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LA Travel
Show,Feb.
8-9, 2014, Long Beach,
CA •
Explore, Dream and
Discover.
(tviNews Coverage) Gary Sunkin; Josie Cory; Troy
Cory.
••••
Now
in its 9th year - the Los Angeles Travel
& Adventure Show takes place February 8th and
9th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Long Beach
Convention Center. One of Southern California's top
10 trade shows it will feature over 400 exhibitors
from around the globe, prominent travel experts,
and consumer seminars. The show is a great way to
experience the world in one day through the eyes of
well-traveled speakers
and the thousands of experts who represent exciting
destinations from around the globe.
••••
A line-up of exclusive
featured speakers include traveled
legends Rick Steves, Samantha Brown,
Pauline Frommer, Patricia Schultz, Peter
Greenberg and Travel Channel's Don
Wildman and more.
••••
Rick Steves, is host
and writer of the popular public television series
Rick Steves' Europe; Other inspiring and celebrated
Travel Channel personalities include Samantha
Brown, Coffee entrepreneur and adventurer Todd
Carmichael, host of "Dangerous Grounds," and
history explorer and museum enthusiast Don Wildman,
host of "Mysteries at the Museum"; Award-winning
travel expert and radio host Pauline Frommer,
Editorial Director of Frommer's Guidebooks; Emmy
Award-Winning investigative travel journalist Peter
Greenberg, Travel Editor for CBS News and Host of
the New Public Television Series: The Travel
Detective with Peter Greenberg ?and Patricia
Schultz, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller
"1,000 Places to See Before You Die."
••••
Additionally, over 400
exhibitors representing some of the world's most
desired destinations will be on hand to entice,
educate and give details about their destinations
and tours to attendees, including Thailand, Japan,
Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Fiji, Mexico and Latin
America, India, Africa, Caribbean, Hawaii, and
Alaska, as well as the extensive California
pavilion, all offering exclusive specials and trip
giveaways.
••••
The show has attracted
scores of new exhibitors including; Air New Zealand
Vacations, Guam Visitors Bureau, Myths &
Mountains, Tours of Tuscany, London Connection, and
Cuba Travel Services, to name a few.
••••
Among
supporting sponsors
are Indonesia Tourism, Turkish Culture &
Tourism Office, and Rick Steves' Europe.
Contributing sponsors include Amtrak, Tourism
Malaysia and Thailand Tourism. The event's National
TV Media Sponsor is Travel Channel. •
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Microsoft has new chief
executive
Microsoft named company insider Satya Nadella as
its new chief executive.
•••
Nadella has led the
Microsoft division in charge of the business of
delivering software and services over the
Internet.
•••
The 46-year-old
replaces Steve Ballmer and becomes only the third
leader in the software company's 38-year
history.
•••
The company also said
that founder Bill Gates will step down from his
role as chairman role to become a technology
advisor. John Thomson will be the company's new
chairman.
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Bill Gates on the move to erase global
pover Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates,
founders and co-chairs of the Gates Foundation,
have been selected to be the 2014 commencement
speakers at Stanford University on June 15.
•••They
are the latest in Stanford commencement's long line
of stars in fields such as politics, business,
entertainment and law. In the past decade, speakers
have included Apple CEO Steve Jobs, media
personality Oprah Winfrey, U.S. Supreme Court
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy,
and former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg.
•••
Known since the
computer revolution, Bill Gates is the
former chief executive and current chairman of
Microsoft, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.
••••
He stepped down as chief executive officer of
Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as
chairman and created the position of chief software
architect for himself. In June 2006, Gates
announced that he would be transitioning from
full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and
full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to
Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Craig
Mundie, chief research and strategy officer.
Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June
27, 2008.
••
As TVI in it's last
issue noted, "It's no sin to be rich, if ..." •••
Gates began to appreciate the expectations
others had of him when public opinion mounted
suggesting that he could give more of his wealth to
charity. Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie
and John D. Rockefeller, and in 1994 sold some of
his Microsoft stock to create the William H. Gates
Foundation. In 2000, Gates and his wife combined
three family foundations into one to create the
charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
based in Seattle and which is the largest private
transparently operated charitable foundation in the
world. It is committed to easing poverty, hunger
and disease that prevent millions of people from
realizing their full potential.
