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Alain
Delon Dies at 88
PARIS &emdash;(August 18) &emdash; French
actor Alain Delon has died. "He passed away peacefully in
his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his
family." He was 88.
••••
Delon had been in poor health since
suffering a stroke in 2019, rarely leaving his estate in
Douchy, in France's Val de Loire region and had become a
virtual recluse. More recently, the breakdown of his family
had been making headlines in France.
••••
French President Emmanuel Macron was
among those paying tribute to Delon on Sunday, saying the
actor "played legendary roles and made the world dream".
••••
Brigitte Bardot led tributes in
France saying Delon's death left a "huge void that nothing
and no-one will be able to fill."
••••
The actor was a star of the golden
era of French cinema, known for his tough-guy persona on
screen in hits including "The Samurai" and "Borsalino."
••••
He stole the hearts of fans whatever
role he was playing, from a murderer to a charismatic
conman. His colourful personal life regularly made the front
pages as he charmed and seduced his way around Europe at the
height of his fame.
••••
Delon became a star in France and was
idolised by men and women in Japan, but never made it as big
in Hollywood despite performing with American cinema giants,
including Burt Lancaster when the Frenchman played
apprentice-hitman Scorpio in the eponymous 1973 film.
••••
In total, made almost 90 films
during his
career.
From the 1990s, his film appearances
grew rare, but he remained a fixture in the celebrity
columns.
••••
Delon shot to fame in two films by
Italian director Luchino Visconti, "Rocco and His Brothers"
in 1960 and "The Leopard" in 1963.
••••
He starred alongside Jean Gabin in
Henri Verneuil's 1963 film "Melodie en Sous-Sol" ("Any
Number Can Win") and was a major hit in Jean-Pierre
Melville's 1967 "Le Samourai" ("The Godson"). The role of a
philosophical contract killer involved minimal dialogue and
frequent solo scenes, and Delon shone.
A Troubled Man
•••
Born just outside Paris on November
8, 1935, Delon was put in foster care aged four after his
parents divorced..
••••
He ran away from home at least once
and was expelled several times from boarding schools before
joining the Marines at 17 and serving in then French-ruled
Indochina. There too he got into trouble over a stolen
jeep..
••••
Back in France in the mid-50s, he
worked as a porter at Paris wholesale food market, Les
Halles, and spent time in the red-light Pigalle district
before migrating to the cafes of the bohemian St. Germain
des Pres area..
••••
There he met French actor Jean-Claude
Brialy, who took him to the Cannes Film Festival, where he
attracted the attention of an American talent scout who
arranged a screen test..
He made his film debut in 1957 in "Quand la femme s'en mele"
("Send a Woman When the Devil Fails").
Outspoken
••••
Delon was outspoken off-stage and
courted controversy - notably when he said he regretted the
abolition of the death penalty and spoke disparagingly of
gay marriage, which was legalised in France in 2013.
••••
He publicly defended the far-right
National Front and telephoned its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen,
an old friend, to congratulate him when the party did well
in local elections in 2014.
••••
Delon's lovers included Schneider and
German model-turned-singer Nico, with whom he had a son. In
1964, he married Nathalie Barthelemy and fathered a second
son before ending the marriage and embarking on a 15-year
relationship with Mireille Darc. He had two more children
with Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen.
••••
Delon told Paris Match in an
interview in 2018 he was fed up with modern life and had a
chapel and tomb ready for him on the grounds of his home
near Geneva, and for his Belgian shepherd dog, called
Loubo.
••••
Delon's last major public appearance
was to receive an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes film
festival in May 2019.
••••
At the event, he made an emotional
speech in which he appeared to bid farewell to cinema.
••
••••
In recent years, Delon was the centre
of a family feud over his care, which made headlines in
French media. The actor had three children - two sons and a
daughter - by two different women, and a third son
unacknowledged and now dead.
••••
In April 2024 a judge placed Delon
under "reinforced curatorship", meaning he no longer had
full freedom to manage his assets. He was already under
legal protection over concerns over his health and
well-being.
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Sam Rubin, KTLA journalist and longtime entertainment
anchor, dies at 64
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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.
••
 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 -- and to hundreds of stars who relaxed in easy
conversation with him on his set at KTLA and on countless
red carpets," Critics Choice said.
••••
Mr. Rubin is survived by his wife,
Leslie Gale Shuman, and four children.
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Paul
Reubens, comedian who portrayed iconic Pee-wee Herman
character, dies at 70
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TVIMagazine
••••
Reubens died Sunday night after a
six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public,
his publicist said in a statement.
••••
"Last night we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic
American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose beloved
character Pee-wee Herman delighted generations of children
and adults with his positivity, whimsy and belief in the
importance of kindness," the statement reads. "Paul bravely
and privately fought cancer for years with his trademark
tenacity and wit. A gifted and prolific talent, he will
forever live in the comedy pantheon and in our hearts as a
treasured friend and man of remarkable character and
generosity of spirit."
• •••
Reuben shared a statement on his
instagram account to be shared with his fans after his
passing: "Please accept my apology for not going public with
what I've been facing the last six years," Reubens wrote. "I
have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my
friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much
and enjoyed making art for you."
••••
Born Paul Rubenfeld in Peekskill, New York, Reubens grew up
in Sarasota, Florida, and developed an affinity for comedy
early on in his life that he attributed in part to Sarasota
being the winter home of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum
Circus.
••••••
After high school graduation, Reubens enrolled in Boston
University's theatre department before moving to Los Angeles
to attend the acting program at California Institute of the
Arts, the new school founded by Walt Disney.
Pee Wee Herman {Photo: Getty
images}
••••
It was after college that Reubens created the iconic
character Pee-wee Herman while a member of the famed Los
Angeles improv group, The Groundlings.
••••
"The Pee-wee Herman Show" premiered at The Groundlings
Theatre in 1981 before moving to The Roxy on Sunset Strip,
where it ran for an unprecedented five months.
••••
The HBO broadcast of the show introduced the Pee-wee Herman
character to a national audience.
•••••Reubens
teamed up with Tim Burton for the 1985 film debut "Pee-wee's
Big Adventure" " which Reubens co-wrote.
••••
The creator and star of the
subversive 1986 to 1990 TV series "Pee-wee's Playhouse"
revisited his iconic, giddy character on occasion over the
years and updated revival of "The Pee-wee Herman Show" in
Los Angeles. The production later traveled to Broadway,
opening to rave reviews at The Stephen Sondheim Theater.
Reubens revisited the character in the 2016 Netflix
movie "Pee-wee's Big Holiday."
••••
"Pee-wee's Playhouse" ran for four
years and earned 15 Emmy awards in its time, while Reubens
himself has been nominated for 14 Emmys, winning twice. His
star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame was awarded in 1988.
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ANGELES, Oct. 7, 2022 --
114-
Beloved 'Oldies But Goodies' Radio Legend Art Laboe
Died -
Television Int'l
Magazine
•••
"The Art Laboe
Connection," announced that he died at his home in Palm
Spring sat age 97 after battling pneumonia.
••••
Laboe's voice filled
Southern California's airwaves for more than 70 years. He
was known for being the first DJ to play rock 'n' roll on
the West Coast. He created an compilation album titled
Oldies But Goodies,' a term he trademarked. Laboe became a
beloved figure for generations of fans, particularly for
Latinos, for his call-in dedication show, which aired first
on HOT 92.3 FM and then on KDAY-FM (93.5).
•••• Born
Art Egnoian on August 7, 1925, in Salt Lake City. Laboe
served in the Navy during World War II and. after serving he
did stints at various radio stations and changed his name to
Laboe when a general manager said it was catchier. When rock
'n' roll struck the airwaves in the 1950s, Laboe launched a
live broadcast from Scrivners, a drive-in restaurant in
Hollywood. Masses of teens crowded around him to request
songs and dedications, and his career took off.
••••
Having worked as a DJ
since the mid-'40s, including stints in San Francisco and
Palm Springs, his first L.A. station homes were KXLA-AM
(later KRLA) and KPOP. Laboe took his show on the road and
did live remote shows from midnight till 4 a.m. at a local
drive-in restaurant on Cahuenga and Sunset -- taking
requests and becoming popular with the late-night crowd.
••••In
1959, Laboe formed record label Original Sound Records to
promote new musical talent he discovered. The same year the
label released two instrumental hit songs: "Teen Beat", the
breakout hit by Sandy Nelson and "Bongo Rock" by Preston
Epps. Laboe also received writing credit on both songs.
••••Later
he moved to KXLA (subsequently KRLA), where he stayed for
many years.
In the 1990s, Laboe worked for radio station KGGI.
••••
He was one of the
first DJs to play rock-n-roll in California.
ArtLaboe250w.jpg
L/R Hawaiian Tropics Models in yellow
outfit, Art Laboe, Troy Cory, Mike Lipmen. Photo: By Gary
Sunkin, TVI
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114-
Jiang Zemin,
former President of the Peoples Republic
of
China,
died in Shanghai
 BEIJING,
Nov 30 -- Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the
country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the
Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Wednesday at the age of
96,
••••Numerous
users of China's Twitter-like Weibo platform described the
death of Jiang, who remained influential after finally
retiring in 2004, as the end of an era.
••••
Jiang died in his home city of
Shanghai of leukaemia and multiple organ failure, Xinhua
news agency said, publishing a letter to the Chinese
people by the ruling Communist Party, parliament, Cabinet
and the military.
••••
"Comrade Jiang Zemin's death is an incalculable loss to our
Party and our military and our people of all ethnic groups,"
the letter read, saying its announcement was with "profound
grief".
••••
Jiang's death comes at a tumultuous time in China, where
authorities are grappling with rare widespread street
protests
••••
The zero-COVID policy is a hallmark of President Xi Jinping,
who recently secured a third leadership term that cements
his place as China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong
and has taken China in an increasingly authoritarian
direction since replacing Jiang's immediate successor, Hu
Jintao.
••••
China is also in the midst of a sharp economic slowdown
exacerbated by zero-COVID.
••••
Even though Jiang put down student protests in Shanghai that
were part of the wave of pro-democracy demonstrations that
culminated in the bloody crackdown at Beijing's Tiananmen
Square, some Chinese expressed nostalgia for the more
liberal times he oversaw.
•••
The death of a member
of the ruling party's elite has traditionally been a highly
sensitive event, one that has even sparked deadly
demonstrations, as in 1989 with the passing of reformer Hu
Yaobang. But Jiang's death is not nearly as politically
delicate as his two predecessors'-- Mao Zedong and Deng
Xiaoping -- a reality that reflects both the relative
stability of China today and the mixed legacy Jiang leaves
behind.
••••
Still, Jiang
continued to exert some power behind the scenes until his
final years. President Xi Jinping was a protege of Jiang's,
and the strong presence of Jiang allies on the Politburo
Standing Committee helped Xi to pursue a tough
anti-corruption drive and quickly consolidate power after
rising to the party's top post in 2013.
••••
Jiang's tenure included the return of
Hong Kong and Macao to Chinese sovereignty from British and
Portuguese control, respectively.
••••
When it came time to hand over the
party reins to Hu Jintao in 2002, Jiang had the distinction
of being the first communist Chinese leader to bow out in an
orderly transfer of power.
••••
Born Aug. 17, 1926,
in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, Jiang was a graduate of an
American missionary school. He could recite the Gettysburg
Address by heart and often did so during interviews. He
wrote poetry and played the piano on national
television.
••••
Jiang is survived by
his wife, Wang Yeping; two sons, Jiang Mianheng and Jiang
Miankang; and a grandson, Jiang Zhicheng, also known as
Alvin Jiang.
••••
As a note, Troy Cory, iPublisher of Television Int'l
Magazine (tvimagazine.com) performed at The  Shanghai
TV Festival where he met Jiang Zemin when Jiang was mayor of
Shanghai. Many more meetings took place at future TV
Festivals in Shanghai, concerts in Beijing, as well as at a
reception at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills and Pasadena
in 1997.
Read
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Cory's
road to China
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Scott B. Whitenack-Stubblefield Esq.
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114-
Scott B. Whitenack-Stubblefield Esq., great-grand son of
wireless telephone inventor, Nathan B. Stubblefield,
died -
By Troy Cory
Scott Bryan Whitenack passed away untimely on September
18, in Los Angeles, CA.
