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The
78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival
unfolds from May 13 to May 24,
2025
in the picturesque
city of Cannes, located on the sunny
French Riviera. The main events will take
place at the iconic Palais des Festivals
et des Congrès, where filmmakers,
industry insiders, actors, and media from
around the globe gather for nearly two
weeks of cinematic brilliance.
••••Cinema
gives Cannes its reason for being, but it
is celebrity that keeps it going. Now in
its 78th year, the festival has survived
assorted bumps, including television, the
transition to digital and World War II,
which led to the cancellation of the
inaugural edition, in 1939. When it got
underway in 1946, its slate included Jean
Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast." A
quotation from Cocteau on the festival
website asserts that Cannes is "an
apolitical no man's land, a microcosm of
what the world would be like if people
could make direct contact with one another
and speak the same language." The
apolitical part has never really existed,
as the event's history of protests and
policing
show.
••••
Cannes Film
Festival 2025 is set to dazzle the world
once again, bringing together global
cinema's finest talents, breathtaking
premieres, and unforgettable red carpet
moments. As one of the most prestigious
film festivals globally, Cannes continues
to be the ultimate celebration of art,
creativity, and cinematic
excellence.
••••Founded
in 1946, the Cannes Film Festival has
grown to become the ultimate platform for
celebrating international cinema. From
legendary directors to emerging talents
making their mark, Cannes has always been
a launchpad for careers and cinematic
revolutions.
••••The
coveted Palme d'Or, the festival's highest
honor, is awarded to the best film in the
official competition. Past winners have
gone on to achieve global acclaim, making
Cannes a barometer for the films that will
dominate awards season
worldwide.
The 2025 Cannes Film
Festival lineup: For
full List please click here
Special
Screenings
Amélie
et la Métaphysique Des Tubes --
Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho
Han
As Part of a
Tribute to Pierre Richard
L'Homme Qui
a Vu L'Ours Qui a Vu L'homme -- Pierre
Richard
Arco
-- Ugo Bienvenu
Bono:
Stories of Surrender -- Andrew
Dominik
The
Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol --
Sylvain Chomet
Mama
-- Or Sinai
Qui
Brille au Combat -- Joséphine
Japy
Tell Her
I Love Her -- Romane
Bohringer
Midnight
Screenings
Dalloway
-- Yann Gozlan
Exit
8 -- Kawamura Genki
Honey
Don't -- Ethan Coen
Le Roi
Soleil -- Vincent Maël
Cardona
Songs of
the Neon Night -- Juno Mak
Cannes
Premiere
Ástin
Sem Eftir Er -- Hlynur
Pálmason
Amrum
-- Fatih Akin
Connemara
-- Alex Lutz
The
Disappearance of Josef Mengele --
Kirill Serebrennikov
Magalhães
-- Lav Diaz
Orwell:
2+2 = 5 -- Raoul Peck
Renai
Saiban -- Koji Fukada
Splitsville
-- Michael Angelo Covino
The
Wave -- Sebastián
Lelio
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Springtime in
Cannes
By Josie
Cory
A h h h . . . Spring in Cannes…where
mild breezes blow as the warm
Mediterranean sun smiles over this
beautiful spot on the Cote d'Azur. There
you can feel a timeless sensuality,
assuaging a nostalgia for the
Mediterranean which since as far back as
the 16th century has been a constant theme
in many a Northern European's life.
•
• "Now give us
lands where the olives grow," Cried the
North to the South, "Where the sun with a
golden mouth can blow blue bubbles of
grapes down the vineyard row!" Cried the
North to the South. (to borrow a phrase
from the English writer Elizabeth Barret
Browning).
•
•"Cannes,"
wrote Charles Lentheric, the indispensable
and erudite historian of maritime
Provence, in 1880, "is a town where you
feel no need to work," and "where the
inhabitants were not interested in the
world that lay beyond their shady gardens,
or the sheltered balconies of their
hotels."
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• Now the
world has come to Cannes, chosen it to be
their Mediterranean queen for its annual
events, and when you stroll along the
Croisette on some warm April day you will
hardly share Mr. Lenteric's sentiments.
Voila! Cannes! It has emerged truly
cosmopolitan.
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CANNES remains the jewel among festival
towns
Cannes is host to the annual Festival de
Cannes, as well as MIDEM, MIP TV and MICOM
(Marché
International des Programmes de
Communication,
owned and organized
by Reed MIDEM).
It's been 39 years
since TVI under Cory's ownership first
covered MIPCOM in 1987.
••••
Although Cannes has remained the
quintessential market place, despite
enormous changes in the cinema, television
and social media landscape, it was more
casual back in 1987, of course. You could
hang out with studio executives without
much planning or go see a performer in his
hotel room and spend the afternoon in
discussing the latest video. There was no
"French day," the interview period now set
aside so French journalists can get their
stories before everyone else.
••••
And many things were simpler. Though it
sounds paradoxical, even getting stories
back to my TVI Magazine -- it was less
time-consuming in that pre-computer age.
The festival headquarters had a room where
telex operators who spoke not a word of
English -- took your typewritten copy,
grunted something unintelligible and
transmitted it to the U.S. without a
hitch.
••••
Since then, Cannes has only gotten bigger.
Though we now live in an age when films
can be viewed via links and streamed on
computers anywhere in the world, the
number of journalists covering the 4-day
affair has multiplied.
••••
Cannes got off the ground after World War
II with the Cannes Film Festival, and
followed by tv markets MIPTV and VIDCOM,
later MIPCOM when the market festival also
responded to the advent of home video
technology, including VCRs, DVDs and
Blu-ray. As those new formats drove
interest in older films and tv series and
both French and American distributors
wanted a platform to publicize their plans
to re-release classics.
