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Tournament of Roses Parade Celebrates 125th
Anniversary, - Jan 1.
2014 Celebrated
Singers Clayton, Fischer, Hill and Love
to sing National Anthem at historic 120th ROSE BOWL
GAME PASADENA, Calif. -- Merry Clayton, Lisa
Fischer, Judith Hill and Darlene Love will kick off
the pre-game festivities at the 100th Rose Bowl
Game presented by VIZIO with a special performance
of the Star-Spangled Banner on January 1, 2014, at
the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena.
••••Clayton,
Fischer, Hill and Love star in the
critically-acclaimed 2013 RADiUS film, "20 Feet
From Stardom" by award-winning director Morgan
Neville, which spotlights the untold stories of
backup singers behind some of the greatest musical
legends of the 21st century such as Bruce
Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger and Sting.
On Tuesday, December 3, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 20 Feet
From Stardom made the Academy Awards shortlist in
the Documentary Feature category.
••••Clayton
lent her voice to a number of major performing
artists during the 1960s with her most notable
performance being a duet with Mick Jagger on the
Rolling Stones' song, "Gimme Shelter." She began
her career on Bobby Darin's "Who Can I Count On,"
which led to legendary Lou Adler signing her in
1970 and her debut solo album, "Gimme Shelter." As
an actress, Clayton appeared in the films Blame it
on the Night and Maid to Order. Currently, she is
putting the finishing touches on her
long-anticipated new CD.
••••
Fischer rose to fame in 1991 with her debut
album, So Intense, which produced the Grammy
Award&endash;winning hit single, "How Can I Ease
the Pain." Prior to her solo career, she began as a
backup singer for a number of famous artists,
including Luther Vandross for 22 years and Tina
Turner on her Twenty Four Seven Tour, the
top-grossing worldwide tour of 2000. Fischer has
also toured with the Rolling Stones since 1989. In
2013, she joined the rock band Nine Inch Nails, as
a backing vocalist for their Tension 2013 tour.
••••
Hill, Sony Music recording artist, has been
praised by Rolling Stone for her "stellar
powerhouse vocals." In addition to penning and
performing her own material, Hill backed artists
such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John and the late
Michael Jackson. She was also a contestant on
season four of The Voice. She contributed backing
vocals to three tracks on Josh Groban's latest
chart topping album, All That Echoes, and opened
for Groban on his Fall 2013 In The Round arena
tour. Judith is currently in the studio working on
her debut.
••••
Since the early sixties, Love has done it
all - from major motion pictures like the highly
successful Lethal Weapon series to Broadway hits
like Hairspray and Grease and even appearing in
numerous television shows. Her background vocals
for The Blossoms, The Crystals, The Righteous
Brothers, Dionne Warwick, Marvin Gaye and Elvis
Presley, set the stage for her emergence as a star
in her own right. In 2011, Love recieved the
industry's highest award when she was inducted in
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
••••
This will mark the only known time in the
game's history that the national anthem will be
performed by an artist rather than a Rose Bowl Game
participating team band.
••••
In continuing with tradition, Vin Scully, an
icon in American sports history and "the voice of
the Los Angeles Dodgers" for 64 years, will toss
the coin at the start of the 100th Rose Bowl Game
as the Grand Marshal for the 125th Tournament of
Roses Parade, themed "Dreams Come True."
••••
Pre-game festivities begin at 1:30 p.m. PT.
The game will feature the Michigan State Spartans,
champions of the Big Ten Conference, versus the
Stanford Cardinal, champions of the Pac-12
Conference.
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The 25th Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival - Jan
3-13,
2014
• JULIA ROBERTS TO RECEIVE SPOTLIGHT AWARD FOR
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY" Palm SpringPalm Springs, CA -- The 25th
annual Palm Springs International Film Festival
(PSIFF) will present Academy Award® winning
actress Julia Roberts with the Spotlight Award for
August: Osage County at its annual Awards Gala.