••••
Scott, aka Scott Stubblefield, was
one of four children with siblings, Alden, Keith, and
Priscilla. (His brother Keith pre-ceded him in death at the
age of 32). His parents were Troy Cory Stubblefield, an
entertainer and author and Dorothy Swafford, owner of a
furniture and antiques retail store. Scott's children are
Steven, David and grand-children, William, Bruce, Cora and
Max, borne to Steven and Skylark. Scott's great-grandfather
is Nathan B. Stubblefield, the inventor of Radio, in 1882,
and patent holder of the wireless telephone (1908) and his
great-great-great .... grandparents were - John and
Priscilla Alden who were part of the pilgrimage who sailed
on the Mayflower to Plymouth Rock from England in
1620.
(The Stubblefield story is
incorporated within several photographs and denotes of and
about S Scott to show how their personal ambitions and
dreams parallel each other - both died - before their dreams
and ambitions were fulfilled)
 During
the time he studied for the State Bar, Scott lived with
Josie and myself on our family estate in Pasadena. He passed
the State Bar the first time and was among only 33% to do
so.
The balance of time was spent doing cinematography for my TV
shows, which he considered an artistic outlet besides his
major life's work, in the field of law. After he passed the
State Bar he handled numerous legal cases and ended up
working as an associate lawyer with Melvin Belli with whom
he engaged in several cases and won a lawsuit that became
precedent case law. Whitenack was committed to his legal
profession for over three
decades.•
r•••
If you needed legal
advice or help with a motion filing, Scott was there with
his trusty law books. He was very intelligent, outspoken and
an independent thinker.
••••
He also was a family
man, who loved hiking and scuba diving, a good game of
tennis and enjoyed bringing his sons to Paramount Ranch for
regular family outings and Father's Day get-togethers.
••••
As to his love for
cinematography he videotaped additional segments for the
movie "Christmas around the World." Scott later became my
producer and cinematographer for "To Catch a Dream" filmed
in Europe. The video project brought him and the production
team to Paris, Venice, Cannes, Munich and Salzburg. Said
footage with perfect picture-book pans of the Eiffel Tower,
the Seine River, the leaning Tower of Pisa and the Venice
Bridge of Sigh, is a legacy he left behind for us.
••••
In the early 90s during the writing
of our 4-volume set of books entitled "the SMART-DAAF Boys"
about the invention of radio and the the wireless telephone,
Scott lent a helpful hand in giving his legal aspect of his
great-grandfather Nathan Stubblefield's copyrighted and
patented invention. He also was the co-author of "Bank
America, the Tortfeasor."
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Scott as a teenager
with John Wayne
at LA Herald-Express columnist Harrison Carroll's Cinema
Reporting Prize press conference.
••••
His favorite poem is
found on a card he prepared for one of my Father's Days
titled "The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The
Flower."
•••••
He leaves behind his
father, Troy Cory-Stubblefield, his mother Dorothy Steele,
sister Priscilla Stubblefield Cory, brother and
sister-in-law Alden and Sara Stubblefield, step mother Josie
Cory-Stubblefield, sons David and Steven, daughter-in law
Skylar, and great-grandchildren, William, Bruce, Cora and
Max; Nephew Ryan White, and niece
Jenny Wharton. His brother Keith pre-ceded him in death at
the age of 32.
More to come
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114- Ron
Rice, founder of Hawaiian Tropics
died.
••••
Ron Rice died on May
19, 2022, at the age of 81 in Daytona each,
Florida.
••••
Rice grew up in the mountains of
North Carolina, and fell in love with the beaches of Florida
on a childhood visit. He made his home in Daytona Beach,
where he worked as a high school chemistry teacher and
part-time lifeguard.
•••
It was at his part-time job that Rice was inspired by seeing
people all over the beach using Coppertone suntan lotion. He
became determined to create a unique competitor, using his
chemistry knowledge to experiment with a suntan lotion
formula, scented with coconut and fruit.
•••
He famously mixed his first formula in a garbage can,
bottling it at home in his garage with a $500 loan from his
father to launch his business. He named it Hawaiian Tropic
to evoke an exotic beach locale.
•••
His experiment was a hit making him a multi-millionaire,
with his Hawaiian Tropic suncare brand creating sales of
$110 million per year.
•••
Ricewith his Hawaiian Tropic brand became known for
sponsoring beauty pageants and NASCAR racecars.
•••
In 2004 he accompanied Troy Cory to a concert tour through
China.
•••After
selling Hawaiian Tropic to Playtex in 2007, Rice returned to
the industry in recent years with the suncare brand Habana
Brisa.
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Actor Paul Sorvino
died
••••
July 25, 2022 - Actor Paul Sorvino,
who died today at 83, played a legion of mobsters throughout
his five decades-long career. He is best known for his roles
as Paulie Cicero in the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas,
directed by Martin Scorsese.
••••
Born in Brooklyn in 1939 to a mother
who taught piano and father who was a foreman in a robe
factory, Sorvino was musically inclined from a young age and
attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New
York where he found his love for the theater. He made his
Broadway debut in 1964 in "Bajour" and his film debut in
Carl Reiner's "Where's Poppa?" in 1970.
••••
In 1991, he began a 31-episode stint
on NBC's Law & Order, portraying NYPD Det. Philip
Cerreta, the partner of Chris Noth's Det. Mike Logan. The
character, after being wounded in the line of duty, was
succeeded on the series by Jerry Orbach's Det. Lennie
Briscoe.
••••He
was an actor, opera singer, businessman, writer, and
sculptor. He also played plenty of cops, a movie producer, a
televangelist, God, a founder of the American Communist
Party, an Italian fashion designer, an MLB manager, a
Shakespearean lord, Henry Kissinger in OliverStone's "Nixon"
and a wide array of other colorful characters.
•••
His co-stars included Al Pacino,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Angela
Bassett, Jennifer Connelly, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty
(four times), James Caan (five times), Richard Gere, Robert
Mitchum, Glenda Jackson, Forest Whitaker, Gena Rowlands,
Rita Moreno, Alec Baldwin, Diane Keaton, Joaquin Phoenix and
his own Oscar-winning daughter, Mira Sorvino.
•••
Sorvino received critical praise and
a Tony-nomination for his performance in Jason Miller's 1972
Broadway play "That Championship Season." He reprised his
role in the 1982 feature film version that also starred
Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum and Martin
Sheen.
•••
Sorvino also had a standout
supporting role in the Best Picture Oscar-nominated film "A
Touch of Class," also starring Segal, and in 1981
co-starred in Warren Beatty's film, "Reds."
•••
Other film credits, to name a few,
"The Panic in Needle Park," "The Day of the Dolphin,"
"The Gambler" -- opposite James Caan, who also died this
month -- "Cruising," Bulworth," "Romeo + Juliet," "The
Cooler" and "Mambo Italiano."
••••
His many TV roles included
appearances on "Moonlighting," "Murder, She Wrote,"
"Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Elementary," "The
Goldbergs" and "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders." More
recently, he played mobster Frank Costello in "Godfather of
Harlem for Epix."
•••
In addition to "Bajour" and "That
Championship Season," Sorvino's Broadway credits include
performances in "Mating Dance" (1965), "Skyscrape"r
(1965), and "An American Millionaire" (1974). In 1976, he
directed the short-lived Broadway play "Wheelbarrow
Closers."
•••
Sorvino founded the Paul Sorvino
Asthma Foundation, and with wife, Emmy Award winner Dee Dee,
co-authored the book "Pinot, Pasta, and Parties."
•••
In addition to his wife Dee Dee, he
is survived by children Mira, Amanda and Michael and 5
grandchildren.
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Art Rupe, pioneering record executive who helped launch
Little Richard's career, dies
at 104
••••
Rupe, who was
inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, died
Friday (April 15) at his home in Santa Barbara,
California.
••••
 Music
executive Art Rupe, whose Specialty Records was a premier
label during the early years of rock'n'roll and who helped
launch the careers of Little Richard, Sam Cooke and many
others, has died. He was 104.
••••
He was born Arthur
Goldberg, the son of an Austrian immigrant laborer, in
Greensburg, Pa., on Sept 5, 1917, whose passion for Black
music began through hearing the singers at a nearby Baptist
church. He studied at
Art Rupe, Michael
Ochs Archives/Getty Images
the University of
California, Los Angeles, and after considering a career in
movies decided on music instead. He co-founded Juke Box
Records in the mid-1940s, but soon left to start
Specialty.
••••
 Rupe
was a contemporary of Jerry Wexler, Leonard Chess and other
white businessmen-producers who helped bring Black music to
the general public. He founded Specialty in Los Angeles in
1946 and gave early breaks to artists such as Cooke and his
gospel group the Soul Stirrers, Little Richard, Lloyd Price,
John Lee Hooker and Clifton Chenier.
•Little
Richard: Michael Ochs Archives
•••
•••• Rupe settled
on Specialty's eye-popping yellow labels after a marketing
professor said it was among the colors most likely to
attract buyers' attention.
••••
An astute businessman who loved the
music while at the same time signed his artist to
exploitative record deals -- "Tutti Frutti" sold more than
500,000 copies but, at a royalty rate of half-cent per
record, reportedly netted Little
Richard a mere $25,000.
••••
Rupe was known for
how little he paid his artists and engaged in an
exploitative practice common among label owners in the early
rock era: having performers sign contracts leaving him with
much or all of the royalties and publishing
rights. "Tutti Frutti" sold more than
500,000 copies but, at a royalty rate of half-cent per
record, reportedly netted Little
Richard a mere $25,000. In 1959
Little Richard would
sue Rupe for back royalties and settled out of court for
$11,000.
••••
Eventually Rupe grew
increasingly frustrated with the "payola" system of bribing
broadcasters to get records played and distanced himself
from the music business. He sold Specialty to Fantasy
Records in the early 1990s, but continued to earn money
through oil and gas investments. In recent years, he headed
the Arthur N Rupe Foundation, which supported education and
research.
Rupe spent his final decades in Santa Barbara.
Troy
Cory's Specialty Record days with Sonny Bono as his
A&R rep.
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114- Sam
Riddle,
the
jock behind the "Boss Radio" format passed away at
83.
By TVImagazine.com, Sept. 29, 2021
••••
The popular Los Angeles deejay of the
1960s who went on to produce the Ed McMahon-hosted TV talent
show Star Search, has died.
••••
Riddle died Monday, at his home in Palm Desert after a
battle with Lewy body dementia, a publicist announced.
••••
Riddle was born in 1937 in Fort
Worth, Texas. His stepfather was instrumental in realizing
Riddle's dream of becoming a DJ and broke him into Texas
radio.
••••
In the era when radio disc jockeys exerted huge influence on
sales and pop culture, the Texas native started out in L.A.
radio on KRLA and jumped to KFWB before landing at KHJ-93,
where he became one of the founding jocks behind the "Boss
Radio" format.
••••
By virtue of his influence in
charting hits, he appeared as a race announcer in the Elvis
Presley starrer Clambake (1967).
••••
Moving from radio to TV, he then hosted Los Angeles variety
shows, including "9th Street West" and "Hollywood A-Go-Go."
He eventually became a producer, working on shows such as
ABC's "Almost Anything Goes" and "Star Search Starring Ed
McMahon," which ran from 1983-95, Riddle where he gave
career breaks to future stars such as Britney Spears, Justin
Timberlake, Usher, Dave Chappelle, Christina Aguilera and
many more.
••••Riddles
produced "The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars," "The Songwriters
Hall of Fame Special" on CBS, "Supermodel of the World,"
"You Write The Songs," "Out of the Blue," "Vibin' With Fox,"
"It's Showtime at The Apollo," "Weekend Vibe" and "Livin'
Large."
••••
He also oversaw the early creation
and production of specials and series for Telemundo and
Univision and managed acts for such labels as Sony/BMG and
EMI Latin.
•••
Survivors include his wife of 54
years, Adrienne; children Scott and Courtney; and
grandchildren Miracle and Garin.
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SAG-AFTRA Mourns the Passing of Broadcaster Joe Krebs.
Award-Winning
Journalist Served as National Board Member for Two
Decades
LOS ANGELES (April 6, 2021) -- Broadcaster Joe Krebs,
who was a member of the SAG-AFTRA National Board and a
recipient of the George Heller Memorial Award for union
service, died this morning at the age of 78.
••••
"Joe was a true union man. His breadth of knowledge and
experience was an enormous asset to SAG-AFTRA. The work he
did in support of his fellow members and for the principles
of fairness and justice will endure," said SAG-AFTRA
President Gabrielle Carteris. "Joe was also my friend and I
will miss him dearly. I send my deepest condolences to his
friends, family and loved ones."
••••
Krebs served as president of the American Federation of
Television and Radio Artists' Washington-Baltimore Local
from 1997&endash;2009. At the conclusion of his service,
Krebs was presented with the National AFTRA President
Founder's Award. Krebs began his AFTRA National Board
service in 2000 and was instrumental in the merger of Screen
Actors Guild and AFTRA; he co-wrote both the new union's
constitution and its dues structure. He went on to serve on
the SAG-AFTRA National Board since the union's merger in
2012.