••••
Cannes is not just a festival that screens
rarefied films. It also hosts a major
market, known officially as the Marche du
Film (established in 1959) held annually
in conjunction with the Festival de
Cannes, where about 4,000 films are shown
to buyers from more than 100 countries.
Here, deals are cut to bring movies to
theaters in countries around the world or
to release them on video or in digital
formats.
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the jewel among festival
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101-SAG-AFTRA
Statement Regarding the Jon Voight Plan
Letter to President
Trump
LOS ANGELES
(May 12, 2025) -- SAG-AFTRA applauds
President Trump's focus on protecting
American jobs and affirms its support for
urgent federal action to combat the exodus
of film and television production. We
joined the coalition of entertainment
unions and studios, working with the
President's Hollywood ambassador Jon
Voight, to advocate together for tax
incentives and job protections. When the
U.S. film and television industry
prioritizes work and jobs in America, it
solidifies its status as the global leader
in entertainment.
About
SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA
represents approximately 160,000 actors,
announcers, broadcast journalists,
dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors,
program hosts, puppeteers, recording
artists, singers, stunt performers,
voiceover artists, influencers and other
entertainment and media professionals.
SAG-AFTRA members are the people who
entertain and inform America and the
world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO,
SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los
Angeles and New York and local offices
nationwide representing members working
together to secure the strongest
protections for entertainment and media
artists in the 21st century and beyond.
Visit sagaftra.org online or find us on
social (Instagram, Facebook, and
X).
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Changing
global economy discussed at the 28th St.
Petersburg Int'l Economic Forum
(SPIEF)
St. Petersburg,
Russia -- May 13, 2025 - SPIEF has been
held annually since 1997. Since 2006, it
has been held under the auspices of the
President of the Russian Federation, who
has also attended each event.
 It
is recognized as a key global event
addressing current economic challenges
faced by Russia, emerging markets, and the
world, with clear mandate to identify and
instigate practical solutions, including
innovative large-scale projects and new
approaches for adapting to the changing
global economy.
SPIEF offers
an unrivalled space for dialogue and
forging business ties. It provides an
opportunity to find partners with the aim
of securing business growth in Russia and
abroad. Participants are also afforded the
ability to expand their circle of
customers and suppliers, and to meet key
decision
makers.
Vladimir
Putin, President of Russia
There are
also ample opportunities to attract the
attention of potential investors and
leading media
outlets.
•••
More than 21,800
participants from 139 countries took part
in the SPIEF 2024 events in both offline
and online formats. The Forum resulted in
the signing of 1,073 agreements for a
total of RUB 6.492
trillion.
•••
The
industry-specific and thematic events
dedicated to international cooperation
among SMEs and drug security were attended
by more than 2,100 representatives from
over 45 countries and
territories.
•••
More than 4,500
people took part in the events of the
International Youth Economic Forum for
growth in a multipolar
world.
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Nemetschek
Group Joins Forces with Google Cloud to
Accelerate Innovations and Global
Reach
Munich,
Germany, April 28, 2025 - The Nemetschek
Group, a global leader in digital
solutions for the Architecture,
Engineering, Construction and Operations
(AEC/O) and media industries, today
announced a major partnership with Google
Cloud to accelerate AI-driven innovation,
expand into new markets, and enhance
digital workflows across its portfolio.
Partnership aims to position Nemetschek as
an AI-first industry leader, drive market
expansion and enhance
sustainability.
••••"A
Three Pillar Partnership ollaboration
between Nemetschek and Google Cloud is
built on three key pillars: driving
AI-powered innovation and simplification,
accelerating global market expansion, and
enhancing efficiency and
sustainability.
••••"The
first pillar focuses on AI and cloud
innovation and simplification, with the
Nemetschek Group advancing its AI-first
strategy through its cloud initiatives.
This is a strategic move towards a
multi-cloud, AI layered ecosystem designed
to strengthen collaboration and automation
across design and construction workflows
within the groups' strong
brands.
••••"As
part of the first pillar, Nemetschek is
integrating Google Cloud's AI capabilities
to enhance productivity and creativity for
architects, engineers, and construction
teams. One of Nemetschek's BIM authoring
brands, Graphisoft, has a longstanding
collaboration with Google Cloud, which has
played a pivotal role in scaling its
cloud-based solutions such as its
collaboration platform BIMcloud. Over the
years, the collaboration has enabled
Graphisoft to achieve substantial growth,
not only in user adoption and engagement
but also through ongoing enhancements and
the introduction of new innovations. The
adoption of geospatial integration with
Google Maps and Earth will furthermore
enable the BIM authoring brands of the
Nemetschek Group, such as ALLPLAN and
Vectorworks, to optimize planning and
resource allocation. The Nemetschek AI
implementation will be guided by three
core principles: privacy and data
governance, protecting IP rights and
creativity, and business integrity,
ensuring responsible and transparent
adoption.
••••"The
second pillar centers on business growth,
with Nemetschek integrating its solutions
within the Google Cloud Marketplace and
Google Workspace Marketplace ecosystems to
increase Workspace integration, expand
market reach and unlock new revenue
opportunities. This includes a series of
initiatives with for example the
Nemetschek brands Bluebeam, GoCanvas,
Spacewell and Vectorworks, aimed at
accelerating digital adoption to increase
collaboration and broaden customer access.
The Workspace and Marketplace initiatives
will benefit both small and medium-sized
architects, engineers and construction
companies as well as large
enterprises.
••••"Sustainability
is a core focus in the third pillar, with
the Nemetschek Group and Google Cloud
collaborating to establish Nemetschek as a
leader in sustainability technology for
AEC/O. Google Cloud's AI-powered solutions
will help the industry meet sustainability
goals such as reducing carbon footprints,
assessing lifecycle impacts, and improving
energy efficiency. Brands like ALLPLAN,
Graphisoft and Vectorworks are embedding
AI-driven services to facilitate
sustainable design and regulatory
compliance, while Spacewell is advancing
smart facility management solutions to
enhance energy efficiency in the operation
phase of the building.