••••The
foundation allows benefactors access to information
regarding how its money is being spent, unlike
other major charitable organizations such as the
Wellcome Trust. The generosity and extensive
philanthropy of David Rockefeller has been credited
as a major influence. Gates and his father met with
Rockefeller several times, and modeled their giving
in part on the Rockefeller family's philanthropic
focus, namely those global problems that are
ignored by governments and other organizations.
Bill and Melinda Gates are among the most generous
philanthropists in America, having given over
$28 billion to charity; the couple plan to
eventually donate 95% of their wealth to
charity.
••••Gates's
wife urged people to learn a lesson from the
philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family, which
had sold its home and given away half of its value,
as detailed in Hanna and Kevin Salwen's book, "The
Power of Half." Gates and his wife invited Joan
Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family
had done, and on December 9, 2010, Gates, investor
Warren Buffett, and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook's
CEO) signed a promise they called the "Gates-Buffet
Giving Pledge," in which they promised to donate to
charity at least half of their wealth over the
course of time.
••••Projects,
like bringing the Internet to public libraries,
sprang from the couples' Microsoft experience.
Specifically, Bill Gates aspires to rid the world
of polio, funding immunizations that have brought
the disease to the point of eradication. Melinda
Gates champions the importance of family planning,
with the goal ofdelivering contraceptives to 120 million
women in developing countries within the next six
years. •
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Billionaire gives billion to
foundation ••••
Mark Zuckerberg this month is donating
nearly $1 billion worth of Facebook stock to a
Silicon Valley charity as part of a pledge he's
taken to devote half of his wealth to
philanthropy.
••••
In total, Zuckerberg is donating 18 million
shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation,
which gives grants to other nonprofit organizations
in the region that work in areas ranging from
education to the environment.
••••Based
on the current price of Facebook's stock, the
donation is worth about $985 million. The
foundation said it is by far the largest donation
in its history.
•••••
This isn't the first time Zuckerberg has
donated to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
A year ago, Zuckerberg gave the foundation the same
amount of shares, but at the time they were only
worth about $500 million. He has made other notable
donations to organizations throughout the
years.
••••The
move comes alongside a large sale of stock by the
company that will raise about $1.5 billion.
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Global internet panel
formed Internet
governance to become one of the most pressing
global policies. ••••DAVOS,
Switzerland -- A global commission has been
created to investigate how to ensure Internet
freedom and security at a time of growing concerns
over privacy breaches.
••••
The creation of the Global Commission on
Internet Govenmancy was announced at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
••••
The commission was set up by Canada's Centre
for International Governance Innovation and
Britain's Royal Institute of International
Affairs.
•••
The two-year inquiry,
will be wide-ranging but focus primarily on state
censorship of the internet as well as the issues of
privacy and surveillance raised by the Snowden
leaks about America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ spy
agencies.
••••
Sweden's foreign minister, Carl Bildt, will
head a group of some 25 experts from various
backgrounds, including academia, government and
civil society. They will work together over the
coming two years to create "a strategic vision for
the future of Internet
governance."
••••Bildt,
the former Swedish prime minister, said: "The rapid
evolution of the net has been made possible by the
open and flexible model by which it has evolved and
been governed. But increasingly this is coming
under attack.
••••"And
this is happening as issues of net freedom, net
security and net surveillance are increasingly
debated. Net freedom is as fundamental as freedom
of information and freedom of speech in our
societies."
••••The
Obama administration announced the initial findings
of a White House-organised review of the NSA. There
are also inquiries by the US Congress and by the
European parliament, but this is the first major
independent one.
••••The
inquiry has been set up by Britain's foreign
affairs thinktank Chatham House and by the Center
for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI),
which is partly funded by the Canadian
government.