••••
Krebs had an extensive broadcast career, starting in 1970
with WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina, after graduating
law school. He spent the last three decades of his career at
WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., where he became a local
institution. His work earned him numerous Emmys. He retired
in 2012, but continued to serve the union, including
chairing the National Broadcast Steering Committee.
•••
In 2017, at SAG-AFTRA's third biennial convention, Krebs
received the George Heller Memorial Award, which takes the
form of a gold membership card and is given to those with an
exceptional record of serving the union and its members. On
April 1, 2021, he was awarded SAG-AFTRA's President's Award
for meritorious service.
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Special Olympics Southern California Mourns the Passing of
Founder
Rafer Johnson
Special Olympics Southern
California was saddened to hear of the passing of Rafer
Johnson, founder of SOSC, humanitarian, and Olympic Gold
Medalist. The entire SOSC community, including athletes,
volunteers, partners, and staff, mourns this loss.
••••
Today we lost one of our family
members and one of the biggest champions for people with
intellectual disabilities. With the ultimate goal of
spreading acceptance and inclusion, Rafer Johnson
propelled our community to new heights through the
power of sports.
••••
Rafer Johnson had been active with
Special Olympics since the very beginning. After
experiencing the positivity and energy at the first Special
Olympics Games in Chicago in 1968, he knew he wanted to help
the movement grow.
••••
In 1969, Johnson helped bring Special
Olympics to the west coast by forming the Southern
California chapter of Special Olympics. What started as a
track & field and swimming competition for 900 athletes
with intellectual disabilities from western states has now
grown into an organization that serves 38,200 athletes in
Southern California through year-round sports, wellness, and
leadership programming.
••••
Over the past 50 years, Rafer was
involved in guiding Special Olympics and spreading
acceptance and inclusion for people with intellectual
disabilities throughout Southern California and the world.
He had been a member of the SOSC Board of Directors for
years and became President of Special Olympics Southern
California in 1983. Johnson would use this time to grow
Special Olympics, increasing fundraising and adjusting the
team to appropriately serve the community. He was President
until 1992, when he was elected Chairman of the Board of
Governors.
••••
His compassion, drive, and generosity
has changed the lives of millions of people with and without
intellectual disabilities. We are forever grateful to him
and will continue to spread his vision of acceptance and
inclusion for all.
••••
•••• Rafer Lewis
Johnson was born on August 18, 1935 in Hillsboro, Texas.
Johnson graduated from the University of California, Los
Angeles in 1959. He won the gold medal in the 1955 Pan
American Games for the decathlon in Mexico City while a
student at UCLA. Five years later, Johnson won a gold medal
in the decathlon in Rome at the 1960 Olympic Games in a
legendary duel against fellow UCLA alumni, Yang Chuan-Kwang.
Johnson was Team USA's flag bearer at the 1960 Olympics,
becoming the first Black American to do so. He also lit the
Olympic Flame and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum's Cauldron
to highlight the Opening Ceremonies of the XXIII Olympiad in
1984.
••••
Throughout his life, Johnson was
widely recognized for his humanitarian efforts. Along with
Special Olympics, Johnson also worked for the Peace Corps,
traveling on behalf of the volunteer program run by the
United States Government, providing international social and
economic development assistance to millions around the world
and for the People to People International Foundation. He
was a Fellow with the Coro Foundation, a member of the
President's Council on Physical Fitness, and he served on
the Board of Directors of the LA 84 Foundation, the Los
Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, the Close-up
Foundation, the March of Dimes, the Muscular Dystrophy
Association, American Red Cross, the National Amateur Sports
Development Foundation, the National Recreation and Park
Association, the United States Athletic Foundation, the
Athletic Advisory Panel of the U.S. State Department, San
Fernando Valley Fair Housing Council, and the Voter
Registration Program. Johnson was also active for many years
as a spokesperson for Hershey's Track & Field
Games.
••••
Rafer Johnson participated in Robert
Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968 and was present when
Kennedy was assassinated. Johnson helped subdue the gunman,
Sirhan Sirhan.
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114- Pasadena resident Guido Meindl passed away December
28.
(1939-2019)
 Guido
was born in Munich, Germany in 1939 and immigrated to
Pasadena, California, with his
parents and brother in 1950.
••••
He attended Loyola High School and was graduated from Loyola
(Marymount) University and Cal State University, Los
Angeles. A true Renaissance man, Guido was an accomplished
visual artist, musician, writer and cook.
••••
He worked 29 years for the Parsons Corporation, several
years at Wyle Research and North American Rockwell
Corporation, founded an award winning BBQ sauce and
seasoning company and played a mean game of tennis. He will
be remembered for his artistry, creativity, civic
engagement, boundless energy and enthusiasm for life, sharp
wit and epic 4th of July and Christmas parties.
••••
Besides his
engineering career Guido was an accomplished piano player
and played on Troy Cory's recording session at the Ray
Charles Studio, entitled "Song Sung Blue," for the Troy Cory
Evening Show, broadcast on Channels 13 and Channel
5-KTLA.
••••
 Guido
is survived by his loving and devoted wife Cathy Meindl;
children Guido Meindl (Lou), Monique Carroll (Bob),
Stephanie Joy and Gabrielle Meindl; grandchildren: Drew
Carroll, Clare Carroll, Gwyn Gaughey, Tommy Knapp, Nicky
Meindl, Stella Joy, Katie Knapp and Nina Meindl; Brother
John Meindl; Sisters-in-Law Susie Meindl and Judy "Hooty"
Spence; his faithful cat Spooky and countless friends.
••••
A Memorial Service
was held, Saturday, February 22, 2020, at 11:00 am, at the
Episcopal Church of the Ascension, E. Laurel Avenue, Sierra
Madre, 91024. CA.
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Regis Philbin, long-time Talk Show Host, Dies
(1931-2020)
•••
 Morning
television personality, Regis Philbin, known for hosting
talk and game shows, died on July 24, 2020 at age 88. Having
been called "the hardest working man in show business,"
Photo LtoR: Gary
Sunkin, TVI news director; Regis Philbin
Philbin holds the
Guinness World Record for the most face time on camera when
he logged his 15,600th hour in 2004.
•••
•"We are deeply saddened to
share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away last night
of natural causes, one month shy of his 89th birthday," the
statement said. "His family and friends are forever grateful
for the time we got to spend with him -- for his warmth, his
legendary sense of humor, and his singular ability to make
every day into something worth talking about. We thank his
fans and admirers for their incredible support over his
60-year career and ask for privacy as we mourn his
loss."
•••
Raised in the Bronx before attending
the University of Notre Dame, Philbin served in the Navy
before his career on television began, first as host of a
local talk show in San Diego, "The Regis Philbin Show." He
went on to co-star on ABC talk show "The Joey Bishop Show,"
before hosting "The Morning Show" beginning in 1983. It was
later renamed "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee," launching
an iconic talk-show hosting career. Kathie Lee Gifford left
the show after 15 years. In 2001, the franchise became known
as "Live! with Regis and Kelly," with Regis hosting opposite
Kelly Ripa. He left the show in 2011 after hosting for 23
years.
•••
Morning after morning, Regis Philbin
would help America brace itself for another workday with a
contagious blend of enthusiasm, barbed humor and laments
about the mundane ups and downs of everyday life.
•••
Philbin earned numerous Emmy
nominations, Lifetime Achievment Award from the Daytime
Emmys, hosted New Year's Eve specials, rode in parades, and
helped reinvigorate prime-time game shows with
ABC's wildly popular
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," a
runaway hit he hosted
for three seasons starting in 1999-2002.
When he stepped away for good in
2011, it was an emotional goodbye that pulled in many
viewers.
•••
Philbin is survived by his wife of 50
years, Joy and their two daughters J.J. Philbin and Joanna
Philbin, along with daughter Amy Philbin, from his first
marriage.
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Lakers' legend Kobe Bryant's death stuns L.A. and the
world
••••
Nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, were
killed when a helicopter crashed into rough terrain in
Calabasas Sunday morning, Jan. 26. Investigators are still
looking into the cause of the crash. Condolences streamed in
on social media from Italy to China on learning of the death
of the Los Angeles legend.
••••
A light fog had settled on the runway
of John Wayne Airport Sunday morning when Kobe Bryant,
his daughter Gianna and six other passengers
boarded a chartered helicopter to fly to a basketball
tournament in Thousand
Oaks.
••••
Half an hour later, they were flying
over thickening clouds in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot
was worried enough to ask flight controllers to keep track
of them. As he approached the hills of Calabasas at 150
miles per hour, they radioed him, telling him he was too low
for them to see on radar.
••••
The pilot commenced a climb, rising
765 feet in 36 seconds, enough to clear adjacent
hills.
••••
Then - the Sikorsky S-76B suddenly
veered off course and descended rapidly. The twin-engine
aircraft dropped 325 feet in 14 seconds, reaching 176 miles
per hour before losing contact and hitting the hillside
above Las Virgenes Road.
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SAG-AFTRA mourns the passing of Kirk
Douglas
••••
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 5, 2020) -- SAG-AFTRA mourns the loss of
SAG Life Achievement honoree Kirk Douglas, who passed away
today at the age of 103.
••••
Douglas' career spanned more than six decades and more than
80 films, including Spartacus, Lust for
Life, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Man From
Snowy River and The Final Countdown. A union
member since 1942, Douglas was honored with the
35th SAG Life Achievement Award in 1998.
••••
"One of the last remaining legends of Hollywood's golden
age, Kirk Douglas was an extraordinary actor. He was also a
powerful voice who helped end the blacklist in our
industry." said SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris.
"With his extensive body of work, he made an indelible mark
on cinema. But, as a true humanitarian, his lifelong
dedication to quietly supporting worthy causes may have made
an even greater impact. Kirk will be deeply missed and we
send our condolences to his family, friends and fans."
••••Douglas
was a generous philanthropist, donating millions of dollars
to schools, hospitals and facilities that help the homeless.
He also remembered his fellow performers. Douglas and his
wife Anne gave more than $40 million to the Motion Picture
& Television Fund over their lifetimes and were
responsible for the creation of a care facility for
Alzheimer's patients. In 2015, in honor of Douglas'
99th birthday, the MPTF announced that it would build a
new facility to be named in the actor's honor.
•About
SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors,
announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news
writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording
artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and
other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA
members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform
America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO,
SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York
and local offices nationwide representing members working
together to secure the strongest protections for
entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and
beyond.
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Virginia
Estelle Pilato Maddox, aka Lynn Mann, passed away on
Veterans Day in Glendale, CA
(1929 -
2019)
Lynn Mann was Associated Television Producer,
Casting and Public Relations Director (VRA TelePlay
Pictures, The Troy Cory Show)
Lynn
Mann, was born on
March 31,
1929, in
Birmingham Alabama, the daughter of Mary and Giuseppe
Pilato. She  grew
up as a young girl with a constant admiration for show
business and the men & women in the motion picture
industry, especially the actors & singers. As she
continued her growth, developing into an attractive young
woman, she found herself beginning to associate with the
talent in the industry, and in turn, she surprised herself
as an avid promoter in many of these fields.
••••
During the early 1970s, Lynn and
Sylvia Pittman of Pittman Modeling Agency, coordinated
fashion shows within many of the largest theaters, and
well-known "4-star restaurants" throughout Alabama. She also
taught runway modeling, for the contestants of the Miss
Alabama beauty pageants and was credited for building a
local TV-guide, called "This Week In Mobile" and "This Week
in Pensacola" magazines, owned by Gene Foot, out of
Pensacola, Florida.
••••
A few years following, Lynn relocated
to Los Angeles, California, and became involved with the
Motion Picture & Television industry, in casting as well
as packaging production crews for locations in and out of
Los Angeles. This position allowed Lynn to surrounded
herself with such prominent celebrities as producer Sidney
Pollack, (who won 11 awards in the movie "Out of
Africa")
••••
Lynn Mann developed a taste for
casting focusing on documentaries & sitcoms. It was her
tenure at the old Desi Lu studios production offices and
sound stages, (owned by Lucille Ball & Desi Arnez)
located on Melrose, in Hollywood, California where she was
contacted by
Mr.
Troy
Cory, who needed male
and female extras, for a location shoot of the "Sam Butera
and the Wildest" segment of the Troy Cory Show, at his
Rosemont Studios in Pasadena.
••••
Troy Cory just finished his own
television Variety Show, called "The Troy Cory Evening
Show," aka "The Troy Cory Show," taped at the Culver Studios
(where "Gone with the Wind" was filmed), and at Warner Bros.