About the
Nemetschek
Group
The Nemetschek
Group is a globally leading software
provider for digital transformation in the
AEC/O and media industries. Its
intelligent solutions support the entire
lifecycle of construction and
infrastructure projects and enable
creatives to design visualizations, films,
and games. Customers benefit from
efficient, sustainable workflows.
Nemetschek pioneers technologies like AI,
digital twins, and OPEN BIM to increase
productivity and sustainability. Founded
by Professor Georg Nemetschek in 1963, the
Group has over 4,000 employees and serves
7+ million users. Listed in MDAX and
TecDAX since 1999, it generated EUR 995.6
million in revenue and EUR 301.0 million
EBITDA in
2024.
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more
information,
visit:
www.nemetschek.com
About Google
Cloud
Google Cloud is
the new way to the cloud, providing AI,
infrastructure, developer, data, security,
and collaboration tools built for today
and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a
powerful, fully integrated and optimized
AI stack with its own planet-scale
infrastructure, custom-built chips,
generative AI models and development
platform, as well as AI-powered
applications, to help organizations
transform. Customers in more than 200
countries and territories turn to Google
Cloud as their trusted technology
partner.
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more
information,
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• Leo
XIV elected as the first American
Pope
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(TVI
Magazine)
Rome, May 9, 2025
-- Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass
today, Friday after his historic election
as the first North American pope, meeting
with the cardinals who chose him to lead
the Catholic Church and follow in Pope
Francis'
footsteps.
•••••••The
Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert
Prevost surprised the world Thursday when
he emerged on the loggia of St. Peter's
Basilica, as the first American
Pope.
•••••••
Born in Chicago in
1955 to parents of Spanish and
Franco-Italian descent, he grew up in a
parish on Chicago's South side in suburban
Dolton. Prevost served as an altar boy and
was ordained as a priest in 1982. Although
he moved to Peru three years later he
returned regularly to the US to serve as a
pastor and a prior in his home
city.
•••••••
Since arriving in
Rome, Prevost had kept a low public
profile but Francis tapped him to be head
of the Vatican's powerful Dicastery for
Bishops, which vets bishop nominations
around the
world.
•••••••
Vatican watchers
said Prevost's decision to name himself
Leo was particularly significant,
suggesting continuity with some of
Francis' chief concerns: Brother Leo was
the 13th century friar who was a great
companion to St. Francis of Assisi, the
late pope's namesake. Leo has also cited
one of Francis' key priorities of making
the Catholic Church more attentive to lay
people and
inclusive.
•••••••
The First Words
Pope Leo XIV spoke to the faithful from
the Basilica of Saint Peter after his
election were - 'Peace be with
you!'
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Dearest brothers
and sisters, this was the first greeting
of the risen Christ, the good shepherd who
gave His life for the flock of God. I,
too, would like this greeting of peace to
enter your hearts, to reach your families
and all people, wherever they are; and all
the peoples, and all the earth: Peace be
with
you
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• With
10+ years of supporting families, the Safe
Streaming service, Kidoodle.TV takes top
honors in 2025 digital
awards.
LOS ANGELES,
May 1, 2025 - Kidoodle.TV, owned by A
Parent Media Co. Inc. (APMC), the leading
Safe Streaming service for children, has
been named Best Streaming Service in the
29th Annual Webby Awards, honoring the
best of the Internet. Presented by the
International Academy of Digital Arts and
Sciences (IADAS), the Webby Awards
celebrate excellence online and have been
hailed as the "Internet's highest honor"
by The New York Times.
••••
Kidoodle.TV earned
this top distinction for its decade plus
commitment to delivering free, safe,
age-appropriate, and ad-supported content
to kids and families in over 160
countries. The win recognizes
Kidoodle.TV's standout user experience,
content curation, and mission to make
digital spaces safer for the next
generation.
••••
"We created
Kidoodle.TV to give families a better
streaming experience where they could feel
at peace letting their children explore
their favorite content," said Neil
Gruninger, President & CEO at
APMC.
••••
"Winning a Webby is
more than just an award, it's a testament
to our commitment to accessible Safe
Streaming. We're incredibly grateful to
our team and the families across the world
who choose Kidoodle.TV."
••••
Kidoodle.TV will be
honored at the Webby Awards ceremony in
New York City on May 12th.Winners of the
29th Annual Webby Awards will be
celebrated at a star-studded ceremony
hosted by Ilana Glazer where winners will
deliver the show's iconic 5-Word Speeches.
Past Webby moments include: NASA's
"Houston We Have A Webby" and Steve
Wilhite's legendary "It's Pronounced 'Jif'
not 'Gif.'"
••••
Beyond its
award-winning content, Kidoodle.TV offers
a robust suite of features and community
initiatives designed to support families
and educators. Its monthly Grocery
Giveaway program gifts $10,000 to one
deserving family each month, while
Teachers' Corner provides free,
curriculum-connected educational resources
for classroom use. Kidoodle.TV also
produces original programming such as Gaby
Time, starring the beloved Ms. Gaby, and
offers rich parental control tools
including screen time limits,
title-by-title filtering, multiple
customizable profiles, playlist creation,
and a "recently watched" feature. Families
can also share their stories through
Family Moments™, a community-driven
initiative that invites parents to submit
videos for themed contests, featured in
Cool to be Kind.
