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Getty Images: Angelina
Jolie on the red carpet at the premiere of
Pablo Larrian's
"Maria"
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'Maria,' Creates Oscar Buzz for Angelina
Jolie
A-list movie stars,
top-tier auteur filmmakers and a battalion
of Hollywood publicists descended on the
Italian island of Lido this week for the
81st edition of the Venice Film Festival,
one of the most prestigious celebrations
of movie culture in the world -- and the
unofficial start of the Oscar season.
Among this year's
A-list talent includes Angelina Jolie, her
ex Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, George
Clooney, Michael Keaton, Jenna Ortega,
Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Tilda Swinton,
Julianne Moore, Daniel Craig, Angelina
Jolie, Kevin Costner, Sigourney Weaver,
Nicole Kidman, Isabelle Huppert, Winona
Ryder, Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe and
many more.
The Festival got
underway Thursday, August 27th to be held
through September 9, 2024, at Venice Lido
in Italy.
On opening night
Angelina Jolie was the toast of Italy. The
actress wept during an eight-minute
standing ovation at the Sala Grande
Theatre at the world premiere of
"Maria," Pablo Larraín's
biographical drama about the Greek opera
singer Maria Callas.
Callas was an
American-born Greek soprano singer and one
of the most famous singers of the 20th
century. She receiived her opera training
in Greece when she was 13 and later moved
to Italy to persue her career. Through the
years she dealt with near sigtedness that
left her nearly blind and multiple
scandals in her professional and personal
live. She had an intense rivalry with
Itlian opera singer Renata Tebaldi, and is
known for her affair with Aristotle
Onassis (who later married Jacqueline
Kenndy Onassis.)
'Maria'
is sure to be an Oscar contender, putting
Jolie in the best actress race for the
first time in 15 years. She was nominated
in 2009, for her her work in Clint
Eastwood's "The Changeling," and won an
Oscar for best supporting actress in 2000
for "Girl, Interrupted."
Maria reunites
Larraín and writer Steven Knight,
whose last project "Spencer" bowed in
Venice in 2021, and tells the "tumultuous,
beautiful, and tragic story of the life of
the world's greatest opera singer, relived
and re-imagined during her final days in
1970s Paris."
Netflix will
release "Maria" later this year.
Besides Maria,
Joker, and Queer, are among Venice Film
Festival's best movies this year.
As "Joker" was the
best movie of 2019, one need not be pushed
to consider "Joker 2" a must-see movie
again.
'Joker: Folie
à Deux," Todd Phillips's comic-book
sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady
Gaga, will compete for the Golden Lion at
this year's Venice Festival.
About
Established in
1932, the Venice Film Festival is held
annually from late August to early
September on the Lido island in Venice,
welcoming cinema enthusiasts from all
backgrounds. Visitors can enjoy the scenic
Lido, an 11-kilometre-long barrier island
renowned as a fancy tourist
destination.
As a haven for
celebrities during the Venice Film
Festival, Hotel Cipriani has been a
celebrity haven for decades.
Films can be
submitted from the La Biennale di Venezia
official website. After completing a
submission form, there is a fee of ¤
40 for features and ¤ 80 for
shorts.
General Admission
tickets are your basic entry pass to the
Venice Film Festival. These tickets
typically allow access to a variety of
screenings and events.
All the debut
feature films in the various competitive
sections in the Venice Film Festival,
whether in Official Selection or
Independent and Parallel Sections, are
eligible for this award. The winner will
be awarded a prize of US$100,000, which to
be divided equally between the director
and the producer.
Like other
festivals, Venice reserves a number of
spots for interesting movies that are
shown out of competition. This year,
besides "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", there
is "Wolfs" directed by Jon Watts,
"Finalement" by French veteran Claude
Lelouch and "Broken Rage" by Japanese
master Takeshi Kitano.
"Finalement" an
upcoming French comedy drama film will
premiere at the 81st Venice International
Film Festival on 3 September 2024 before
receiving a theatrical release in France
on 13 November 2024.
Venice has banned
tour guides from using megaphones and
limited their groups to 25 people. The new
rules on tour groups sizes came into force
on Thursday but include exceptions for
children under two, school groups and
educational trips. They also apply on the
Venetian islands of Murano, Burano and
Torcello
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Getty Images: Alain
Delon

Romy Schneider, Alain Delon pictured in
1963
Alain
Delon Dies at
88
President
Emmanuel Macron posted on X, formerly
Twitter:
Monsieur
Klein ou Rocco, le Guépard ou le
Samouraï, Alain Delon a
incarné des rôles
légendaires, et fait rêver le
monde. Prêtant son visage
inoubliable pour bouleverser nos
vies.