The Shows were televised on channels, KCOP, and KTLA Los
Angeles, California beginning in 1974. Troy Cory, his
daughter, Priscilla Cory, and John Barrymore hosted the show
with numerous guest celebrities. Among the guest stars were,
Alan Hale Jr., Sammy Fain, Clint Walker, Foster Brooks
singer Mel Carter, jazz guitarist Nick Lucas, Sugar Ray
Robinson and Jack Foreman of the Samuel Goldwyn
Studio.
••••
Following the syndicated
Troy
Cory Shows,
Cory purchased Vine Street Video
Centre, his own high tech campus facilities which played
host to some of the first music videos before MTV was was
even thought of. The musical artists included Rod Stewart,
Jackson Browne, Tom, Petty, Nicolette Larson, Priscilla
Cory, Joni Mitchell, Raquel Welch, Chaka Khan, and Randy
Meisner, formerly of The Eagles. Vine Street Video Centre
also housed the famous "Au Petit Cafe," a favorite meeting
place of Hollywood industry players.
••••
After selling the Vine
Street Video
Centre
Studios to entertainer, Donna Summer,
the Corys and Lynn Mann continued to produce syndicated
television programming at Cory's Pasadena, Rosemont Studio
facilities.
••••
The Sam Butera music video taping was
a foray into what would become a productive show business
partnership and the beginning of Lynn Mann's long term
relationship with the Troy Cory Show, as an associate
producer.
••••
Among the TV productions were the
memorable "To Catch a Dream" and "To Catch a Song," series
where Troy was playing the Governor of Kentucky, filmed at
Rosemont Studios with various segments filmed in Germany,
Austria, France and Italy.
was admiration at first sight," said Lynn," upon meeting
Troy. "I developed a strong interest, not only in his
talent, but also in his grandfather, the inventor of the
radio and the 1907 patent holder of the wireless telephone."
Lynn held the opinion that the whole world should know who
the real inventor of radio is. With time Lynn gained a great
business relationship with the Cory-Stubblefield
family.••••
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••••••••Easter
Sunday at the Huntington Hotel, Pasadena
••••••••Josie,
Lynn, Troy, Priscilla, Scott
In the mid 80s Lynn was part of the
casting process when Cory produced and directed the Weaver
music video, "Calhoun," featuring Dennis Weaver and also
directed the Pete Allman/James Brown in-concert interview
segment at the House of Blues, in West Hollywood.
••••
In 1981 the Corys and Lynn
were invited to Washington D.C. to attend President
Ronald Reagan's inaugural, by her second-daughter Yvonne,
who was a leader in the president's 1980 election campaign.
Soon after the inauguration, they continued on to Europe to
attend MIDEM in Cannes, France -- a popular music market
which provided the opportunity to meet up with friends from
BBC, UFA Publishing, Wilson Publishing, and Syd Dale
Publishing. After leaving Cannes the Cory's and Lynn
traveled on to Milan, Italy to meet singer Anita Kerr before
venturing on to Munich, Germany and Austria.
•••
In the following years Lynn dedicated
much time working energeticly on The Troy Cory Show" and
"R&B" Plus, televised on KCAL 9, in 1984, which not only
featured Troy Cory's music but other popular American
singing stars, including, Jeffrey Osborne, James Brown,
George Duke, Rockwell, R. J. Reynolds, Beau Williams, Freda
Payne, Dennis Weaver, Timmy Thomas, Nona Hendrix, and Janice
Marie Johnson, (formerly with Taste of Honey), as well as
saxophonist, Kenny G.
••••
When in 1987, the Cory's purchased
Television Int'l Magazine founded by Sam Donaldson and Al
Preiss from Al Preiss's widow, Sylvia Preiss, Lynn branched
her PR talent into advertising campaigns and attending
various domestic and international TV industry trade
conventions.
••••
In the early 1990s after Cory's
authoring the "SMART-DAAF Boys, the Inventors of Radio and
television" Mann helped with the development of the movie
script "Firewire" and continued research on Stubblefield,
traveling to Murray, KY and visiting Lynn's good friends
Felix Cavaliere and wife Theresa in Nashville,
Tennessee.
• •••
•••• Lynn
tirelessly made good on an early expression of her opinion
that the whole world should know who the true inventor of
the wireless telephone is by doing Nathan B. Stubblefield PR
whenever the opportunity arose.
••••••
Photo: Valerie, Lynn, Darlene,
Norma, Katie, and Josie
••••
Ms. Mann represented Troy
Cory--Stubblefield, during most of his business career;
including his singing engagements throughout China, touring
cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Anshan, Harbin, Fuzhou,
Guangdong, where he has obtained many firsts in the
entertainment world (First American entertainer to perform
on stage in the People's Republic of China during the
Shanghai TV Festival) and has made many friends with the
heads of the Chinese government, which includes Jiang Zemin
then mayor of Shanghai and later, President of the People's
Republic of China, and Yuzhen Ma, former Counsel General of
the Chinese Consulate, Los Angeles.
••••
"Lynn Mann was an extraordinary human being, full of charm
with a special gift to make people around her feel good and
comfortable. She was a wonderful friend and business
assciate to us, the Corys and she will never be
forgotten." Troy and Josie
••••
On Saturday, November 23, a viewing will be at noon,
followed by a Mass at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church,
6657 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028; Burial will be the
next day, on Sunday November 24, 1:00pm at Hollywood Forever
Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038.
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Cokie Roberts Died (December 27, 1943 - September 17,
2019)
Friends, family,
reporters and politicians gathered Saturday in downtown
Washington, D.C., to remember journalist Cokie Roberts.
••••
The funeral mass took place at the Cathedral of St. Matthew
the Apostle, the site of President John F. Kennedy's funeral
in 1963. Every fall, it hosts the Red Mass, which marks the
beginning of a new Supreme Court term
••••
Roberts died Tuesday at age 75 of complications from breast
cancer. She had covered and commented on politics for NPR
since 1978 and spent decades working for ABC News as well,
including several years co-hosting the Sunday morning
political show This Week.
••••Roberts
is remembered as a pioneer in broadcast journalism -- a
field that, when she started, had very few on-air roles for
women.
••••
Her funeral Mass was broadcast on C-SPAN and was
livestreamed on both NPR and ABC from the Cathedral of St.
Matthew the Apostle, symbolic of the towering legend in
media and Washington, D.C., circles Roberts was.
••••Roberts'
grew up splitting time between Washington, D.C., and
Louisiana. Her father, Thomas Hale Boggs Sr., served as
majority leader of the U.S. House and served in Congress for
more than three decades before he disappeared on a campaign
flight in Alaska in 1972.
••••Lindy
Claiborne Boggs, Cokie's mother, was elected to her
husband's seat and served for 17 years. Boggs also served as
U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
••••NPR
is remembering Roberts on Saturday afternoon with a one-hour
special broadcast airing on many public radio stations at 4
p.m. ET.
• Honoring
Cokie Roberts Sept. 17,
2019
• Cokie
Roberts and Sam Donaldson on Late Night with Conan O'Brian-
11/18/97
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Former ABC Broadcaster Sam Donaldson Remembers Cokie
Roberts
September 18, 20195:07 AM ET
Heard on NPR Morning Edition
Cokie Roberts has died after an
influential career covering Washington politics for NPR and
ABC. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Roberts' former This
Week co-anchor Sam Donaldson about her legacy.
RACHEL MARTIN,
HOST:
This morning, we are
remembering the life of our friend and colleague Cokie
Roberts. Cokie joined NPR in its earliest years and was a
fundamental part of making it the place it is today. She
worked here and at ABC News for decades.
MARTIN: From 1996 to
2002, Cokie co-anchored the network's flagship Sunday
morning show with veteran broadcaster Sam Donaldson. I spoke
with Donaldson yesterday as he reflected back on their long
friendship.
SAM DONALDSON: To say
Cokie Roberts was a fine journalist - she knew everybody in
town, she knew politics backward and forward - to say all of
that is quite true, but it misses the essence of Cokie. She
was a force of nature.
MARTIN: (Laughter).
DONALDSON: This person
could be at one moment charming, kind, considerate and all
of that, and the next moment, confronting a politician who
didn't want to answer her question...
MARTIN:
(Laughter).
DONALDSON: ...Tough as
nails, and, I mean, always respectful. But, I mean, she
drilled in. And I think people have been playing a clip from
the Brinkley show from years and years ago that I remember
so well. And I'm just going to repeat it, and...
MARTIN:
Please.
DONALDSON: ...It's simply
that one day, John Tower, senator from Texas, had been
nominated to be secretary of defense in 1989. His critics
said he drank too much. But they've also criticized him -
and I said, Senator, a lot of people up there on the Hill
who don't like you say you're a womanizer. Well, Sam, he
said, what is a womanizer? And Cokie Roberts spoke up and
fixed Senator Tower with sort of a steely gaze and said,
Senator, I know one when I see one.
MARTIN:
(Laughter).
DONALDSON: And, I mean,
it was like the balloon bursting. She was that
way.
MARTIN: Yeah.
DONALDSON: And yet, I'm
sure she considered herself someone who knew the senator and
was friendly with him, from the standpoint of the way you're
collegiate, at least in those days, with people in
Washington, even if you had different roles and sometimes
had to cover them in a way that was not something they
wanted.
MARTIN: What did you
learn from her from sitting alongside her all those years,
from watching her in those moments?
DONALDSON: Well, I
learned one thing from her, and perhaps some others too, but
particularly from Cokie that you need not always consider
that you're tough as nails. You need not always think, my
goodness, I'm going to ask the killer question - not because
you wanted to put someone on the spot. Cokie taught me that
you could be tough. You could ask the tough questions. But
you didn't have to show that I am the toughest person in the
world.
MARTIN: That it wasn't
about you. It wasn't about the journalist, yeah. In my own
social media feed, I'm seeing a lot of friends, colleagues,
former colleagues, women, remembering how she mentored them,
always had a kind word, lifted women up - all her
colleagues, but young women in particular who were trying to
find their way in journalism and broadcast television news
in particular. Did you see that from her as well?
DONALDSON: Oh, yes. Oh,
yes, that - she mentored young women. She had made it. She'd
made it by doing it. And I'm sure when Cokie started she had
to give 110 degrees just to be even. I mean, men dominated -
we dominated. And we knew it. And to let women in was
difficult. She remembers the day that she first showed up on
the Brinkley show. And she walked in. And she said later -
she said, well, it was like going into the lion's den. You
were the tamest lion of all. And I considered that a big
compliment.
MARTIN: (Laughter) You
know what? I've also been thinking about - she did this
segment for us called Ask Cokie which gave her a chance to
take the long view of American history and American
politics. She loved America, didn't she? She believed in our
better angels.
DONALDSON: Well, see
that's the difference. Everyone says they love America.
Everyone says they value America, that they are patriotic to
America. But do they all believe in our better angels? Do
they all try to lift up the other people in America? Do they
all, as Cokie did throughout her life, try to help people
who were down, who were out, who were not part of the elite?
And her love of America was genuine for everyone.
MARTIN: We will miss her.
Sam Donaldson - he co-anchored ABC's "This Week" with Cokie
Roberts. We've been hearing some of his reflections. Thank
you so much for your time.
DONALDSON: Well, thank
you for letting me reflect with you, Rachel.
MARTIN: Thank you. I
appreciate it.
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Note: ABC Broadcaster Sam
Donaldson who co-anchored This Week with Cokie
Roberts, was the founder of of TELEvisionFILM
Magazine / Television Int'l Magazine.
In April 1956 TVI
debuted it's first edition with offices at 1580 Crossroad of
the World, Hollywood,
CA.
••••
Later
Donaldson, served as reporter and news anchor with ABC News
from 1967 to 2013. He is best known as the network's White
House Correspondent (from 1977-89 and 1998-99) and as a
panelist and later co-anchor of the network's Sunday
program, "This Week."
••••
Donaldson
appeared as a panelist on the Sunday morning television
program This Week with David Brinkley from its
inception in 1981 and after Brinkley's retirement in 1996,
he co-anchored the This Week program with Cokie Roberts
until Sept. 2002. He still occasionally serves as a panelist
on This Week.
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George Wills remember Cokie
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11/18/97
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Doris Day, America's box office sweetheart of the '50s and'
60s dies at 97
 May
13, 2019 -- Doris Day,
actress, singer,
animal-welfare activist and
box-office queen whose wholesome, all-American image belied
an often-turbulent personal life, has died of pneumonia at
the age of 97.