ABOUT APMC
and Kidoodle.TV
A Parent Media Co. Inc. (APMC) is a media
and technology company focused on
providing innovative solutions to
consumers and brands. APMC is a leader in
Safe Streaming™ delivering an
end-to-end solution to brands and
platforms with an emphasis on unlocking
incremental revenue. Utilizing proprietary
streaming and monetization technologies,
APMC reaches millions of homes globally
through its products including
Kidoodle.TV®, Dude Perfect Streaming
Service, Glitch+™, Victory+™ and
Safe Exchange™. Kidoodle.TV is a Safe
Streaming™ service committed to
providing children with a safe alternative
to stream their favorite TV shows and
movies. Available in over 160 countries
and territories on thousands of connected
devices, Kidoodle.TV provides peace of
mind, with every show* vetted by caring
people who are committed to Safe and Free
Streaming for Kids™. Kidoodle.TV is
available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Fire
TV, LG, Samsung, VIDAA-enabled Hisense
TVs, Chromecast, Roku, Vizio SmartCast
Amazon, Jio, Xfinity X1, Connected TVs,
HTML5 Web, and many other streaming media
devices, including Miko 3. Kidoodle.TV is
certified by the kidSAFE® Seal Program
and is the proud recipient of the Mom's
Choice Award®, a Stevie® Award,
platinum winner of the Best Mobile App
Award, and Parents' Picks Award - Best
Elementary Products. Visit www.kidoodle.tv
to learn more.
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(Photos courtesy of
Reliant Talent
Agency)
L-R: Scott
Simpson (photo credit: Lee Seidenberg),
Jonathan Perry, Katie Edwards, Melanie
Moreau
• Reliant
Talent Agency Expands Talent Division with
4 New Agents focusing on Talent, Comedy,
& Unscripted
Television
Los Angeles, CA
(May 5, 2025) --
Nashville-based
Reliant Talent Agency in a continued
expansion of its representation footprint
and success, Reliant Talent Agency has
hired veteran talent agent, Scott Simpson,
as Head of Talent. Established as a
preeminent touring agency, Simpson will
lead Reliant's efforts in Talent, Comedy,
Unscripted Television and beyond. Joining
him in this pursuit, is vaunted talent
agent, Jonathan Perry, who will lead West
Coast Talent (formerly IAG, UTA) alongside
talent agent, Katie Edwards (formerly of
IAG). Melanie Moreau (former
network/production company executive) will
lead the Unscripted Department.
••••
Industry veterans,
President Steve Lassiter and his partners,
Heath Baumor and Matt McGuire, will lead
the Nashville based agency that has had a
concentration in Concert Touring before
this current expansion. The partners in a
statement said, "From the formation of
this agency in early 2021, we've always
envisioned Reliant as a full-service
agency alternative, prioritizing our
clients' needs in every sector. With these
new hires and promotions, we are well
positioned to offer best in class service
to current and future
clients."
••••Founded
in 2021 with a primary focus on concert
touring, Reliant has with these hires
expanded operations and has established
outposts in Chicago, Los Angeles,
Nashville, New York, and Tampa. The
company will continue to be led from
Nashville by President Steve Lassiter and
partners Heath Baumor and Matt
McGuire.
••••
This updated
infrastructure gives the agency talent
outposts in Chicago, Los Angeles,
Nashville, New York, and
Tampa.
••••
The mission of
Reliant Talent Agency is to redefine
talent representation by fostering genuine
partnerships built on trust, respect, and
creativity. With a steadfast commitment to
excellence, they aim to elevate their
clients' careers through innovative
strategies and teamwork. They believe in
delivering exceptional results without
compromising integrity, creating a
supportive and inspiring environment, and
culture where both their clients and team
thrive.
Scott
Simpson:
Scott Simpson has spent decades in talent
representation. Prior to Reliant, he was
first at ICM for a decade, then at APA
(now IAG) both in Los Angeles and New
York. Currently based in NY, Scott
continues to tirelessly advocate for
actors, comedians and
multi-hyphenates.
Jonathan
Perry:
Jonathan Perry
has a long career working as a talent rep,
starting as a publicist and later moving
on to the agency business where he has
spent time at Endeavor, UTA and IAG prior
to Reliant. He represents a variety of
actors and unscripted
personalities.
Katie
Edwards:
Katie Edwards
started her career in the NBC Page Program
before joining The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon where she spent the next four
years working in various capacities in
their production and talent departments.
She joined Independent Artist Group
(formerly APA) in 2018, working as an
agent in both the comedy and talent
department in the agency's New York
office.
Melanie
Moreau:
Melanie Moreau
brings deep experience and strong industry
relationships from senior roles at CMT,
Complex Networks, and most recently,
Tacklebox Films.At Reliant, she will lead
the agency's non-scripted division,
representing talent, digital creators, and
production companies, and driving growth
across the unscripted
landscape.
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Talent Agency Expands Talent Division with
4 New Agents focusing on Talent, Comedy,
& Unscripted
Television
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Pope
Francis (1936-2025)
•
Pope
Francis has passed
away
- By Josie Cory - TVI
Magazine
ROME
- April 21, 2025 - Pope Francis died on
Easter Monday at the age of 88 in Rome's
Vatican City. The Argentine pontiff,
history's first from Latin America,
presided over the Catholic Church for more
than 12 years, since March 13, 2013.
••••
He was born Jorge
Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, on 17 December 1936 - the
eldest of five children. His parents had
fled their native Italy to escape the
evils of fascism.
•••••
The death of
Francis was announced by Cardinal Kevin
Farrell, the Irish-born Vatican
camerlengo, a position that will be
decisive in the coming weeks as he takes
charge of the administration of the Holy
See until a new pope is elected.
••••
"At 7:35 this
morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis,
returned to the home of the Father,"
Farrell said. "His entire life was
dedicated to the service of the Lord and
of his Church."
••••
The pontiff died in
the Vatican's Domus Santa Marta, where he
returned after his long hospitalization.