••••
British film "Belle"
will kick off the 25th anniversary edition of the
Palm Springs International Film Festival expected
to draw crowds in excess of 135,000.
••••
The festival features
187 films from 60 countries and 77 international
cinema premieres. Twelve films will compete for the
festival's New Voices/New Visions Award with
nominees hailing from Slovenia, Chile, Iceland,
South Korea and other countries..
••••"This
year's lineup is diverse in theme and content,
encompassing vintage work by established directors
alongside debuts by a vast number of newly emerging
talents," said festival director Darryl
Macdonald. "The overall quality of the films
vividly reflects the banner year we've seen in
cinema worldwide, with a trend towards more
personal, character-driven stories that defy easy
genre labels, making for a much richer, more
satisfying cinematic experience.".
••••The
festival wraps up with director Roger Michell's "Le
Week-End." The film, starring Jim Broadbent and
Lindsay Duncan, follows a married couple's trip to
Paris in an attempt to rekindle their love.
•••
The PSIFF at
its annual Awards Gala will
also honor such stars as Sandra Bullock, Bruce
Dern, Matthew McConaughey
Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts,
director Steve McQueen and the cast of "American
Hustle." Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep was
named this year's Icon Award recipient. •
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
China
•
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•
•
• •
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, and Tsingtao
(Qingdao).•
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In The Nick of
Time"
Santa Tales iMovie
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She delivered the Masterpieces to them.
-- . . . But
rather than becoming excited they acted
like godless heathans, thinking "so what?"
She felt frustrated, angrry and
disappointed all of which she did her best
to conceal. • It Was Her D-Diaries That
Reveled The Method She Used . . . to light
the fire of excitement to the
World? •101-
It was just last week, (Nov 16th, 2013)
-- that
Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner. • The Feature Movie was filmed in
-- and around the city of Munich,
Nymphenburg and Castle Neuschwanstein,
Germany and in Oberndorf, Austria, the
small village and church where the
Christmas carol "Silent Night" was
performed for the first time on December
25, 1818. •
The moral to the Story? . . . No matter
how old you are . . . if you have VISION
and a DREAM . . . do what the little
princess did. Use the same FAITH and
decisiveness and take
"ACTION."
•
Bing
Crosby did . . . Jimmy Stewart did . .
.
and so did Troy Cory and Ambros Seelos.
None of the performers specifically or
exactly knew what, where and how the words
to those song they sang would be accepted
by the listener. It takes "ACTION,"
"VISION, and the "FAITH" of a . . . "I
Wish You A Merry Christmas," or the sound
of "Jingle Bells," -- . . . to connect
the monetary RESULTS, and value, to each
other. •
Most of us don't even know
-- the
true meaning of CHRISTMAS! You have no
idea how demoralizing that is to the new
kids being introduced each year to the
Yule Time event," says the little
princess, now known as: "Little Miss
Santa." . .
.
Around Castle Neuschwanstein, and the
small village and church of Oberndorf
where the Christmas carol "Silent
Night" was performed for the first
time on December 25,
1818,
the forest are full of Christmas
Trees. • 101
St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
•
The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and Sylvester
Levay. Several years later it was
Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical "Elisabeth." •
The Vision, and Culture Values of
--
Bavaria and Austria hospitalities . . .
were used to set the pace of this Yule
Time joint
venture.
•••Troy
Cory collaborated with VRA
TelePlay Pictures, Cinema Prize Recordords
and Agil Musik to get the final
Results of this annual religious
Mission.
Troy Cory co-wrote the original song
material featured in this Movie with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the LPE-1685 Cinema Prize
album, entitled, "Today's
Puzzle," and CD2525
recording: "An OL' Christmas Card, now
available at
Amazon.com.
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The place that was: Vine Street Stage,
Hollywood Located in the heart of
Hollywood, across from what used to be the
Hollywood Rnch Market, the Stage was
formerly used to produce the popular
national syndicated Groucho Marx Show and
Steve Allen Shows.
