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Subject:  Guns N Roses Biography: At a time when pop was dominated by dance music and pop-metal, Guns N' Roses brought raw, ugly rock & roll crashing back into the charts. David Harrison Levi
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Date Posted: 15:18:40 03/19/07 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 Guns N Roses Biography: At a time when pop was dominated by dance music and pop-metal, Guns N' Roses brought raw, ugly rock & roll crashing back into the charts. They were not nice boys; nice boys don't play rock & roll. They were ugly, misogynist, and violent; they were also funny, vulnerable, and occasionally sensitive, as their breakthrough hit, "Sweet Child O' Mine," showed. While Slash and Izzy Stradlin ferociously spit out dueling guitar riffs worthy of Aerosmith or the Stones, Axl Rose screeched out his tales of sex, drugs, and apathy in the big city. Meanwhile, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler were a limber rhythm section who kept the music loose and powerful. Guns N' Roses' music was basic and gritty, with a solid hard, bluesy base; they were dark, sleazy, dirty, and honest -- everything that good hard rock and heavy metal should be. There was something refreshing about a band who could provoke everything from devotion to hatred, especially since both sides were equally right. There hadn't been a hard rock band this raw or talented in years, and they were given added weight by Rose's primal rage, the sound of confused, frustrated white trash vying for his piece of the pie. As the '80s became the '90s, there simply wasn't a more interesting band around, but owing to intra-band friction and the emergence of alternative rock, Rose's supporting cast gradually disintegrated, as he spent years in seclusion. Guns N' Roses released their first EP in 1986, which led to a contract with Geffen; the following year, the band released their debut album, Appetite for Destruction. They started to build a following with their numerous live shows, but the album didn't start selling until almost a year later, when MTV started playing "Sweet Child O' Mine." Soon, both the album and single shot to number one, and Guns N' Roses became one of the biggest bands in the world. Their debut single, "Welcome to the Jungle," was re-released and shot into the Top Ten, and "Paradise City" followed in its footsteps. By the end of 1988, they released G N' R Lies, which paired four new, acoustic-based songs (including the Top Five hit "Patience") with their first EP. G N' R Lies' inflammatory closer, "One in a Million," sparked intense controversy, as Rose slipped into misogyny, bigotry, and pure violence; essentially, he somehow managed to distill every form of prejudice and hatred into one five-minute tune. Guns N' Roses began work on the long-awaited follow-up to Appetite for Destruction at the end of 1990. In October of that year, the band fired Adler, claiming that his drug dependency caused him to play poorly; he was replaced by Matt Sorum from the Cult. During recording, the band added Dizzy Reed on keyboards. By the time the sessions were finished, the new album had become two new albums. After being delayed for nearly a year, the albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II were released in September 1991. Messy but fascinating, the albums showcased a more ambitious band; while there were still a fair number of full-throttle guitar rockers, there were stabs at Elton John-style balladry, acoustic blues, horn sections, female backup singers, ten-minute art rock epics with several different sections, and a good number of introspective, soul-searching lyrics. In short, they were now making art; amazingly, they were successful at it. The albums sold very well initially, but while they had seemed destined to set the pace for the decade to come, that turned out not to be the case at all. Nirvana's Nevermind hit number one in early 1992, suddenly making Guns N' Roses -- with all of their pretensions, impressionistic videos, models, and rock star excesses -- seem very uncool. Rose handled the change by becoming a dictator, or at least a petty tyrant; his in-concert temper tantrums became legendary, even going so far as to incite a riot in Montreal. Stradlin left by the end of 1991, and with his departure the band lost their best songwriter; he was replaced by ex-Kills for Thrills guitarist Gilby Clarke. The band didn't fully grasp the shift in hard rock until 1993, when they released an album of punk covers, The Spaghetti Incident?; it received some good reviews, but the band failed to capture the reckless spirit of not only the original versions, but their own Appetite for Destruction. By the middle of 1994, there were rumors flying that the band was about to break up, since Rose wanted to pursue a new, more industrial direction and Slash wanted to stick with their blues-inflected hard rock. The band remained in limbo for several more years, and Slash resurfaced in 1995 with the side project Slash's Snakepit and an LP, It's Five O'Clock Somewhere. Rose remained out of the spotlight, becoming a virtual recluse and doing nothing but tinkering in the studio; he also recruited various musicians -- including Dave Navarro, Tommy Stinson, and ex-Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck -- for informal jam sessions. Remaining members were infuriated by Rose's inclusion of childhood friend Paul Huge in the new sessions when both Stradlin and Clarke were excluded from rejoining the band. And a remake of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" was essentially the straw that broke the camel's back, as Rose cut out some of the other member's contributions and pasted Huge over the song without consulting anyone else. By 1996, Slash was officially out of Guns N' Roses, leaving Rose the lone remaining survivor from the group's heyday; rumors continued to swirl, and still no new material was forthcoming, though Rose did re-record Appetite for Destruction with a new lineup for rehearsal purposes. The first new original GNR song in eight years, the industrial metal sludge of "Oh My God" finally appeared on the soundtrack to the 1999 Arnold Schwarzenegger film End of Days. Soon after, Geffen issued the two-disc Live Era: '87-'93. 2000 brought the addition of guitarists Robin Finck (of Nine Inch Nails) and Buckethead. 2001 was greeted with Guns N' Roses' first live dates in nearly seven years, as the band (who consisted of Rose plus guitarists Finck, Buckethead, bassist Stinson, former Primus drummer Brian "Brain" Mantia, childhood friend and guitarist Paul Huge, and longtime GNR keyboardist Dizzy Reed) played a show on New Years Eve 2000 in Las Vegas, playing as well at the mammoth Rock in Rio festival the following month. On New Years Eve 2001, the band played almost the exact same set as the year before. An appearance at MTV's 2002 Video Music Awards helped garner interest in the new lineup, but a rusty performance from Rose and an interview where he said his new album wasn't coming out anytime soon didn't do much to further their cause. That summer, the band started on their first tour in almost eight years, and they managed to fulfill all of their commitments in Europe and Asia. Sadly, they caused a violent and destructive riot in Vancouver when Rose failed to show up for the first date of their North American tour. While he was up to his old shenanigans with the retooled lineup, former Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland, Slash, Sorum, and McKagan formed the successful Velvet Revolver in spring 2002. And so years passed and still no new GNR album, to the point where it became a joke to many. The album was long billed as Chinese Democracy, and occasionally session recordings would leak and make their way onto Internet file-sharing networks. A fascinating article written by Jeff Leeds for The New York Times, published March 2005, revealed how tangled and costly the making of the album had become. According to the article, titled "The Most Expensive Album Never Released," Rose began work on the album in 1994 and racked up production costs of at least 13 million dollars. Producers involved with the album at one time or another include Mike Clink, Youth, Sean Beavan, and even Roy Thomas Baker. (Curiously, Moby claimed to have been offered the job as well.) Marco Beltrami and Paul Buckmaster were allegedly brought in for orchestral arrangements, and there was a revolving door of guitarists. In 2006, the album seemed closer to release, as Rose began surfacing in public and even took his band on the road for some shows. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: With their 1978 eponymous debut, Van Halen simultaneously rewrote the rules of rock guitar and hard rock in general. David Harrison Levi
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Date Posted: 15:14:14 03/19/07 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 With their 1978 eponymous debut, Van Halen simultaneously rewrote the rules of rock guitar and hard rock in general. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen redefined what electric guitar could do, developing a blindingly fast technique with a variety of self-taught two-handed tapping, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and effects that mimicked the sounds of machines and animals. It was wildly inventive and over the top, equaled only by vocalist David Lee Roth, who brought the role of a metal singer to near-performance art standards. Roth wasn't blessed with great technique, unlike Eddie, but he had a flair for showmanship that was derived as much from lounge performers as Robert Plant. Together, they made Van Halen into the most popular American rock & roll band of the late '70s and early '80s, and in the process set the template for hard rock and heavy metal for the '80s. Throughout the '80s, it was impossible not to hear Van Halen's instrumental technique on records that ranged from the heaviest metal to soft pop. Furthermore, Roth's irony-drenched antics were copied by singers who took everything literally. One of these was Sammy Hagar, an arena rock veteran from the '70s who replaced Roth after the vocalist had a falling out with Van Halen in 1985. Hagar stayed with the band longer than Roth, helping the group top the charts through the late '80s and early '90s. However, the group's sales began to slide in the mid-'90s, just as tensions between Hagar and Eddie began to arise. In one of the most disastrous publicity stunts in rock history, Hagar was fired (or quit) and Roth was brought back on, seemingly as a permanent member, but only for two songs on a greatest-hits album. He was subsequently replaced by Gary Cherone, a former member of Extreme. Through all the upheaval over lead vocalists, Eddie Van Halen and his prodigious talent remained the core of Van Halen. The son of a Dutch bandleader, Eddie and his family moved from the Netherlands to Pasadena, CA, in 1967, when he was 12 years old and his older brother, Alex, was 14. As their father supported the family by playing in wedding bands, Eddie and Alex continued their classical piano training. Soon, both boys were enraptured by rock & roll. Eddie learned how to play drums and Alex took up the guitar, eventually switching instruments. The brothers began a hard rock band called Mammoth and began playing around Pasadena, eventually meeting David Lee Roth. At the time, Roth, who had been raised in a wealthy Californian family, was singing in Redball Jet. Impressed by the Van Halen brothers, he joined forces with the group. Shortly afterward, bassist Michael Anthony, who was singing with Snake, became a member of Mammoth. After discovering that another band had the rights to the name Mammoth, the group decided to call themselves Van Halen in 1974, rejecting the proposed Rat Salade. For the next three years, Van Halen played throughout Pasadena, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles, playing both clubs and hotel bars. The band's repertoire covered everything from pop and rock to disco, but they eventually worked in their own original material. Within a few years, they had become the most popular local band in Los Angeles, and Eddie became well known for his groundbreaking technique. In 1977, Kiss' Gene Simmons financed a demo recording session for Van Halen after seeing them at the Starwood Club. On the strength of Simmons' recommendation, Mo Ostin and Ted Templeman signed Van Halen to Warner Bros., releasing the band's debut the following year. Van Halen became a hit due to strong word of mouth, constant touring, and support from AOR radio. Within three months the album had gone gold, and five months later it went platinum. It would eventually sell over six million copies, thanks to the album rock staples "You Really Got Me," "Jamie's Cryin'," and "Runnin' With the Devil." Van Halen II, released in 1979, continued the band's success, as "Dance the Night Away" became their first Top 20 single. Women and Children First (1980) didn't have any charting singles, but was a success on the album charts, reaching number six. The band supported the album with their first headlining, international arena tour, and the group was quickly on their way to being superstars. Released in 1981, Fair Warning wasn't quite as popular as their previous records, yet it still peaked at number six. Diver Down, released in 1982, was a huge hit, spawning a number 12 cover of Roy Orbison's "(Oh) Pretty Woman" and reaching number three. While all of their previous albums were successful, Van Halen didn't become superstars until 1984, when their album 1984 became an across-the-board smash. Released on New Year's Day, 1984 rocketed to number two on the strength of the number one single "Jump." Like many songs on the album, "Jump" was driven by Eddie's new synthesizer, and while Roth was initially reluctant to use electronics, the expansion of the group's sound was widely praised. Throughout 1984, Van Halen gained steam, as "I'll Wait" and "Panama" became Top 15 singles and "Hot for Teacher" became a radio and MTV staple. Despite the band's breakthrough success, things were not well within the band. During their 1984 tour, each member played separate solo sets and were physically separated on the stage. Roth was unhappy with Eddie's appearance on Michael Jackson's 1983 hit "Beat It," and Eddie grew tired of the comic antics of Roth. In 1985, Roth released a solo EP, Crazy from the Heat, which spawned hit covers of "California Girls" and "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody." When Roth delayed the recording of Van Halen's follow-up to 1984, he was fired from the band. Most observers were taken by surprise when Sammy Hagar was named as Roth's replacement. The former lead singer of Montrose, Hagar's solo career had been sporadically successful, highlighted by such arena metal hits as "Three-Lock Box" and "I Can't Drive 55." Though many critics suspected Hagar wouldn't be able to sustain Van Halen's remarkable success, his first