Pope Francis who suffered from chronic
lung disease and had part of one lung
removed as a young man, was admitted to
Gemelli hospital in Rome on Feb. 14, 2025,
for a respiratory crisis that developed
into double pneumonia.
••••
Francis made his
final public appearance as head of the
Catholic Church on Easter Sunday, though
he had delegated the celebration of the
Easter Mass to another cardinal.
••••
He blessed a crowd
of faithful from the loggia of St. Peter's
Basilica. "Brothers and sisters, Happy
Easter," he said from the same loggia
where Jorge Mario Bergoglio was introduced
to the world as the 266th pope.
••••
Pope Frances met
briefly with U.S. Vice President JD
Vance.
••••
"I was happy to see
him yesterday, though he was obviously
very ill," Vance, who converted to
Catholicism in 2019, said on Monday during
a visit to India.
••••
As Pope and
spiritual leader he made great efforts to
heal the thousand-year rift with the
Eastern Orthodox Church. For the first
time since the Great Schism of 1054, the
Patriarch of Constantinople attended the
installation of a new Bishop of Rome.
••••
Pope Francis also
worked with Anglicans, Lutherans and
Methodists and persuaded the Israeli and
Palestinian presidents to join him to pray
for peace by bringing together the Israeli
President, Shimon Peres, and his
Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, to
pray for peace in 2014.
••••
He will be
remembered for his social and economic
issues, efforts to modernise the church,
his advocacy for the marginalized and
environmental causes and was known for his
great humility and also humor.
••••
Pope Francis'
Funeral will take place Saturday, April
26th at 10:00 a.m. and laying in state for
public viewing in St. Peter's Basilica
starting Wednesday ahead of Saturday's
funeral.
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St. Charles Borromeo Church in North
Hollywood pays tribute to Pope
Francis
"... Love has triumphed
over hatred, light over darkness and truth
over falsehood. Forgiveness has
triumphed over revenge. Evil has not
disappeared from history; it will remain
until the end, but it no longer has the
upper hand; it no longer has the power
over those who accept the grace of God
this day..." Pope Francis April 20,
2025 (Urbi et Orbi message)
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•
It's
here! The annual Los Angeles Festival of
Books
•
LA
Times Festival of
Book
One of the most
significant literary events in the United
States, the Los Angeles Times Festival of
Books attracts more than 150,000 attendees
annually to USC's campus, and has grown to
become an essential piece of the L.A.
Cultural scene.
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•
TCM
marks its 16th Edition with Classic
Movies
•••
The
Annual TCM Classic Film Festival will take
place on April 24 - 27, 2025 in
Hollywood.
•••
Turner Classic
Movies (TCM) announced
additional talent and programming for
this year's 16th annual TCM Classic Film
Festival including a Closing Night
30th anniversary special screening of
1995's epic crime drama "Heat" in
conversation with director Michael Mann.
•••
TCM Primetime Host
Ben Mankiewicz will serve as official host
of the TCM Classic Film Festival. The
festival's official hotel and central
gathering point will be The Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel, which has a long-standing
role in movie history and was the site of
the first Academy Awards® ceremony.
•
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Turner
Classic Movies (TCM) is a
two-time Peabody Award-winning network
that presents classic films, uncut and
commercial-free, from the largest film
libraries in the world highlighting "Where
Then Meets
Now."
TCM features
insights from Primetime host Ben
Mankiewicz along with hosts Alicia Malone,
Dave Karger, Jacqueline Stewart and Eddie
Muller, plus interviews with a wide range
of special guests and serves as the
ultimate movie lover destination.
With three decades
as a leading authority in classic film,
TCM offers critically acclaimed series
like The
Essentials and Reframed along
with annual programming events
like 31 Days of
Oscar® and Summer Under the
Stars.
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•
EARTHDAY.ORG
celebrates its 55th
anniversary
On April
22, 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson launched
the first Earth Day to address the issue
of environmental quality and resources
conservation into the political
agenda.
In December
1970, Congress authorized the creation of
a new federal agency, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Since
then, April 22 is regarded as the
anniversary of the birth of the modern
environmental
movement.
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2025 --
EARTHDAY.ORG's two year renewable
energy-focused theme Our
Power, Our
Planet,
has inspired over 10,000 events in the U.S
alone, backing our calls for the tripling
of electricity generation via renewable
energy sources by 2030, eliminating fossil
fuels subsidies, and securing
inexhaustible sources of clean
energy.
••••
View and join
official Earth Action Day events on our
Earth Action Day Map, HERE,
or create your own to take part in this
historic movement.
About
EARTHDAY.ORG:
Founded in 1970 by
the organizers of the first Earth
Day, EARTHDAY.ORG is the world's
largest environmental movement, mobilizing
over one billion people annually to
protect the planet and its
people.
This year Earth Day
marks its 55th anniversary and has
designated this year's Earth Day theme
as Our Power, Our
Planet.
•
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• 44TH
COLLEGE TELEVISION AWARDS WINNERS
ANNOUNCED BY TELEVISION ACADEMY
FOUNDATION
Sarah Catherine Hook
(right) presented the 'Commercial, PSA or
Promo' Category Award to Brigham Young
University students (from left) Ben
Thornock, Mia Shumway and Annie Ebert at
the 44th College Television Awards
presented by the Television Academy
Foundation April 5, 2025, in Los
Angeles.
(Photo by Mark
Von Holden/Invision for the Television
Academy/AP Content Services
LOS ANGELES
- April 8, 2025) -- The Television Academy
Foundation announced the winners of the
44th College Television Awards, which
recognize and reward excellence in
student-produced programs from colleges
nationwide, at a star-studded awards
presentation at the Saban Media Center in
North Hollywood, California, on April
5.
The 2025
College Television Awards winners will
also have the opportunity to screen their
projects at SeriesFest, April
29&endash;May 4, 2025, in Denver,
Colorado.