••••In
a joint statement, Chatham House and the CIGI said
the current internet regime was under threat. "This
threat to a free, open and universal internet comes
from two principal sources. First, a number of
authoritarian states are waging a campaign to exert
greater state control over critical internet
resources."
••••The
statement does not name the countries but it is
aimed mainly at China and Iran, both of whom are
censoring the internet.
••••The
other big issue, according to Chatham House and the
CIGI, is the revelations from Snowden.
••••"Second,
revelations about the nature and extent of online
surveillance have led to a loss of trust."
The issue of internet
governance is set to become one of the most
pressing global policy issues of our time, saidRobin Niblett, director of Chatham House, said:
"The issue of internet governance is set to become
one of the most pressing global policy issues of
our time."
••••••Among
those on the panel are: Joseph Nye, former dean of
the Kennedy school of governance at Harvard; Sir
David Omand, former head of GCHQ; Michael Chertoff,
former secretary of the US homeland security
department and co-author of the Patriot Act that
expanded NSA surveillance powers; the MEP Marietje
Schaake, who has been a leading advocate of
internet freedom; Latha Reddy, former deputy
national security adviser of India; and Patricia
Lewis, research director in the international
security department at Chatham House, who said:
"Internet governance is too important to be left
just to governments."
••••Gordon
Smith, who is to be deputy chair of the commission,
said: "For many people, Internet governance sounds
technical and esoteric but the reality is that the
issues are 'high politics' and of consequence to
all users of the internet, present and future." •
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Google Vs.
FrancecWhat did Google do?
Google Inc. was fined #203,500 by
Frnce's data protection watchdog for failing to
give people enough details about how ad why it uses
their personal data.
••••
Google also fails to say how
long it stores the data it processes adnd combines
"all the data it collects about its users across
all of its services without any legal basis,<"
France's National Commission for Computing and Ciil
Lieberties said.
••••
The fine follows a similar
penalty from Spain's data watchdog last month for
"three serious violations" of the country's privacy
law. The fines are part of several European
investigations started after the company made
changes to harmonize privacy policies for more than
60 products in 2012
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The 71st Golden Globe Awards- Live Coast to
Cost
-- took
place Sunday, January 12, 2014, and presented by
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and
Dick Clark Productions. (Nominations were announced
Dec. 12, 2013). The "Golden Globe Awards" are
viewed worldwide and are one of the few awards
ceremonies to include both motion picture and
television achievements.
•••This
year's Golden Globe Awards telecast on NBC drew an
average of 20.9 million viewers, the biggest
audience for the show in 10 years.
•••A
6% increase from the previous year when Tina Fey
and Amy Poehler first hosted. Compared with two
years ago, when English comedian Ricky Gervais
returend to the show the numbers were up 24%. The
high numbers probaby were because the lightly
profane show was unpredictable, drew a massivie
number of top celebrities to its Beverly Hilton
auditorium and got a huge assist from social
media.
•••
However,
the telecast proved not a record-setter. The most
watched Golden Globes telecase since NBC started
airing the awards was in 2004, when "the Lord of
the Rings: The Return of the King" captured the
most awards and the show averaged 26.8 million
viewers.
•••
Acceccepting
the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Woody Allen, Diane
Keaton proved up a srurprise by ending her speech
with the tune "Make new friends - but keep the
Old."