album with the band, 1986's 5150, was a huge hit, reaching number one and spawning the hit singles "Why Can't This Be Love," "Dreams," and "Love Walks In." Released in 1988, OU812 was just as successful, earning stronger reviews than its predecessor and generating the hits "When It's Love" and "Finish What You Started." For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, released in 1991, was another number one hit, partially due to the hit MTV video for "Right Now." Van Halen followed the album with their first live record, the double album Van Halen Live: Right Here, Right Now in 1993. By the spring 1995 release of Balance, tensions between Eddie Van Halen and Sammy Hagar had grown considerably. Eddie had recently undergone well-publicized treatment for alcoholism, and Hagar was notorious for his party-hearty ways, even writing a paean to Amsterdam's hash bars with "Amsterdam" on Balance. Furthermore, the band had become subject to criticism that it simply repeated a formula. While Balance was successful, entering the charts at number one and selling two million copies shortly after its release, it stalled quickly afterward. The band wanted to release a greatest-hits collection, but Hagar balked at the idea, escalating tensions even further. Following a skirmish in 1996 over the recording of a song for the Twister soundtrack, Eddie decided to make a change by switching singers. Van Halen began recording new material with Roth without informing Hagar, who went ballistic upon learning of the group's reunion. According to Hagar, Eddie fired him shortly afterward; Eddie claimed Hagar quit. Roth proceeded to record two new songs for Van Halen's Best Of, Vol. 1, and once the reunion became public, the rock media reacted positively to the news; MTV began airing a welcome back commercial days after the announcement. However, the reunion was not to be. Following an appearance at the MTV Music Awards, Eddie Van Halen fired Roth from the band, claiming that he was only on board to record two new songs. Roth said that he was duped into recording the songs, believing that the reunion was permanent. Former Extreme vocalist Gary Cherone was announced as the band's new lead singer. Though the resulting Best Of, Vol. 1 was a success, Eddie's reputation as a nice guy was tarnished once the entire affair was over. Cherone's long-awaited debut with Van Halen, entitled Van Halen III, was finally released in March of 1998. Although the album debuted high on the charts, crashing in at number three, it quickly slipped down the charts, since the reception to the album from fans, critics, and radio was mixed. After Van Halen III proved to be the worst-selling album of Van Halen's long and illustrious career (the ensuing world tour was poorly attended as well), Cherone was dismissed from Van Halen in 1999. Immediately, rumors began to swirl once more of an impending David Lee Roth/Van Halen reunion. Things were kept completely hush-hush in the Van Halen camp until early 2001, when David Lee Roth went public on his website with an update, confirming that he had recorded several new songs with the band (tracks that Roth described as amazing, phenomenal, and astonishing), but hadn't heard back from them since the previous summer. Only a few days after Roth's news, Eddie Van Halen admitted to the public that he was battling cancer, but was told by his doctors that chances were good for a complete recovery. In the summer of 2001, Eddie told MTV News that the band's remaining members had penned a total of three albums worth of new material and that they were still unsure of who their next singer would be. Months later, fans were shocked to hear that the band parted ways with Warner Bros., its label since 1979. The bandmembers blamed the label for promoting younger bands, while also admitting that they had not yet found Cherone's replacement and were no longer considering Roth. 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Subject: More than any other single artist, Britney Spears was the driving force behind the return of teen pop in the late '90s. David Harrison Levi
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Date Posted: 15:08:26 03/19/07 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 More than any other single artist, Britney Spears was the driving force behind the return of teen pop in the late '90s. The blockbuster success of the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys certainly paved the way for her own commercial breakthrough, but Spears didn't just become a star -- she was a bona fide pop phenomenon. Not only did she sell millions of records, she was a media fixture regardless of what she was (or wasn't) doing; among female singers of the era (many of whom followed in her footsteps), her celebrity star power was rivaled only by Jennifer Lopez. From the outset, Spears' sex appeal was an important part of her image; the video for her debut single, "...Baby One More Time," outfitted her in full Catholic-school regalia, and sent her well on the way to becoming an international sex symbol. Yet Spears' handlers seemed to be trying to have it both ways -- there was a definite tension between the wholesome innocence Spears tried to project for her female audience, and the titillating sexuality that enticed so many male fans. Those marketing tactics made Spears a somewhat controversial figure, the subject of endless debates concerning appropriate role models for teenage girls. Early on, Spears tried to defuse the controversy by preaching abstinence until marriage, and even denied that she was consciously cultivating such a sexualized image. Of course, the more provocative and revealing her on-stage wardrobe became, the less plausible that claim seemed. But apart from her ability to tiptoe the line between virginal coquette and brazen tart, Spears had a secret weapon in Swedish pop mastermind Max Martin, who had a hand in the vast majority of her hits as a writer and/or producer. With Martin crafting the sort of contemporary dance-pop and sentimental ballads that made stars of the Backstreet Boys, Spears kept on delivering the goods commercially, as her first three albums all topped the charts. Britney Jean Spears was born December 2, 1981, in the small town of Kentwood, LA, and began performing as a singer and dancer at a young age. With a nationally televised appearance on Star Search already under her belt, Spears auditioned for the Disney Channel's The New Mickey Mouse Club at age eight. The producers turned her down as too young, but one of them took an interest and introduced her to an agent in New York. Spears spent the next three years studying at the Professional Performing Arts School, and also appeared in several television commercials and off-Broadway plays. At 11, she returned to The New Mickey Mouse Club for a second audition, and this time made the cut. Although her fellow Mouseketeers included an impressive array of future stars -- *NSYNC's Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, Christina Aguilera, and Felicity actress Keri Russell -- the show was canceled after Spears' second season. She returned to New York at age 15 and set about auditioning for pop bands and recording demo tapes, one of which eventually landed her a deal with Jive Records. Spears entered the studio with top writer/producers like Eric Foster White (Boyzone, Whitney Houston, Backstreet Boys) and Max Martin (Ace of Base, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC). In late 1998, Jive released her debut single, the Martin-penned "...Baby One More Time." Powered by its video, in which Spears and a troupe of dancers were dressed as Catholic-school jailbait, the single shot to the top of the Billboard charts. When Spears' debut album of the same title was released in early 1999, it entered the charts at number one and stayed there for six weeks. Once the ubiquitous lead single died down, the album kept spinning off hits: the Top Ten "(You Drive Me) Crazy," the near-Top 20 ballad "Sometimes," and the Top 20 "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart." By the end of 1999, ...Baby One More Time had sold ten million copies, and went on to sell a good three million more on top of that. Its success touched off a wave of young pop divas that included Christina Aguilera, Pink, Jessica Simpson, and Mandy Moore. Spears was a superstar, drooled over in countless magazines, including a Rolling Stone cover that prompted immediate speculation about the still-17 year old having gotten breast implants. By the time ...Baby One More Time finally started to lose steam on the singles and album charts, Spears was ready to release her follow-up. Oops!...I Did It Again appeared in the spring of 2000, and the title track was an instant smash, racing into the Top Ten. The album entered the charts at number one and sold over a million copies in its first week of release, setting a new record for single-week sales by a female artist. Follow-up singles included "Lucky," the gold-selling "Stronger," and "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," which was co-written by country diva Shania Twain and her producer Mutt Lange. A year after its release, Oops!...I Did It Again had sold over nine million copies. Rumors that Spears was dating *N Sync heartthrob (and fellow ex-Mouseketeer) Justin Timberlake were eventually confirmed, which only added to the media attention lavished on her. For her next album, Spears looked ahead to a not-so-distant future when both she and much of her audience would be growing up. Released in late 2001, Britney tried to present the singer as a more mature young woman, and was accompanied by mild hints that her personal life wasn't always completely puritanical. It became her third straight album to debut at number one, although this time around the singles weren't as successful; "I'm a Slave 4 U," "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman," and "Overprotected" all missed the Top Ten. In early 2002, Spears' feature-film debut, Crossroads, hit theaters, but its commercial performance was somewhat disappointing; moreover, her romance with Timberlake fizzled not long after. Spears next made a cameo appearance in Mike Myers' Austin Powers: Goldmember, and contributed a remix of "Boys" to the soundtrack. Meanwhile, sales of Britney stalled at four million copies, perhaps in part because a new breed of teenage female singer/songwriters, like Michelle Branch and Avril Lavigne, was emerging as an alternative to the highly packaged teen queens. Spears took a break from recording and performing for several months, and began work on a new album in early 2003. The results, In the Zone, reflected a wish to be taken seriously as a mature (though still highly sexualized) adult. Predictably, it topped the charts and launched several singles into orbit, including the musically adventurous "Toxic," "Everytime," and "Me Against the Music." In the Zone hit number one on the Billboard 200, and "Toxic" snagged a Grammy for Best Dance Recording. But by 2004 there were no longer any illusions of Britney's personal life being all wholesome candy canes and kisses. First there was the star's bizarre two-day marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander, followed by the controversial, highly sexualized Onyx Hotel tour, which was eventually canceled (allegedly because of a knee injury) despite positive financial numbers. Starbucks and cigarettes were Britney's constant accessories in the endless paparazzi photos, and the revelation of her relationship with former backup dancer Kevin Federline made the tabloids even more ravenous. Spears and Federline married in September and were tabloid regulars in the months after the ceremony. (A photo of a barefoot Britney leaving a dingy gas station bathroom made the Internet rounds.) The couple also starred in Chaotic, a UPN reality show consisting mostly of their own home videos that was met with howls from the critics and blogs. 2005 was no less eventful for Spears. She released Greatest Hits: My Prerogative that January, but it was the announcement of her pregnancy that really garnered the headlines. Sean Preston Federline was born in September, and a bidding war ensued for first rights to the baby photos. As the hubbub surrounding Sean's birth continued, Britney released a remix album just in time for the holiday season. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: As both a member of *NSYNC and a solo artist, Southern superstar Justin Timberlake has played a major role in the teen pop explosion of the '90s and 2000s. - David Harrison Levi
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Date Posted: 14:27:28 03/19/07 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 As both a member of *NSYNC and a solo artist, Southern superstar Justin Timberlake has played a major role in the teen pop explosion of the '90s and 2000s. Like similar teen pop favorites -- who have included the Backstreet Boys, C-Note, Christina Aguilera, Hanson, the Spice Girls, and Britney Spears -- Timberlake usually doesn't get much respect from rock critics (who, in many cases, tend to be very alternative-minded and anti-commercialistic). Regardless, he is adored by millions of fans, many of whom have been adolescent girls. Over the years, the teen market has had a lot of different sounds. In the '70s, for example, artists like Donny Osmond, the Partridge Family, David Cassidy, and the DeFranco Family were aimed at teens -- those were the bubblegum popsters one typically read about in Tiger Beat magazine back then. But Timberlake is part of the more modern school of teen pop, which is mindful of dance-pop, urban contemporary, and hip-hop and got started with the rise of New Kids on the Block, Debbie Gibson, and Tiffany in the late '80s. New Kids, in fact, were the male group that paved the way for *NSYNC as well as the Backstreet Boys and Take That (who were meant to be a British equivalent of New Kids). And just as Tiger Beat (the bible of bubblegum) was obsessed with the New Kids in the late '80s, it would become equally obsessed with *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys in the '90s. Like Spears (who Timberlake became romantically involved with), Aguilera, and *NSYNC's JC Chasez, Timberlake got his start on the Disney Channel's '90s version of The Mickey Mouse Club. Timberlake and Chasez were on The Mickey Mouse Club simultaneously in their pre-*NSYNC days, and they kept working together when *NSYNC was formed. *NSYNC got started in Orlando, FL, in 1996, when Timberlake and Chasez teamed up with Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Joey Fatone. Released by RCA/BMG in 1998, the vocal quintet's self-titled debut album sold millions of copies in both the United States and Europe and contained the smash hits "I Want You Back" and "Tearing Up My Heart." *NSYNC's second album, No Strings Attached, was released on Jive in 2000 and was even more commercially successful; No Strings Attached went double platinum in only one week, and the singles "Bye Bye Bye" and "This I Promise You" became major hits. Jive released Celebrity, *NSYNC's third album, in 2001, and after that, Timberlake started recording as a solo artist. The singer had performed live as a solo artist before *NSYNC, but it wasn't until the early 2000s that he actually recorded an album as a solo act. Justified, Timberlake's first solo album, was released on Jive in November 2002. "Like I Love You," the album's first single, became a major hit and was followed by a second single, "Cry Me a River" (not to be confused with the melancholy Arthur Hamilton standard that was a hit for the late jazz singer/actress Julie London in 1955). Now a bona fide star -- the album had reached number two on the Billboard 200 -- and heartthrob to millions of girls, Timberlake continued his success by appearing on the Black Eyed Peas smash hit "Where Is the Love?" and in the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII, where he pulled off part of co-performer Janet Jackson's top in the now infamous "wardrobe malfunction" incident. That event, however, didn't stop him from winning two Grammys that year, and though he stayed out of the studio for a few years in order to concentrate on acting opportunities, Timberlake returned to the music world in 2006 with his Prince-inspired FutureSex/LoveSounds, which featured production work from Timbaland and Rick Rubin, and was followed by a brief club tour. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Christina Aguilera was the most popular female singer of the late-'90s teen pop revival - David Harrison Levi