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106-
SAG-AFTRA Leaders Take to Capitol Hill for
SAG-AFTRA NO FAKES Act
Reintroduction
LOS ANGELES (Apr. 9, 2025) -- Today, a
press conference was held celebrating the
SAG-AFTRA-supported, bi-partisan Nurture
Originals, Foster Art, and Keep
Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act as it
was reintroduced in the Senate. If passed,
the bill - sponsored by Sens. Marsha
Blackburn, Chris Coons, Amy Klobuchar and
Thom
Tillis
-
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
would preserve existing protections at the
state level, such as Tennessee's landmark
SAG-AFTRA-supported ELVIS Act and
California's SAG-AFTRA-sponsored AB2602,
while providing one strong, consent-based
framework for digital replica uses in
expressive works
nationwide.
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SAG-AFTRA Leaders Take to Capitol Hill for
SAG-AFTRA NO FAKES Act
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• Sundance
Future Festival Home Is Set for
Boulder
••••
The Sundance Film
Festival finally revealed that Boulder,
Colorado, has been selected as the future
homebase of the Sundance Film Festival
beginning in 2027! Boulder offers
small-town charm with an engaged
community, distinctive natural beauty, and
a vibrant arts scene, making it the ideal
location for the Festival to grow.
••••
"The Sundance
Film Festival's move to Boulder, Colorado,
in 2027 is a moment to preserve and build
on its four decades and continue its
journey. "This city is ready to embrace
emerging and established global
storytellers, our staff and volunteers,
and, of course, global audiences. Whether
you are a Sundance Film Festival regular,
or someone who has dreamed of experiencing
the Festival in person, we invite you to
join us in January 2026 in Utah and then
come along to nearby Colorado in
2027."
•
Get
the Details
Now
• In
Park City and Parked on the Couch: Here's
What We Saw and Did at the 2025 Sundance
Film
Festival
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•
SAG-AFTRA
actors Elliott Gould, Clyde Kusatsu and
Diane Ladd to Receive Prestigious Union
Service
Award
LOS ANGELES
(March 21, 2025) --- The SAG-AFTRA Los
Angeles Local has named members Elliott
Gould, Clyde Kusatsu and Diane Ladd as the
2025 recipients of the Local's Ralph
Morgan Award for exceptional union
service. The presentation ceremony will
take place later this
year.
••••
Established in
1981, the Los Angeles Local's Ralph Morgan
Award is named in honor of the first
president of the Screen Actors Guild, who
served three terms as SAG president, first
during the union's inception in 1933, and
then additional terms in 1938&endash;1940.
Upon the end of his final term as
president, the SAG Board presented him
with a scroll reading, "Devotion to the
cause of actors, courage to fight for the
right, sacrifice of self for others."
Inscribed on the award, these words remain
the qualification for all
recipients.
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SAG-AFTRA actors trio Elliott Gould, Clyde
Kusatsu and Diane Ladd to receive the Los
Angeles Local's Ralph Morgan
Award
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NAB Show Speaker
Lineup
WASHINGTON --
The 2025 NAB Show, the premier event for
the broadcast, media and entertainment
industry, is set to showcase an
exceptional lineup of industry leaders and
innovators. Global visionaries will be
taking the stage to speak on key trends
that include AI, sports, streaming, cloud
virtualization and the creator economy.
These thought leaders will converge at the
Las Vegas Convention Center April 5-9,
2025, (Exhibits April 6-9) to share
knowledge, collaborate and network with
peers.mmit, Chopra will delve into the
deep cultural impact of sports narratives
and the mythic pursuit of Human
Potential.
The 2025 NAB
Show continues to be the definitive
gathering for those shaping the future of
content and technology. The event will
feature an exciting lineup of top-tier
executives, creators and industry
changemakers,
including:
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5-9, Las
Vegas
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Screenings
& Conversations with Creative Minds
and Stars at PayleyFestLA
2025
(Television
Intl
Magazine)
The 42nd Annual
William S. Paley Television Festival takes
place March 21 - 29, 2025
at the DOLBY THEATRE,
Hollywood. On opening night an array of
stars are scheduled to attend.
Hacks
March
28, 2025 | 7:30
pm
The
PaleyFest Favorite Returns with a World
Premiere Screening and Conversation in
Advance of Season Four!
Poker
Face -
Peacock
March
29, 2025 | 2:00
pm
In
Advance of Season Two the Series Makes Its
PaleyFest Debut with Exclusive First
Screening of the New Season and
Conversation with the
Stars!
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•
The 97th Academy Awards Honoring Movies
Released in
2024/
Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Sunday, March 2,
2025
Adrien Brody, best actor in a leading
role
Sean
Baker made history at Oscars
2025,
becoming
the first person to win four Oscars in the
same year for the same film
"Anora"
won big at the 2025 Oscars, taking home
five awards, including best picture and
best director.
Sean
Baker, who directed, edited, wrote and
co-produced "Anora," won four Oscars at
Sunday's ceremony, tying Walt Disney's
record for the most Academy Awards won by
a single person in one year. By winning
all four awards for the same movie, Baker
distinguished himself from Disney who won
for four different productions at the 1954
Academy Awards ceremony.
Below
is the full list of winners and
nominees:
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Best picture
Anora -
WINNER
Best actor
in a leading role
Adrien Brody, "The
Brutalist" -
WINNER
Best actor
in a supporting role
Kieran Culkin, "A Real Pain"
-
WINNER
Best
actress in a leading
role
Mikey Madison, "Anora" -
WINNER
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Best film editing
"Anora", Sean Baker
WINNER
Best
international feature film
"I'm Still Here,"
Brazil
-
WINNER
Best
original Score
"The Brutalist," Daniel
Blumberg
"Conclave," Volker Bertelmann
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WINNER
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Past Oscar
No-Shows
• Hollywood stars who
snubbed the Academy Awards
There have only been
three people that refused the awards,
actors George C. Scott and Marlon Brandon
and screen writer Dudly Nichols.