•••
Hosts
Fey and Poehler had been invited to anchor the Gala
next year. •
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Winners of the 71st Golden Globe
Awards BEVERLY HILLS -- 1/12/2014 •Best motion picture,
drama: "12 Years A Slave" •Best motion picture,
musical or comedy: "American Hustle" •
Best director for
motion picture: Alfonso Cuaron,
"Gravity" •
Best actor in a
motion picture,
drama: Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas
Buyers Club" •
Best actress in a
motion picture, drama: Cate Blanchett,
"Blue Jasmine" •Best actor in a motion
picture, comedy: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Wolf
of Wall Street" •Best actress in a
motion picture, comedy: Amy Adams, "American
Hustle" •
Best supporting actor
in a motion picture: Jared Leto, "Dallas
Buyers Club" •
Best supporting
actress in a motion picture: "Jennifer
Lawrence" •
Best
screenplay: Spike Jonze," Her" •
Best foreign language
film: "The Great Beauty" •
Best original
score: Alex Ebert, "All is Lost" •
Best original song
from a motion picture: Ordinary Love, from
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom •
Best animated feature
film: "Frozen" •
Best TV
drama: "Breaking Bad" •
Best actor in a TV
series, drama: Bryan Cranston •
Best actress in a TV
series, drama: Robin Wright, "House of
Cards" •
Best actor in a TV
series, comedy: Andy Samberg, "Brooklyn
Nine-Nine" •
Best actress in a TV
series, Comedy: Amy Poehler, "Parks and
Recreation" •
Best TV series,
comedy or musical: "Brooklyn 99" •
Best supporting actor
in a TV series, mini-series or TV
movie: Jon Voight, "Ray Donovan" •
Best mini-series or
TV movie: "Behind the Candelabra" •
Best actor in a
mini-series or TV movie: Michael Douglas,
"Behind the Candelabra" •
Best actress in a
mini-series or TV movie: Elisabeth
Moss
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Tournament of Roses Parade Celebrates 125th
Anniversary, Jan 1. 2014
- By Gary
Sunkin PASADENA, Calif. -
There might not have been a
better way to open 2014 than with Vin Scully, the
legendary Dodgers broadcaster as the Grand Marshal
of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, who performed the
ceremonial coin toss on the field before the Rose
Bowl between Michigan State and Stanford.
••••It
was not Scully's first involvement with the Rose
Parade. A mere 48 years ago, he co-hosted with
Elizabeth Montgomery.
••••Most
of the week leading up to the Rose Bowl has
involved several pre-parade events and luncheons,
with several media members happy to meet
Scully. •
Known as the most favorite parade to kick off the
New Year for thousands of spectators who lined the
5 1/2 mile parade route through Pasadena. Every
year I revel in the excitement, exuberance and
optimism in the air, and again this year's themed
"Dreams come True" Rose Parade, didn't find me
disappointed.
••• It
has come a long way since its early days. The Rose
Parade's elaborate floats now feature high-tech
computerized animation and exotic natural materials
from around the world. Although a few floats are
still built exclusively by volunteers from their
sponsoring communities, most are built by
professional float building companies and take
nearly a year to construct. The year-long effort
pays off on New Year's morning, when millions of
viewers around the world enjoy the Rose Parade.
••••The
first Rose Queen was crowned in 1905, and every
year since 1929, Rose Queens and Rose Princesses
have been a part of the Tournament of Roses.
••••
Every
Parade needs a Grand Marshal, and the Rose Parade
has had some of the world's most distinguished
individuals serving in that honored position. Past
Grand Marshals have included actors, astronauts,
writers, artists, athletes and political
figures.
••••
Early
Grand Marshals were local heroes, many of them
Tournament organizers. The first Grand Marshal from
outside Pasadena was San Francisco Mayor James
Rolph in 1930, and as the Tournament grew, so did
the stature of its Grand Marshals. Mary Pickford,
Earl Warren, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gregory Peck,
Bob Hope, Erma Bombeck, Henry "Hank" Aaron, the
Apollo 12 astronauts, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra,
Kate Smith, Gerald Ford, Lee Iaccoca, James
Stewart, Pele and Angela Lansbury are just a few of
the distinguished individuals who have held the
honored position. 1966 Grand Marshal Walt Disney
rode in the Parade with Mickey Mouse, and Edgar
Bergen brought Charlie McCarthy along in 1940.
Shirley Temple, who was a 10-year old movie star
when she led the 50th Rose Parade returned as
diplomat Shirley Temple Black to serve as Grand
Marshal of the Tournament's Centennial celebration
in 1989.