Mélancolique,
populaire, secret, il était plus
qu'une star: un monument
français.
(Mr.
Klein or Rocco, the Leopard or the
Samurai, Alain Delon played legendary
roles and made the world dream. Lending
his unforgettable face to shake up our
lives.
Melanchcolic,
popular, secretive, he was more than a
star: a French moment)
PARIS
-- (August 18) -- French actor Alain Delon
has died. "He passed away peacefully in
his home in Douchy, surrounded by his
three children and his family." He was
88.
Delon had been in
poor health since suffering a stroke in
2019, rarely leaving his estate in Douchy,
in France's Val de Loire region and had
become a virtual recluse. More recently,
the breakdown of his family had been
making headlines in France.
French President
Emmanuel Macron was among those paying
tribute to Delon on Sunday, saying the
actor "played legendary roles and made the
world dream".
Brigitte Bardot led
tributes in France saying Delon's death
left a "huge void that nothing and no-one
will be able to fill."
The actor was a
star of the golden era of French cinema,
known for his tough-guy persona on screen
in hits including "The Samurai" and
"Borsalino."
He stole the hearts
of fans whatever role he was playing, from
a murderer to a charismatic conman. His
colourful personal life regularly made the
front pages as he charmed and seduced his
way around Europe at the height of his
fame.
Delon became a star
in France and was idolised by men and
women in Japan, but never made it as big
in Hollywood despite performing with
American cinema giants, including Burt
Lancaster when the Frenchman played
apprentice-hitman Scorpio in the eponymous
1973 film.
In total, made
almost 90 films
during
his
career.
From the 1990s, his
film appearances grew rare, but he
remained a fixture in the celebrity
columns.
Delon shot to fame
in two films by Italian director Luchino
Visconti, "Rocco and His Brothers" in 1960
and "The Leopard" in 1963.
He starred
alongside Jean Gabin in Henri Verneuil's
1963 film "Melodie en Sous-Sol" ("Any
Number Can Win") and was a major hit in
Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 "Le Samourai"
("The Godson"). The role of a
philosophical contract killer involved
minimal dialogue and frequent solo scenes,
and Delon shone.
Born just outside
Paris on November 8, 1935, Delon was put
in foster care aged four after his parents
divorced..
He ran away from
home at least once and was expelled
several times from boarding schools before
joining the Marines at 17 and serving in
then French-ruled Indochina. There too he
got into trouble over a stolen jeep..
Back in France in
the mid-50s, he worked as a porter at
Paris wholesale food market, Les Halles,
and spent time in the red-light Pigalle
district before migrating to the cafes of
the bohemian St. Germain des Pres
area..
There he met French
actor Jean-Claude Brialy, who took him to
the Cannes Film Festival, where he
attracted the attention of an American
talent scout who arranged a screen
test..
He made his film debut in 1957 in "Quand
la femme s'en mele" ("Send a Woman When
the Devil Fails").
Delon was outspoken
off-stage and courted controversy -
notably when he said he regretted the
abolition of the death penalty and spoke
disparagingly of gay marriage, which was
legalised in France in 2013.
He publicly
defended the far-right National Front and
telephoned its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen,
an old friend, to congratulate him when
the party did well in local elections in
2014.
Delon's lovers
included Schneider and German
model-turned-singer Nico, with whom he had
a son. In 1964, he married Nathalie
Barthelemy and fathered a second son
before ending the marriage and embarking
on a 15-year relationship with Mireille
Darc. He had two more children with Dutch
model Rosalie van Breemen.
Delon told Paris
Match in an interview in 2018 he was fed
up with modern life and had a chapel and
tomb ready for him on the grounds of his
home near Geneva, and for his Belgian
shepherd dog, called Loubo.
Delon's last major
public appearance was to receive an
honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes film
festival in May 2019.
At the event, he
made an emotional speech in which he
appeared to bid farewell to cinema.
In recent years,
Delon was the centre of a family feud over
his care, which made headlines in French
media. The actor had three children - two
sons and a daughter - by two different
women, and a third son unacknowledged and
now dead.