••••
In the mid 70s the Corys accquired
the property and from 1976-1979 - Troy
Cory's Vine Street Studio was the loction
of the first Music Videos produced: Rod
Stewart ("If Ya Think I'm Sexy," and
"Blondes Have More Fun;" Alana Stewart;
Nicolette Larson; Jackson Browne; Tom
Petty and the Heart Breakers; Randy
Meisner of the Eagles; Kiss; Joni
Mitchell; Rachel Welch; German singer
Manuela; James Coburn (Schlitz Beer
commercial); Ronnie McDonald (McDonalds);
••••
•••• It's most
famous tentant was the Peter Marshall
owned "Au Petit Cafe, a popular "hangout"
for people in the industry.
••••
In 1979, the undisputed Queen of
Disco, Donna Summer, was topping the pop
charts with "Hot Stuff," she decided to
own her own studio near her Hancock Park
Home and bought Vine Street Studios from
the Corys and started occupying the studio
proprty in January of 1980. Vine Street
Video moved its research editing and video
optical disks division to Pasadena,
Calfornia, near the Rose Bowl . . .
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TheWiTEL-ID-phoneNumber In
a threat to the 4th Amendment, law
enforcement is using location data as a
crime-fighting tool.
Concern
over mobile phone networks becoming
surveillance tools, the American Civil
Liberties Union recently asked hundreds of
local law enforcement agencies whether
they've tracked people's movements through
their cellphones. Most of those that
responded said they had, usually obtaining
the information from mobile phone
companies without a warrant. The practice
has become so routine, the ACLU found,
that phone companies are sending out
catalogs of monitoring services with
detailed price lists to police agencies.
The alarming findings should persuade
Congress to clarify that the government
can't follow someone electronically
without showing probable cause and
obtaining a warrants.
•••
The Supreme Court has long held that the
4th Amendment guarantee against
unreasonable searches and
seizures
requires police to obtain a warrant if the
intrusion would violate a target's
"reasonable expectation of privacy." Mobile
phone networks collect another - type
of data that wire-line networks don't:
They register a phone's location
continuously as long as it's turned on,
even when it's not in use. Those records
can be exceptionally revealing; as the
ACLU put it, the potential insights range
"from which friends you're seeing to where
you go to the doctor to how often you go
to church." The
fact that phone companies are collecting
fees
-- for providing this information raises
the additional question of whether their
financial interests trump their customers'
privacy interests. Looking for an answer,
Rep. Edward J. Markey recently asked the
major wireless carriers how much money
they've collected from law enforcement
agencies and whether they actively market
their information-gathering services.
•••A
growing number of courts have been
pushing back
against the Justice Department's
permissive approach, but the rulings
haven't been uniform. Nor are there clear
rules to distinguish emergencies from
routine investigations, live tracking from
the examination of stored data, or
any
of the many other complexities. Rather
than trusting judges to sort it all out,
Congress should make it clear that the
protections that apply to phone
conversations also apply to location data.
No warrant, no tracking.
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Bob Thompson made music with audacious
sound. The
composer and arranger passed away
May 21 in a
Los Angeles. (1924-2013)
••••
Thompson was one
of the foremost composers and arrangers
and is most famous for what came to be
known as the arranger for the Sonny
Bono-Troy Cory Speciatly Record Lable
Productions. His Space Age pop, or "Space
Age bachelor pad" music
&endash;
tunes that
allowed hi-fi buffs to turn the lights
down low, mix the perfect martini and set
the mood.
••••
But
his music was more than mood music. The
writer and arranger provided the hi-fi
soundtrack for a
swinging-bachelor
lifestyle coming of age in the late1950s.
His one-of-a-kind discs feature a singular
sound that evokes cocktail glasses,
swingin' guys and gals, and all-night
mischief. His music was often a spin on
old jazz standards, equipping them with
hip choral sounds and ping-ponging stereo
sound effects. Thompson's 1960 album, "The
Sound of Speed," was a tribute to fast
living, with orchestral riffs inspired by
jet engines, race cars.