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Celebrated Singers Clayton, Fischer, Hill and Love
sing National Anthem at historic 120th ROSE
BOWL •••••
Merry Clayton, Lisa
Fischer, Judith Hill and Darlene Love kicked off
the pre-game festivities at the 100th Rose Bowl
Game presented by VIZIO with a special performance
of the Star-Spangled Banner on January 1, 2014, at
the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena. •
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The 25th Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival - Jan
3-13,
2014 •
JULIA ROBERTS TO RECEIVE SPOTLIGHT AWARD FOR
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY" Palm SpringPalm Springs,
CA -- The 25th annual Palm Springs International
Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Academy
Award® winning actress Julia Roberts with the
Spotlight Award for August: Osage County at its
annual Awards Gala.
••••
British film
"Belle" will kick off the 25th anniversary edition
of the Palm Springs International Film Festival
expected to draw crowds in excess of 135,000.
••••
The festival
features 187 films from 60 countries and 77
international cinema premieres. Twelve films will
compete for the festival's New Voices/New Visions
Award with nominees hailing from Slovenia, Chile,
Iceland, South Korea and other countries..
••••"This
year's lineup is diverse in theme and content,
encompassing vintage work by established directors
alongside debuts by a vast number of newly emerging
talents," said festival director Darryl
Macdonald. "The overall quality of the films
vividly reflects the banner year we've seen in
cinema worldwide, with a trend towards more
personal, character-driven stories that defy easy
genre labels, making for a much richer, more
satisfying cinematic experience.".
••••The
festival wraps up with director Roger Michell's "Le
Week-End." The film, starring Jim Broadbent and
Lindsay Duncan, follows a married couple's trip to
Paris in an attempt to rekindle their love.
•••
The
PSIFF at its annual Awards
Gala will
also honor such stars as Sandra Bullock, Bruce
Dern, Matthew McConaughey
Tom Hanks,
Julia Roberts, director Steve McQueen and the cast
of "American Hustle." Three-time Oscar winner Meryl
Streep was named this year's Icon Award
recipient. •
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Troy Cory was among the first
international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the
People's Republic of China, beginning in
1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves to the populace
Chinese
audiences•
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• •
Back in the 80s, as a goodwill ambassador
representing the U.S.A., Troy Cory and his
back-up dancers and singers, "The Brooke
Sisters," were the first entertainers from
the United States to appear in a full
staged program in the People's Republic of
China during the Shanghai TV Festival, and
televised on China's National Television
(CCTV), viewed by over 300 million
people.•
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• •
It was there Cory met Jiang Zemin, then
mayor of Shanghai, and who later became
the 5th President of the People's Republic
of China.•
•
• •
• The '88 Shanghai Concert was
the beginnings of Troy's concert tours in
China for the next two decades. The
concerts, just to name a few, included the
followingcities: Shanghai, Beijing,
Anshan, and Tsingtao (Qingdao). •
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In The Nick of
Time"
Santa Tales iMovie
Series. •
She delivered the Masterpieces to them.
-- .
. . But rather than becoming excited they
acted like godless heathans, thinking "so
what?" She felt frustrated, angrry and
disappointed all of which she did her best
to conceal. •
It Was Her D-Diaries That
Reveled
The Method She Used . . . to light the
fire of excitement to the
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It was just last week, (Nov 16th, 2013)
--that
Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner. • The Feature Movie was filmed in
-- and around the city of Munich,
Nymphenburg and Castle Neuschwanstein,
Germany and in Oberndorf, Austria, the
small village and church where the
Christmas carol "Silent Night" was
performed for the first time on December
25, 1818.
• The moral to the Story? . . . No
matter how old you are . . . if you have
VISION and a DREAM . . . do what the
little princess did. Use the same FAITH
and decisiveness and take
"ACTION."
•
Bing
Crosby did . . . Jimmy Stewart did . .
.
and so did Troy Cory and Ambros Seelos.
None of the performers specifically or
exactly knew what, where and how the words
to those song they sang would be accepted
by the listener. It takes "ACTION,"
"VISION, and the "FAITH" of a . . . "I
Wish You A Merry Christmas," or the sound
of "Jingle Bells," -- . . . to connect
the monetary RESULTS, and value, to each
other. •
Most of us don't even know
-- the
true meaning of CHRISTMAS! You have no
idea how demoralizing that is to the new
kids being introduced each year to the
Yule Time event," says the little
princess, now known as: "Little Miss
Santa." . .