In April 2024 a
judge placed Delon under "reinforced
curatorship", meaning he no longer had
full freedom to manage his assets. He was
already under legal protection over
concerns over his health and
well-being.
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Phil
Donahue dies at
88
Talk
show host Phil Donahue has died at the age
of 88, his family has confirmed.
He
died at his home on Sunday after a long
illness and surrounded by family,
according to a statement issued to NBC's
Today
show.
Donahue,
who created and hosted The Phil Donahue
Show, was considered the "king of daytime
talk."
Over
his career, Donahue interviewed well-known
figures including Muhammad Ali, Nelson
Mandela, Sammy Davis Jr, Sir Elton John,
Whoopi Goldberg, Dolly Parton, Michael J
Fox and Robin
Williams.
Donahue is
considered a trailblazer in the daytime
television landscape.
His
TV show was the first to include many
elements familiar to viewers today,
including participation from the studio
audience, typically during a full hour
with a single guest.
He
hosted more than 6,000 editions of his
talk show between 1967 and 1996.
Born
in Cleveland in 1935, Donahue began his
media career in the late 1950s in talk
radio and television, launching his
eponymous talk show in 1967.
In
1974, the show relocated from Ohio to
Chicago and changed its name to simply
Donahue. The show got into its groove soon
after, once Donahue began involving the
studio audience in discussions and the
program more widely.
Donahue
married his second wife, actress Marlo
Thomas, ( "That Girl" star of the 1960s)
in 1980 after the two first met three
years earlier when she was a guest on his
talk show.
For
its last decade on air, the show was
hosted from New York City. The final
episode was broadcast in September
1996.
Donahue
was credited with changing the face of
daytime television and challenging
assumptions about what female audiences in
particular wanted from talk show.
Phil Donahue, Marlo Thomas
Donahue
was credited with changing the face of
daytime television and challenging
assumptions about what female audiences in
particular wanted from talk shows.
"If
there had been no Phil Donahue show, there
would be no Oprah Winfrey Show," Winfrey
wrote in the September 2002 issue of O,
the Oprah Magazine.
"He
was the first to acknowledge that women
are interested in more than mascara tips
and cake recipes - that we're intelligent,
we're concerned about the world around us
and we want the best possible lives for
ourselves."
Donahue's
eagerness to explore controversial social
issues of the day emerged, when he
featured atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair as
his first guest. He would later air shows
on feminism, homosexuality, consumer
protection and civil rights, among
hundreds of other topics.
Donahue
himself once said: "I honestly believe we
have spoken more thoughtfully, more
honestly, more often to more issues about
which women care than any other show."
He
won 20 Emmy Awards across his career, 10
of which were for outstanding host and 10
for the talk show itself.
Earlier
this year in May, he was awarded the medal
of freedom, the highest civilian honour in
the US, by President Joe Biden.
Donahue
is survived by Thomas and five children
from his first
marriage.
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Torronto
International Film Festival taking
place
September 5
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The Toronto
International Film Festival is one of the
most prestigious and largest publicly
attended film festivals in the world,
founded in 1976 and taking place each
September. It is also a permanent
destination for film culture operating out
of the TIFF Lightbox cultural centre,
located in Downtown Toronto.
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The American Film Market, a first in Las
Vegas
The World's Leading
Sales & Production Companies Will be
at AFM in Las Vegas
AFM 2024 a first Las Vegas event is taking
place November 5-10 at the Palms Casino
Resort.
Currently, sales and production companies,
along with international trade
organizations, national umbrella stands
and film commissions from 25 countries,
have secured exhibit spaces in The Palms,
AFM's designated hub, with more confirming
each day.
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SAG-AFTRA and Narrativ
Announce New Agreement
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Deal Allows Member to Safely
License Digital Voice Replicas for Audio
Ads
LOS ANGELES (Aug. 14,
2024) -- SAG-AFTRA members who wish to
license their digital voice replica for
use in digital audio advertising now have
the option to work with Narrativ -- an
online marketplace where brands can create
audio ads using artificial intelligence.
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing 160,000
media artists, and Narrativ negotiated and
reached an agreement concerning the
union's informed consent and compensation
requirements, along with other crucial
A.I. guardrails.
A
New Era in Ethical A.I. Use
By working
together, SAG-AFTRA and Narrativ are
ensuring that the rights and interests of
talent are prioritized and protected. This
collaboration not only offers a novel
revenue model for individuals in the
digital age but also equips advertisers
with the tools needed for more efficient,
impactful, and customizable ad
campaigns.