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Date Posted: 14:17:40 03/19/07 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 After Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera was the most popular female singer of the late-'90s teen pop revival. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Aguilera was a technically skilled singer with a genuinely powerful voice, belting out her uptempo dance numbers and ballads with a diva's panache. Born Christina Maria Aguilera on December 18, 1980, on Staten Island, her parents were of Irish and Ecuadorian stock and her father's military career meant the family moved quite a bit during her childhood. They eventually settled in Pittsburgh, PA, where Aguilera began performing in talent shows at age six, with considerable success. She appeared on Star Search in 1988 (though she didn't win) and in 1992 joined the cast of the Disney Channel's The New Mickey Mouse Club, which also included Spears, future *NSYNC members Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, and Felicity star Keri Russell. After two years, Aguilera moved to Japan, where she recorded the hit duet "All I Wanna Do" with pop star Keizo Nakanishi. Returning to the U.S. in 1998, Aguilera recorded the song "Reflection" for Disney's Mulan; her performance helped earn her a record deal with RCA. Her self-titled debut album was released in the summer of 1999, and with teen-oriented dance-pop all the rage, the lead single "Genie in a Bottle" shot to the top of the charts for five weeks; the album also hit number one on its way to sales of over eight million copies in the U.S. alone. The follow-up, "What a Girl Wants," was the first number one single of the year 2000 and Aguilera consolidated her near-instant stardom by performing at the White House Christmas gala and the Super Bowl halftime show, and winning a Grammy for Best New Artist. Further hits followed in "I Turn to You" and another number one, "Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)." In September 2000, seeking a place in that year's Latin pop boom, the part-Ecuadorian Aguilera recorded a Spanish-language album called Mi Reflejo, learning the lyrics phonetically since she didn't speak Spanish. It was followed quickly by the holiday album My Kind of Christmas; both sold extremely well, a testament to Aguilera's popularity. In the spring of 2001, Aguilera was featured -- along with Pink, Mya, and Lil' Kim -- on the chart-topping blockbuster remake of Patti LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" featured on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Aguilera was by now a fixture at music industry awards shows; as she enjoyed her celebrity, a collection of old demos -- recorded when she was 14 and 15 -- was released under the title Just Be Free, despite Aguilera's vehement objections. Aguilera attempted to deter the mass media's expectations when she issued her second studio album in fall 2002. Stripped, which appeared in October on RCA, was quickly criticized for its adult yet confident approach. Aguilera's look had gone from glossy to gritty. She appeared topless on the cover of the album and went nude for a fall issue of Rolling Stone. Debut single "Dirrty" revealed her new sexual power and became a chart smash, while "Beautiful" showed her softer side. For her next record, however, Aguilera split from producer Scott Storch and went to work with DJ Premier and Linda Perry, among others, for the 2006 Back to Basics, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album, a two-disc set that explored her influences, mainly '20s, '30s, and '40s jazz and blues in the style of Etta James or Billie Holiday, portrayed a more mature, yet at the same time provocative, singer. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2007 - Info and Nominee List - David Harrison Levi
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Date Posted: 22:49:18 03/18/07 Sun Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2007 - Info and Nominee List What are kids watching and listening to these days? Every year, Nickelodeon gives kids a chance to express their opinions with the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Kids vote for their favorites from categories pertaining to movies, music, sports, and other entertainment. Nickelodeon then announces the winners during the annual awards show, which features a lot of celebrities, pranks, and buckets of slime. This year, 2007, the awards show will be hosted by Justin Timberlake, who has been a winner himself in the categories of Favorite Musical Group (‘N Sync – 1999) and Best Burp – 2003 & 2006. He is also a nominee this year for Favorite Male Singer. Considering the age demographics of Nickelodeon viewers - the highest demographic group being kids ages 6-11 - the Kids' Choice Awards are an interesting commentary on today's youth and what they are watching and listening to. Here are the 2007 nominees for Nickelodeon’s 20th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards: MOVIES Favorite Movie: Big Momma's House 2 Click The Night at the Museum The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Favorite Female Movie Star: Halle Berry Dakota Fanning Keira Knightly Sarah Jessica Parker Favorite Male Movie Star: Jack Black Johnny Depp Adam Sandler Will Smith Favorite Animated Movie: Cars Happy Feet Ice Age: The Meltdown Over the Hedge Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie: Ashton Kutcher/Open Season Queen Latifah/Ice Age: The Meltdown Julia Roberts/The Ant Bully Bruce Willis/Over the Hedge MUSIC Favorite Song: Bad Day (Daniel Powter) Crazy (Gnarls Barkley) Hips Don't Lie (Shakira, feat. Favorite Male Singer: Chris Brown Jesse McCartney Sean Paul Justin Timberlake Favorite Female Singer: Christina Aguilera Beyonce Ciara Jessica Simpson Favorite Music Group: Black Eyed Peas Fall Out Boy Nickelback Red Hot Chili Peppers TELEVISION Favorite TV Show: American Idol Drake & Josh Fear Factor The Suite Life of Zack and Cody Favorite Television Actress: Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana Emma Roberts/Unfabulous Jamie Lynn Spears/Zoey 101 Raven-Symone/That's So Raven Favorite Television Actor: Drake Bell/Drake & Josh Jason Lee/My Name is Earl Charlie Sheen/Two and a Half Men Cole Sprouse/The Suite Life of Zack and Cody Favorite Cartoon: The Fairly OddParents Jimmy Neutron The Simpsons SpongeBob SquarePants SPORTS Favorite Athlete: LeBron James Shaquille O'Neal Alex Rodriguez Tiger Woods OTHER CATEGORIES Favorite Video Game: Madden NFL 07 Mario Kart New Super Mario Bros. SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab Favorite Book: Harry Potter (series) How to Eat Fried Worms Island of the Blue Dolphins A Series of Unfortunate Events (series) This year, the awards show will air on Saturday, March 31 (8-9:30 p.m. ET/PT). Also, in celebration of the 20 year milestone, Nickelodeon will broadcast a special, Deep Inside the KCA's: Celebrating 20 Years of Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, on Sunday, March 18(8:30p.m. ET/PT). For more information on the 2007 Kids' Choice Awards, visit Nick.com. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: 49th Grammy Awards Winners - David Harrison Levi
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Date Posted: 18:29:37 03/15/07 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 Category 90 Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (An Engineer's Award. (Artists names appear in parenthesis.)) Adieu False Heart Gary Paczosa, engineer (Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy) [Vanguard Records] At War With The Mystics The Flaming Lips & Dave Fridmann, engineers (The Flaming Lips) [Warner Bros. Records] Like Red On A Rose Brandon Bell, Terry Christian & Gary Paczosa, engineers (Alan Jackson) [Arista Nashville] The Phat Pack Marcelo Pennell, Dean Sharenow & Tommy Vicari, engineers (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band) [Immergent] Suitcase Rik Pekkonen & John Porter, engineers (Keb' Mo') [Epic/One Haven/Red Ink] Category 91 Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (A Producer's Award. (Artists names appear in parenthesis.)) Howard Benson Every Man For Himself (Hoobastank) (A) Flyleaf (Flyleaf) (A) In With The Out Crowd (Less Than Jake) (A) One-X (Three Days Grace) (A) The Paramour Sessions (Papa Roach) (A) Popaganda (Head Automatica) (A) Saosin (Saosin) (A) T Bone Burnett Thunderbird (Cassandra Wilson) (A) The True False Identity (T Bone Burnett) (A) Walk The Line — Soundtrack (Joaquin Phoenix & Various Artists) (A) Danger Mouse Pieces Of The People We Love (The Rapture) (T) St. Elsewhere (Gnarls Barkley) (A) Rick Rubin American V: A Hundred Highways (Johnny Cash) (A) God's Gonna Cut You Down (Johnny Cash) (T) Stadium Arcadium (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (A) Taking The Long Way (Dixie Chicks) (A) 12 Songs (Neil Diamond) (A) Will.i.am About You (Mary J. Blige Featuring Will.i.am) (T) Big Girls Don't Cry (Fergie) (T) Damn Girl (Justin Timberlake Featuring Will.i.am) (T) I Am Somebody (Santana Featuring Will.i.am) (T) I Love My B**** (Busta Rhymes Featuring Kelis & Will.i.am) (T) Mas Que Nada (Sergio Mendes Featuring The Black Eyed Peas) (T) Timeless (Sergio Mendes) (A) Category 92 Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (A Remixer's Award. (Artists names appear in parenthesis for identification.) Singles or Tracks only.) Be Without You (Moto Blanco Vocal Mix) Moto Blanco, remixer (Mary J. Blige) [Geffen Records] Damage Thorn (Buick Project Remix) Buick Project, remixers (Tiefschwarz & Tracey Thorn) [Fine/Four Music Productions] Deja Vu (Freemasons Club Mix - No Rap) Russell Small & James Wiltshire, remixers (Beyoncé) [Columbia/Sony Urban Music] Talk (Thin White Duke Mix) Jacques Lu Cont, remixer (Coldplay) Track from: Talk Remix EP [Capitol Records] World Hold On (E-Smoove Remix) E-Smoove, remixer (Bob Sinclar) [Tommy Boy Entertainment, LLC] Return to top of page Field 28 — Surround Sound Category 93 Best Surround Sound Album (For vocal or instrumental albums. Albums only.) Immortal Nystedt Morten Lindberg & Hans Peter L'Orange, surround mix engineers; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Ensemble 96 Conducted By Øystein Fevang) [2L] Long Walk To Freedom Martin Walters, surround mix engineer; Martin Walters, surround mastering engineer; Martin Walters, surround producer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) [Heads Up International] Morph The Cat Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Donald Fagen, surround producer (Donald Fagen) [Reprise Records] Straight Outta Lynwood Tony Papa, surround mix engineer; Bernie Grundman, surround mastering engineer; Al Yankovic, surround producer ("Weird Al" Yankovic) [Volcano/Zomba Label Group] A Valid Path P.J. Olsson & Alan Parsons, surround mix engineers; Bob Michaels, surround mastering engineer; Alan Parsons, surround producer (Alan Parsons) [Immergent] Return to top of page Field 29 — Production, Classical Category 94 Best Engineered Album, Classical (An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.)) Elgar: Enigma Variations; Britten: The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra, Four Sea Interludes Michael Bishop, engineer (Paavo Järvi & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) [Telarc] Látigo Leslie Ann Jones & Judy Kirschner, engineers (Quartet San Francisco) [Violinjazz Recordings] Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Wolf-Dieter Karwatky & Rainer Maillard, engineers (Pierre Boulez, Wiener Philharmoniker, Christine Schäfer, Michelle DeYoung & Wiener Singverein) [Deutsche Grammophon] Requiem John Newton, engineer (Craig Hella Johnson & Conspirare) [Clarion Records] Vaughan Williams: Mass In G Min., And Other A Cappella Works Jack Renner, engineer (Norman Mackenzie & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus) [Telarc] Category 95 Producer Of The Year, Classical (A Producer's Award. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.)) Manfred Eicher Honegger/Martin/Bach/Pintscher/Ravel (Frank Peter Zimmermann & Heinrich Schiff) Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente (Juliane Banse & András Keller) Nuove Musiche (Rolf Lislevand, Arianna Savall, Pedro Estevan, Bjørn Kjellemyr, Guido Morini, Marco Ambrosini & Thor-Harald Johnsen) Schubert: String Quartet G Maj. (Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica) Silvestrov/Pärt/Ustvolskaya: Misterioso (Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Trostiansky & Kyrill Rybakov) Stephen Johns Angel Dances (12 Cellists Of Berliner Philharmoniker) Holst: The Planets (Sir Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker) Schubert: Symphony No. 9 'The Great' (Sir Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker) Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Sarah Chang & Simon Rattle) Vivaldi: Flute Concertos (Emmanuel Pahud & Richard Tognetti) James Mallinson Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Bernard Haitink & London Symphony Orchestra) Elgar: The Dream Of Gerontius (Sir Colin Davis, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Alastair Miles, David Rendall, London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra) Prokofiev: The Complete Symphonies (Valery Gergiev & London Symphony Orchestra) Sibelius: Kullervo (Sir Colin Davis, Monica Groop, Peter Mattei, London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra) Smetana: Má Vlast (Sir Colin Davis & London Symphony Orchestra) Elaine Martone Del Tredici: Paul Revere's Ride; Theofanidis: The Here And Now; Bernstein: Lamentation (Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, Hila Plitmann & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Chorus) Elgar: Enigma Variations; Britten: The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra, Four Sea Interludes (Paavo Järvi & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue (Michel Camilo, Ernest Martinez Izquierdo & Barcelona Symphony Orchestra) Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Songs Of A Wayfarer (Benjamin Zander, Christopher Maltman & Philharmonia Orchestra) Renaissance Favorites For Guitar (David Russell) Sid McLauchlan Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 (Gustavo Dudamel & Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela) Golijov: Ainadamar: Fountain Of Tears (Robert Spano, Kelley O'Connor, Women Of The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Dawn Upshaw) Italia, Ti Amo (Plácido Domingo, Eugene Kohn & Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra) Simple Gifts (Bryn Terfel) Wagner: Excerpts From 'The Ring Of The Nibelung' (Ben Heppner, Peter Schneider, Burkhard Ulrich & Staatskapelle Dresden) Return to top of page Field 30 — Classical Category 96 Best Classical Album (Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist.) Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 Bernard Haitink, conductor; James Mallinson, producer (London Symphony Orchestra) [LSO Live] Lieberson: Rilke Songs, The Six Realms, Horn Concerto David Starobin, producer (Justin Brown & Donald Palma; Michaela Fukacova, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & William Purvis; Peter Serkin; The Odense Symphony Orchestra) [Bridge Records, Inc.] Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Andreas Neubronner, producer (San Francisco Symphony) [San Francisco Symphony] Martha Argerich And Friends: Live From The Lugano Festival 2005 Martha Argerich And Friends; Ulrich Ruscher, producer [EMI Classics] Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito René Jacobs, conductor; Marie-Claude Chappuis, Bernarda Fink, Sergio Foresti, Sunhae Im, Mark Padmore & Alexandrina Pendatchanska; Martin Sauer, producer (Freiburger Barockorchester) [Harmonia Mundi] Category 97 Best Orchestral Performance (Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.) Bax: Tone Poems Vernon Handley, conductor (BBC Philharmonic) [Chandos] Glazunov: Symphonies 4 & 7 José Serebrier, conductor (Royal Scottish National Orchestra) [Warner Classics] Mahler: Symphony No. 6 In A Min. Iván Fischer, conductor (Budapest Festival Orchestra) [Channel Classics] Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony) [San Francisco Symphony] Prokofiev: The Complete Symphonies Valery Gergiev, conductor (London Symphony Orchestra) [Philips] Category 98 Best Opera Recording (Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists.) Bennett: The Mines Of Sulphur Stewart Robertson, conductor; Brian Anderson, Dorothy Byrne, Beth Clayton, Kristopher Irmiter, Brandon Jovanovich, James Maddalena, Michael Todd Simpson & Caroline Worra; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra) [Chandos] Golijov: Ainadamar: Fountain Of Tears Robert Spano, conductor; Kelley O'Connor, Jessica Rivera & Dawn Upshaw; Valérie Gross & Sid McLauchlan, producers (Women Of The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) [Deutsche Grammophon] Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito René Jacobs, conductor; Marie-Claude Chappuis, Bernarda Fink, Sergio Foresti, Sunhae Im, Mark Padmore & Alexandrina Pendatchanska; Martin Sauer, producer (RIAS Kammerchor; Freiburger Barockorchester) [Harmonia Mundi] Smetana: The Bartered Bride Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor; Yvette Bonner, Paul Charles Clarke, Neal Davies, Susan Gritton, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Yvonne Howard, Robin Leggate, Diana Montague, Geoffrey Moses, Timothy Robinson & Peter Rose; Brian Couzens, producer (The Royal Opera Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra) [Chandos Opera In English] Verdi: La Traviata Carlo Rizzi, conductor; Thomas Hampson, Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazón; Rainer Maillard, producer (Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Philharmoniker) [Deutsche Grammophon] Category 99 Best Choral Performance (Award to the Choral Conductor, and to the Orchestra Conductor if an Orchestra is on the recording, and to the Choral Director or Chorus Master if applicable.) Immortal Nystedt Øystein Fevang, conductor (Brum Vokalensemble & Ensemble 96) [2L] Mozart: Great Mass In C Min. Paul McCreesh, conductor (Sarah Connolly, Neal Davies, Timothy Robinson & Camilla Tilling; Gabrieli Consort; Gabrieli Consort & Players) [Deutsche Grammophon] Pärt: Da Pacem Paul Hillier, conductor (Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir) [Harmonia Mundi] Requiem Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Conspirare) [Clarion Records] Whitacre: Cloudburst And Other Choral Works Stephen Layton, conductor (Thomas Guthrie, Elin Manahan Thomas & Simon Wall; Polyphony) [Hyperion] Category 100 Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) (Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.) Brahms: The Piano Concertos Riccardo Chailly, conductor; Nelson Freire (Gewandhausorchester) [Decca] Henze: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 And 3 Christopher Lyndon-Gee, conductor; Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra) [Naxos] Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques (Exotic Birds) John McLaughlin Williams, conductor; Angelin Chang (Cleveland Chamber Symphony) Track from: Cleveland Chamber Symphony: Music That Dares To Explore, Vol. 6 [TNC] Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Antonio Pappano, conductor; Leif Ove Andsnes (Berliner Philharmoniker) [EMI Classics] Schmidt: Concertos Ole Schmidt, conductor; Ulla Miilmann (Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR) [Dacapo Records] Category 101 Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) (Award to the Instrumental Soloist.) Bach: The Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Solo Gidon Kremer [ECM New Series] Bacheler: The Bachelar's Delight Paul O'Dette [Harmonia Mundi] Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. II András Schiff [ECM New Series] Chopin: Nocturnes Maurizio Pollini [Deutsche Grammophon] Primrose: Viola Transcriptions Roberto Díaz (Robert Koenig) [Naxos] Category 102 Best Chamber Music Performance (Award to the Artists.) Chamber Works For Winds And Strings By Mozart The Chicago Chamber Musicians [Summit Records] Corigliano: Violin Sonata, Etude Fantasy Andrew Russo (Corey Cerovsek & Steven Heyman) [Black Box] Intimate Voices Emerson String Quartet [Deutsche Grammophon] Martha Argerich And Friends: Live From The Lugano Festival 2005 Martha Argerich And Friends [EMI Classics] Shostakovich: Piano Trios 1 & 2, Seven Romances On Verses By Alexander Blok Beaux Arts Trio [Warner Classics] Category 103 Best Small Ensemble Performance (Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.)) Angel Dances 12 Cellists Of Berliner Philharmoniker [EMI Classics] Ikon Harry Christophers, conductor; The Sixteen [Decca] Miguel De Cervantes — Don Quijote De La Mancha — Romances Y Músicas Jordi Savall, conductor; Hesprion XXI & La Capella Reial De Catalunya [Alia Vox] Padilla: Sun Of Justice Peter Rutenberg, conductor; Los Angeles Chamber Singers' Cappella [RCM — Rubedo Canis Musica] Shostakovich/Sviridov/Vainberg: Chamber Symphonies Yuri Bashmet; Moscow Soloists [Onyx Classics] Category 104 Best Classical Vocal Performance (Award to the Vocal Soloist(s).) Britten: Song Cycles Ian Bostridge (Sir Simon Rattle; Radek Baborák; Berliner Philharmoniker) [EMI Classics] Canciones Argentinas Bernarda Fink & Marcos Fink (Carmen Piazzini) [Harmonia Mundi] Consider, My Soul Thomas Quasthoff (Sebastian Weigle; Staatskapelle Dresden) [Deutsche Grammophon] Rilke Songs Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Peter Serkin) Track from: Lieberson: Rilke Songs, The Six Realms, Horn Concerto [Bridge Records, Inc.] Songs Of Amy Beach Patrick Mason (Joanne Polk) [Bridge Records, Inc.] Category 105 Best Classical Contemporary Composition (A Composer's Award. (For a contemporary classical composition composed within the last 25 years, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year.)) Boston Concerto Elliott Carter (Oliver Knussen) Track from: The Music Of Elliott Carter, Vol. Seven [Bridge Records, Inc.] Golijov: Ainadamar: Fountain Of Tears Osvaldo Golijov (Robert Spano) [Deutsche Grammophon] The Here And Now Christopher Theofanidis (Robert Spano) Track from: Del Tredici: Paul Revere's Ride; Theofanidis: The Here And Now; Bernstein: Lamentation [Telarc] Paul Revere's Ride David Del Tredici (Robert Spano) Track from: Del Tredici: Paul Revere's Ride; Theofanidis: The Here And Now; Bernstein: Lamentation [Telarc] A Scotch Bestiary James MacMillan (James MacMillan) Track from: MacMillan: A Scotch Bestiary, Piano Concerto No. 2 [Chandos] Category 106 Best Classical Crossover Album (Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.) The Film Music Of Erich Wolfgang Korngold Rumon Gamba, conductor (BBC Philharmonic) [Chandos] Invention & Alchemy David Lockington, conductor; Deborah Henson-Conant (The Grand Rapids Symphony) [Golden Cage Music] Látigo Quartet San Francisco (John Santos) [Violinjazz Recordings] Simple Gifts Bryn Terfel (London Voices; London Symphony Orchestra) [Deutsche Grammophon] Song Zu Ying: The Diva Goes To The Movies Song Zu Ying (China National Symphony Orchestra) [JB Audiophile] Return to top of page Field 31 — Music Video Category 107 Best Short Form Music Video (For an individual track or single promotional clip. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer.) 8th Of November Big & Rich Robert Deaton, George Flanigen & Marc Oswald, video directors; Robert Deaton, George Flanigen, Steve Lamar & Marc Oswald, video producers [Warner Bros.] When You Were Young The Killers Anthony Mandler, video director; Everardo Gout, Gina Leonard, video producers [Island Def Jam] Here It Goes Again OK Go Dan Konopka, Damian Kulash, Jr., Timothy Nordwind, Andy Ross & Trish Sie, video directors; Dan Konopka, Damian Kulash, Jr., Timothy Nordwind, Andy Ross & Trish Sie, video producers [Capitol] Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers Tony Kaye, video director; Rachel Curl, video producer [Warner Bros.] Writing On The Walls Underoath Anders Forsman, Ragnar Granstrand & Linus Johansson, video directors; Maria Berggren, Anders Forsman, Ragnar Granstrand & Linus Johansson, video producers [Solid State/Tooth & Nail] Category 108 Best Long Form Music Video (For video album packages consisting of more than one song or track. 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Date Posted: 18:31:42 03/15/07 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 Category 70 Best Hawaiian Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Generation Hawai'i Amy Hanaiali'i [Hanaiali'i Records] Grandmaster Slack Key Guitar Ledward Ka'apana [Rhythm And Roots Records] The Wild Hawaiian Henry Kapono [Eclectic Records] Hawaiian Slack Key Kings Various Artists Chris Lau & Milton Lau, producers [Rhythm And Roots Records] Legends Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar — Live From Maui Various Artists Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku, Jr., Paul Konwiser & Wayne Wong, producers [Daniel Ho Creations] Return to top of page Field 15 — Reggae Category 71 Best Reggae Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Too Bad Buju Banton [Gargamel Music, Inc.] Love Is My Religion Ziggy Marley [Tuff Gong Worldwide] Youth Matisyahu [Epic/Or/JDub] Rhythm Doubles Sly & Robbie [Taxi Records] Who You Fighting For UB40 [Rhino Entertainment] Return to top of page Field 16 — World Music Category 72 Best Traditional World Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Music Of Central Asia Vol. 2: Invisible Face Of The Beloved: Classical Music Of The Tajiks And Uzbeks The Academy Of Maqâm [Smithsonian Folkways Recordings] Endless Vision Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan [World Village] Hambo In The Snow Andrea Hoag, Loretta Kelley & Charlie Pilzer [Azalea City Recordings] Golden Strings Of The Sarode Aashish Khan & Zakir Hussain [Moment Records] Blessed Soweto Gospel Choir [Shanachie] Category 73 Best Contemporary World Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Tiki Richard Bona [Decca] M'Bemba Salif Keita [Decca] Wonder Wheel - Lyrics by Woody Guthrie The Klezmatics [Jewish Music Group] Long Walk To Freedom Ladysmith Black Mambazo [Heads Up International] Savane Ali Farka Toure [World Circuit/Nonesuch] Return to top of page Field 17 — Polka Category 74 Best Polka Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Batteries Not Included Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones [Bel-Aire Records] As Sweet As Candy Lenny Gomulka & Chicago Push [Push Records] Party Dress LynnMarie & The Boxhounds [Squeeze Record] Good Friends Good Music Walter Ostanek & Fred Ziwich [Ranch Recordings] Polka In Paradise Jimmy Sturr And His Orchestra [Rounder] Return to top of page Field 18 — Children's Category 75 Best Musical Album For Children (For albums consisting of predominantly music or song vs. spoken word.) Baby Einstein Meet The Orchestra Various Artists Ted Kryczko & Ed Mitchell, producers [Walt Disney Records] Beethoven's Wig 3: Many More Sing Along Symphonies Beethoven's Wig [Rounder] Catch That Train! Dan Zanes And Friends [Festival Five Records] My Best Day Trout Fishing In America [Trout Records] The Sunny Side Of The Street John Lithgow [Razor & Tie] Category 76 Best Spoken Word Album For Children (For albums consisting of predominantly spoken word vs. music or song.) Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dogs Bill Harley [Round River Records/Empyrean Records] Christmas In The Trenches John McCutcheon [Peachtree Press] Disney's Little Einsteins Musical Missions Various Artists Ted Kryczko & Ed Mitchell, producers [Walt Disney Records] Peter Pan Jim Dale [Listening Library] The Witches Lynn Redgrave [Harper Children's Audio] Return to top of page Field 19 — Spoken Word Category 77 Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling) (Narrated/dramatized books include authors' names in parenthesis for identification.) I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! (Bob Newhart) Bob Newhart [Hyperion Audiobooks] New Rules — Polite Musings From A Timid Observer Bill Maher [Phoenix Audio] Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (Jimmy Carter) Jimmy Carter [Simon & Schuster Audio] The Truth (With Jokes) (Al Franken) Al Franken [Brilliance Audio] With Ossie And Ruby: In This Life Together (Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee) Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee [Time Warner] Return to top of page Field 20 — Comedy Category 78 Best Comedy Album (For comedy recordings, spoken or musical) Blue Collar Comedy Tour — One For The Road Bill Engvall, Ron White, Jeff Foxworthy & Larry The Cable Guy [Warner Bros.] The Carnegie Hall Performance Lewis Black [Comedy Central Records] Life Is Worth Losing George Carlin [Atlantic] Straight Outta Lynwood "Weird Al" Yankovic [Volcano/Zomba Label Group] You Can't Fix Stupid Ron White [Image Entertainment] Return to top of page Field 21 — Musical Show Category 79 Best Musical Show Album (Award to the Album Producer(s), and to the Lyricist(s) & Composer(s) of 51% or more of a new score. (Artist, Lyricist & Composer names appear in parenthesis.)) The Color Purple Jay David Saks, producer; Stephen Bray, Brenda Russell & Allee Willis, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast With LaChanze, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes & Others) [Angel Records] The Drowsy Chaperone Kurt Deutsch, Joel Moss & Phil Reno, producers; Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast With Bob Martin, Sutton Foster, Beth Leavel & Others) [Ghostlight] Jersey Boys Bob Gaudio, producer (Bob Gaudio, composer; Bob Crewe, lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast With Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, John Lloyd Young & Others) [Rhino] The Pajama Game Harry Connick, Jr. & Tracey Freeman, producers (Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, composers/lyricists) (New Broadway Cast With Harry Connick, Jr., Kelli O'Hara & Others) [Columbia] Sweeney Todd — The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tommy Krasker, producer (Stephen Sondheim, composer/lyricist) (Broadway Cast With Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris & Others) [Nonesuch] Return to top of page Field 22 — Film/TV/Visual Media Category 80 Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (Award to the Artist(s) and/or Producer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album, or to the individual(s) actively responsible for the concept and musical direction and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable.) Brokeback Mountain Various Artists Gustavo Santaolalla, producer [Verve Forecast] Cars Various Artists Chris Montan & Randy Newman, producers [Walt Disney Records/Pixar] Grey's Anatomy — Volume 2 Various Artists Mitchell Leib & Alexandra Patsavas, producers [Hollywood Records] Little Miss Sunshine Devotchka (& Various Artists) Mychael Danna, producer [Lakeshore Records] Walk The Line Joaquin Phoenix (& Various Artists) T Bone Burnett, producer [Wind-Up Records] Category 81 Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (Award to Composer(s) for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show or series or other visual media.) The Chronicles Of Narnia — The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe Harry Gregson-Williams, composer [Walt Disney Records] The Da Vinci Code Hans Zimmer, composer [Decca] Memoirs Of A Geisha John Williams, composer [Sony Classical] Munich John Williams, composer [Decca] Pirates Of The Caribbean — Dead Man's Chest Hans Zimmer, composer [Walt Disney Records] Category 82 Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (A Songwriter(s) award. For a song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) Can't Take It In (From The Chronicles Of Narnia — The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe) Imogen Heap, songwriter (Imogen Heap) [Walt Disney Records; Publishers: Walt Disney Music, Rondor Music.] I Need To Wake Up (From An Inconvenient Truth) Melissa Etheridge, songwriter (Melissa Etheridge) [Island Def Jam; Publisher: Songs of Ridge Road.] Our Town (From Cars) Randy Newman, songwriter (James Taylor) [Walt Disney Records/Pixar; Publishers: Walt Disney Music, Pixar Talking Pictures.] There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway (From The Producers) Mel Brooks, songwriter (Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick) [Sony Classical; Publisher: Mel Brooks Music.] Travelin' Thru (From Transamerica) Dolly Parton, songwriter (Dolly Parton) [Nettwerk Records; Publisher: Velvet Apple Music.] Return to top of page Field 23 — Composing/Arranging Category 83 Best Instrumental Composition (A Composer's Award for an original composition (not an adaptation) first released during the Eligibility Year. Singles or Tracks only.) Argument Taylor Eigsti, composer (Taylor Eigsti) Track from: Lucky To Be Me [Concord Jazz] A Concerto In Swing Patrick Williams, composer (The Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra & Big Band) Track from: Elevation [Concord Records] A Prayer For Peace John Williams, composer (John Williams) Track from: Munich — Soundtrack [Decca Records] Sayuri's Theme And End Credits John Williams, composer (John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma & Itzhak Perlman) Track from: Memoirs Of A Geisha — Soundtrack [Sony Classical] Valentine Fred Hersch, composer (Fred Hersch) Track from: In Amsterdam: Live At The Bimhuis [Palmetto Records] Category 84 Best Instrumental Arrangement (An Arranger's Award. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band) Track from: The Phat Pack [Immergent] Three Ghouls Chick Corea, arranger (Chick Corea) Track from: The Ultimate Adventure [Stretch Records] Three Women Gil Goldstein, arranger (Gil Goldstein) Track from: Under Rousseau's Moon [Half Note] Tom & Eddie Patrick Williams, arranger (The Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra & Big Band) Track from: Elevation [Concord Records] Up From The Skies Jim McNeely, arranger (The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) Track from: Up From The Skies — Music Of Jim McNeely [Planet Arts Recordings] Category 85 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) (An Arranger's Award. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) For Once In My Life Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder) Track from: Duets: An American Classic [RPM Records/Columbia] Good Morning Heartache Gil Goldstein & Greg Phillinganes, arrangers (Chris Botti & Jill Scott) Track from: To Love Again — The Duets [Columbia Records] My Flame Burns Blue (Blood Count) Vince Mendoza, arranger (Elvis Costello With The Metropole Orkest) Track from: My Flame Burns Blue [Deutsche Grammophon] Stardust Slide Hampton, arranger (Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band) Track from: Dizzy's Business [MCG Jazz] Suninga Gil Goldstein, arranger (Gil Goldstein) Track from: Under Rousseau's Moon [Half Note] Return to top of page Field 24 — Package Category 86 Best Recording Package The Best Worst-Case Scenario Ryan Clark, art director (Fair) [Tooth & Nail Records] Personal File Randall Martin, art director (Johnny Cash) [Columbia/Legacy Recordings] Reprieve Ani DiFranco & Brian Grunert, art directors (Ani DiFranco) [Righteous Babe Records] 10,000 Days Adam Jones, art director (Tool) [Tool Dissectional/Volcano/Zomba Label Group] Versions Neal Ashby & Matthew Curry, art directors (Thievery Corporation) [ESL Music] Category 87 Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 Howard Fritzson, Dan Ichimoto & Seth Rothstein, art directors (Miles Davis) [Columbia/Legacy Recordings] Fonotone Records Susan Archie & Henry Owings, art directors (Various Artists) [Dust-To-Digital] A Life Less Lived — The Gothic Box Hugh Brown & Jean Krikorian, art directors (Various Artists) [Rhino Entertainment] One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found Hugh Brown, Sheryl Farber & Maria Villar, art directors (Various Artists) [Rhino Entertainment] Stadium Arcadium Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith & Matt Taylor, art directors (Red Hot Chili Peppers) [Warner Bros.] Return to top of page Field 25 — Album Notes Category 88 Best Album Notes Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows, 1926-1937 Marshall Wyatt, album notes writer (Various Artists) [Old Hat Records] If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! Dan Morgenstern, album notes writer (Fats Waller) [Bluebird/Legacy Recordings] Lost Sounds: Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891-1922 Tim Brooks, album notes writer (Various Artists) [Archeophone Records] Pirate Radio Ben Edmonds, album notes writer (Pretenders) [Rhino Entertainment/Warner Bros./Sire Records] There Is A Season David Fricke, album notes writer (The Byrds) [Columbia/Legacy Recordings] Return to top of page Field 26 — Historical Category 89 Best Historical Album Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows, 1926-1937 Marshall Wyatt, compilation producer; Christopher King & Robert Vosgien, mastering engineers (Various Artists) [Old Hat Records] Lost Sounds: Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891-1922 Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Tim Brooks, David Giovannoni & Richard Martin, mastering engineers (Various Artists) [Archeophone Records] One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found Sheryl Farber & Gary Stewart, compilation producers; Dan Hersch, Bill Inglot & Dave Schultz, mastering engineers (Various Artists) [Rhino Entertainment] Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) Rebekah Presson Mosby, compilation producer; Randy Perry, mastering engineer (Various Artists) [Shout! 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Date Posted: 18:33:25 03/15/07 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 Category 50 Best Latin Jazz Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Codes Ignacio Berroa [Blue Note Records] Cubist Music Edsel Gomez [Zoho] Simpático The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project [ArtistShare] Absolute Quintet Dafnis Prieto [Zoho] Viva Diego Urcola, Edward Simon, Avishai Cohen, Antonio Sanchez & Pernell Saturnino [CAM Jazz] Return to top of page Field 11 — Gospel Category 51 Best Gospel Performance (For solo, duo, group as collaborative performances. Singles or tracks with vocal containing Gospel lyrics. All genres of Gospel music are eligible.) Victory Yolanda Adams Track from: The Gospel — Soundtrack [Verity Records] Not Forgotten Israel & New Breed Track from: Alive In South Africa [Integrity Gospel] The Blessing Of Abraham Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers Track from: Finale Act One [EMI Gospel] Made To Worship Chris Tomlin Track from: See The Morning [sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records] Victory Tye Tribbett & G.A. Track from: Victory Live! [Columbia, Sony Urban] Category 52 Best Gospel Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) The Blessing Of Abraham Donald Lawrence, songwriter (Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers) Track from: Finale Act One [EMI Gospel; Publishers: QW Songs, Zomba Publishing.] Imagine Me Kirk Franklin, songwriter (Kirk Franklin) [Fo Yo Soul/Verity/Zomba; Publishers: Zomba Songs, Kerrion Publishing, Lilly Mack Music.] Mountain Of God Brown Bannister & Mac Powell, songwriters (Third Day) Track from: Wherever You Are [Essential Records; Publishers: Vandura 2500 Songs, New Spring (Zomba), Banistuci Music.] Not Forgotten Israel Houghton & Aaron Lindsey, songwriters (Israel & New Breed) Track from: Alive In South Africa [Integrity Gospel; Publishers: Sound of the New Breed, Integrity's Praise! Music, Aaron Lindsey Publishing.] Victory Tye Tribbett, songwriter (Tye Tribbett & G.A.) Track from: Victory Live! [Columbia, Sony Urban; Publisher: G.A.S. Music.] Category 53 Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) DecembeRadio DecembeRadio [Slanted Records] Where The Past Meets Today Sarah Kelly [Gotee Records] Turn Around Jonny Lang [A&M Records] End Of Silence Red [Essential Records] Bone-A-Fide T-Bone [Bone Yard/Flicker Records] Category 54 Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) Sound Of Melodies Leeland [Essential Records] Coming Up To Breathe MercyMe [INO Records] Wherever You Are Third Day [Essential Records] See The Morning Chris Tomlin [sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records] Introducing Ayiesha Woods Ayiesha Woods [Gotee Records] Category 55 Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) Kenny Bishop Kenny Bishop [Daywind Records] Give It Away Gaither Vocal Band [Gaither Music Group] Precious Memories Alan Jackson [ACR Records/Arista Nashville] The Promised Land The Del McCoury Band [McCoury Music] Glory Train Randy Travis [Word Records/Curb/Warner Bros.] Category 56 Best Traditional Gospel Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) An Invitation To Worship Byron Cage [Zomba/Gospocentric] Paved The Way The Caravans [Malaco Records] Still Keeping It Real The Dixie Hummingbirds [MCG Records] Alive In South Africa Israel & New Breed [Integrity Gospel] Finalé Act One Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers [EMI Gospel] Category 57 Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) Set Me Free Myron Butler & Levi [EMI Gospel] Hero Kirk Franklin [Fo Yo Soul/Zomba] A Timeless Christmas Israel And New Breed [Integrity Gospel] This Is Me Kierra Kiki Sheard [EMI Gospel] Victory Live! Tye Tribbett & G.A. [Columbia, Sony Urban] Return to top of page Field 12 — Latin Category 58 Best Latin Pop Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Adentro Arjona [Norte/Sony BMG] Lo Que Trajo El Barco Obie Bermúdez [EMI/Televisa] Individual Fulano [FM Records] Trozos De Mi Alma 2 Marco Antonio Solis [Fonovisa Records] Limón Y Sal Julieta Venegas [Norte/Sony BMG] Category 59 Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Lo Demás Es Plástico Black:Guayaba [OLE Music] The Underdog/El Subestimado Tego Calderón [Jiggiri/Atlantic] Calle 13 Calle 13 [Norte/Sony BMG] Superpop Venezuela Los Amigos Invisibles [Gozadera Records] Amar Es Combatir Maná [Warner Music Latina] Category 60 Best Tropical Latin Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Fuzionando Oscar D'Leon [Norte/Sony BMG] Salsatón: Salsa Con Reggaetón Andy Montañez [Univision Music Group] Hoy, Mañana Y Siempre Tito Nieves [Univision Music Group] Directo Al Corazón Gilberto Santa Rosa [Norte/Sony BMG] What You've Been Waiting For — Lo Que Esperabas Tiempo Libre [Shanachie Entertainment] Category 61 Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Historias De Mi Tierra Pepe Aguilar [Norte/Sony BMG] No Es Brujería Ana Bárbara [Fonovisa Records] 25 Aniversario Mariachi Sol De Mexico De José Hernández [Venemusic] A Toda Ley Pablo Montero [Univision Records] Orgullo De Mujer Alicia Villarreal [Universal] Category 62 Best Tejano Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Sigue El Taconazo Chente Barrera y Taconazo [Q-Vo Records] It's...All Right Jimmy Edward [On The Edge] Live In Session Bob Gallarza [On The Edge] All Of Me Jay Perez [Tejas Records] Rebecca Valadez Rebecca Valadez [AMI Records Latin] Category 63 Best Norteño Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Algo De Mí Conjunto Primavera [Fonovisa Records] Puro Pa' Arriba Los Huracanes Del Norte [Univision Records] Historias Que Contar Los Tigres Del Norte [Fonovisa Records] Piénsame Un Momento Pesado [Warner Music Latina] Prefiero La Soledad Retoño [JB Records] Category 64 Best Banda Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) 20 Mil Heridas Banda Machos [Warner Music Latina] Mas Fuerte Que Nunca Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga [Fonovisa Records] Amor Gitano Cuisillos [Musart] A Mucha Honra Ezequiel Peña [Fonovisa Records] Más Allá Del Sol Joan Sebástian [Musart] Return to top of page Field 13 — Blues Category 65 Best Traditional Blues Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Brother To The Blues Tab Benoit With Louisiana's Leroux [Telarc Blues] Bronx In Blue Dion [Razor & Tie / The Orchard] People Gonna Talk James Hunter [Go Records/Rounder] Guitar Groove-A-Rama Duke Robillard [Stony Plain Records] Risin' With The Blues Ike Turner [Zoho Roots] Category 66 Best Contemporary Blues Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Live From Across The Pond Robert Cray Band [Vanguard Records/Nozzle Records] Sippiana Hericane Dr. John & The Lower 911 [Blue Note Records] Suitcase Keb' Mo' [Epic/One Haven/Red Ink] Hope And Desire Susan Tedeschi [Verve Forecast] After The Rain Irma Thomas [Rounder] Return to top of page Field 14 — Folk Category 67 Best Traditional Folk Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) I Stand Alone Ramblin' Jack Elliott [Anti] Gonna Let It Shine Odetta [M.C. 