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Troy
Cory's D-Diaries (Digital Diaries) -- Examines the
Psychological Twists of Disappointments, Dollars
and the Web.
By: Bernie
Schwartz
Entertainer,
Troy Cory,
is an
international renowned Singer/TV-performer, and the
creator of Vine Street Video Center in Hollywood.
During the mid-70s when Troy Cory's Vine Street
played host to the legendary Rod Stewart, Jackson
Brown, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers first video
for television recordings. His weekly TV shows
featured, Clint Walker, Alan Hale, Sammy Fain, Nick
Lucus, Nona Hendricks, Foster Brookes, Sugar Ray
Robinson and the now famous legendary tribute to
Samual Goldwyn told by Jack Forman.
----"In
as much as Troy Cory founded Vine Street Video
Centre in 1976, and helped set todays firewire,
streaming video, DVD, MPEG2 standards, he is very
shy about his Firewire, Video Record Albums Format
(VRA) compatibility standards, wrote Kathy Rosen of
Video News Report in January 2000. Troy pointed out
the headline the press gave the inventors of the
Wireless Telephone and Telegraph. For NB
Stubblefield it read, "Watermelon Farmer Invents
Radio". For Marconi during World War II -- it was -
Marconi becomes a Fascist
----"Troy's
news gathering style is profoundly disturbing and
conjectured to the locals," said, Prof. Horton of
Murray State University, in 1992.
"Each show of
the series is a precept
of an
aggravation that gathers force, so that by the end
of a four minute musical segment, you feel the
gloomy disheartening disappointments of the 20th
century and the viewer begins to realize that most
major achievements can never be understood," wrote
the China Weekly's, Jane Qu last year. Larry
Leverett of Hollywood Beat writes; "betterment and
telepathic wisdom . . . compassion, an open-ended
honesty that can't be camouflaged."
----Troy
is spiritually aided, a seriously meaningful
American artist," the Harbin Daily summed up months
ago in reviewing the Troy Cory Harbin Webcast in
August 2001.
----The
bugaboo, from a Hollywood point of view, is that
Troy does not make movies with actors with
pre-scripted text, or even customary documentaries.
Many of his programs are what he calls a collection
of "historical flawed achievements"-- shorts that
last from four to five minutes, with most of the
footage fluffed together from "never before seen"
documentary film clips provided by his sponsors,
advertisers and show biz acquaintances who wish to
tell and sell "their side of the story" regarding
their old movies and song hits now sold on
Amazon.com and LookRadio. He manipulates scenes so
that their look fits the responses and arguments he
is trying to draw out of the subject matter
provided; then he mounts the visuals with apropos
music, voice-overs and subtitles.
Because of the
ups and downs of Hollywood politics,
instead of
financial meetings with Hollywood and New York
producers, Troy prefers to do his show business
dealings with the social, political and academia
crowd in Europe and China. "But, things might be
changing", says Troy, since the September 11th
attack, it appears Hollywood and its service
related protective royalty groups are becoming
enlightened as to the fact that show biz is a
business not only for the Jack Valenti's and the
Quakenbush's, but for the artists and producers
too! There is no such a thing as "run away
productions", says Troy, "it's competition".
----
Critics of
Hollywood say it's the aggressive policing
activities over new high tech methods of copying
movies and music that's killing Hollywood. They
contend that such warmongering by Hollywood's
dictatory policies, has brought a significant
control over "crimes" against Hollywood, but
critics point out that it is sending the wrong
message to software developers and foreign nations
that manufacture consumer players and recorders.
Along with laxing union requirements, rules,
regulations and taxes, attitudes of a host city
play a big part in selecting the area you wish to
produce a program. The entertainer-side of Troy
could shortly be seen doing business with a major
Television Network in Los Angeles, if the
"pettiness" on the union side and the "pugness" of
the Valenti Motion Picture group gives in a
little". Foreign competition say they are never
consulted and are not part of Hollywood's
Studio/Union high priced signatory agreements.
----As
middle-age approaches, Troy is focusing on
promoting his large catalog of CD music, DVD
TVShows and his many books on the Internet through
Amazon.com, ClearChanel.com, House of Blues and
VRAtv.com. His recordings, movies and text books on
the tortfeasor and broadcasting -- are distributed
and published by VRA TelePlay Pictures and TVI
Publications.