•••
She began her career as a big-band singer in 1939, her first
hit recording being "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 with Les
Brown & His Band of Renown. After leaving Brown to
embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs
from 1947 to 1967.
•••
Day was one of the top female
box-office star in Hollywood history, with a No. 1 ranking
in 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964. She had her first hit as a
big-band vocalist during World War II before making nearly
40 movies in the next two decades, reigning supreme at a
time when her contemporaries included Audrey Hepburn,
Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.
•••She
also co-starred opposite Rock Hudson in three films.
•••Day
was born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in
Cincinnati, Ohio, the youngest of three siblings. All of her
grandparents were German immigrants.
•••
Four times married she was first
married to Al Jorden, ( March 1941 to February 1943) Her
only child, son Terrence Paul Jorden (later known as Terry
Melcher), resulted from this marriage. Her second marriage
(March 30, 1946, to May 31, 1949) was to George William
Weidler, a saxophonist who told her he was leaving her by
letter after eight month of marriage. Day's fourth marriage
( April 14, 1976, until April 2, 1982) was to Barry Comden,
the maître d'hôtel at one of Day's favorite
restaurants.
•••
The Doris Day Animal Foundation
announced that Day made it clear that there would be no
funeral, memorial service or grave marker.
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Remembering Monsignor Robert J.
Gallagher
A Memorial Mass will be held at St. Charles
Borromeo Church, on Friday, July 26, at 7:00 p.m.
North Hollywood,
August 2, 2018
•
Rev.
Monsignor
Robert J. Gallagher, Nov. 21, 1946 - July 26, 2018
•
A People
Priest
By Josie Cory
Monsingor Gallagher loved
being a people priest. He was truly beloved and loved his
parishes and high school ministry. He was also loved by many
Archdiocesan committes he led as well as the man boards he
was member of.
He passed away after a
long battle with cancer, on July 26, 2018, at his beloved St
Charles parish.
Msgr. Robert Gallagher
was a native Angeleno, born on November 21, 1946. He went to
grade school and high school at St. Genieve's in Van Nuys,
California, where he was voted Student Body President. Bob
always had a calling to be a priest noted Father Jose
Magaña. He would play priest as a little boy setting
up an altar. Throughout grade school and high school, Bob
continually talked of priesthood. His parents encouraged Bob
to go to a co-ed college before entering seminary. He went
to one year of college at Cal State Northridge, and ended up
at St. John Seminary in Camarillo, California. He was
ordained a priest on May 26, 1973, in the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles after attending St. John's Seminary in Camarillo and
later got his Master's degree. He has told the family many
times throughout his life how he loves being a priest.
Monsignor Gallagher truly was a people priest. He was truly
beloved and loved his parishes and high school ministry. He
was also loved by many Archdiocesan committees he led as
well as the man boards he was member of said Father
Jose.
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Associate
Pastor
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St. Josephe
Catholic Church,
Hawthorne,
CA
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June 1973-June 1977
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Associate
Pastor
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St. Charles Borromeo Catholic
Church North Hollywood, CA
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June 1977-July 1982
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Associate
Pastor
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Our Lady of Peace Catholic
Church,North Hills, CA
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July 1982-January
1994
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Teacher & Chaplan
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Bishop Amat Hight School, La
Puente, CA
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February 1984-May
1986
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Principal
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St. Paul High School
Santa Fe Spring, CA
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Sept. 1986-June 2000
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Pastor
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St. Charles Borromeo Catholic
Church North Hollywood, CA
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February 2000 - June
2018
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•
Vigil
••••
The day before the funeral
mass, Wednesday August 1, a Vigil was held at St. Charles
Borromeo, when fellow priests, family and parishioners had
the opportunity to say a last goodbye to their beloved
priest. His Eminence Roger Mahony told the audience how in
the 26 month that Monsignor Gallagher was battling cancer he
never heard a word of complaint and that he will be greatly
missed.
•••••••••••••••
Photo By: Brian D.
Scott
•
••• Music
Director James Drollinger addressed all who attended with
his words of gratitude to and love for Monsignor Gallagher
ending with the heartfelt "St. Joseph's Song" by Michael
Card.
•••
Father Jose Magaña spoke of the last few days in the
life of Bob as he likes to refer to Monsignor Gallagher, and
of his repeated wishes that he wanted to go
"home."
• Farewell
••••
On August 2, the faithful of St. Charles Borromeo Church
turned out by the hundreds to say farewell to Monsignor
Robert Gallagher, who served as pastor of the
 Catholic
parish in North Hollywood for almost 20 years The service
was conducted by the Rev. José Gomez, the archbishop
of Los Angeles with His Eminence, Cardinal Roger Mahony,
Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, Reverend Alexander
Salazar, Reverend Joseph Brennan , Reverend David O'Connell,
Rev. Jeff Baker, Rev. Msgr. Peter Nugent and Reverend Jose
Magaña, Pastor, in attendance.
••••••••••Photo
By: Brian D.
Scott
••••
Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark, who delivered the sermon,
said he had known Msgr. Gallagher for 53 years, going back
to their time in the seminary.
••••
 He
described Gallagher, as "very strong-willed, stubborn,
opinionated… He liked things to be done his way but
added, "he had a boundless ability to make friends and to
maintain friendships."
••••
Sunlight streamed through the church's stained glass windows
during the nearly two-hour service, warming the interior of
the church that Gallagher helped renovate during his tenure
at St. Charles Borromeo.
••••
Bagpipes played outside the church as Msgr. Gallagher's
casket was placed into the hearse before being taken to Holy
Cross Cemetery in Culver City for
burial.
History of St. Charles
Borromeo
 St.
Charles Borromeo Church is a Catholic church and elementary
school
that serves the North Hollywood
community in Southern California.
The church, a beautiful building
depicting Spanish, colonial-style architecture, is
located at Moorpark and Lankershim in North Hollywood, Los
Angeles, California. It is one of the oldest parishes in the
San Fernando Valley dating back to 1921. It has long been a
parish with celebrity members and many celebrities that have
lived in the Toluca Lake, North Hollywood, and Studio City
communities served by St. Charles Borromeo.
Hollywood
connection
St. Charles Borromeo was the home parish of Bob and
Dolores Hope, who lived a short distance from the church on
Moorpark. In 1969, Bing Crosby, Loretta Young, Ed Sullivan,
Ronald Reagan, Danny Kaye, Gregory Peck, Jack Benny, Danny
Thomas, Dorothy Lamour and Spiro Agnew attended the wedding
of Bob Hope's daughter, Linda, at St. Charles.
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Generational soul singer, Aretha Franklin
dies
By Troy Cory, producer R&B PlusBy Troy Cory,
Producer R&B
Plus
 Aretha
Franklin, who became known as the "Queen of Soul" has died
August 16, of advanced pancreatic cancer, according to her
publicist Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 76.
••••
Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis,
the fourth of Barbara and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin's five
children.
••••
As a child she sang gospel at her father's Baptist church in
Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was a
minister. He surrounded her with voices from many record
labels like Decca Records, Capitol Records, Aladdin Records,
Mercury Records, Miltone Record Co, Savoy Record Company,
and Specialty Records whose musicians included frequent
house guests including Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Dinah
Washington, James Cleveland and gospel great Clara Ward,
that later had a marked influence on her protegee Aretha
Franklin, who adopted her moan for secular songs and who
saluted Ward in the 1970s gospel album "Amazing Grace."
••••
At the end of the 1950s, Aretha saw her friend, Sam Cooke of
Specialty Records, move from gospel prominence to pop
success. (In 1957 after leaving Specialty Records Cooke cook
signed with Keen Record.) Rather than join some of her
friends at the new local label Mowtown, she set her sights
on a large international company.
• 1960 - Columbia
Records
At the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career,
recording for Columbia Records but achieving only modest
success, but by the end of the 60s she was being called "The
Queen of Soul."
• 1966 - Atlantic Records
-
After signing to Atlantic Records in 1966, Franklin
achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as
"Respect", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "(You Make Me Feel
Like) A Natural Woman", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)",
and "Spanish Harlem".
• 1979 - Arista
Records
After her father was shot in 1979, she left Atlantic and
signed with Arista Records. For the longest period of her
recording career (1980-2003) she collaborated with industry
legend Clive Davis's (CCO for Sony Music Entertainment).
••••
In 2003, she had ended the 23 year relationship with Arista
and opened her own label, Aretha. Franklin released her
first album on the label, "A Woman Falling Out Of Love," in
2011. It marked her fifty years in show business.
••••BBC
recording artist/producer Troy
Cory, of
the Troy
Cory Show
and executive producer Donald Butler
created R&B
Plus which aired on Channel 5,
and included such artists, as Jeffrey Osborn, Ray Charles,
Freda Payne, Janice Marie Johnson of a Taste of Honey,
Siedah Garrett, Kenny G; Beau Williams; Rockwell; Nona
Hendrix; Jimmy Vee; Philip Baily; Cameo; Timmy Thomas; R.J.
Reynolds.
••••
It was R&B that catapulted Franklin up to the top of her
genre and she went on venturing into virtually every style
of music, from jazz and classical to rhythm and blues, to
pop and rock.
••••
In 1998, Franklin received international acclaim for singing
the opera aria "Nessun dorma" at the Grammy Awards that
year, replacing Luciano Pavarotti. Later that year, she
scored her final Top 40 song with "A Rose Is Still a
Rose."
••••Respect,'"
Franklin wrote in her autobiography. "It was the need of a
nation, the need of the average man and woman in the street,
the businessman, the mother, the fireman, the teacher.
Everyone wanted respect. It was also one of the battle cries
of the civil rights movement."
••••Franklin
was bestowed numerous honors throughout her career,
including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, becoming the first female performer to be inducted.
She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, National
Medal of Arts, the NAACP Vanguard Award and the Kennedy
Center Honors. Franklin won 18 Grammys as well as lifetime
achievement and legend awards from the Recording
Academy.
••••She
graced the cover of Time magazine in 1968 and sang at the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral and at the inaugurals
of Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama.
••••Yet
Franklin remained an unusually private star, masking a
turbulent private life that included her parents' divorce,
her mother's death, teenage motherhood, stormy relationships
with men, the slaying of her father, financial problems and
struggles with weight and smoking.
••••In
her autobiography, she disputed her public image as
difficult and reclusive, writing "I am Aretha, upbeat,
straight-ahead, and not to be worn out by men and left
singing the blues."
••••Franklin
moved to Encino, California in 1970. Her eight-year marriage
to her manager Ted White was over, and she was in a
relationship with businessman Ken Cunningham, her former
road manager, with whom she had a son, Kecalf, in 1970.
••••Like
many established singers, she struggled to find a niche in
the decade's disco boom, and her health suffered from a
smoking habit and a fondness for fast food.
••••In
2003, she had ended the 23 year relationship with Arista and
opened her own label, Aretha. Franklin released her first
album on the label, "A Woman Falling Out Of Love," in 2011.
It marked her fifty years in show business.
 Associated
Press -- Aretha Franklin's funeral will be held Aug. 30
in her hometown of Detroit.
••••
The late singer's publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn, said Friday
that the funeral, to be held at Greater Grace Temple, is
limited to family and friends.
••••
Public viewings will take place Aug. 28-29 at the Charles H.
Wright Museum of African American History from 9 a.m. to 9
p.m.
••••
Franklin will be entombed at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit,
along with her father Rev. C.L. Franklin; sisters Carolyn
Franklin and Erma Franklin; brother Cecil Franklin; and
nephew Thomas Garrett.
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• 114-Barbara
Bush, the former US first lady, has died at the age of
92.
She was the matriarchal figure of
a political dynasty that included two presidents - her
husband George HW Bush and son George W Bush.
••••
Her husband, at 93, is the longest-lived US president. Their
son, George, was elected in 2000 and served two terms as the
nation's 43rd president.
••••
Mrs Bush, who was first lady from 1989 to 1993, had been in
failing health for some time and had declined further
medical treatment.
••••
After the announcement tributes to her poured in from across
the US political establishment.
••••
Barbara Bush is the second woman in U.S. history to have
been the wife of one president and the mother of another,
George W. Bush, and the only one to have seen them both
sworn in. She also campaigned on behalf of another son,
former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, during his quest for the 2016
Republican presidential nomination.
••••
The only other woman was Abigail Adams, who was married to
the second US president, John Adams, and was the mother of
the sixth, John Quincy Adams, although she did not live to
see their son elected.
•••
During her first year in the White House, Barbara Bush was
criticized, for refusing to speak out on issues that were
important to women. In her 1994 memoir, Bush published a
response :"Long ago I decided in life I had to have
priorities. I put my children and husband at the top of my
list. That's a choice that I never regretted." Abortion
rights, the Equal Rights Amendment and gun control were not
priorities for her, she wrote. "I leave that for those
courageous enough to run for public office."
