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Getty Images: Angelina Jolie on the red carpet at the premiere of Pablo Larrian's "Maria"

115- '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.
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•••• 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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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.•
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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 -15
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.

• 115- 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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• 101- SAG-AFTRA and Narrativ Announce New Agreement - 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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• 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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115- 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.

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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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101- 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
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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 Ellison and it quickly formed a production partnership with Paramount that same year. If the deal is approved, Ellison will become chairman and chief executive officer of what's being called New Paramount.
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• 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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• 115th Anniversary of the N.B. Stubblefield's Wireless Telephone Patent
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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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•••• 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

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• The 26th Shanghai TV Festival with focus on story's quality & energy
•••• On the morning of August 5, the meeting of judges for Magnolia Award of the 26th Shanghai TV Festival (STVF) was held, including Chinese judges for Dramas, Documentaries and Animations.
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• Troy Cory, First American to perform on Stage in China, PRC

• ••• 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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 Shanghai TV Festival
Troy Cory & The Brook Sisters

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+• Cory Meets Jiang Zemin, former President PRC

• • 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.• •
• • 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 Rice, Hawaiian Tropic founder in 2004 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.
• Click for More tviStory-114- Rice died in 2022 at the age of 81 in Daytona Beach, Florida
• Click for more Ron Rice Hawaiian Tropic Pagen at and Troy Cory Show China Tour
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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." •

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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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