.
Around Castle Neuschwanstein, and the
small village and church of Oberndorf
where the Christmas carol "Silent
Night" was performed for the first
time on December 25,
1818,
the forest are full of Christmas
Trees. • 101
St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
•
The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and Sylvester
Levay. Several years later it was
Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical "Elisabeth." •
The Vision, and Culture Values of
--
Bavaria and Austria hospitalities . . .
were used to set the pace of this Yule
Time joint
venture.
•••Troy
Cory collaborated with VRA
TelePlay Pictures, Cinema Prize Recordords
and Agil Musik to get the final
Results of this annual religious
Mission.
Troy Cory co-wrote the original song
material featured in this Movie with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the LPE-1685 Cinema Prize
album, entitled, "Today's
Puzzle,"
and CD2525 recording: "An OL'
Christmas Card, now available at
Amazon.com.
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The place that was: Vine Street Stage,
Hollywood Located in the
heart of Hollywood, across from what used
to be the Hollywood Ranch Market, the
Stage was formerly used to produce the
popular national syndicated Groucho Marx
Show and Steve Allen Shows.
••••
In the mid 70s the
Corys accquired the property and from
1976-1979 - Troy Cory's Vine Street Studio
was the loction of the first Music Videos
produced: Rod Stewart ("If Ya Think I'm
Sexy," and "Blondes Have More Fun;" Alana
Stewart; Nicolette Larson; Jackson Browne;
Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers; Randy
Meisner of the Eagles; Kiss; Joni
Mitchell; Rachel Welch; German singer
Manuela; James Coburn (Schlitz Beer
commercial); Ronnie McDonald (McDonalds);
••••
••••
It's most famous
tentant was the Peter Marshall owned "Au
Petit Cafe, a popular "hangout" for people
in the industry.
••••
In 1979, the
undisputed Queen of Disco, Donna Summer,
was topping the pop charts with "Hot
Stuff," she decided to own her own studio
near her Hancock Park Home and bought Vine
Street Studios from the Corys and started
occupying the studio proprty in January of
1980. Vine Street Video moved its research
editing and video optical disks division
to Pasadena, Calfornia, near the Rose Bowl
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It was just last week, (Nov 3rd, 2013)
-- that
Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner. • The Feature Movie was filmed in
-- and around the city of Munich,
Nymphenburg and Castle Neuschwanstein,
Germany and in Oberndorf, Austria, the
small village and church where the
Christmas carol "Silent Night" was
performed for the first time on December
25, 1818.
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St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
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The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and Sylvester
Levay. Several years later it was
Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical "Elisabeth."
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TheWiTEL-ID-phoneNumber In
a threat to the 4th Amendment, law
enforcement is using location data as a
crime-fighting tool.
Concern
over mobile phone networks becoming
surveillance tools, the American Civil
Liberties Union recently asked hundreds of
local law enforcement agencies whether
they've tracked people's movements through
their cellphones. Most of those that
responded said they had, usually obtaining
the information from mobile phone
companies without a warrant. The practice
has become so routine, the ACLU found,
that phone companies are sending out
catalogs of monitoring services with
detailed price lists to police agencies.
The alarming findings should persuade
Congress to clarify that the government
can't follow someone electronically
without showing probable cause and
obtaining a warrants.
•••
The Supreme Court has long held that the
4th Amendment guarantee against
unreasonable searches and
seizures
requires police to obtain a warrant if the
intrusion would violate a target's
"reasonable expectation of privacy." Mobile
phone networks collect another - type
of data that wire-line networks don't:
They register a phone's location
continuously as long as it's turned on,
even when it's not in use. Those records
can be exceptionally revealing; as the
ACLU put it, the potential insights range
"from which friends you're seeing to where
you go to the doctor to how often you go
to church." The
fact that phone companies are collecting
fees
-- for providing this information raises
the additional question of whether their
financial interests trump their customers'
privacy interests. Looking for an answer,
Rep. Edward J. Markey recently asked the
major wireless carriers how much money
they've collected from law enforcement
agencies and whether they actively market
their information-gathering services.