Troy has won his
reputation as - -
"The
Innovator of the Music Video Format", by applying
his fast/flash, short-form music video performances
to big, profound subjects. The Troy Cory music
video started out in the mid 70s with fast scene
changes to keep video-taped mouth movements in sync
with the out of sync music playbacks. Today the
clips of Kenny G, Jeffrey Osborn, R.J. Reynolds and
Troy are "historical cliches that, like the best of
zingers, packs a gothicized bang of force."
----"Yesterday's
Heros" is a plea for society to stop raising boys
to be football/basketball voyeurs --- and instead,
encourage the nerd side of the boy stressing law,
accounting or one with a scientific purpose, like
Howard Hughes or a Von Braun, the German spacecraft
innovator. Troy says "Yesterday's Heros" grew out
of an almost impelling gush of memory while he was
filming the D-Diary segment of "Eagles Nest", the
story about the desires of Adolf Hitler and Benito
Mussolini.
----Troy
profusely recounts an episode in which he (by voice
over only) -- joined a mob of fellow show biz union
members to attack and humiliate the non-union
female dancer scapegoat. The sinister aura he
creates -- makes it quite clear that, when it comes
to human cruelty, the scapegoat is the warning sign
to all of those social and historical horrors that
builds-up against the scapegoat in favor of the
union bullies that appear to offer nothing but
so-called protection, a costly health insurance
program, inflation and "run away productions".
----"Lost
Women of Italy" and "When The Party's Over" also
explore cruelty on an epic scale, but again from a
surprising, personal standpoint.
The inspiration
for "Lost Women of Italy"
jumped out
at Troy from a Nazi propaganda celluloid he was
viewing in China with other purposes in mind. A
scene of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and Hitler's dog,
"Blondie" made him flash on the idea that even the
greatest evil wears the trappings of familiar,
everyday humanity. "Eagles Nest" consists of short
clips with music on Hitler, Benito Mussolini,
President Delano Roosevelt and Mao Tse-tung. Each
war-time leader is seen, giving a matter-of-fact
account of his personal habits and defects. We
learn that Hitler loved to give tea parties, Mao
loved his wife Qing Jiang best of all and wanted
her to lead China with her favorite Gang of Four.
There are several honest to goodness reasons of
their cruelty and their impact on history. They are
just people, talking about personal religious
concerns and political desires that we are just
beginning to understand. A look at the writings and
sayings of Osama Bin Laden and his Taliban
followers certainly reflect the same thoughts of
his predecessors - spelling out the same ending,
with the exception of Mao and Roosevelt.
"The Eagles Nest
segment's footage of Hitler
entertaining
various people at his Berchtesgaden, Germany
mountain retreat, (the Eagles Nest) - and patting
kids on the head, "made me see him as a human
being, and I found that even more chilling," Troy
said from his studio-lab in Burbank, where his
editing studio occupies most of the computer
consoles. "My desire in presenting D-Diaries
(Disappointments, dollars, dumbells, dimwits,
dopes, duffers, dunces, dolts and dodoes) -- is to
challenge people with the "winner takes all"
responsibility theory, a psychological egotistical
quirk on their part. If we see them as potential
monsters, and we know what their monetary reasons
are, and still make them our leaders, we are
directly responsible for their actions." On the
other hand, if we see them as the monsters that can
do good -- and we put them on an evil pedestal, we
have no responsibility."
----For
example, "Sad Movies" and the one-hour movie
classic, "Christmas Around the World", began in
Troy's obituary article in remembrance of his
"devilish" son. Keith, the blond bright eyed
all-American boy, was brought up in a Christian
full gospel home fearful of the word Satan.
Therefor, Satan was a fearful, unspoken name
because Keith was convinced that it was Satan -
that inflicts torment on the world. As you know,
Satan, the fallen Angel, was the one who supposedly
convinced Judas, one of the 12 disciples, to tell
the whereabouts of Jesus Christ to the Romans for
30 pieces of silver. Resulting, of course, in the
killing of Jesus. When appropriate, little Keith
was referred to as "the little angel" or "the holy
terror".
"During my
world-wide travels, I discovered in Asia
that if even
though you are in a somewhat human form of life, if
the physical body lacks a spirit from heaven - that
can breath in local surroundings, you're not alive
and part of mankind, (Menschheit). Religion became
a reality Rome, when I toured the big Christian
church in the Vatican, the one the Romans had
constructed and dedicated in the name of the man
they had judicially killed as "the king of the
Jews".