Visit
narrativ.ai
to learn more.
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Replicas for Audio Ads
Agreement
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US Gymnastic Team - Getty Images
Simon Biles - Getty
Images
Simone
Biles wins gold again, claiming the Paris
Olympics all-around gymnastics
title
TVI
Magazine - August 1, 2024
PARIS -- Smone Biles
continued her golden run at the Paris
Olympics. Biles won the gymnastics
individual all-around competition, holding
off a formidable push by U.S. teammate
Suni Lee (bronze) and Brazil's Rebeca
Andrade (silver). Biles has now won the
most medals by a U.S. gymnast after
winning gold in the team all-around
competition earlier this week.
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SAG-AFTRA
Applauds the Introduction of the NO FAKES
Act
LOS ANGELES -- (July 31
) -- Today, the SAG-AFTRA-supported
Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep
Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act was
officially introduced in the Senate. If
passed, the bill -- sponsored by Sens.
Marsha Blackburn, Chris Coons, Amy
Klobuchar and Thom Tillis &emdash; would
establish a federal right in voice and
likeness to protect against unauthorized
use of digital replicas in audiovisual
works and sound recordings.
The
NO FAKES Act is supported by the entire
entertainment industry landscape, from
studios and major record labels to unions
and artist advocacy groups. It is a
milestone achievement to bring all these
groups together for the same urgent
goal.
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THE AMERICAN FILM CONVENTION is aiming to
launch a "new film market" and
entertainment industry convention as it
marches throug summer.
Los Angeles, CA (July
16, 2024) -- The American Film Convention
(AFC) has secured numerous developments
for its eponymous film industry event to
take place October 15-17, 2024 at Magic
Box in Downtown Los Angeles.
CEO and founder
Mitesh Patel, a grassroots independent
filmmaker and producer, says the event
will incorporate a "market strategies, new
technologies, breaking down barriers,
auction, conference, product and service
showcase, distribution, workshop, talks
and addresses, pitch fest, networking
event, and filmed and live
entertainment."
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Symposium & Expo on Artificial
Intelligence for the Built World to take
place 10-12, Munich
Munich, Germany --
(July 30, 2024) -- The Georg Nemetschek
Institute announced the AI Symposium &
Expo on Artificial Intelligence for the
Built World September 10-12, 2024, in
Munich.
This unique
conference hosted by the Technical
University of Munich (TUM) and TUM Venture
Labs will bring together leading academic
researchers, industry professionals, and
innovative startups to discuss the
opportunities and challenges presented by
AI in the built environment.
The symposium and
expo is taking place at the High-Tech
Campus Garching, a major science and
research hub near Munich, Germany. It is
part of the Technical University of Munich
(TUM) and is one of the largest and most
important campuses for science,
technology, engineering, and
entrepreneurship in Germany.
The main theme will
be the presentation of AI applications in
the context of the current and future
needs of the construction industry, with a
particular focus on how AI can improve
project efficiency, decision-making, and
safety in practice.
Attendees will
explore what works and what doesn't,
fostering a comprehensive dialogue about
the potential solutions and innovations in
this rapidly growing field.
Keynote speakers
come from the academic as well as the
industry side, amongst them Marc Nuzet,
Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Division
Officer at the Nemetschek Group.
The symposium
starts with a welcome and keynote on
September 10, 9:00 am, free of charge. For
the full conference, tickets are
required.
For more
information and to register, visit the
Event
Website.
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WINNERS
OF THE 76th LOS ANGELES AREA EMMY®
AWARDS
LOS ANGELES -- ( July
27, 2024) -- The 76th Los Angeles Area
Emmy® Awards were presented tonight
from the Four Seasons Hotel Beverly
Wilshire in Beverly Hills, hosted by
award-winning journalist Michaela
Pereira.
The Los Angeles
Area Emmy Awards honor locally produced
programs in the categories of crime and
social issues, culture and history, the
arts, human interest, sports, the
environment, and live and breaking news
coverage.
This year's awards
ceremony, produced by Bob Bain and Bob
Bain Productions, honored locally produced
programs in the categories of Live and
Breaking News Coverage, Crime and Social
Issues, Culture and History, the Arts,
Health and Science, Human Interest, Music,
Sports, and the Environment.
