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Donna Summer -
1948-2012
 LaDonna
Adrian Gaines (December 31,
1948 &endash; May 17, 2012),
known by the stage name Donna
Summer, was an American
singer-songwriter who gained
prominence during the disco era
of the late 1970s. She had a
mezzo-soprano vocal range, and
was a five-time Grammy Award
winner. Summer was the first
artist to have three consecutive
double albums reach number one on
the U.S. Billboard chart, and she
also charted four number-one
singles in the United States
within a 13-month period.
•••
Summer died on May 17, 2012. The
Associated Press reported she
died that morning at her home in
Key West, Florida at age 63. She
had been diagnosed with cancer.
The Bradenton Herald quotes
"Sarasota County records" stating
that she lived in Englewood,
Florida at the time of her death.
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Donna Summer Buys Troy Cory's
Vine Street Video in 1979, to be
headed by Bruce Sudano
Troy
Cory's Vinestreet Video Center
was ideally located in the heart
of Hollywood, opposite the former
Hollywood Ranch
Market.
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The Stage
was formerly used to produce the
popular national syndicated;
Groucho Marx Show, Steve Allen
Shows, and the Troy Cory
Show.
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It was in mid-1979, when the
undisputed
Queen of Disco, Donna
Summer,
was topping the pop
charts with "Hot Stuff," when she
decided to own her own studio
near her Hancock Park Home.
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By December, Troy and
Donna's negotiations to sell/buy
were finalized and the Studio
stage portion of the facilities
was sold. Donna was so excited
about the prospect of owning the
stage and all she and her future
husband, Bruce Sudano at the
helm, planned to do with it. The
moment escrow closed she, Bruce
and family members including her
mother and father, came by to
take over with the Cory's still
in the midst of packing.
Accompanying
was also Donna's daughter Mimi,
about age seven at the time, and
to the delight of Josie exchanged
some German words with Mimi.
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After excrow closed in
December 1979, Vine Street Video
moved its research editing and
video optical disks division to
Pasadena, Calfornia, near the
Rose Bowl and a short drive from
Caltech. The Pasadena facilities
became known as Rosemont Villa
Studios. Vine Street still has
the same telephone number, except
for the area prefix (323)
462-1099.
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In was in Berlin in the late 60s,
when Troy first met --
Donna
Summer during her participation
in the prodcution of the musical
"Hair." Troy was in Berlin
filming "The Starmaker" with
Wendell Corey, Rolf Eden and
Barbara Valentine.
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In
the 70s, Troy teamed up with the
Ambros Seelos Big Band Orchestra,
and music arranger and composer,
Sylvester Levy (Fly Robin Fly;
Musical 'Elisabeth') to record an
album of originals songs at the
Trixi Studio in Munich. Violin
section by the Munich
Philharmonics.
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During
Troy's busines ventures in
Berlin, Munich, and Salzburg in
1968-1978, he again met Donna
Summer and Oasis Record label
owner, Musicland Studio Founder,
and disco pioneer Hansjörg
Moroder. It was no coincident
later in the decade, (1978) --
that Donna contacted Troy when he
was ready to sell his Vine Street
Video Center in Hollywood. After
the deal closed in mid-January,"
says Josie "we went with friends
to Europe to attend MIDEM, in
Cannes, France, to promote
AGIL-TVIpublishings, NBSwitel,
VRA TelePlay - and American Film
International, co-founded in
Berlin by John Harris.
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In March of 1980, we
extended our congratulatory
wishes to Donna when she married
Bruce Sudano, to whom she was
married for 32 years, until her
passing May 17, 2012.
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During
Troy Cory's ownership of
Vine
Street Video Center from the mid
70s to the beginning of 1980, the
studio was the loction of the
first Music Videos
produced: Rod Stewart ("If
Ya Think I'm Sexy," "Blondes Have
More Fun," also starring Alana
Stewart. Other artists included,
Nicolette Larson; Jackson Browne;
Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers;
Randy Meisner of the Eagles;
Kiss; Joni Mitchell; Rachel
Welch; James Coburn (Schlitz
Beer); Ronnie McDonald
(McDonalds); Victor Dunlap; Billy
Hayes; Dicky Lerner; Priscilla
Cory, and Mel
Carter.
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"Vine Street Studio's most
famous tentant was Kit
Marshall's, "Au Petit Cafe," a
favorite hangout for those in the
 industry
who loved being served the most
delicious French cuisine in
Hollywood," recalls Josie
Cory.
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In 1968, before Troy Cory teamed
up with famous German Orchestra
leader, Ambros Seelos in 1970,
Troy had already co-starred with
Wendell Corey, Rolf Eden, and
Barbara Valentine in the Berlin
AFI, John Harris, movie
production, "Starmaker."
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It was in 1970, that Troy, Ambros
Seelos, music arranger, composer
and songwriter, Sylvester Levay,
(Lysy, Levy - "Fly, Robin, Fly" )
and lyricist and translator,
Jossi Sigl produced the origianal
recording sessions and the
Cory/Seelos concert performances
in Germany, Innsbruck, Austria,
and Basel,
Switzerland.
