.htm • Troy Cory Show The Best of NBS100 Murray, Kentucky (Year). Intro: John Perkins Barrymore; Ron Smith Look-alikes (Song- Movie Star). ("Segment Title") VRA5800-00 VRA5800tcs For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5800tcs.htm <•> • <12c - 5801tcs>• 58 5801 Troy Cory Show "The Wireless Telephone ™ Bequest" 1973, Jackson, Mississippi • http://www.lookradio.com/5801tcs.htm VRA580001 The NBS1908 Legacy "The Tranfer of Title to the Wireless Telephone™" - Part One. Troy Cory, TCS explains to Suzanne Vegas, Larry Taylor, and Priscilla Cory how he came into possession of the Wireless Telephone™ and its effects, after the death of Troy's uncle, Bernard Stubblefield, on October 4, 1973. The admistrator of Bernard's estate, Mrs. Thomas (Ann) Lynch, read the will leaving all of the estate and effects contained in the trunk to Troy, the heir in succession. Troy introduces a film clip from the October,1973 CBS "Dot Lambert Show," Jackson, MS., where the hostess of the show opens the NBS trunk during the show going through the writings, drawings and patents bequested to Troy by Bernard. Troy's grandfather, Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray, KY, bequested his estate and effects to Bernard and his heir in 1928. For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5801tcs.htm Troy Cory Show Talk Las Vegas Troy Cory sings: Clair de Lune. • Players: Troy Cory; Priscilla Cory; Suzanne Vegas, Virginia, Hill, Jack and Tom Lambie, Hang Glider Innovators, Karen Lafrenz, Sherry Teranto; Paul Oesterle, owner-operator Howard Johnson Hotel, Las Vegas; Allen Pinson, Inge-Maria Pinson; Fawn Maureen; Peter Simon, Suzanne Vegas, John Harris; Dot Lambert; Mrs. Thomas (Ann) Lynch. 03 • Directed By: Troy Cory; • Unit Director: Allen Pinson; Camera: Channel 5; • Producers: TCS73; VRA TelePlay Pictures; Don Butler, Josie Cory. 03c • Pre-Production / Channel 5, Las Vegas; John Harris; Zot Harris, Jerry Titus. Jerry O'Ferro William Adrian; Agida Serdienis; Flash it 3002 Lighting Co.; John Oster, Allen Ziven; Jerome Titus.; CBS TV, Jackson, MS. VRA580001 The NBS1908 Legacy "The Tranfer of Title to the Wireless Telephone™" - Part One. Troy Cory, TCS explains to Suzanne Vegas, Larry Taylor, and Priscilla Cory how he came into possession of the Wireless Telephone™ and its effects, after the death of Troy's uncle, Bernard Stubblefield, on October 4, 1973. The admistrator of Bernard's estate, Mrs. Thomas (Ann) Lynch, read the will leaving all of the estate and effects contained in the trunk to Troy, the heir in succession. For full description See: http://lookradio.com/5801tcs.htm <•>  • <13c - 5900tcs • 59 > VRA5900 TCS Beijing 1988-2008 • http://www.lookradio.com/5900tcs.htm • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KujToCxzwN8 = ? • 01. Feature Story / • VRA5900-00 "Beijing - 20 Years Later - 1988 to 2008" ••• Movie Title: "Beijing - 20 Years Later - 1988 to 2008" Knock, Knock, Who's There? China's Open Door Policy - Troy Cory, Joey Adams, vp Al Gore, Josie Cory, Shanghai 1997, Troy Sings, Smooth Sailing. / A VRA LookRadio Movie VRA TelePlay Preview 4003 (9 min seg.) - LookRadio, S90tv, Yes90, tviNews, Smart90, D-diaries More About Segment ••• "Beijing - 20 Years Later - 1988 to 2008" "China's Open Door Policy" features TVInews / CCTV / IOC film clips. Troy Cory and Joey Lauren Adams are featured performing at the 1988 Shanghai TV Festival "Summertime Is Here At Last", "Isn't It a Shame", and "Smooth Sailing" on the Yangtse River. STV news anchor welcomes Troy to Shanghai. ••• As first American singer to perform at Shanghai Festival, signifies a "leap forward" since Deng Xiaoping's visit to USA, Thatcher's signing Hong Kong agreement, military October parading at Tiananmen Square, and trial of Mao's wife Jiang Quing, the Gang of Four as seen in historic footage. Troy and the Brooke Sisters lighting candles at Buddha Temple. • MORE DESCRIPTION: ••• It was Deng Xiaoping's visit to the USA in 1978, his meetings with Richard Nixon, and the trial of Mao's wife, Jiang Quing and the Gang of Four that created today's China's Open Door Policy. Recording Artists: ••• The California Goodtime Band; John Mraz; Sam Montelle Stavros; Smokey Allen Stover; Rick Turner; The Pheromones; Players: Troy Cory; Joey Lauren Adams; Ginger Adams; Lila Greninger; Christy Mattola; Gayl Murphy; Kalia Salangron; Lynn Stepney; Paul Wu; Shelley Zhang; Political Figures: Jiang Zemin; Deng Xiaoping; Al Gore; <•> • <14c-- tcsmoviestar01top •"Troy Cory Show "Movie Star" • Troy Cory Show - The Best of NBS100 Murray, Kentucky (Wireless 100th Anniv. 1892-1992). Intro: John Perkins Barrymore; Ron Smith Look-alikes (Song- Movie Star). ("Segment Title") VRA5800-00 -http://lookradio.com/5800tcs.htm Troy sings Movie Star at Hawaian Tropics beauty contest • lookradio.com/tcsmoviestar.htm •troycoryshow.com/tcsmoviestar01top.htm • BuyAmazon • Priscilla's Pop • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvUS3LSAnYs
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