KCET topped the
list of Los Angeles TV stations with the
most wins,10, at the 76th local Emmy
Awards handed out by the Television
Academy Saturday. It was followed by KVEA
and Spectrum News 1 with 4 each, ABC7 and
CBS2/KCAL9 with 3 and KTLA5 and Spectrum
SportsNet with two.
The main newscast
awards last year went to KVEA, this year
the three prizes split the honors:
Spectrum News 1's "Your Morning on
Spectrum News 1" won the morning (4 a.m.
to 11 a.m.) newscasts; KCAL won daytime
(11 a.m. to 7 p.m.) and KVEA landed the
Emmy for evening newscast.
One
of KTLA5's two Emmys went to veteran
entertainment anchor Sam Rubin who died
earlier this year of a heart attack. He
was the receipient given posthumously of
the 76th Los Angeles Area Emmy Governors
Award, recognizing his legacy of more than
three decades of entertainment news
reporting for KTLA.
A complete list of
this year's Los Angeles Area Emmy Award
winners, as compiled by the independent
accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP,
is attached.
Christie Lyn Lugo
Leigh and Stephanie Hampton are the Los
Angeles Area Governors.
The Los Angeles
Area Emmys were made possible by
Television Academy partners FIJI Water,
Franciacorta, Johnnie Walker Blue Label,
Justin Vineyards & Winery, People, The
Ritz-Carlton and United Airlines.
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SAG-AFTRA Members Working On Video Games
Go On
Strike
A.I.
Protections Remain the Sticking Point
LOS ANGELES (July 25,
2024) -- SAG-AFTRA National Executive
Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan
Crabtree-Ireland, acting under the
authority delegated by the SAG-AFTRA
National Board, and with the unanimous
advice and counsel of the Interactive
Media Agreement Negotiating Committee,
called a strike of the Interactive Media
Agreement, effective July 26 at 12:01
a.m. SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement
Negotiating Committee Members are
Sarah Elmaleh (Chair), Andi Norris
and Zeke Alton; SAG-AFTRA
Chief Contracts Officer Ray
Rodriguez.
Today's vote to
strike comes after more than a year and a
half of negotiations without a deal.
The convenience
bargaining group with whom SAG-AFTRA is
negotiating includes Activision
Productions Inc., Blindlight LLC, Disney
Character Voices Inc., Electronic Arts
Productions Inc., Formosa Interactive LLC,
Insomniac Games Inc., Llama Productions
LLC, Take 2 Productions Inc., VoiceWorks
Productions Inc., and WB Games Inc.
Any game looking to
employ SAG-AFTRA talent to perform covered
work must sign on to the new Tiered-Budget
Independent Interactive Media Agreement,
the Interim Interactive Media Agreement or
the Interim Interactive Localization
Agreement. These agreements offer critical
A.I. protections for members.
For more information and to search whether
a video game is struck, please
visit sagaftra.org/videogamestrike.
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21st
Century AI at Hollywood Digital's Virtual
Event: The Future of Entertainment, Media
& Technology, Monday, July 22nd,
2024
While AI has been front
and center in the entertainment and media
industries for more than a decade,
enabling on the one hand predictive and
qualitative analytics and then serving as
the backbone of major creative innovation
in feature film, advertising, and the
cloud on the other. But now, with the
establishment of "Generative AI," that
process of innovation and disruption is
unfolding at an accelerated and
unprecedented rate. In this roundtable, we
bring together executives from major
entertainment and technology organizations
who are at the forefront of that
innovation transformation. We thank them
for their time and very much look forward
to their commentary.
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EXCLUSIVE
76TH EMMY AWARDS AND GOVERNORS GALA
TICKETS UP FOR BID
Emmy Season Auction to
Benefit Television Academy Foundation
Launches in Celebration of Television
Excellence and Philanthropy
(LOS ANGELES - ( July 22, 2024) -- As
excitement builds for the upcoming 76th
Emmy Awards, the Television Academy
Foundation announced the launch of its
annual Emmy Season Auction, a unique
opportunity for television enthusiasts to
win VIP experiences during the festivities
while contributing to the nonprofit's
educational programs.
The auction
features exclusive access to star-studded
events, such as orchestra seat tickets to
the 76th Emmy Awards and tickets to the
Governors Gala on Sept. 15 in Los Angeles,
tickets to the Emmy's Performer Nominees
Celebration on Sept. 13, and tickets to
the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards and
Governors Gala on Sept. 7.