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Date Posted: 18:36:10 03/15/07 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 Field 7 — Rap Category 31 Best Rap Solo Performance (For a solo Rap performance. Singles or Tracks only.) Touch It Busta Rhymes Track from: The Big Bang [Aftermath/Interscope Records] We Run This Missy Elliott Track from: The Cookbook [Goldmind/Atlantic] Kick, Push Lupe Fiasco Track from: Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor [1st & 15th/Atlantic] Undeniable Mos Def [Geffen Records] What You Know T.I. Track from: King [Grand Hustle/Atlantic] Category 32 Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group (For duo, group or collaborative performances of Rap only. Singles or Tracks only.) Ridin Chamillionaire Featuring Krayzie Bone [Universal Records] Georgia Ludacris & Field Mob (Featuring Jamie Foxx) Track from: Ludacris Presents...Disturbing Tha Peace And From Field Mob — Light Poles And Pine Trees [DTP/Geffen/Def Jam Recordings] Grillz Nelly Featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp Track from: Sweatsuit [Universal Records] Mighty "O" Outkast [La Face/Zomba Label Group] Don't Feel Right The Roots [Def Jam Recordings] Category 33 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (For a Rap/Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.) Smack That Akon Featuring Eminem [SRC/Universal Records] Deja Vu Beyoncé Featuring Jay-Z [Sony Urban Music/Columbia] Shake That Eminem Featuring Nate Dogg Track from: Curtain Call — The Hits [Aftermath/Shady/Interscope Records] Unpredictable Jamie Foxx Featuring Ludacris Track from: Unpredictable [J Records] My Love Justin Timberlake Featuring T.I. Track from: FutureSex/LoveSounds [Jive Records/Zomba Label Group] Category 34 Best Rap Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) It's Goin' Down Chadron Moore & Jasiel Robinson, songwriters (Yung Joc) Track from: New Joc City [Bad Boy South; Publishers: Granny Man Publishing, Malik/Mekhi Music, Basement Funk, Regina's Son Music.] Kick, Push Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, songwriter (Lupe Fiasco) Track from: Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor [1st & 15th/Atlantic; Publishers: Hey Lu Chill Music/Heavy as Heaven, 1st & 15th Publishing/Mr. Lopez Music.] Money Maker Christopher Bridges & Pharrell Williams, songwriters (Ludacris Featuring Pharrell) Track from: Release Therapy [Disturbing The Peace/Def Jam Recordings; Publishers: EMI Blackwood Music, Waters of Nazareth Publishing.] Ridin Anthony Henderson, Juan Carlos Salinas, Oscar Salinas & Hakeem Seriki, songwriters (Chamillionaire Featuring Krayzie Bone) [Universal Records; Publishers: Chamilitary Camp Music, Play-N-Skilz Music, EMI Publishing.] What You Know Gabriel Arillo, Aldrian Davis & Clifford Harris, songwriters; (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, Curtis Mayfield & Billy Roberts, songwriters) (T.I.) Track from: King [Grand Hustle/Atlantic; Publishers: Club Crown Publishing, Toomp Stone Publishing, Careers-BMG Music, WB Music Corp., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing.] Category 35 Best Rap Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Lupe Fiasco [1st & 15th/Atlantic] Release Therapy Ludacris [Disturbing Tha Peace] In My Mind Pharrell [Star Trak/Interscope Records] Game Theory The Roots [Def Jam Recordings] King T.I. [Grand Hustle/Atlantic] Return to top of page Field 8 — Country Category 36 Best Female Country Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) Kerosene Miranda Lambert Track from: Kerosene [Epic] I Still Miss Someone Martina McBride [RCA Nashville] Something's Gotta Give LeAnn Rimes Track from: This Woman [Curb Records] Jesus, Take The Wheel Carrie Underwood Track from: Some Hearts [Arista/Arista Nashville/19] I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today Gretchen Wilson [Epic Nashville] Category 37 Best Male Country Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) Every Mile A Memory Dierks Bentley [Capitol Records Nashville] The Reason Why Vince Gill [MCA Nashville] The Seashores Of Old Mexico George Strait Track from: Somewhere Down In Texas [MCA Nashville] Would You Go With Me Josh Turner Track from: Your Man [MCA Nashville] Once In A Lifetime Keith Urban [Capitol Records Nashville] Category 38 Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (For established duos or groups with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Not Ready To Make Nice Dixie Chicks Track from: Taking The Long Way [Open Wide/Columbia] Heaven's My Home The Duhks Track from: Migrations [Sugar Hill Records] Boondocks Little Big Town Track from: The Road To Here [Equity Music Group] What Hurts The Most Rascal Flatts Track from: Me And My Gang [Lyric Street Records] Leave The Pieces The Wreckers Track from: Stand Still — Look Pretty [Maverick] Category 39 Best Country Collaboration With Vocals (For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.) Who Says You Can't Go Home Bon Jovi & Jennifer Nettles Track from: Have A Nice Day [Island] Tomorrow Is Forever Solomon Burke & Dolly Parton Track from: Nashville [Shout! Factory] Calling Me Kenny Rogers & Don Henley Track from: Water & Bridges [Capitol Records Nashville] Midnight Angel Rhonda Vincent & Bobby Osborne Track from: All American Bluegrass Girl [Rounder] Love Will Always Win Trisha Yearwood & Garth Brooks Track from: Jasper County [MCA Nashville] Category 40 Best Country Instrumental Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Jerusalem Ridge Casey Driessen Track from: 3D [Sugar Hill Records] Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag Tommy Emmanuel Track from: The Mystery [Favored Nations Acoustic] Whiskey Before Breakfast Bryan Sutton & Doc Watson Track from: Not Too Far From The Tree [Sugar Hill Records] The Eleventh Reel Chris Thile Track from: How To Grow A Woman From The Ground [Sugar Hill Records] Nature Of The Beast Jim VanCleve Track from: No Apologies [Rural Rhythm Records] Category 41 Best Country Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) Every Mile A Memory Brett Beavers, Dierks Bentley & Steve Bogard, songwriters (Dierks Bentley) [Capitol Records Nashville; Publishers: Big White Tracks Music, Home with the Armadillo Music, Ensign Music, Rancho Papa Music.] I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today Matraca Berg & Jim Collins, songwriters (Gretchen Wilson) [Epic Nashville; Publishers: Songs of Universal, Hannaberg Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, Hope-N-Cal Music.] Jesus, Take The Wheel Brett James, Hillary Lindsey & Gordie Sampson, songwriters (Carrie Underwood) Track from: Some Hearts [Arista/Arista Nashville/19; Publishers: Dimensional Music of 1091/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, Raylene Music/BPJ Administration, No Such Music, Passing Stranger Music/1609 Songs/Music of Windswept.] Like Red On A Rose Melanie Castleman & Robert Lee Castleman, songwriters (Alan Jackson) Track from: Like Red On A Rose [Arista Nashville/Sony BMG; Publishers: Farm Use Only Music, Cassamel Music.] What Hurts The Most Steve Robson & Jeffrey Steele, songwriters (Rascal Flatts) Track from: Me And My Gang [Lyric Street Records; Publishers: Gottahaveable Music, Songs of Windswept Pacific, Almo Music.] Category 42 Best Country Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Taking The Long Way Dixie Chicks [Open Wide/Columbia] Like Red On A Rose Alan Jackson [Arista Nashville/Sony BMG] The Road To Here Little Big Town [Equity Music Group] You Don't Know Me: The Songs Of Cindy Walker Willie Nelson [Lost Highway] Your Man Josh Turner [MCA Nashville] Category 43 Best Bluegrass Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Long List Of Heartaches The Grascals [Rounder] Bluegrass Jim Lauderdale [Yep Roc] Instrumentals Ricky Skaggs And Kentucky Thunder [Skaggs Family Records] Live At The Ryman Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives [Superlatone Records/Universal South Records] All American Bluegrass Girl Rhonda Vincent [Rounder] Return to top of page Field 9 — New Age Category 44 Best New Age Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) A Posteriori Enigma [Virgin Records] Amarantine Enya [Reprise] Beyond Words Gentle Thunder With Will Clipman & AmoChip Dabney [Delvian Records / GT Productions] Elements Series: Fire Peter Kater [Real Music] The Magical Journeys Of Andreas Vollenweider Andreas Vollenweider [Kin Kou/SLG Records] Return to top of page Field 10 — Jazz Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) The Hidden Land Béla Fleck & The Flecktones [Columbia] People People Music Music Groove Collective [Savoy Jazz Worldwide] Rewind That Christian Scott [Concord Jazz] Sexotica Sex Mob [Thirsty Ear Recordings, Inc.] Who Let The Cats Out? Mike Stern [Heads Up] Category 46 Best Jazz Vocal Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) Footprints Karrin Allyson [Concord Jazz] Easy To Love Roberta Gambarini [Groovin' High/Kindred Rhythm] Live At Jazz Standard With Fred Hersch Nancy King [Maxjazz] From This Moment On Diana Krall [Verve] Turned To Blue Nancy Wilson [MCG Jazz] Category 47 Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.) Some Skunk Funk Michael Brecker, soloist Track from: Some Skunk Funk (Randy Brecker w/Michael Brecker) [Telarc Jazz/BHM] Paq Man Paquito D'Rivera, soloist Track from: From The Heart (Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band) [Alma Records] Freedom Jazz Dance Taylor Eigsti, soloist Track from: Lucky To Be Me [Concord Jazz] Hippidy Hop (Drum Solo) Roy Haynes, soloist Track from: Whereas [Dreyfus Jazz] Hope Branford Marsalis, soloist Track from: Braggtown [Marsalis Music/Rounder] Category 48 Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Sound Grammar Ornette Coleman [Sound Grammar] The Ultimate Adventure Chick Corea [Stretch Records] Trio Beyond — Saudades Jack DeJohnette, Larry Goldings & John Scofield [ECM] Beyond The Wall Kenny Garrett [Nonesuch] Sonny, Please Sonny Rollins [Doxy Records] Category 49 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album (For large jazz ensembles, including big band sounds. Albums must contain 51% or more INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Some Skunk Funk Randy Brecker With Michael Brecker, Jim Beard, Will Lee, Peter Erskine, Marcio Doctor & Vince Mendoza conducting The WDR Big Band Köln [Telarc Jazz/BHM] Spirit Music Bob Brookmeyer — New Art Orchestra [ArtistShare] Streams Of Expression Joe Lovano Ensemble [Blue Note Records] Live In Tokyo At The Blue Note Mingus Big Band [Sunnyside/Sue Mingus Music] Up From The Skies — Music Of Jim McNeely The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra [Planet Arts Recordings] [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Date Posted: 18:40:05 03/15/07 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 Category 20 Best Rock Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Rock, Hard Rock & Metal songs. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) Chasing Cars Nathan Connolly, Gary Lightbody, Jonny Quinn, Tom Simpson & Paul Wilson, songwriters (Snow Patrol) Track from: Eyes Open [A&M Records; Publisher: Big Life Music.] Dani California Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis & Chad Smith, songwriters (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Track from: Stadium Arcadium [Warner Bros.; Publisher: Moebetoblame Music.] Lookin' For A Leader Neil Young, songwriter (Neil Young) Track from: Living With War [Reprise; Publisher: Silver Fiddle Music.] Someday Baby Bob Dylan, songwriter (Bob Dylan) Track from: Modern Times [Columbia; Publisher: Bob Dylan.] When You Were Young Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer & Ronnie Vannucci, songwriters (The Killers) [Island Records; Publisher: Universal-Polygram Int.] Category 21 Best Rock Album (Vocal or Instrumental. Includes Hard Rock and Metal.) Try! John Mayer Trio [Aware/Columbia] Highway Companion Tom Petty [American] Broken Boy Soldiers The Raconteurs [V2/Third Man Records] Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers [Warner Bros.] Living With War Neil Young [Reprise] Return to top of page Field 5 — Alternative Category 22 Best Alternative Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys [Domino Recording] At War With The Mystics The Flaming Lips [Warner Bros.] St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley [Downtown/Atlantic] Show Your Bones Yeah Yeah Yeahs [Interscope Records] The Eraser Thom Yorke [XL Recordings] Return to top of page Field 6 — R&B Category 23 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) Ring The Alarm Beyoncé Track from: B'Day [Sony Urban Music/Columbia] Be Without You Mary J. Blige Track from: The Breakthrough [Geffen Records] Don't Forget About Us Mariah Carey Track from: The Emancipation Of Mimi (Ultra Platinum Edition) [Island Records] Day Dreaming Natalie Cole Track from: Leavin' [Verve Records] I Am Not My Hair India.Arie Track from: Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship [Motown Records] Category 24 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) Heaven John Legend Track from: Once Again [Columbia/GOOD/Sony Urban Music] So Sick Ne-Yo Track from: In My Own Words [Def Jam Recordings] Black Sweat Prince Track from: 3121 [Universal Records] I Call It Love Lionel Richie Track from: Coming Home [Island Def Jam Recordings] Got You Home Luther Vandross [J Records/Epic/Legacy Recordings] Category 25 Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (For duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Breezin' George Benson & Al Jarreau Track from: Givin' It Up [Concord Records/Monster Music] Love Changes Jamie Foxx Featuring Mary J. Blige Track from: Unpredictable [J Records] Everyday (Family Reunion) Chaka Khan, Gerald Levert, Yolanda