••••
Above all, the three things that mattered to her were faith,
family and friends.
•
Campaigner for
literacy
The nonpartisan social causes she worked for -- literacy and
volunteerism -- stemmed from the tradition of noblesse
oblige that was part of her moneyed heritage. Her dedication
to philanthropic work was also rooted in personal
tragedy.
••••
When her second child, a girl nicknamed Robin, died of
leukemia at age 3 in 1953, Bush turned to volunteering as a
way to cope with the loss. Literacy also held personal
significance because Bush had helped her son Neil overcome
dyslexia.
••••
Bush was born on June 8, 1925, in New York City. The third
of Marvin and Pauline Pierce's four children, she enjoyed a
privileged upbringing in suburban Rye, N.Y.
••••
Her father was publisher of McCall's magazine and a distant
relative of President Franklin Pierce. She remembered her
mother, the daughter of an Ohio Supreme Court justice, as
remote.
••••
In 1941, at 16, Barbara met George Bush, then a prep school
senior, at a country club dance. They were engaged a year
later, just before George went to war as a Navy fighter
pilot. They married on Jan. 6, 1945, while he was home on
leave.
The couple celebrated
their 73rd wedding anniversary in January this year.
They had six children including a daughter, Robin, who died
of leukaemia aged three in
1953.•
••• Their first son
George Walker was born in 1946, Robin in 1950, John Ellis
"Jeb" Bush, in 1953. Sons Neil and Marvin followed in 1955
and 1956, and a daughter, Dorothy, in 1959.
••••
She once dismissed speculation that she had influenced her
husband during his time in the White House, saying: "I don't
fool around with his office and he doesn't fool around with
my household."
••••
Mrs. Bush also sparked a debate on gender equality in 1990
with an address to the all-women Wellesley College.
••••
She told graduates: "Who knows, somewhere out in this
audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my
footsteps and preside over the White House as the
president's spouse and I wish him well."
••••
George HW Bush, who served as the 41st US president, suffers
from a form of Parkinson's disease and uses a
wheelchair.
••••
In 2013, during an interview with CSPAN for a series on
first ladies, Bush looked ahead to the circumstances that
would close her remarkable life.
••••
"I have no fear of death," she said, then joked: "Which is a
huge comfort, because we're getting darn close!"
••••
Funeral plans were not immediately released, but Barbara
Bush had said she planned to be buried at her husband's
presidential library in College Station, Texas. The couple's
daughter Robin already is buried there.
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• 114-Frank
Barron, journalist and cartoon writer has
died
Frank Barron, a cartoon writer
for Hanna-Barbera, and former editor of the Hollywood
Reporter, has died. He was 98.
••••
Barron grew up wanting to be professional baseball player
but detoured to Hollywood's spell early, writing radio show
material for Red Skelton and Edgar Bergen, creating story
lines for Hanna-Barbera cartoons and keeping track of the
A-listers he came to know -- Walt Disney, Bob Hope, John
Wayne, Steven Spielberg.
••••
Born in Elizabeth, N.J., on Feb. 5, 1919, Barron started
selling stories to Boys' Life magazine when he was young and
became a part-time sports writer for the Newark Evening News
when he was in high school.
••••
He was drafted into the Army on the eve of Pearl Harbor in
1941 and was stationed in England. When he got out in 1945,
he returned to New Jersey and worked as the sports editor
for the Asbury Park Press. newspaper before accepting a
government job in Japan. He took charge of running several
Air Force Base newspapers in the Tokyo area for a little
over a year before heading to California.
••••
There, he wrote for the "Woody Woodpecker" and "Popeye"
cartoon shows before moving over to Hanna-Barbera, where he
helped develop story lines for the studio, which at the time
was the powerhouse of animated programming for
television.
••••
He later became the head writer for "The Pinky Lee Show," a
variety program for children that helped pound out the mold
for future after-school programming.
••••
Barron was twice the editor of the Hollywood Reporter, in
the mid-1960s, and again in the late '70s. At the time, the
trade publication was owned and published by Tichi Wilkerson
Kassel.
••••
When he was 61, Frank married publicist
Margie Platt in 1980 at the home of actress Shirley Jones
and comic Marty Ingels.
••••
He was a member of the Television
Critics Association and wrote many stories
with his wife Margie whom he transformed
into an enthusiastic journalist, who writes a weekly
entertainment column for The Tolucan Times.
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SANTA
MONICA, October 2, 2017
--
Tom Petty
dies
 Special
Report by Troy Cory
Troy Cory's Vine
Street Video Center was Tom Petty's first choice to produce
his first music videos
in May of
1978.
Other top rock
artists such as Jackson Brown, Rod Stewart, Joni Mitchell,
Warren Zevon, and Randy Meisner (the Eagles) also produced
their first music videos at Troy Cory's Vine Street Stage in
the late 70s.
•••••••He
was born Oct. 20, 1950, in Gainesville, Fla. A poor student,
he caught the rock 'n' roll bug after he was introduced by
his uncle to Elvis Presley, who was shooting the picture
"Follow That Dream" on location in nearby Ocala. Like many
other boyish rock aspirants, he began working on music in
earnest after witnessing the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan
Show" in Febrary 1964.
•••••In
2002, Petty was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame.
••••
Petty had just completed an extensive
tour to mark the Heartbreakers' 40th anniversary. It
concluded Sept. 25 with a three-night homecoming stand that
sold out at the Hollywood Bowl.
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• 107-
Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine founder and pop icon dies at
91
••••Hefner,
whose Playboy men's magazine popularized the term
"centerfold," glamorized a bachelor lifestyle and helped
spur the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
••••
Hefner founded Playboy in 1953 with $600 of his own money
and built the magazine into a multimillion-dollar
entertainment empire that at its 1970s peak included a
string of Playboy Clubs whose cocktail waitresses wore bunny
ears and cottontails.
•••••His
pioneering magazine, may have helped the buttoned-up America
of the 1950s and early 1960s loosen up a little about
sex.
••••Hefner
was born April 9, 1926, in Chicago to Glenn Hefner, an
accountant, and Grace Hefner, a teacher. Both parents were
conservative Protestants from Nebraska.
•••"My
folks were raised pure prohibitionist," Hefner told
Troy Cory in 1970 in Pasadena. "They were very good people,
with high moral standards -- but very repressed. There was
no hugging and kissing in my home."
••••In
1944, after graduating from high school, Hefner joined the
U.S. Army as a writer for a military newspaper. After World
War II, he became a promotional copywriter at Esquire
magazine, where he began toying with the idea of publishing
a men's magazine.
••••"Esquire
was always for older guys, said Hefner, but ... it was very
much devoted to male bonding and outdoor adventure." "And I
wanted to read a magazine that was a little more
sophisticated and was focused really on the romantic
connection between the sexes from a male point of view."
••••After
raising $10,000 from investors, Hefner published the debut
issue of Playboy in December, 1953.
••••The
premiere issue had no date, in case it sold poorly and there
wasn't a second issue. On its cover was actress Marilyn
Monroe, who also appeared in a nude centerfold -- a
photograph that had been originally used for a pin-up
calendar.
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died
 Gwen
Ifill, a journalist to her core, who served as the PBS
NewsHour's co-anchor and managing editor and, in her own
words, sought to always "tell the stories that shed light
and spur action," has died from complications of cancer. She
was 61.
••••
In addition to co-anchoring the nightly PBS NewsHour, Gwen
Ifill had been host of the Friday night program Washington
Week since 1999.
••••
In moments big and small, and in the field and on camera,
she combined journalistic integrity with a deep humanity,
especially when talking directly to the people behind the
story. Gwen prided herself on always considering "that
someone else may have a better point."
••••
Washington Week's Friday prgram-
paid tribute to Gwen Ifills and celebrated Gwen Ifill's
remarkable life and legacy with friends and colleagues who
knew her best," said a show spokesperson. Guests included
Michele Norris, formerly with NPR, Dan Balz and Karen
Tumulty of The Washington Post, ABC's Martha Raddatz, NBC's
Pete Williams, Susan Davis of NPR, Rick Berke, formerly with
The New York Times and Alexis Simendinger of Real Clear
Politics.
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Nov. 15, 2016 - By
David Brook, columnist for The New York Times and
commentator on PBS NewsHour
Smartphones change death. When I heard that Gwen Ifill had
died on Monday I pulled out my phone and scrolled through
the photo album.
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••••
John McLaughlin, the acerbic political commentator who
created the long-running public affairs talk show
"McLaughlin Group," died Tuesday at his home in Virginia. He
was 89.
••••His
death came less than two days after he missed the first
episode of his show in 34 years.
••••"For
over 3 decades, 'The McLaughlin Group' informed millions of
Americans. Now he has said bye bye for the last time, to
rejoin his beloved dog, Oliver, in heaven. He will always be
remembered."
••••
On Sunday, August 14th, his show opened with a note from
McLaughlin offering his support and explaining his
absence:
••••
"Dear friends of The McLaughlin Group, Dr. McLaughlin here.
As the panel's recent absences attest, I am under the
weather. The final issue of this episode has my voice, but
please forgive me
for its weaker than usual quality. Yet my spirit is strong
and my dedication to this show remains absolute!"
••••Born
March 29, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island, to an
Irish-Catholic family, McLaughlin entered the Jesuit Order
of the Catholic Church at the age of 20 in 1947, was
ordained as a priest in 1959. He graduated with two master's
degrees from Boston College and a PhD from Columbia
University.
••••
In 1970, McLaughlin ran for the
United States Senate against the orders of the church, and
lost. Following that, he got a job as a speechwriter for
President Richard Nixon. He left the Jesuit Order in 1974
pursued a career in journalism. In 1981, he began a column
for The National Review.
••••
McLaughlin, created his popular syndicated political
commentary show in 1982 and at its height, it was broadcast
on 297 PBS stations as well as the three NBC stations, with
an estimated 3.5 million viewers, according to The
Washington Post.
•••
It airs on PBS and a handful of CBS stations and featured a
panel of political pundits and journalists (usually Pat
Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Clarence Page, Tom Rogan, and
Mortimer B. Zuckerman) with McLaughlin moderating the
discussion from the middle.
••••
"John McLaughlin was one of the most original and appealing
television commentators of our time," said Mortimer B.
Zuckerman, Chairman and Publisher of The Daily News and a
regular panelist on the program.
••••
Along with his fondness for politics and his brash, loud
interview style, McLaughlin had a lighter side and named his
production company after his beloved pooch, Oliver -- a
basset hound that he lived with at the Watergate apartment
complex in Washington D.C. -- when he worked as a
speechwriter for President Richard Nixon.
••••
He remembered the dog during a year-end episode of "The
McLaughlin Group" in 2014 saying, "Person of the year: Pope
Francis, especially now that he's told that animals can go
to heaven. And Oliver is up there waiting for me."
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Garry Marshall has died (1934 -
1916)
••••
Writer-director Garry Marshall known
for a string of TV hits that included "Happy Days" and
"Laverne & Shirley" and movies "Pretty Woman," "Beaches"
and "Runaway Bride," has died. He was 81.
••••Marshall
died Tuesday, July 19th, at a hospital in Burbank of
complications from pneumonia after having a stroke, his
publicist Michelle Bega said in a statement.
••••Henry
Winkler, who starred as Fonzie on "Happy Days," saluted
Marshall in a tweet as "larger than life, funnier than most,
wise and the definition of friend."
••••Richard
Gere, who starred opposite Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman,"
said in a statement that "everyone loved Garry. He was a
mentor and a cheerleader and one of the funniest men who
ever lived. He had a heart of the purest gold and a soul
full of mischief. He was Garry."
••••Garry
Marshall's sister, Penny Marshall who starred in "Laverne
& Shirley with Cindy Williams, told the New York Times
in 2001 that her brother "has a life. He's not into the show
business glitterati. If he has a hot movie, that's great.
But if he has something that doesn't do great, he's not
around those people who won't speak to you or will make you
feel terrible."
••••
A Toluca Lake resident, Troy Cory
said Garry always had a friendly wave when he passed us,
always ready for a good chat, and he especially spoke with
sadness about Robin William's tragic death two years
ago.
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In Memory of Muhammad Ali,
1942-2016
••••
Muhammad Ali the three-time
heavyweight champion who proclaimed himself "the Greatest,"
defied the US government over the Vietnam war, and later
became one of the most well-known -- and loved -- sportsmen
in history has died. He was 74.
••••
Ali died late on Friday June 3, at a hospital in Phoenix,
Arizona, the family's spokesperson Bob Gunnell said. His
funeral will take place in his home town of Louisville,
Kentucky.