The
auction is hosted online on Charitybuzz,
https://charitybuzz.com/support/televisionacademy,
providing accessibility to bidders
worldwide. Bidding concludes Tuesday, July
30 at 3 p.m. EDT.
Fantastic
chances for winners and their guests to
join in the excitement and rub elbows with
television's hottest stars during
TV's biggest night
honoring nominees
at the 76th Emmy® Awards and exclusive
invitations to official
after-parties
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PLAYED:
The Games of the 1936 Berlin
Olympics
'36
Summer Olympics Were More Than Just
Games:
New
Book
Sounds
Real-World Alarms
WINTHROP, Mass. -- As
the 2024 Paris Olympics quickly approach,
a new book co-authored by Richard Kaufman
and Glenn Allen, PLAYED: The Games of the
1936 Berlin Olympics, harkens to a
different era with some startlingly
similar realities with worldwide impacts.
Historical figures and events play a role
as the writers unravel a gripping story
that could serve as a warning signal for
world leaders in 2024 and beyond.
Sportswriters will
say that their job is often mockingly
referred to as the "toy department" of
news, as if fun and games are unimportant.
A newly released book, PLAYED: The Games
of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, illustrates
just how significant and historic the
sporting world can be.
PLAYED: The Games
of the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Available
from Amazon.com
For more
information, please visit www.greenbandana.org
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Paramount
and Skydance merger signals end of the
Redstone family reign in Hollywood and the
rise of new
power

NEW
YORK -- Oracle founder Larry Ellison's
son, David Ellison, announced he had
reached terms to acquire a controlling
stake in Paramount. The entertainment
giant Paramount will merge with Skydance,
closing out a decades-long run by the
Redstone family in Hollywood and injecting
needed cash into a legacy studio that has
struggled to adapt to a shifting
entertainment industry landscape.
It also signals the rise of a new power
player, David Ellison, the founder of
Skydance and son of billionaire Larry
Ellison, the founder of the software
company Oracle.
Shari Redstone's National Amusements has
owned more than three-quarters of
Paramount's Class A voting shares through
the estate of her late father, Sumner
Redstone. She had battled to maintain
control of the company that owns CBS,
which is behind blockbuster films such as
"The Godfather." and "Top Gun."
As one of Hollywood's first studios,
112-year-old Paramount Pictures is the
crown jewel of the company. That's
certainly how Sumner Redstone, Shari's
late father, saw it.
The on-again, off-again merger arrives at
tumultuous time for Paramount, which has
struggled to find its footing for years
and its cable business.
Skydance, based in Santa Monica,
California, has helped produce some major
Paramount hits in recent years, including
Tom Cruise films like "Top Gun: Maverick"
and installments of the "Mission
Impossible."
Skydance was founded in 2010 by David
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partnership with Paramount that same year.
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Proclamation
by Wallace G.
Wilkinson,
former Governor of
Kentucky
1992
proclaimed Nathan Beverly Stubblefield
year and
Murray
Kentucky, Birthplace of
Radio
Nathan
B. Stubblefield's patented the wireless
telephone in
1908
May
will mark the 115th Anniversary of
the
Wireless Telephone
Patent
Nathan
B. Stubblefield, the Man History
Overheard
Who
are the SMART Inventors of Radio
WiTel?
Scott
Bryan Stubblefield great-grand son of
inventor,
Nathan B. Stubblefield died Sept. 18,
2022
Nathan
Stubblefield Speaks -
YouTube
Proof
of Connection 1902 when voice was
introduced to wireless transmission -
Wi-Fi
1902
Proclamation by Wallace G. Wilkinson,
former Governor of
Kentucky
1992
proclaimed Nathan Beverly Stubblefield
year and
Murray, Kentucky 'Birthplace of
radio'
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Wireless
Telephone inventor Nathan
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115th
Anniversary of the N.B. Stubblefield's
Wireless Telephone
Patent
1908
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Patent, Number 887,357, All Purpose
Wireless Telephone, Filed April 5, 1907,
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What
other event occurred in 1902, the year of
Stubblefields's public demonstration in
1902.
A: The
founding of J.C. Penney stores by James
Cash.
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Nathan
B. Stubblefield, the Man History
Overheard
By
Harvey
Geller
In Life's current Bicentennial
issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot
"100 Events That Shaped America," 19
buttons behind Bell's telephone.
Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's
dots and dashes as the first wireless
broadcast, a fable echoed by the World
Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's
a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence
offered on the following pages has not,
until now, appeared in any national
publication.