----The
30 -minute "Lost Women of Italy" - is built largely
on shots from captured German and Italian film and
American CIA documentaries, along with clippings
from Troy's KTLA/Warner Bros. Shows. "Lost Women of
Italy" recounts the historical background on the
Venetian artwork by Titian, Troy obtained for the
Stubblefield Foundation. Troy then confrontational
puts forth the findings of some of the paintings
stolen by American GIs and Russian soldiers, as
part payment for the cost of World War II and for
the crimes of evil Leaders whom consciously defamed
the Jews, falsely pinning Jesus' death on them to
curry favor with Roman authorities. In the final
sequence, Troy depicts the suffering of Ann Frank
as a mirror for all Jewish suffering--appropriating
the essential Christian moment as part of the
Ottoman "Friar" plan of things.
"I wish the
viewer at the end of the "Lost Women of Italy" to
look at a Jew being crucified, not just Jesus,"
Troy said. "If he's truly seen as a Jew, Christian
disbelievers might be convinced. How can you revere
the man and hate his Mother and Father?" On the
other hand, if Jesus was from a virgin birth, what
would that make him - the son of God?
All is not
heaviness and intensity in most of Troy's
D-Diaries
segments. "China's Open Door Policy" is in the
traditional Bogart Voice Over documentary styling,
in which Troy trains his camera shots on his
background singer, Joey Lauren Adams and the Brooke
Sisters. He follows them through their experiences,
as they become the first movie stars in communist
China, and the aftermath of their performances.
----Joey,
composed, dignified and a little wild over all of
the attention of the crowds, goes through it all
without a whimper; although all of the girls become
the emotional oversexed prozac cases -- China
bestows upon talented girls.
----Troy's
educational background includes finance, law and
medicine. All three forms, he said: "has helped
shape my success and life as an entertainer, and
has at times, inspired my many D-Diaries
short-shorts. I've used every bit of my school days
in my show biz career, although most of my risky
antics came from the devilish country boy core
motivations, as more fully described by Mark Twain
in his book, "Tom Sawyer".
----"There's
a definite psychological drive in most of my
D-Diary segments. I am sort of driven to make films
that do have potential to bring about some healing
in the world."
The
international concert and trade show circuit
has been
Troy's main venue, along with historical landmark
locations that adds reality to his "live" concert
performances, like the first Webcast from Harbin,
China in 2001. Such was a breakthrough for the
House of Blues, Yahoo, Terran, LookRadio.com, and
other dot.com servers that became part of the first
world-wide Webcast from China. To prove the point,
go to LookRadio.com's, Video on Demand (VOD) and
click on the Harbin WebCast icon -- you-ll see what
I mean.
----Successes
at the Shanghai TV Festivals and other musical
festivals around the world, have led to a few
nibbles, but no offers from the major television
networks for a Troy Cory China TV Special. But
doing a major network show or making a Hollywood
movie, like I have in China and in Europe, would
show rue for my runaway productions. "Even
directing a major feature film would be an
interesting endeavor," says Troy.
Truth and love",
continued Troy, imprisons us, judges us and it
punishes us, and you know something, it's very
disappointing when you find your own Rules of law,
might back the monsters.
"Capt.
Billy", "Flip Flop" and "Nathan B.
Stubblefield"
is a
three part series that proves up the truth about
the twisted history of a Captain in the Confederate
Army and his innovative son who goes on to invent
the radio, the wireless telephone and broadcasting.
Troy sees his short D-Diaries type of these three
segments, as the fulfillment of his passion in
search for the connection between Kentucky,
artistry, and the mother of invention.
"Flip Flop"
introduces the idea,
that by
the stroke of a pen, the patents and copyrights on
most goods, products and services become invalid,
because "everything in them was invented before by
someone else - with a different name." But, of
course, the psychological twist to this legal
theory is -- as you watch a movie, listen to music
or read a book -- you're learning from others. I
suggest to the readers in my book, "Bank of
America, the Tortfeasor" - the quirk of the
American free enterprise system is, "it's free to
get in, and more often than not, it's free to get
out" . . . So . . . Troy draws on annual grants
from the Stubblefield and ChinaExpo2000 foundations
to help pursue their public educational goals in
promoting the wireless communication,
electromagnetic wave, and the political and
cultural changes in China.
///
Respectfully
Submitted
Josie
Cory
Publisher/Editor
TVI Magazine
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