••••
Ali had become increasingly frail since being diagnosed with
Parkinson's disease in 1984, aged 42, and in recent years
had limited his public appearances. Earlier this month his
brother Rahman Ali revealed that the condition was so
advanced he could barely speak or leave his house.
• As a sportsman-
he will be remembered for many classic fights -- in
particular beating the fearsome Sonny Liston to become
champion; the Fight of the Century and the Thrilla in
Manilla against Joe Frazier, and the Rumble in the Jungle in
1974 when, at the age of 32, he surprised everyone by
cutting down George Foreman in Kinshasa to regain back his
title.
••••
Tributes flooded in from the world of boxing, the wider
sporting community and well beyond them. • Converted
to Islam
Ali's influence out of the ring was no less marked.
Having appalled white America by converting to the Nation of
Islam and changing his name from Cassius Clay to Cassius X
and then to Muhammad Ali, he later refused to be drafted
into the army as a conscientous objector based on his new
found faith.
••••
In 1967, still unbeaten and with no obvious challenger in
sight, Ali was stripped of his titles and for
three-and-a-half years had to scrape a living making campus
speeches and appearing on Broadway. He lost his best years
as a fighter yet as the opposition to Vietnam war grew, so
did Ali's popularity. By the mid 1970s he was the biggest
sports star on the planet.
• Olympic Gold
••••He
won Olympic light-heavyweight gold as an 18-year-old at the
Rome Olympics and four years later, in 1964, he won the
heavyweight title for the first time by stopping Liston in a
major upset.
••••
In 1971, within five months of his
return in 1970, he earned a shot at his old title against
Frazier, but no longer was he as elusive or brilliant. A
thrilling contest ended with Ali suffering his first defeat,
on points, after being dropped by a left hook in the 15th
round.
••••
A loss to the fit but limited Ken Norton appeared to confirm
Ali's decline -- until, in 1974, he knocked out Foreman
after using what he called "rope-a-dope;" lying on the ropes
to conserve energy as his opponent punched himself out.
Later, when Ali was asked when he should have retired, he
admitted it was after that fight.
• Retired
••••
In 1978, after winning the title for a third time by
avenging a loss to Leon Spinks, Ali retired. When he dragged
himself back into the ring in 1980 to face his old sparring
partner Larry Holmes, aged 38, he was probably in the early
stages of Parkinson's disease. Tests carried out by the Mayo
Clinic found he couldn't hop on one foot well and had
trouble co-ordinating his speech.
••••
After a final fight, against Trevor Berbick in 1981, he
retired but three years later Parkinson's disease was
diagnosed. By the end of the decade the speech of the man
once dubbed "the Louisville Lip" for brash predictions
before fights was reduced to a mumble.
••••
Ali was well enough to light the torch to start the 1996
Olympics in Atlanta, though his hands shook as a result of
the disease taking further hold. After that there was
further retreat into privacy and prayer.
••••
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In Memory of Jim Myron, 1931 -
2016
 STUDIO
CITY, CA -- Jim Myron, a real estate developer and family
friend passed
away May 28, 2016, in Los Angeles, after treatment at Cedars
Sinai for heart problems and related
causes.
He was
85.
••••
He was best known as the club-owner of famed Myron's Ball
Room (the Grand Ball Room) on Grand Avenue.
••••
In the 90s it was a is a popular venue for young Latino and
Asian American club-goers, regularly drawing crowds of 1,800
and more several nights a week.
••••
An astute entrepreneur, Myron became
a millionaire many times over, buying up parking lots and
coffee shops and making other shrewd investments.
•••
His mother, Myrna Myron bought the
ballroom in 1946 and made it flourish for five decades,
starting with the Big Band era, when it attracted such
headliners as Harry James, Les Browne, Stan Kenton and
Xavier Cugat.
••••
Many movies have been filmed at the
ballroom, including "Farewell, My Lovely," "New York, New
York," "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom" and "The Cotton
Club." Figures from the early days of television also
broadcast from Myron's, including Art Linkletter and auto
dealer Cal Worthington.
••••Myron's
Ballroom was the most successful, drawing crowds away from
Lawrence Welk at the Hollywood Palladium by keeping
admission prices low, said Jim Myron, who was his mother's
business partner for 50 years.
••••As
reported in the Los Angeles Times,
James
Myron was born in Chicago on March 1, 1931, and came to Los
Angeles with his parents just prior to the beginning of
World War II. His mother, Myrna Myron, was a showgirl and
friend of Ginger Rogers and Mae West. James himself became a
ballroom champion and taught ballroom dance.
••••
During
his career, James Myron was instrumental in operating
several wildly popular clubs such as Vertigo and
Chippendales.
••••
James
had his own dance show called "Make Believe Ballroom" on
Channel 7 television, and he knew, danced with and dated
many of Hollywood's most beautiful women, including Marilyn
Monroe, Judy Garland, and Juliet Prowse. He also befriended
many of Hollywood's greatest stars of the era, including Bob
Hope, Elvis Presley, Clark Gable and Howard Hughes.
••••
James
was a USC graduate, and also served in the United States
Marine Corps, serving with NATO forces in Europe, and later
in Washington D.C. as part of the honor guard in the White
House. James was a great athlete, a tennis champion, and a
member of the USC golf team. James continued golfing
throughout life and won many golf tournaments, including the
Donald Trump Golf Invitational in Los Angeles on two
occasions.
••••
James
will be remembered for the sincere friendship he extended to
so many, for the Myron Foundation for Excellence which he
founded, for the regular evening parties he threw at his
home for his many friends, for his outspokeness, and for his
patriotism and belief that hard work and dedication can
create success for anyone.
••••
Jim, a Cory family friend will be
missed greatly, says Troy.
••••
A memorial service for James Myron will be held at the
Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Cemetery, 1712 S.
Glendale Avenue, Glendale, at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, June
15th.
••••
Also a Mass will be held for him at St. Charles Borromeo
Church, North Hollywood, on June 26, at 11:30 AM.
Photo above-right was taken at
farewell party at Jim's house for the Troy Cory show heading
for a China concert tour.
Group Photo: Left to Right: Josie Cory, Jim Myron,
Troy Cory, Nicole, Ron Rice, Kristina and Krystal Carroll,
Mike Lipman, John Qu. - Photo taken: April 25, 2004 by
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TV Newsman, Stan Chambers
died
By: Gary Sunkin
Back in 1949, when the Story broke that a little girl was
trapped in a well in San Marino thousands of Angelenos
snapped on their Television sets. They kept them on for the
next 27 hours. Stan Chambers, one of the two reporters with
Bill Welch on the scene for KTLA-TV Channel 5's unusual
broadcast, recalled years later of this role in TV News
History. "It was then that I decided that I really wanted to
be in News."
••••
Stan Chambers was
with KTLA 5 News for 63 Years and covered over 22,000
stories for the Los Angeles TV station from fires,
floods,plane crashes, to car chases, and more. Among the
major stories Chambers reported were the 1961 Bel-Air
Fires/Brentwood Fire, the 1963, Baldwin Hills dam disaster,
the 1965 Watts Riots, the 1968 assassination of Senator
Robert F. Kennedy, the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake and the 1984
Olympics.
••••Before
he retired in 2010, he received the longtime broadcaster for
the Society of Professional Journalists' Helen Thomas
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. His many honors include
numerous local Emmy and Golden Mike award, a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame and a building at KTLA named after
him.
•••
Chambers passed away
on February 13th, 2015 in this home in Holmby Hills,
California. He died at 10:30 am at 91 years old. He was a
gentleman, and one of the nicest persons, always treating
people with respect. I had known Stan Chambers for about 50
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GaryOwens , announcer on "Rowan & Martin's Laught-In"
Died. He was 80.
•••
Gary Owens whose deep voice was one
of the most famous in show business, was a familiar part of
radio, TV and movies for more than six decades.
••••
He hosted thousands of radio programs, appeared on scores of
TV shows, including Lucille Ball and Bob Hope specials, did
commercials and also voiced hundreds of animated
characters.
••••On
"Laugh-In," the 1968-73 sketch show starring Dan Rowan and
Dick Martin, Owens was shown on camera in a parody of an
old-school announcer, with his hand cupped firmly over his
ear. But his voice was always the real thing, rich and
authoritative.
••••Owens
had "such a great voice, so smooth. That was his real voice,
even if he was ordering in a restaurant," said Tom Kenny,
the "SpongeBob SquarePants" voice actor who worked with
Owens on cartoons including "Dexter's Laboratory."
••••"Laugh-In"
creator and producer George Schlatter, who knew Owens but
said he hired him for the show after hearing his voice boom
through the Smoke House restaurant restroom, called him a
"lovely, lovely man."
••••"He
had a whimsical, fey sense of humor and he brought a lot to
'Laugh-In' in the way of thoughts, words and jokes,"
Schlatter said.
••••Given
Owens' jam-packed resume, was he a workaholic?
••••"Gary
did not work. Gary played," Schlatter said. "He was a very
charming, creative, witty guy who had a good time."
••••
Owens, a native of Plankinton, South Dakota, was inducted
into the National Radio Hall of Fame in Washington D.C. in
1995 and into the National Television Hall of Fame in
2001.
•••
He arrived in Los Angeles in 1961, and was heard on a
variety of Los Angeles radio stations including KMPC, KFI
and KIIS FM, and hosted a national show on The Music of Your
Life Network. He was part of Armed Forces Radio for 10 years
and host of the syndicated "Soundtrack of the 60s."
"Beautiful downtown Burbank"-
the catchphrase coined by Owens on his KMPC show, became
a favorite of Johnny Carson on NBC's "Tonight Show."
••••Owens'
animation voiceover credits include "Space Ghost," ''Blue
Falcon" and "Garfield and Friends" and "The Ren & Stimpy
Show."
••••"National
Lampoon's European Vacation," ''The Green Hornet" and "Neil
Simon's Prisoner of Second Avenue" were among his film
credits.
••••Besides
son Scott, Owens is survived by his wife of 57 years,
Arleta, and their son, Chris, a musician and producer.
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Fans and peers mourn the sad and sudden death of Robin
Williams
Robin Williams, a comic and
sitcom star in the 1970s who went on to became an
Oscar-winning dramatic actor died at his home in Tiburon,
Marine County.
••••
Channels broke into their usual
programming to make the announcement, and within minutes,
Williams dominated online social media. Even President Obama
issued a statement about his passing.
•••Williams,
hailed by many as a comic genius, was a star of movies and
television for more than three decades. He was known to have
also suffered from substance abuse problems. The actor "has
been battling severe depression of late," his publicist Mara
Buxbaum said. "This is a tragic and sudden loss."
•••Williams
came to Hollywood prominence in the late 1970s with his
first major role as a lovable alien in the TV series "Mork
& Mindy.
•••He
had a reputation for rapid-fire impersonations -- not to
mention a seemingly bottomless talent for comic
improvisation
••••
Gary Marshall, executive producer of
the 94 "Mork & Mindy series (1978-1982), said "I never
forget the day I met him and he stood on his head in my
office chair and pretended to drink a glass of water using
his finger like a straw," Marshall said in a statement
Monday. "The first season of 'Mork & Mindy' I knew
immediately that a three-camera format would not be enough
to capture Robin and his genius talent. So I hired a fourth
camera operator and he just followed Robin. Only Robin.
Looking back, four cameras weren't enough. I should have
hired a fifth camera to follow him too."
••••
After his TV series he graduated to films such as "Good Will
Hunting," "Dead Poets Society," "Mrs. Doubtfire,"
"Awakenings," "The Fisher King" and "Good Morning,
Vietnam.
••••
The sign on the Laugh Factory Monday night in Hollywood read
"Robin Williams Rest in Peace. Make God Laugh." A group
of mostly comedians milled about in front of the Comedy
Store shortly after the news broke and the marquee there
read "RIP Robin Williams."
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In memory of Casey Kasem" - A sad day for radio listerners
around the
world
Casey Kasem, a
radio voice who connected generations of Americans to
thousands of rock and pop acts died Father's , June 15,
2014. Kasem, hospitalized in Washington state since June 1,
had been in declining health. The longtime host of radio's
American Top 40, which he started in 1970, was a familiar
voice to millions, known for his signature closig advice:
"Keep our feet on the ground and keep reaching for the
stars."