Not everyone in Hollywood enjoys the gala
event. Over the years, a handful of
Hollywood A-listers have refused to attend
the ceremony, and some who've sidestepped
the show did so when they were up for
awards of their own.
••••
From Katharine
Hepburn to Will Smith, here are Hollywood
stars who snubbed the Oscars.
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Past Oscars 'No
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•
A
Child in Berlin: The Poignant Story of
Heidi Posnien and Her Mother Durig the
Fall of
Germany
A Survivor
of Berlin's WWII Atrocities Embodies
Childhood Resilience
OGDEN, Utah, March 15, 2025 -- Heidi
Posnien, now 88, enjoys a peaceful life in
a farmhouse overlooking a lake -- worlds
apart from her childhood in Nazi-occupied
Germany, where she and her mother survived
unimaginable circumstances. Despite the
immense hardships she has endured in her
lifetime, including outliving her husband
and children, Posnien chooses gratitude
for simple abundance, freedom and
safety.
•••
Posnien shared her
strikingly clear memories with
professional biographer Rhonda Lauritzen,
recalling in vivid detail the fear and
uncertainty that permeated Nazi-infested
Berlin during World War II; memories of
her mother, Käthe, a rising star in
Germany's opera scene; and her remarkable
survival in a bombed-out apartment during
the final weeks of the war. She lived
alone at just 9 years old.
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Story of Heidi Posnien and Her Mother
During the Fall of
Germany"
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•
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The Octogenerian - ATAS a glittering
dream
-
By
Syd
Cassyd
Permission was given by Syd Cassyd to
Josie Cory, TVI for publishing.
Hollywood, CA -- The glittering dreams of
the world for a new culture and perhaps
world peace through television and radio
turned to ashes when Hitler used all media
to destroy the dreams and bodies of more
than 30 million persons.
••••
When
in 1946 seven industryites in
communications joined me in founding the
"first generation" of the Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences, we didn't
foresee that in 43 years we would get the
recognition that the "third generation" TV
Academy has today,
••••We
weren't naïve, for since Jan. 6,
1884, the first TV system had already been
patented. For those 62 years world leaders
had already visualized the impact of the
moving image of television on society. The
problems in America was not when, but who
would control the new technology.
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History Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences- ATAS, a glittering dream by Syd
Cassyd
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Graphic design and
illustration by Azusa Oda.
Original photo of Manzanar, California by
Dorothea Lange, 1942.
•
World
Premiere of "The Camp" an Opera in English
in Two
Acts
About
an American family wrongfully imprisoned
in 1942 and
the power of collective resistance to
injustice
Los Angeles -
February 1, 2025 -- In 1942, during World
War II, 120,000 people of Japanese
ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American
citizens, were unjustly incarcerated in
concentration camps within the United
States. Inspired by these events, a new
American opera titled The Camp makes its
world premiere, presented in partnership
with the Japanese American Cultural &
Community Center, with four performances
from February 22 to March 2, 2025 at the
JACCC Aratani Theatre in Los Angeles.
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World
Premiere of "The Camp" Opera in English in
Two
Acts
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• 101-
Amazon MGM Studios to take creative
control of the 007 James Bond
franchise.
Sean
Connery
••••••••••••••••••••••Daniel
Craigs
February 20,
2025 -- Stirring waves in the industry
when it was announced Thursday, February
19, that
Amazon MGM Gains
Creative Control of the 007 James Bond
Franchise as producers and custodians of
007, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara
Broccoli, are stepping back.
••••
Amazon MGM Studios,
Wilson and Broccoli have formed a new
joint venture to house the James Bond
intellectual property rights. The three
parties will remain co-owners of the
iconic franchise.
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Franchise
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•
102-
Google lifts a longstanding ban on AI use
for developing weapons and
surveillance
Google changed
its public AI policies it would not
develop AI applied to surveillance or
weapons.
••••
Google's parent
company Alphabet, Inc. is lifting a
long-standing ban on artificial
intelligence (AI) being used for
developing weapons and surveillance tools
is "incredibly concerning", a leading
human rights group has said.
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Google
lifts a longstanding ban on AI's use for
develping weapons of
surveillance
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•
John
Dickerson and Maurice DuBois to anchor CBS
Evening News starting Monday, January 27,
2025.
L-R: John Dickerson,
Maurice DuBois and Margaret
Brennan
Nora O'Donnell,
longtime CBS anchor will bid farewell to
viewers on January 23, 2025. She will move
into an expanded role as a CBS News senior
correspondent focusing on longform
reporting and interviews across CBS and
Paramount, including primetime specials,
on "CBS Sunday Morning," "60 Minutes,"
Paramount+ and more.
••••
"Norah's new role
will give her the opportunity to
contribute across CBS and Paramount,
allowing us to see more of the
groundbreaking stories and interviews that
have been the hallmark of her career. Her
superpower lies in her ability to secure
and deliver big interviews and newsmaking
stories that set the news cycle and
capture the cultural zeitgeist.
••••
••••
Nora
O'Donnell
••••
••••
After the
presidential election, award-winning
journalists John Dickerson and Maurice
DuBois will anchor the "CBS Evening News"
as the show returns to the CBS Broadcast
Center in New York.
•
•••
Margaret Brennan,
CBS News' chief foreign affairs
correspondent and moderator of "Face the
Nation with Margaret Brennan," will
regularly lead coverage from Washington,
D.C., when news breaks on the political
and foreign affairs fronts.
Lonnie Quinn is being named chief
weathercaster for the show and will
deliver the latest weather reporting and
forecasts from the new AR/VR studio in New
York.