Adams & Carl Thomas Track from: Madea's Family Reunion — Music From The Motion Picture [Motown Records] Family Affair (Sly & The Family Stone), John Legend, Joss Stone With Van Hunt Track from: Different Strokes By Different Folks [Epic/Legacy Recordings] Beautiful, Loved And Blessed Prince & Támar Track from: 3121 [Universal Records] Category 26 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Christmas Time Is Here Anita Baker Track from: Christmas Fantasy [Blue Note Records] God Bless The Child George Benson & Al Jarreau Featuring Jill Scott Track from: Givin' It Up [Concord Records/Monster Music] I Found My Everything Mary J. Blige Featuring Raphael Saadiq Track from: The Breakthrough [Geffen Records] You Are So Beautiful Sam Moore Featuring Billy Preston, Zucchero, Eric Clapton & Robert Randolph Track from: Overnight Sensational [Rhino Entertainment] How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) The Temptations Track from: Reflections [New Door Records] Category 27 Best Urban/Alternative Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Crazy Gnarls Barkley Track from: St. Elsewhere [Downtown/Atlantic] That Heat Segio Mendes Featuring Erykah Badu & Will.i.am Track from: Timeless [Concord Records/Hear Music] Mas Que Nada Sergio Mendes Featuring The Black Eyed Peas Track from: Timeless [Concord Records/Hear Music/Will.i.am music] Idlewild Blue (Don't Chu Worry 'Bout Me) Outkast Track from: Idlewild [La Face Records/Zomba Label Group] 3121 Prince Track from: 3121 [Universal Records] Category 28 Best R&B Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) Be Without You Johnta Austin, Mary J. Blige, Bryan-Michael Cox & Jason Perry, songwriters (Mary J. Blige) Track from: The Breakthrough [Geffen Records; Publishers: Chrysalis Music, Mary J. Blige Music, Naked Under My Clothes Music, Universal Music Corp., Babyboy's Little Publishing, Jason's Lyrics, Noontime South, Reach Global Tunes, WB Music.] Black Sweat Prince, songwriter (Prince) Track from: 3121 [Universal Records; Publisher: Controversy Music.] Deja Vu Shawn Carter, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Beyoncé Knowles, Makeba Riddick, Keli Nicole Price, Delisha Thomas & John Webb songwriters (Beyoncé Featuring Jay-Z) [Sony Urban Music/Columbia; Publishers: Beyoncé Publishing, EMI Blackwood Music, 23000 Music Publishing, Makeba Yoga Flames Music/Janice Combs Publishing/EMI Blackwood, Price Tag, EMI April Music/Carter Boys Publishing.] Don't Forget About Us Johnta Austin, Mariah Carey, Bryan-Michael Cox & Jermaine Dupri, songwriters (Mariah Carey) Track from: The Emancipation Of Mimi (Ultra Platinum Edition) [Island Records; Publishers: Rye Songs, Shaniah Cymone Music, EMI April Music, Babyboy's Little Publishing Company, Noontime South, Naked Under My Clothes, Chrysalis Music.] I Am Not My Hair Drew Ramsey, Shannon Sanders & India Arie Simpson, songwriters (India.Arie) Track from: Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship [Motown Records; Publishers: Gold & Iron Music, Wang Out Music Sony, Combustion Windswept, Noka International/Famous Music.] Category 29 Best R&B Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige [Geffen Records] Unpredictable Jamie Foxx [J Records] Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship India.Arie [Motown Records] 3121 Prince [Universal Republic] Coming Home Lionel Richie [Island Def Jam Recordings] Category 30 Best Contemporary R&B Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) B'Day Beyoncé [Sony Urban Music/Columbia] Chris Brown Chris Brown [Jive Records/Zomba Label Group] 20 Y.O. Janet Jackson [Virgin Records] Kelis Was Here Kelis [Jive Records/Zomba Label Group/Dope Entertainment] In My Own Words Ne-Yo [Def Jam Recordings] [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: David Harrison Levi [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:42:12 03/15/07 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 For recordings released during the Eligibility Year October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006 General Field Category 1 Record Of The Year (Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.) Be Without You Mary J. Blige Bryan-Michael Cox & Ron Fair producers; Danny Cheung, Tal Herzberg, Dave "Hard-Drive" Pensado & Allen Sides, engineers/mixers Track from: The Breakthrough [Geffen Records] You're Beautiful James Blunt Tom Rothrock, producer; Tom Rothrock & Mike Tarantino, engineers/mixers Track from: Back To Bedlam [Custard/Atlantic] Not Ready To Make Nice Dixie Chicks Rick Rubin, producer; Richard Dodd, Jim Scott & Chris Testa, engineers/mixers Track from: Taking The Long Way [Open Wide/Columbia] Crazy Gnarls Barkley Danger Mouse, producer; Ben H. Allen, Danger Mouse & Kennie Takahashi, engineers/mixers Track from: St. Elsewhere [Downtown/Atlantic] Put Your Records On Corinne Bailey Rae Steve Chrisanthou, producer; Steve Chrisanthou & Jeremy Wheatley, engineers/mixers Track from: Corinne Bailey Rae [Capitol] Category 2 Album Of The Year (Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s)/Mixer(s) & Mastering Engineer(s), if other than the artist.) Taking The Long Way Dixie Chicks Rick Rubin, producer; Richard Dodd, Jim Scott & Chris Testa, engineers/mixers; Richard Dodd, mastering engineer [Open Wide/Columbia] St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley Danger Mouse, producer; Ben H. Allen, Danger Mouse & Kennie Takahashi, engineers/mixers; Mike Lazer, mastering engineer [Downtown/Atlantic] Continuum John Mayer Steve Jordan & John Mayer, producers; John Alagia, Michael Brauer, Joe Ferla, Chad Franscoviak, Manny Marroquin & Dave O'Donnell, engineers/mixers; Greg Calbi, mastering engineer [Aware/Columbia] Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers Rick Rubin, producer; Ryan Hewitt, Mark Linett & Andrew Scheps, engineers/mixers; Vlado Meller, mastering engineer [Warner Bros.] FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake Nate (Danja) Hills, Jawbreakers, Rick Rubin, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers; Jimmy Douglass, Serban Ghenea, Padraic Kerin, Jason Lader, Andrew Scheps, Timbaland & Ethan Willoughby, engineers/mixers; Herb Powers, Jr., mastering engineer [Jive Records/Zomba Label Group] Category 3 Song Of The Year (A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) Be Without You Johnta Austin, Mary J. Blige, Bryan-Michael Cox & Jason Perry, songwriters (Mary J. Blige) Track from: The Breakthrough [Geffen Records; Publishers: Chrysalis Music, Mary J. Blige Music, Naked Under My Clothes Music, Universal Music Corp., Babyboy's Little Publishing, Jason's Lyrics, Noontime South, Reach Global Tunes, WB Music.] Jesus, Take The Wheel Brett James, Hillary Lindsey & Gordie Sampson, songwriters (Carrie Underwood) Track from: Some Hearts [Arista/Arista Nashville/19; Publishers: Dimensional Music of 1091/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, Raylene Music/BPJ Administration, No Such Music, Passing Stranger Music/1609 Songs/Music of Windswept.] Not Ready To Make Nice Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Dixie Chicks) Track from: Taking The Long Way [Open Wide/Columbia; Publishers: Scrapin' Toast Music, Woolly Puddin' Music, Chrysalis Music, Sugar Lake Music.] Put Your Records On John Beck, Steve Chrisanthou & Corinne Bailey Rae, songwriters (Corinne Bailey Rae) Track from: Corinne Bailey Rae [Capitol; Publisher: Global Talent Publishing.] You're Beautiful James Blunt, Amanda Ghost & Sacha Skarbek, songwriters (James Blunt) Track from: Back To Bedlam [Custard/Atlantic; Publishers: EMI Blackwood Music, David Platz Music.] Category 4 Best New Artist (For a new artist who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording which establishes the public identity of that artist.) James Blunt Chris Brown Imogen Heap Corinne Bailey Rae Carrie Underwood Return to top of page Field 1 — Pop Category 5 Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) Ain't No Other Man Christina Aguilera Track from: Back To Basics [RCA Records] Unwritten Natasha Bedingfield Track from: Unwritten [Epic/Phonogenic] You Can Close Your Eyes Sheryl Crow Track from: Sheryl Crow Artist's Choice Deluxe Edition [Hear Music/Universal Music] Stupid Girls Pink Track from: I'm Not Dead [LaFace/Zomba Label Group] Black Horse And The Cherry Tree KT Tunstall [Relentless/Virgin] Category 6 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) You're Beautiful James Blunt Track from: Back To Bedlam [Custard/Atlantic] Save Room John Legend Track from: Once Again [Columbia/GOOD/Sony Urban] Waiting On The World To Change John Mayer Track from: Continuum [Aware/Columbia] Jenny Wren Paul McCartney Track from: Chaos And Creation In The Backyard [Capitol] Bad Day Daniel Powter Track from: Daniel Powter [Warner Bros.] Category 7 Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (For established duos or groups, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) My Humps The Black Eyed Peas Track from: Monkey Business [A&M Records] I Will Follow You Into The Dark Death Cab For Cutie Track from: Plans [Atlantic Records] Over My Head (Cable Car) The Fray Track from: How To Save A Life [Epic] Is It Any Wonder? Keane Track from: Under The Iron Sea [Interscope Records] Stickwitu The Pussycat Dolls Track from: PCD [A&M Records] Category 8 Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals (For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.) For Once In My Life Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder Track from: Duets: An American Classic [RPM Records/Columbia] One Mary J. Blige & U2 Track from: The Breakthrough [Geffen/Matriarch Records] Always On Your Side Sheryl Crow & Sting Track from: Wildflower [A&M Records] Promiscuous Nelly Furtado & Timbaland Track from: Loose [Geffen/Mosley Music Group] Hips Don't Lie Shakira & Wyclef Jean Track from: Oral Fixation Vol. 2 [Epic] Category 9 Best Pop Instrumental Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Mornin' George Benson (& Al Jarreau) Track from: Givin' It Up [Concord Records/Monster Music] Drifting Enya Track from: Amarantine [Reprise] Subterfuge Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Track from: The Hidden Land [Columbia/Legacy] Song H Bruce Hornsby Track from: Intersections: 1985 - 2005 [RCA Legacy] My Favorite Things The Brian Setzer Orchestra Track from: Dig That Crazy Christmas [Surfdog Records] Category 10 Best Pop Instrumental Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) New Beginnings Gerald Albright [Peak Records] Fire Wire Larry Carlton [Bluebird/RCA Victor] X Fourplay [Bluebird/RCA Victor] Fingerprints Peter Frampton [A&M Records/New Door Records] Wrapped In A Dream Spyro Gyra [Heads Up International] Category 11 Best Pop Vocal Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) Back To Basics Christina Aguilera [RCA Records] Back To Bedlam James Blunt [Custard/Atlantic] The River In Reverse Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint [Verve Forecast] Continuum John Mayer [Aware/Columbia] FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake [Jive Records/Zomba Label Group] Return to top of page Field 2 — Dance Category 12 Best Dance Recording (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.) Suffer Well Depeche Mode Ben Hillier, producer; Steve Fitzmaurice & Ben Hillier, mixers Track from: Playing The Angel [Sire/Reprise/Mute] Ooh La La Goldfrapp Goldfrapp, producers; Mark "Spike" Stent, mixer Track from: Supernature [Mute] Get Together Madonna Madonna & Stuart Price, producers; Mark "Spike" Stent, mixer Track from: Confessions On A Dance Floor [Warner Bros.] I'm With Stupid Pet Shop Boys Trevor Horn, producer; Robert Orton, mixer Track from: Fundamental [Rhino Entertainment] Sexy Back Justin Timberlake & Timbaland Nate (Danja) Hills, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers; Jimmy Douglass, mixer [Jive Records/Zomba Label Group] Category 13 Best Electronic/Dance Album (For vocal or instrumental albums. Albums only.) Supernature Goldfrapp [Mute] Confessions On A Dance Floor Madonna [Warner Bros.] A Lively Mind Oakenfold [Maverick] Fundamental Pet Shop Boys [Rhino Entertainment] The Garden Zero 7 [Atlantic] Return to top of page Field 3 — Traditional Pop Category 14 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) Duets: An American Classic Tony Bennett [RPM Records/Columbia] Caught In The Act Michael Bublé [143-Reprise] Wintersong Sarah McLachlan [Arista Records/Nettwerk] Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook Bette Midler [Columbia] Timeless Love Smokey Robinson [New Door Records] Return to top of page Field 4 — Rock Category 15 Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) Nausea Beck [Interscope Records] Someday Baby Bob Dylan Track from: Modern Times [Columbia] Route 66 John Mayer Track from: Cars — Soundtrack (Various Artists) [Disney] Saving Grace Tom Petty Track from: Highway Companion [American] Lookin' For A Leader Neil Young Track from: Living With War [Reprise] Category 16 Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (For duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Talk Coldplay Track from: X&Y [Capitol] How To Save A Life The Fray Track from: How To Save A Life [Epic] Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs Track from: Broken Boy Soldiers [V2/Third Man Records] Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers Track from: Stadium Arcadium [Warner Bros.] The Saints Are Coming U2 & Green Day [Interscope Records/Warner Bros.] Category 17 Best Hard Rock Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Crazy B**** Buckcherry [Eleven Seven Music] Every Day Is Exactly The Same Nine Inch Nails Track from: With Teeth [nothing/Interscope Records] Lonely Day System Of A Down Track from: Hypnotize [American/Columbia] Vicarious Tool Track from: 10,000 Days [Volcano/Zomba Label Group] Woman Wolfmother Track from: Wolfmother [Modular/Interscope Records] Category 18 Best Metal Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Redneck Lamb Of God Track from: Sacrament [Epic] Colony Of Birchmen Mastodon Track from: Blood Mountain [Reprise/Relapse Records] Lies, Lies, Lies Ministry Track from: Rio Grande Blood [13th Planet Records/Megaforce Records] Eyes Of The Insane Slayer Track from: Christ Illusion [American] 30/30-150 Stone Sour [Roadrunner Records] Category 19 Best Rock Instrumental Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Includes Rock, Hard Rock and Metal. Singles or Tracks only.) Chun Li's Flying Bird Kick Arctic Monkeys [Domino Recording] The Wizard Turns On... The Flaming Lips Track from: At War With The Mystics [Warner Bros.] Black Hole Sun Peter Frampton [A&M Records/New Door Records] Castellorizon David Gilmour Track from: On An Island [Columbia] Super Colossal Joe Satriani Track from: Super Colossal [Epic] [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Here are the 2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards finalists. The honors will be handed out during an April 26 ceremony in Miami. Winners are determined by actual performance on the Billboard charts.