•••A
growing number of courts have been
pushing back
against the Justice Department's
permissive approach, but the rulings
haven't been uniform. Nor are there clear
rules to distinguish emergencies from
routine investigations, live tracking from
the examination of stored data, or
any
of the many other complexities. Rather
than trusting judges to sort it all out,
Congress should make it clear that the
protections that apply to phone
conversations also apply to location data.
No warrant, no tracking.
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Bob Thompson made music with audacious
sound.
The
composer and arranger passed away
May
21 in a Los Angeles. (1924-2013)
••••
Thompson
was one of the foremost composers and
arrangers and is most famous for what came
to be known as the arranger for the Sonny
Bono-Troy Cory Speciatly Record Lable
Productions. His Space Age pop, or "Space
Age bachelor pad" music &endash; tunes
that allowed hi-fi buffs to turn the
lights down low, mix the perfect martini
and set the mood.
••••
But
his music was more than mood music. The
writer and arranger provided the hi-fi
soundtrack for a
swinging-bachelor
lifestyle coming of age in the late1950s.
His one-of-a-kind discs feature a singular
sound that evokes cocktail glasses,
swingin' guys and gals, and all-night
mischief. His music was often a spin on
old jazz standards, equipping them with
hip choral sounds and ping-ponging stereo
sound effects. Thompson's 1960 album, "The
Sound of Speed," was a tribute to fast
living, with orchestral riffs inspired by
jet engines, race cars.
••••Bob's
career spanned 40 years and garnered a
Grammy Nomination, with 100s of TV
commercials plus stints as composer or
arranger for Bing Crosby, Rosemary
Clooney, Ruth Olay, and Judy Garland to
name a few. Along the way he created Just
for Kicks, On the Rocks, MMM Nice! and The
Sound of Speed.
•••••Troy
Cory
(TVI's
iPublisher) looking back at his time at
Specialty Records remembers Bob Thompson
as one of the best. Thompson was the
arranger and conductor on Troy Cory's
recordings, Down on the Beach and
Just One More Chance. •
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114- A.C. Lyles, Producer (05-17-1918 -
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
China
•
Troy Cory was among the first international
entertainers and the first American entertainer to
perform in the People's Republic of China,
beginning in 1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of China's closed
door policies of the late 70s and well into the
80s. The PRC's administrative climate in comparison
is much less restrictive now and China's open door
policy enables many entertainers to introduce
themselves to the populace Chinese
audiences•
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•
• Back in the 80s, as a
goodwill ambassador representing the U.S.A., Troy
Cory and his back-up dancers and singers, "The
Brooke Sisters," were the first entertainers from
the United States to appear in a full staged
program in the People's Republic of China during
the Shanghai TV Festival, and televised on China's
National Television (CCTV), viewed by over 300
million
people.•
•
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• It was there Cory met
Jiang Zemin, then mayor of Shanghai, and who later
became the 5th President of the People's Republic
of
China.•
•
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• • The '88
Shanghai Concert was the beginnings of Troy's
concert tours in China for the next two decades.
The concerts, just to name a few, included the
following cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Anshan, and
Tsingtao
(Qingdao).•
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History:
Founded in 1956 by ABC's
Sam
Donaldson
and his partner Al
Preiss
and acquired by the Cory's in
1987.
In
March, 1963, TVI hosted the first "Annual
Festival of World TV Classics Award " at the
Huntington Hartford Theater. It grew to command
the print readership of television network
executives in 142 countries on six continents,
covering the industry of television, film,
telecommunication and WiTEL. In the middle 90s
TVI Magazine went online: tvimagazine.com
• •
"People read what they
want," says tviNews. "There is no master plan what
people are interested in." The question is, how can
we partner with people to have a symbiotic
realationship?
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