••••
McMahon continued:
"With Norah's decision, we began
reimagining and redesigning the Evening
News. The strength of CBS News has always
been in its ensemble of journalists, both
in front of and behind the camera, and our
goal with John, Maurice, Margaret and
Lonnie at the Evening News is to elevate
the best in their fields every night for
our viewers. In addition to this ensemble
team, we look forward to welcoming '60
Minutes' correspondents to file for the
'CBS Evening News' when they have news to
break; for decades this was routine, so it
will be again."
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Lonnie
Quinn, Chief Weathercaster
•••••
In addition to "CBS
Evening News" duties, Dickerson will
continue anchoring on CBS News 24/7, CBS
News' free national streaming service, and
serving as CBS News' chief political
analyst and senior national correspondent.
DuBois and Quinn will continue to have a
regular presence across WCBS. Brennan will
continue as the moderator of "Face the
Nation with Margaret Brennan" and CBS
News' chief foreign affairs correspondent
contributing across the network.
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107- John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois to
anchor CBS Evening News starting Monday,
January 27,
2025
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2025 Sundance Film Festival Wrapps
Up
PARK CITY, Utah
-- The 2025 Sundance Film Festival
concluded its run with the announcement of
its Festival Favorite Award on February 2,
completing the festival's recognition of
outstanding achievements in independent
cinema. The festival, which presented 94
feature-length and episodic works and 57
short films
--•
selected from 15,775 submissions
--•
wrapped up its celebrations in Park City,
Salt Lake City, and online.
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2025
Sundance Film Festival
Awards
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Changing
global economy discussed at the 28th St.
Petersburg
•
Int'l
Economic Forum
(SPIEF)
•
Reliant
Talent Agency Expands Talent Division with
4 New
Agents
•
focusing
onTalent,
Comedy, & Unscripted
Television
•
The
Safe Streaming service, Kidoodle.TV takes
top honors
in
•
2025
Webby
Awards
•
The
78th Cannes Film Festival unfolds from May
13 to May 24
•
May
marks the 117th Anniversary of the
Wireless Telephone
Patent
•
Nathan
B. Stubblefield, the Man History
Overheard
•
Who
are the SMART inventors of Radio
Witel?
•
CANNES,
the jewel among festival
towns
•
Pope
Francis has passed
away
•
EARTHDAY.ORG
celebrates its 55th
anniversary
•
SAG-AFTRA
leaders take NO FAKES Act to capitol
hill
•
Television
Academy Foundation
announces
•
44th
College Television Awards
Winners
•
TCM
celebrates its 16th edition with classic
movies
•
The
TCM Classic Film Festival will take place
on April 24-27,
2025
•
Bolder
Colorado New Home Base for Sundance Film
Festival
•
Speaker
Lineup scheduled for April NAB
Show
•
SAG-AFTRA
actors Elliott Gould, Clyde Kusatsu and
Diane
Ladd
•
to
Receive Prestigious Union Service
Award
•
Screenings
& Conversations with Creative Minds
and Stars at PayleyFestLA
2025
•
Amazon
MGM Studios to take creative control of
the 007 James Bond
franchise
•
World
Premiere of "The Camp" an Opera in English
in Two
Acts
•
101-SAG-AFTRA
Donates $1 Million to SAG-AFTRA Foundation
for Fire
Relief
•
John
Dickerson and Maurice DuBois to anchor CBS
Evening News
•
after
Nora O'Donnell's farewell Jan.
24
•
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Extras
•
• WIRELESS
LEGACY
•
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NBStory.htm
•
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
•
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Proof
of Connection 1902 when voice was
introduced to wireless transmission -
Wi-Fi
1902
•
106- 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
Stubblefield
•
Click Stubblefield Speaks - YouTube-
30Min
•
115th
Anniversary of the N.B. Stubblefield's
Wireless Telephone
Patent
1908
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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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Nathan, Marconi Guglielmo,
Ambrose Fleming, Reginald
Fessenden, Tesla Nicola,
DeForest Lee, Armstrong
Edwin Howard, Alexanderson Ernst
Fredrik Werner, Farnsworth Philo,
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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.
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SMART-DAAF stands for
Stubblefield,
Marconi, Ambrose,
Reginald Fessenden, Tesla,
DeForest, Armstrong,
Alexanderson, Farnsworth
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The 26th Shanghai TV Festival with focus
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On the morning of
August 5, the meeting of judges for
Magnolia Award of the 26th Shanghai TV
Festival (STVF) was held, including
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Troy Cory was among the first
international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the
People's Republic of China, beginning in
1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves to the populace
Chinese audiences.
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Cory Meets Jiang Zemin, former President
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Back in the 80s, as a
goodwill ambassador representing the
U.S.A., Troy Cory and his back-up dancers
and singers, "The Brooke Sisters," were
the first entertainers from the United
States to appear in a full staged program
in the People's Republic of China during
the Shanghai TV Festival, and televised on
China's National Television (CCTV), viewed
by over 300 million
people.•
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It was there Cory met Jiang Zemin, then
mayor of Shanghai, and who later became
the 5th President of the People's Republic
of
China.•
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The '88 Shanghai Concert was the
beginnings of Troy's concert tours in
China for the next two decades. The
concerts, just to name a few, included the
following cities: Shanghai, Beijing,
Anshan, Harbin,
Fuzhou and and Tsingtao
(Qingdao)
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114- 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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His experiment was a hit making him a
multi-millionaire, with his Hawaiian
Tropic suncare brand creating sales of
$110 million per year.
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Ricewith his Hawaiian Tropic brand became
known for sponsoring beauty pageants and
NASCAR racecars.
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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
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Cory
Scott Bryan Whitenack passed away
untimely on September 18, in Los Angeles,
CA.
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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.•
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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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