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October 6, 2011 - WHEN APPLE,
INC. ANNOUNCED THAT Mr. Jobs had
passed away, Newspapers around
the globe paid homage to the U.S.
legendary computer genius. To
many of us who followed the "Mac
path" -- it seems like loosing a
friend. He touched so many lives
with his innovation and vision
that we can't help but ask
ourselves, "Will the tech world
ever be the same without
Jobs?
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Much is
going to be written about this
extraordinary man, so here are
just a few highlights in his own
words.
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APPLE'S EARLY
YEARS
(the mid-1970s)
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"Because
Woz [Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak] and I started the
company based on doing the whole
banana, we weren't so good at
partnering with people...I think
if Apple could have had a little
more of that in its DNA, it would
have served it extremely well...I
don't think Apple learned that
until...a few decades later."--
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- 88- Sept. 2011. Blacklisted By
Industry For
Whistleblowing.
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It was in 1977, that TV star
Cliff Robertson's Show Biz Career
took an unexpected twist. It was
right after he received an
IRS form for "miscellaneous
income" that indicated that
Columbia Pictures had paid him
$10,000 the previous year.
•••
Robertson, however, hadn't done
any work for Columbia that year
and had not received $10,000 from
the studio.
•••
After asking his accountant to
look into it, Robertson learned
that a check for $10,000 had been
made out to him and had been
cashed at a bank in Beverly
Hills. The endorsed check,
bearing Robertson's forged
signature, had been processed and
paid out in American Express
travelers' checks to the
president of Columbia Studios,
David Begelman.
•••
After consulting his attorney,
Robertson notified the local
police. But after months of
inactivity, he took the advice of
Arizona congressman Morris K.
Udall, whom he had supported in
the 1976 Democratic presidential
primaries, and contacted the
FBI.
•••
"I was simply looking out for No.
1," Robertson told People
magazine in 1983.
•••
"I wasn't trying to be Don
Quixote. If I hadn't done what
the law required, which was to
give evidence to the authorities,
I would have been a party to a
crime."
•••
The ensuing Begelman embezzlement
scandal, which came to symbolize
Hollywood corruption, was
chronicled in David McClintick's
1982 bestseller "Indecent
Exposure: A True Story of
Hollywood and Wall Street."
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In March 1978, Begelman was
charged with grand theft and
three counts of forgery: for
forging the names of Robertson,
director Martin Ritt and
restaurateur Pierre Groleau on
checks written in the amounts of
$10,000, $5,000 and $25,000
respectively.
•••
Three months later, Begelman was
fined $5,000 and placed on three
years' probation. The judge, who
directed Begelman to continue the
psychiatric treatment he had
recently begun, also accepted
Begelman's offer to make a
documentary on the dangers of
"angel dust" (PCP) as a public
service.
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Begelman, whose grand-theft
conviction was reduced from a
felony to a misdemeanor in 1979,
was hired later that year to head
MGM's motion picture division,
and he later became a producer.
He committed suicide in 1995.
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For his part in exposing the
embezzlement, Robertson said, he
was blackballed in Hollywood for
3 1/2 years.
•••
"I broke the unwritten
commandment: Thou shalt never
confront a major mogul on
corruption," he told The Times in
1998. "Suddenly, the phone
stopped ringing."
•••
Robertson said his Hollywood
exile ended in 1981 when director
Douglas Trumbull cast him in a
role in "Brainstorm," a thriller
released in 1983 starring
Christopher Walken and Natalie
Wood.
•••
Robertson later appeared with
Jacqueline Bisset and Rob Lowe in
the comedy-drama "Class," played
Hugh Hefner in Bob Fosse's "Star
80" and joined the cast of TV's
"Falcon Crest."
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Army Archerd interviewed everyone
from Hollywood stars to heads of
state in his illustrious 52 years
as a Daily Variety
columnist.
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Herald-Express as assistant
(i.e., "leg man") to drama-movie
editor-columnist Harrison
Carroll.
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studios, Archerd began reporting
on the local nightclub scene,
which included Sunset Strip sites
like the Mocambo and Ciro's and
music spots down La Cienega, La
Brea and Ventura
Boulevard.
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reporters and photographers were gathered
outside Michael Jackson's rented Bel-Air
home this afternoon as a news helicopter
hovered above. Several tourist vans also
stopped by the house just off Sunset
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Family
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June 3rd, 2009 -- at Sunrise Hospital,
where he had been since early January
suffering from the effects of Alzheimer's
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finished the drafting the legislation and
lobbying Congress before the Copyright Act
of 1976 was finally passed.
She wrote
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Barbara A. Ringer believed, above all,
that copyrights should protect the
creative people in American life -- the
authors, songwriters and performers whose
work too often was printed or broadcast
without permission. By 1955, she was
writing papers and commissioning studies
on how the nation's copyright laws should
be revised.
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Ringer died April 9, 2009 of complications
from dementia at a nursing home in
Lexington, Va. She was 83.
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received the President's Award for
Distinguished Federal Civilian Service,
the highest honor for a federal
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Supreme Court on behalf of the Library of
Congress. She acted as register of
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