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• Sundance
Future Festival Home Is Set for
Boulder
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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. Together we continue to create a
Festival that acts as a vibrant space for
independent films and filmmakers to shine.
A place where each January, a community of
artists, industry, and audiences can
gather to discover what's new in global
storytelling," says Eugene Hernandez,
Sundance Film Festival Director and Head
of Public Programming. "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."
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the Details
Now
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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.
••••
Gould has had
extensive service in Screen Actors Guild
governance, first taking a seat on the
National Board in 2000. He served several
terms on the board, including two years as
national recording secretary. After
merger, Gould returned to union service
and was elected twice to the National
Board of SAG-AFTRA and served three terms
on the Los Angeles Local Board of
Directors, with his service continuing
until January 2025. He also served on
numerous national and Los Angeles
committees throughout his SAG-AFTRA
service, including the Los Angeles Local
Sexual Harassment Prevention and
Government Affairs and Public Policy
Committees.
••••
Kusatsu was elected
to SAG's Hollywood Division Board as an
alternate national director beginning in
2008 and was elected as a board member in
2010. His service continued post-merger;
in addition to serving on the SAG-AFTRA
National Board, he was elected to the
first of four two-year terms as national
vice president, Los Angeles in 2013.
Kusatsu was elected president of the Los
Angeles Local of SAG-AFTRA in 2013 and
served until 2015, after which he
continued on the LA Board for two
additional terms. He has also served on
numerous local and national committees,
including contract negotiating committees,
often in leadership roles such as chair.
He currently serves as secretary of the
SAG-AFTRA
Foundation.
••••
Ladd was elected to
a two-year term on the Screen Actors Guild
National Board in 1982 and returned to
serve throughout the 2000s. In addition to
her extensive Screen Actors Guild
Hollywood Board and national committee
service, she was elected to two four-year
terms on the SAG-AFTRA National Board
beginning in 2015. Ladd was also elected
to three two-year terms on the Los Angeles
Local Board of Directors and served as
co-chair of the Los Angeles Government
Affairs and Public Policy Committee during
the 2019-2021
term.
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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.
•••
The Show will commence with a one-on-one
conversation featuring renowned sports
media personality Stephen A. Smith during
the Welcome Session on April 7. Smith,
star of ESPN's "First Take," host of "The
Stephen A. Smith Show" and author of the
New York Times bestseller, "Straight
Shooter," will share insights on the
evolving media landscape, sports
entertainment and his journey to becoming
one of television's most influential
voices. Mike McVay, president of McVay
Media Consulting and a 40-year programming
veteran with extensive experience in
content creation, talent coaching and
media strategy, will be interviewing
Smith.
Also in the
sports world, WWE president Nick Khan and
chief content officer Paul "Triple H"
Levesque will discuss the company's
continuing evolution -- from global
expansion and talent development to
innovative storytelling and the
integration of new technologies as part of
the new Business of Entertainment track at
NAB Show produced in partnership with The
Ankler. the Las Vegas Convention Center
April 5-9, 2025, (Exhibits April 6-9) to
share knowledge, collaborate and network
with
peers.•
•••
Bowl champion transitioned to broadcasting
as co-host of the NFL Network's "Good
Morning Football," game analyst for CBS
Sports and contributor to ESPN programs
like "NFL Live" and "SportsCenter."
McCourty will discuss how engaging on-air
talent can elevate content, build loyal
fan bases and drive deeper audience
connections. the Las Vegas Convention
Center April 5-9, 2025, (Exhibits April
6-9) to share knowledge, collaborate and
network with
peers.•
•••
NAB Show will spotlight entrepreneurs
including Gotham Chopra, the award-winning
filmmaker and co-founder of "Religion of
Sports," who will deliver a compelling
keynote titled PEAK HUMAN: Unleashing the
Champion Within. Set for April 6 kicking
off the all-new Sports Summit, 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
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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
including:
Ben Stiller,
Executive Producer & Director
Dan Erickson, Creator, Writer &
Executive Producer
Adam Scott, "Mark Scout" &
Executive Producer
Patricia Arquette, "Harmony Cobel"
& Executive Producer
Britt Lower, "Helly R."
Zach Cherry, "Dylan George"
Dichen Lachman, "Ms. Casey"
Jen Tullock, "Devon Scout-Hale"
Sarah Bock, "Miss Huang"
Tramell Tillman, "Seth Milchick"
Michael Chernus, "Ricken Hale"
Gwendoline Christie,
"Lorne"
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson,
"Drummond"
Hacks
March
28, 2025 | 7:30
pm
The
PaleyFest Favorite Returns with a World
Premiere Screening and Conversation in
Advance of Season Four!
In
Person:
Jean
Smart,
"Deborah"
Hannah
Einbinder, "Ava"
Paul
W. Downs, "Jimmy," Creator, Showrunner,
Executive Producer, Writer & Director
Carl
Clemons-Hopkins,
"Marcus"
Mark
Indelicato,
"Damien"
Megan
Stalter, "Kayla Schaeffer"
Rose
Abdoo, "Josefina"
Lucia
Aniello, Creator, Showrunner, Executive
Producer, Writer & Director
Jen
Statsky, Creator, Showrunner, Executive
Producer & Writer
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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2025
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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
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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
Shows'
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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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The Octogenerian - ATAS a glittering
dream
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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.
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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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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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tviStory
101- Amazon MGM Studios To Control the 007
James Bond
Franchise
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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
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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
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selected from 15,775 submissions
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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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SAG-AFTRA
Donates $1 Million to SAG-AFTRA Foundation
for Fire
Relief
LOS ANGELES -
(Jan. 11, 2025) -- SAG-AFTRA announced
that it is making a $1 million donation to
the SAG-AFTRA Foundation to assist members
experiencing hardship caused by the Los
Angeles fires.
••••
Since the fires
broke out, the union has temporarily
closed its office in Los Angeles for
safety's sake, with staff working to
support members remotely, and it has kept
members informed and connected to
emergency resources.
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SAG-AFTRA Foundation for Fire
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Bolder
Colorado New Home Base for Sundance Film
Festival
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Speaker
Lineup scheduled for April NAB
Show
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SAG-AFTRA
actors Elliott Gould, Clyde Kusatsu and
Diane
Ladd
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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
•
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Nora O'Donnell's farewell Jan.
24
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Laurence
Peterson,
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QUIET
• WIRELESS
LEGACY
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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
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Nathan
Stubblefield Speaks -
YouTube
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Proof
of Connection 1902 when voice was
introduced to wireless transmission -
Wi-Fi
1902
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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
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Wireless Telephone
Patent
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Patent, Number 887,357, All Purpose
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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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SMART90 stands for Stubblefield
Nathan, Marconi Guglielmo,
Ambrose Fleming, Reginald
Fessenden, Tesla Nicola,
DeForest Lee, Armstrong
Edwin Howard, Alexanderson Ernst
Fredrik Werner, Farnsworth Philo,
••••
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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© 1993
SMART-DAAF stands for
Stubblefield,
Marconi, Ambrose,
Reginald Fessenden, Tesla,
DeForest, Armstrong,
Alexanderson, Farnsworth
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the world wide web
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TVIMAGAZINE.COM under the distribution arm
of SMART90.COM. (
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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
Chinese judges for Dramas, Documentaries
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Troy Cory, First American to perform on
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Cory's Road to
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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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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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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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