••••
Kasem founded the
American Top 40 franchise with Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and
Ron Jacobs and hosted it from 1970 to 1988 and from 1998 to
2004. Between January 1989 and early 1998, he was the host
of Casey's Top 40, Casey's Hot 20, and
Casey's Countdown. Also beginning in 1998, Kasem
hosted two AC spin-offs of American Top 40, American Top
20 and Ameican Top 10. He retired from AT20 and
AT10 on July 4, 2009 and both shows ended on that day. Ryan
Seacrest took over the AT40 franchise in
2004.
••••
Kasem, known for his
distinctive, rich, dramatic voice, was the youngest member
ever to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame and
has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He first
served as DJ and radio announcer while serving the Army
during the Korean War and began his professional radio
career in the 1950s.
••••
He was also active in politics for
years, supporting Lebanese-American and Arab-American
causes,an interest which was triggered by the 1982 Israeli
invasion of Lebanon. He wrote a brochure published by the
Arab American Institute entitled "Arab-Americans: Making a
Difference". He turned down a position in Transformers
series because of the show's plot portraying "evil
Arabs". He also called for a fairer depiction of heroes and
villains, on behalf of all cultures. Kasem campaigned
against the Gulf War, advocating non-military means of
pressuring Saddam Hussein into withdrawing from Kuwait, was
an advocate of Palestinian independence and arranged
conflict resolution workshops for Arab Americans and Jewish
Americans.
••••
Kasem supported a number of other
progressive causes, including affordable housing and the
rights of the homeless, animal rights and environmental
causes, and was a critic of factory farming.m was a
••••
He was married to Linda Myers from
1972 to 1979 with whom he had three children, Mike, Julie,
and Kerri Kasem.
From 1980 until his death, Kasem was married to actress Jean
Thompson. They had one child, Liberty Jean Kasem.
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Bill Adrian of the William Adrian Agency
Dies
(1919 - 2014)
Mr. Adrian passed away on March 26, 2014 at the age of
94. Visitation on April 3rd from 5-8 p.m. at Cabot and Sons
Mortuary at Chestnut Street, Pasadena. Funeral Mass, Friday
April 4, at 10 a.m. at St. Philips Catholic Church, 151 S.
Hill Street, Pasadena.
ABOUT
BILL
••••
William P. Adrian was born in
Hackensack, NJ in 1919 and raised in Syracuse, NY, Bill
graduated from Nottingham HS and later attended Syracuse
University where he studied Theatre.
••••
In 1946, Bill traveled west to
California with dreams of becoming a Hollywood actor. While
attending classes at USC, he was asked to pick some girls
for a fashion show at USC; he soon discovered that he had a
talent and a good eye for the "All-American" look in
California's young teens. Bill started the William Adrian
Modeling Agency in 1946 with 3 girls and an innovative
idea.
••••
Over the course of 60+ Years in the
modeling business, Bill Adrian helped guide the early
careers of many successful models, and discovered countless
cover girls, beauty queens and Rose queens and princesses.
The William Adrian Agency is considered the oldest and most
successful teen modeling agency in the United States.
••••Bill
loved to be with family and friends, play the harmonica and
play pool and in his youth did'nt miss an opportunicty to
dance the Jitterbug.
••••
Bill was the eldest of 6 children. He
was preceded in death by his parents William and Florence,
brother Bobby, sisters Dorothy, Virginia, Jean and Suzanne,
nephews James and Danny, great nephew Chris and great niece
Jillian.He is survived by 14 nieces and nephews, 32 great
nieces and nephews and 16 great-great nieces and nephew
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Ernest Borgnine Dies- July 8th. (born Ermes Effron Borgnino;
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Ernest Borgnine Dies- July 8th. (born Ermes Effron Borgnino;
January 24, 1917-July 8, 2012) is an American film and
television actor whose career spanned more than six
decades. He was an
unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, winning an
Oscar in 1955 for Marty. On television, he played Quinton
McHale in the 1962-1966 series McHale's Navy and co-starred
in the mid-1980s action series Airwolf, in addition to a
wide variety of other roles. Borgnine was also known for his
role as Mermaid Man in the animated television series
SpongeBob SquarePants. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award
nomination at age 92 for his work on the series.
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 LaDonna
Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 &endash; May 17,
2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American
singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era
of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and
was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first
artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number
one on the U.S. Billboard chart, and she also charted four
number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month
period.
••• Summer died
on May 17, 2012. The Associated Press reported she died that
morning at her home in Key West, Florida at age 63. She had
been diagnosed with cancer. The Bradenton Herald quotes
"Sarasota County records" stating that she lived in
Englewood, Florida at the time of her death. The reference
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Donna Summer Buys Troy Cory's Vine Street Video in 1979, to
be headed by Bruce Sudano 
Troy Cory's
Vinestreet Video Center was ideally located in the heart of
Hollywood, opposite the former Hollywood Ranch
Market.
•••
The Stage was formerly used to
produce the popular national syndicated; Groucho Marx Show,
Steve Allen Shows, and the Troy Cory
Show.
•
It was in mid-1979, when the
undisputed Queen of
Disco, Donna
Summer,
was topping the pop charts with "Hot Stuff," when
she decided to own her own studio near her Hancock Park
Home.
••• By December,
Troy and Donna's negotiations to sell/buy were finalized and
the Studio stage portion of the facilities was sold. Donna
was so excited about the prospect of owning the stage and
all she and her future husband, Bruce Sudano at the helm,
planned to do with it. The moment escrow closed she, Bruce
and family members including her mother and father, came by
to take over with the Cory's still in the midst of packing.
Accompanying was also Donna's daughter
Mimi, about age seven at the time, and to the delight of
Josie exchanged some German words with Mimi.
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••• After excrow
closed in December 1979, Vine Street Video moved its
research editing and video optical disks division to
Pasadena, Calfornia, near the Rose Bowl and a short drive
from Caltech. The Pasadena facilities became known as
Rosemont Villa Studios. Vine Street still has the same
telephone number, except for the area prefix (323)
462-1099.
• In was in Berlin
in the late 60s, when Troy first met --
Donna Summer during her
participation in the prodcution of the musical "Hair." Troy
was in Berlin filming "The Starmaker" with Wendell Corey,
Rolf Eden and Barbara Valentine.
•••
In the 70s, Troy teamed up with
the Ambros Seelos Big Band Orchestra, and music arranger and
composer, Sylvester Levy (Fly Robin Fly; Musical
'Elisabeth') to record an album of originals songs at the
Trixi Studio in Munich. Violin section by the Munich
Philharmonics.
•••
During Troy's busines ventures
in Berlin, Munich, and Salzburg in 1968-1978, he again met
Donna Summer and Oasis Record label owner, Musicland Studio
Founder, and disco pioneer Hansjörg Moroder. It was no
coincident later in the decade, (1978) -- that Donna
contacted Troy when he was ready to sell his Vine Street
Video Center in Hollywood. After the deal closed in
mid-January," says Josie "we went with friends to Europe to
attend MIDEM, in Cannes, France, to promote
AGIL-TVIpublishings, NBSwitel, VRA TelePlay - and American
Film International, co-founded in Berlin by John Harris.
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••• In March of
1980, we extended our congratulatory wishes to Donna when
she married Bruce Sudano, to whom she was married for 32
years, until her passing May 17, 2012.
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During Troy Cory's
ownership of
Vine Street Video Center from the
mid 70s to the beginning of 1980, the studio was the loction
of the first Music Videos produced: Rod Stewart ("If
Ya Think I'm Sexy," "Blondes Have More Fun," also starring
Alana Stewart. Other artists included, Nicolette Larson;
Jackson Browne; Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers; Randy
Meisner of the Eagles; Kiss; Joni Mitchell; Rachel Welch;
James Coburn (Schlitz Beer); Ronnie McDonald (McDonalds);
Victor Dunlap; Billy Hayes; Dicky Lerner; Priscilla Cory,
and Mel Carter.
•••
"Vine Street Studio's most famous tentant was Kit
Marshall's, "Au Petit Cafe," a favorite hangout for those in
the  industry
who loved being served the most delicious French cuisine in
Hollywood," recalls Josie Cory.
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In 1968, before Troy Cory teamed up with famous German
Orchestra leader, Ambros Seelos in 1970, Troy had already
co-starred with Wendell Corey, Rolf Eden, and Barbara
Valentine in the Berlin AFI, John Harris, movie production,
"Starmaker."
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It was in 1970, that Troy, Ambros Seelos, music arranger,
composer and songwriter, Sylvester Levay, (Lysy, Levy -
"Fly, Robin, Fly" ) and lyricist and translator, Jossi Sigl
produced the origianal recording sessions and the
Cory/Seelos concert performances in Germany, Innsbruck,
Austria, and Basel,
Switzerland.
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Steve
Jobs' Death - The Effects On People Around The
World.
• October 6, 2011 - WHEN
APPLE, INC. ANNOUNCED THAT Mr. Jobs had passed away,
Newspapers around the globe paid homage to the U.S.
legendary computer genius. To many of us who followed the
"Mac path" -- it seems like loosing a friend. He touched so
many lives with his innovation and vision that we can't help
but ask ourselves, "Will the tech world ever be the same
without Jobs?
 •••
Much is going to be written about
this extraordinary man, so here are just a few highlights in
his own words.
• APPLE'S
EARLY YEARS (the mid-1970s)
•••
"Because Woz [Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak] and I started the company based on doing
the whole banana, we weren't so good at partnering with
people...I think if Apple could have had a little more of
that in its DNA, it would have served it extremely well...I
don't think Apple learned that until...a few decades
later."-- From an appearance at the D5 conference in
2005.
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Blacklisted By Industry For
Whistleblowing.
•••
It was in 1977, that TV star Cliff Robertson's Show Biz
Career took an unexpected twist. It was right after he
received an IRS form for "miscellaneous income" that
indicated that Columbia Pictures had paid him $10,000 the
previous year.
•••
Robertson, however, hadn't done any work for Columbia that
year and had not received $10,000 from the studio.
•••
After asking his accountant to look into it, Robertson
learned that a check for $10,000 had been made out to him
and had been cashed at a bank in Beverly Hills. The endorsed
check, bearing Robertson's forged signature, had been
processed and paid out in American Express travelers' checks
to the president of Columbia Studios, David Begelman.
•••
After consulting his attorney, Robertson notified the local
police. But after months of inactivity, he took the advice
of Arizona congressman Morris K. Udall, whom he had
supported in the 1976 Democratic presidential primaries, and
contacted the FBI.
•••
"I was simply looking out for No. 1," Robertson told People
magazine in 1983.
•••
"I wasn't trying to be Don Quixote. If I hadn't done what
the law required, which was to give evidence to the
authorities, I would have been a party to a crime."
•••
The ensuing Begelman embezzlement scandal, which came to
symbolize Hollywood corruption, was chronicled in David
McClintick's 1982 bestseller "Indecent Exposure: A True
Story of Hollywood and Wall Street."
•••
In March 1978, Begelman was charged with grand theft and
three counts of forgery: for forging the names of Robertson,
director Martin Ritt and restaurateur Pierre Groleau on
checks written in the amounts of $10,000, $5,000 and $25,000
respectively.
•••
Three months later, Begelman was fined $5,000 and placed on
three years' probation. The judge, who directed Begelman to
continue the psychiatric treatment he had recently begun,
also accepted Begelman's offer to make a documentary on the
dangers of "angel dust" (PCP) as a public service.
•••
Begelman, whose grand-theft conviction was reduced from a
felony to a misdemeanor in 1979, was hired later that year
to head MGM's motion picture division, and he later became a
producer. He committed suicide in 1995.
•••
For his part in exposing the embezzlement, Robertson said,
he was blackballed in Hollywood for 3 1/2 years.
•••
"I broke the unwritten commandment: Thou shalt never
confront a major mogul on corruption," he told The Times in
1998. "Suddenly, the phone stopped ringing."
•••
Robertson said his Hollywood exile ended in 1981 when
director Douglas Trumbull cast him in a role in
"Brainstorm," a thriller released in 1983 starring
Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.
•••
Robertson later appeared with Jacqueline Bisset and Rob Lowe
in the comedy-drama "Class," played Hugh Hefner in Bob
Fosse's "Star 80" and joined the cast of TV's "Falcon
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Army Archerd interviewed everyone from Hollywood stars to
heads of state in his illustrious 52 years as a Daily
Variety
columnist.
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In 1947, Archerd was hired by the Herald-Express as
assistant (i.e., "leg man") to drama-movie editor-columnist
Harrison Carroll.
•
•
In addition to covering the studios, Archerd began reporting
on the local nightclub scene, which included Sunset Strip
sites like the Mocambo and Ciro's and music spots down La
Cienega, La Brea and Ventura
Boulevard.
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After leaving Harrison Carroll, the Daily Variety editor Joe
Schoenfeld hired Archerd in 1953 to replace columnist
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