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Sam Rubin, KTLA journalist and
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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."•
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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.
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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,
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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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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.
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Scott B. Whitenack-Stubblefield
Esq.
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Scott B. Whitenack-Stubblefield
Esq., great-grand son of wireless
telephone inventor, Nathan B.
Stubblefield,
died
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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.
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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
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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
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••••
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.
///
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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Sam
Donaldson and George Wills
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Roberts
•
Cokie
Roberts and Sam Donaldson on Late
Night with Conan O'Brian-
11/18/97
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•
114-
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.
|
Associate
Pastor
|
St.
Josephe Catholic Church,
Hawthorne,
CA
|
June
1973-June
1977
|
|
Associate
Pastor
|
St.
Charles Borromeo
Catholic Church North
Hollywood, CA
|
June
1977-July
1982
|
|
Associate
Pastor
|
Our
Lady of Peace Catholic
Church,North Hills,
CA
|
July
1982-January
1994
|
|
Teacher
& Chaplan
|
Bishop
Amat Hight School, La
Puente, CA
|
February
1984-May 1986
|
|
Principal
|
St.
Paul High School
Santa Fe Spring,
CA
|
Sept.
1986-June
2000
|
|
Pastor
|
St.
Charles Borromeo
Catholic Church North
Hollywood, CA
|
February
2000 - June
2018
|
•
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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114-
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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Frank Barron
in,
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Tolucan
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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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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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Gwen Ifill, Host of "Washington
Week" has
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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TV Host of Political Commentary
Show, Dies At
89
••••
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.
••••
But even in death his
legacy burns on.
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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
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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
years.
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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
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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;
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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Donna Summer -
1948-2012
 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.
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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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and
"Star
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•
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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."
•
•
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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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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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 Crest."
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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.
•
•
After leaving Harrison Carroll,
the Daily Variety editor Joe
Schoenfeld hired Archerd in 1953
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