The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre
soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of
mystery, machination, ephemeral
enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and
disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six
miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a
two-room shanty constructed of pine and
cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated
architect is discovered 48 hours after his
death, his records scattered, his
equipment destroyed, his brain partly
eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to
mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly
Stubblefield, the man history over-heard
and then overlooked.
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1908
0512 - PATENT GRANTED: Stubblefield's U.S.
Patent, Number 887,357, All Purpose
Wireless Telephone, Filed April 5, 1907,
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Fessenden, Tesla Nicola,
DeForest Lee, Armstrong
Edwin Howard, Alexanderson Ernst
Fredrik Werner, Farnsworth Philo,
SMART-DAAF
Boys,
Vol I, 'The Inventors of Radio
& Televison & The Life Style of
Nathan B. Stubblefield," by Troy
Cory-Stubblefield and Josie Cory, Library
of Congress Number 93060451. (ISBN)
1-883644-003, pgs.
580.
Copyright
© 1993
SMART-DAAF stands for
Stubblefield,
Marconi, Ambrose,
Reginald Fessenden, Tesla,
DeForest, Armstrong,
Alexanderson, Farnsworth
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China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
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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.
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
following cities: Shanghai, Beijing,
Anshan, Harbin,
Fuzhou and and Tsingtao
(Qingdao)
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Ron
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accompanied the Troy Cory Show on a
concert tour through China. -
Rice
died May 19, 2022 at the age of 81 in
Daytona Beach,
Florida
He 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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Scott
B. Whitenack-Stubblefield Esq.,
great-grand son of wireless telephone
inventor, Nathan B. Stubblefield,
died
- By Troy
Cory
Scott Bryan Whitenack passed away
untimely on September 18, in Los Angeles,
CA.
Scott, aka Scott
Stubblefield, was one of four children
with siblings, Alden, Keith, and
Priscilla. (His brother Keith pre-ceded
him in death at the age of 32). His
parents were Troy Cory Stubblefield, an
entertainer and author and Dorothy
Swafford, owner of a furniture and
antiques retail store. Scott's children
are Steven, David and grand-children,
William, Bruce, Cora and Max, borne to
Steven and Skylark. Scott's
great-grandfather is Nathan B.
Stubblefield, the inventor of Radio, in
1882, and patent holder of the wireless
telephone (1908) and his great-great-great
.... grandparents were - John and
Priscilla Alden who were part of the
pilgrimage who sailed on the Mayflower to
Plymouth Rock from England in
1620.
(The Stubblefield
story is incorporated within several
photographs and denotes of and about S
Scott to show how their personal ambitions
and dreams parallel each other - both died
- before their dreams and ambitions were
fulfilled)
During
the time he studied for the State Bar,
Scott lived with Josie and myself on our
family estate in Pasadena. He passed the
State Bar the first time and was among
only 33% to do so.
The balance of time was spent doing
cinematography for my TV shows, which he
considered an artistic outlet besides his
major life's work, in the field of law.
After he passed the State Bar he handled
numerous legal cases and ended up working
as an associate lawyer with Melvin Belli
with whom he engaged in several cases and
won a lawsuit that became precedent case
law. Whitenack was committed to his legal
profession for over three
decades.
r
If
you needed legal advice or help with a
motion filing, Scott was there with his
trusty law books. He was very intelligent,
outspoken and an independent thinker.
He
also was a family man, who loved hiking
and scuba diving, a good game of tennis
and enjoyed bringing his sons to Paramount
Ranch for regular family outings and
Father's Day get-togethers.
As
to his love for cinematography he
videotaped additional segments for the
movie "Christmas around the World." Scott
later became my producer and
cinematographer for "To Catch a Dream"
filmed in Europe. The video project
brought him and the production team to
Paris, Venice, Cannes, Munich and
Salzburg. Said footage with perfect
picture-book pans of the Eiffel Tower, the
Seine River, the leaning Tower of Pisa and
the Venice Bridge of Sigh, is a legacy he
left behind for us.
In the early 90s
during the writing of our 4-volume set of
books entitled "the SMART-DAAF Boys" about
the invention of radio and the the
wireless telephone, Scott lent a helpful
hand in giving his legal aspect of his
great-grandfather Nathan Stubblefield's
copyrighted and patented invention. He
also was the co-author of "Bank America,
the Tortfeasor."
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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