••••Bob's
career spanned 40 years and garnered a
Grammy Nomination, with 100s of TV
commercials plus stints as composer or
arranger for Bing Crosby, Rosemary
Clooney, Ruth Olay, and Judy Garland to
name a few. Along the way he created Just
for Kicks, On the Rocks, MMM Nice! and The
Sound of Speed.
•••••Troy
Cory
(TVI's
iPublisher) looking back at his time at
Specialty Records remembers Bob Thompson
as one of the best. Thompson was the
arranger and conductor on Troy Cory's
recordings, Down on the Beach and
Just One More Chance. •
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It was just last week, (Nov 3rd, 2013)
-- that
Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner. • The Feature Movie was filmed in
-- and around the city of Munich,
Nymphenburg and Castle Neuschwanstein,
Germany and in Oberndorf, Austria, the
small village and church where the
Christmas carol "Silent Night" was
performed for the first time on December
25, 1818.
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•
101 St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
•
The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and Sylvester
Levay. Several years later it was
Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical "Elisabeth."
•
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From Germs, and Genes- Comes Patent.
Natural Genetic from The US Supreme Court
ruled on June 13th that
DNA is a
natural generic phenomenon, and cannot be
Patented. Unless the DNA has been produced
synethetically in a lab, it is not a
patentable invention. It was in 1980, the
high court helped trigger the biotech
revolution in medicine and agriculture--
when it ruled for the first time that a
living organism could be patented. That
decision upheld a patent for a bacteria
that could break down crude
oil.
Television
Internatinal Magazine Co-Founder, Al
Preiss. Born in Waseca, Minnesota,
Preiss began his career in the newsroom at
WCCO-TV in Minneapolis as a sportscaster.
He later moved to Los Angeles, where he
began teaching television courses at the
University of Southern California.
•••
It was there, in 1955 when Al Preiss had a
vision -- a vision that materialized in
1956, when he and his colleague Sam
Donaldson launched TELEvisionFilm
Magazine.
•••
Both Al and Sam had an honest conviction
that, "the television film industry had
reached a stage where it needed a national
publication that would analyze and put
into focus -- the news, issues and
problems which particularly concern the
production and distribution of film for
television.
•••
When Al Preiss died in August 1986, the
television industry lost an untiring
advocate and a giant of a good friend. The
tall, wonderfully amiable publisher truly
seemed to do it all -- attending nearly
every press conference, speech, convention
and reception, and was never seen without
his trademark clear plastic briefcase. You
turned around at these functions and there
was Preiss, taking notes, talking
animatedly, telling stories, doing his
job. One that he not only loved, but felt
was necessary and important. He did it all
with the help of his charming wife of 25
years, Sylvia, who was editor of the
magazine during the years of 1985 and
1986.
•••
The controlling interest of the magazine,
with all of its archival history was
purchased in 1987 by Television
International, Inc., headed by Josie
Cory.
•
History:
Founded in 1956 by ABC's
Sam
Donaldson
and his partner
Al
Preiss
and acquired by the Cory's in
1987.
In
March, 1963, TVI hosted the first
"Annual Festival of World TV
Classics Award " at the
Huntington Hartford Theater. By
1987, it grew to command the
print readership of television
network executives in 142
countries on six continents,
covering the industry of
television, film,
telecommunication and WiTEL.In the mid-90s the publication
went
online.
History:
Founded in 1956 by
ABC's
Sam
Donaldson
and his partner
Al
Preiss
and acquired by the
Cory's in
1987.
In
March, 1963, TVI
hosted the first
"Annual Festival of
World TV Classics
Award " at the
Huntington Hartford
Theater. It grew to
command the print
readership of
television network
executives in 142
countries on six
continents, covering
the industry of
television, film,
telecommunication and
WiTEL. In the middle
90s TVI Magazine went
online:
tvimagazine.com
•
• "People
read what they want,"
says tviNews. "There is
no master plan what
people are interested
in." The question is,
how can we partner with
people to have a
symbiotic realationship?
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