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Author: David Harrison Levi [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:09:39 03/15/07 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 Here are the 2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards finalists. The honors will be handed out during an April 26 ceremony in Miami. Winners are determined by actual performance on the Billboard charts. Hot Latin Song Of The Year: "Aliado Del Tiempo" Mariano Barba (Three Sound) "Down" Rakim & Ken-Y (Pina/Universal Latino) "Mas Alla Del Sol" Joan Sebastian (Musart/Balboa) "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira Featuring Wyclef Jean (Epic/Sony BMG Norte) Hot Latin Song Of The Year, Vocal Duet: "Tengo Un Amor" Toby Love Featuring Rakim & Ken-Y (Sony BMG Norte) "Tu Recuerdo" Ricky Martin Featuring La Mari (Sony BMG Norte) "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira Featuring Wyclef Jean (Epic/Sony BMG Norte) "Noche De Sexo" Wisin & Yandel Featuring Aventura (Machete) Hot Latin Songs Artist Of The Year: Aventura Daddy Yankee Rakim & Ken-Y Wisin & Yandel Latin Pop Album Of The Year, Male: "Amor" Andrea Bocelli (Sugar/Venemusic/Universal Latino) "MTV Unplugged" Ricky Martin (Sony BMG Norte) "Navidades" Luis Miguel (Warner Latina) "Trozos De Mi Alma 2" Marco Antonio Solis (Fonovisa/UG) Latin Pop Album Of The Year, Female: "Dos Amores Un Amante" Ana Gabriel (EMI Televisa) "Ananda" Paulina Rubio (Universal Latino) "Limon Y Sal" Julieta Venegas (Sony BMG Norte) "La Voz De Un Angel" Yuridia (Sony BMG Norte) Latin Pop Album Of The Year, Duo or Group: "From Kumbia Kings To Kumbia All Starz" A.B. Quintanilla III Presents Kumbia All Starz (EMI Televisa) "Celestial" RBD (EMI Televisa) "Live In Hollywood" RBD (EMI Televisa) "En Presencia Del Futuro" Voz A Voz (Urban Box Office) Latin Pop Album Of The Year, New Artist: "Asi Soy Yo" Anais (Univision) "En Presencia Del Futuro" Voz A Voz (Urban Box Office) "Habla El Corazon" Yuridia (Sony BMG Norte) "La Voz De Un Angel" Yuridia (Sony BMG Norte) Top Latin Albums Artist Of The Year: Daddy Yankee Don Omar Mana RBD Latin Rock/Alternative Album Of The Year: "Pafuera Telaranas" Bebe (EMI Televisa) "Dulce Beat" Belanova (Universal Latino) "Pescado Original" Enanitos Verdes (Universal Latino) "Amar Es Combatir" Mana (Warner Latina) Tropical Album Of The Year, Male: "Decision Unanime" Victor Manuelle (Sony BMG Norte) "Salsa Con Reggaeton" Andy Montanez (La Calle/Univision/UG) "Directo Al Corazon" Gilberto Santa Rosa (Sony BMG Norte) "Back To Da' Barrio" Michael Stuart (Machete) Tropical Album Of The Year, Female: "Libre" Gisselle (Universal Latino) "Pura Salsa" India (Universal Latino) "Soy Diferente" India (La Calle/Univision/UG) "Soy Como Tu" Olga Tanon (Univision/UG) Tropical Album Of The Year, Duo Or Group: "K.O.B.: Live" Aventura (Premium Latin/Sony BMG Norte) "Arroz Con Habichuela" El Gran Combo De Puerto Rico (Discos 605/Sony BMG Norte) "Realtime" Limi-t 21 (La Calle/Univision/UG) "Haciendo Historia" Xtreme (La Calle/Univision/UG) Tropical Album Of The Year, New Artist: "Corazon" Fonseca (EMI Televisa) "Mi Sueno" Marlon (La Calle/Univision/UG) "Trova Con Salsa Pa'l Bailador" Sanabria (RB Entertainment/Universal Latino) Regional Mexican Album Of The Year, Male Solo Artist: "Enamorado" Pepe Aguilar (EMI Televisa) "Vencedor" Valentin Elizalde (Universal Latino) "La Tragedia Del Vaquero" Vicente Fernandez (Sony BMG Norte) "Mas Alla Del Sol" Joan Sebastian (Musart/Balboa) Regional Mexican Album Of The Year, Male Duo Or Group: "Crossroads: Cruce De Caminos" Intocable (EMI Televisa) "Borron Y Cuenta Nueva" Grupo Montez De Durango (Disa) "Algo De Mi" Conjunto Primavera (Fonovisa/UG) "Historias Que Contar" Los Tigres Del Norte (Fonovisa/UG) Regional Mexican Album Of The Year, Female Group Or Female Solo Artist: "Rancherisimas Con Banda" Graciela Beltran (Univision/UG) "La Reina Canta A Mexico" Ana Gabriel (Sony BMG Norte) "Desatados" Los Horoscopos De Durango (Disa) "Orgullo De Mujer" Alicia Villarreal (Universal Latino) Regional Mexican Album Of The Year, New Artist: "Aliado Del Tiempo" Mariano Barba (Three Sound) "El Grupo Libra" El Grupo Libra (Musart/Balboa) "La Produccion Maestra 2006" Banda Pequenos Musical (Fonovisa/UG) "Tierra Cali" Tierra Cali (Lideres) Latin Pop Airplay Song Of The Year, Male: "A Ti" Ricardo Arjona (Sony BMG Norte) "No Se Por Que" Chayanne (Sony BMG Norte) "Te Mando Flores" Fonseca (EMI Televisa) "Lo Que Me Gusta A Mi" Juanes (Surco/Universal Latino) Latin Pop Airplay Song Of The Year, Female: "Lo Que Son Las Cosas" Anais (Univision) "Volverte A Amar" Alejandra Guzman (Sony BMG Norte) "Como Duele (Barrera De Amor)" Noelia (EMI Televisa) "Ni Una Sola Palabra" Paulina Rubio (Universal Latino) Latin Pop Airplay Song Of The Year, Duo Or Group: "Labios Compartidos" Mana (Warner Latina) "Tu Recuerdo" Ricky Martin Featuring La Mari (Sony BMG Norte) "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira Featuring Wyclef Jean (Epic/Sony BMG Norte) "Que Me Alcance La Vida" Sin Bandera (Sony BMG Norte) Latin Pop Airplay Song Of The Year, New Artist: "Lo Que Son Las Cosas" Anais (Univision) "Abrazame" Camila (Sony BMG Norte) "Te Mando Flores" Fonseca (EMI Televisa) "Uno Y Uno Es Igual A Tres" Jeremias (Universal Latino) Tropical Airplay Song Of The Year, Male: "Que Precio Tiene El Cielo" Marc Anthony (Sony BMG Norte) "Nuestro Amor Se Ha Vuelto Ayer" Victor Manuelle (Sony BMG Norte) "Princesa" Frank Reyes (J&N) "Vale La Pena" Yoskar Sarante (J&N) Tropical Airplay Song Of The Year, Female: "Lo Que Son Las Cosas [salsa version]" Anais (Univision) "Lagrimas" India (La Calle/Univision) "Solamente Una Noche" India (La Calle/Univision) "Desilusioname" Olga Tanon (Univision) Tropical Airplay Song Of The Year, Duo Or Group: "Los Infieles" Aventura (Premium Latin) "Tengo Un Amor" Toby Love Featuring Rakim & Ken-Y (Sony BMG Norte) "No Es Una Novela" Monchy & Alexandra (J&N) "Los Hombres Tienen La Culpa" Gilberto Santa Rosa & Don Omar (CMG/SRC/Universal Motown) Tropical Airplay Song Of The Year, New Artist: "Te Mando Flores" Fonseca (EMI Televisa) "Ay Amor, Cuando Hablan Las Miradas" Guayacan (Sony BMG Norte) "Tengo Un Amor" Toby Love (Sony BMG Norte) "Usted Abuso" Marlon (La Calle/Univision) Regional Mexican Airplay Song Of The Year, Male Solo Artist: "Aliado Del Tiempo" Mariano Barba (Three Sound) "Para Que Regreses" El Chapo De Sinaloa (Disa) "Que Lastima" Alfredo Ramirez Corral (Unidos/Disa) "Mas Alla Del Sol" Joan Sebastian (Musart/Balboa) Regional Mexican Airplay Song Of The Year, Male Group: "De Rodillas Te Pido" Alegres De La Sierra (Viva/Universal Latino) "Te Compro" Duelo (Univision) "Que Vuelva" Grupo Montez De Durango (Disa) "Algo De Mi" Conjunto Primavera (Fonovisa) Regional Mexican Airplay Song Of The Year, Female Group or Female Solo Artist: "Mi Amor Por Ti" Los Horoscopos De Durango (Disa/Edimonsa) "Como Una Mariposa" Diana Reyes (Musimex/Universal Latino) "Besos Y Copas" Jenni Rivera (Fonovisa) "De Contrabando" Jenni Rivera (Fonovisa) Regional Mexican Airplay Song Of The Year, New Artist: "Aliado Del Tiempo" Mariano Barba (Three Sound) "Masacre En El Cajoncito" Los Nuevos Rebeldes (Disa) "Reencuentro" Banda Pequenos Musical (Fonovisa) "Que Lastima" Alfredo Ramirez Corral (Unidos/Disa) Latin Tour Of The Year: Vicente Fernandez Luis Miguel RBD Shakira Reggaeton Album Of The Year: "Calle 13" Calle 13 (White Lion/Sony BMG Norte) "King Of Kings" Don Omar (VI/Machete) "Mas Flow: Los Benjamins" Luny Tunes & Tainy (Mas Flow/Machete) "Masterpiece: Nuestra Obra Maestra" Rakim & Ken-Y (Pina/Universal Latino) Reggaeton Song Of The Year: "Machucando" Daddy Yankee (El Cartel/Interscope) "Down" Rakim & Ken-Y (Pina/Universal Latino) "Caile" Tito "El Bambino" (EMI Televisa) "Pam Pam" Wisin & Yandel (Machete) Latin Ringtone Of The Year: "Y Todo Para Que" Intocable (EMI Televisa) "Labios Compartidos" Mana (Warner Latina) "Down" Rakim & Ken-Y (Pina/Universal Latino) "Rakata" Wisin & Yandel (Mas Flow/Machete) Latin Dance Club Play Track Of The Year: "Cha Cha (Dance Remixes)" Chelo (Sony BMG Norte) "Just For One Night/Solamente Una Noche (Dance Remixes)" India (La Calle/Univision) "Mas Que Nada (Dance Remixes)" Sergio Mendes Featuring The Black Eyed Peas (Hear/Concord) "Un Alma Sentenciada (Dance Remixes)" Thalia (EMI Televisa) Latin Rap/Hip-Hop Album Of The Year: "E.S.L." Akwid (Headliners/Univision/UG) "Still Kickin' It" Akwid & Jae-P (Univision/UG) "Pa Mi Raza" Jae-P (Univision/UG) "Toby Love" Toby Love (Sony BMG Norte) Latin Greatest Hits Album Of The Year: "Sigo Siendo Yo" Marc Anthony (Sony BMG Norte) "30 Recuerdos" Los Bukis (Fonovisa/UG) "Amor Eterno: Los Exitos" Rocio Durcal (Sony BMG Norte) "La Historia Del Divo" Juan Gabriel (Sony BMG Norte) Latin Compilation Album Of The Year: "Now Latino" Various Artists (The EMI Group/Universal/Zomba/Sony BMG Norte/Sony BMG Strategic Marketing Group) "Now Latino 2" Various Artists (Sony BMG Strategic Marketing Group/EMI/Universal/Universal Latino) "Roc-La-Familia And Hector "El Father" Present: Los Rompediscotekas" Various Artists (Roc-La-Familia/Machete/Gold Star/IDJMG) "WY Records Presents: Los Vaqueros" Various Artists (WY/Machete) Latin Jazz Album Of The Year: "Around The City" Eliane Elias (Bluebird/RCA Victor) "Solo" Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Blue Note/BLG) "Dances, Prayers, and Meditations For Peace" Nestor Torres (Heads Up) Latin Christian/Gospel Album Of The Year: "The Shadow Of Your Wings: Hymns And Sacred Songs" Fernando Ortega (Curb/Word-Curb) "Dismiss The Mystery" Salvador (Word-Curb) "On My Knees: The Best Of Jaci Velasquez" Jaci Velasquez (Word-Curb) "Alegria" Marcos Witt (Canzion/Sony BMG Norte) Songwriter Of The Year: Mariano Barba Anthony "Romeo" Santos Joan Sebastian Marco Antonio Solis Producer Of The Year: Armando Avila Cachorro Lopez Luny Tunes Nely Publisher Of The Year: EMI April, ASCAP EMI Blackwood, BMI Sony/ATV Discos, ASCAP Universal-Musica Unica, BMI Publishing Corporation Of The Year: EMI Music Publishing Sony/ATV Music Publishing Universal Music Publishing Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Hot Latin Songs Label Of The Year: EMI Televisa Machete Sony BMG Norte Universal Latino Top Latin Albums Label Of The Year: EMI Televisa Machete Sony BMG Norte Univision Music Group Latin Pop Airplay Label Of The Year: EMI Televisa Sony BMG Norte Universal Latino Warner Latina Tropical Airplay Label Of The Year: J&N Machete Sony BMG Norte Univision Regional Mexican Airplay Label Of The Year: Disa Fonovisa Universal Latino Univision Latin Rhythm Airplay Label Of The Year: (new category) Machete Sony BMG Norte Universal Latino Univision Latin Pop Albums Label Of The Year: EMI Televisa Sony BMG Norte Universal Latino Warner Latina Tropical Albums Label Of The Year: Sony BMG Norte Universal Latino Univision Music Group Urban Box Office Regional Mexican Albums Label Of The Year: Disa EMI Televisa Sony BMG Norte Univision Music Group Latin Rhythm Albums Label Of The Year: (new category) EMI Televisa Interscope Machete Universal Latino [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Fashion Designer Charged With Multiple Counts of Rape in Beverly Hills, CA. 90210
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Date Posted: 08:35:36 03/14/07 Wed Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 Fashion Designer Charged With Multiple Counts of Rape BEVERLY HILLS CA. 90210: Wednesday, 14 Mar 2007, 7:31 AM PDT <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=2667376&version=1&locale=EN-US">http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=2667376&version=1&locale=EN-US</a> <<< (video click link) -- Anand Jon, a well-known Beverly Hills fashion designer, has been charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault involving three victims. Police say one of the victims is a 15-year-old girl. Jon was arrested by Beverly Hills police March 6, after a woman alleged that he raped her. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: The World Music Awards is the only truly International Music Awards ceremony featuring the world's best selling artists.
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Date Posted: 21:11:08 03/10/07 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 World Music Awards's The World Music Awards is the only truly International Music Awards ceremony featuring the world's best selling artists. Unlike other awards shows, these awards are decided by the public as opposed to an industry panel. Recording Artist have to sell millions of records to win a World Music Award and it is you who decides who wins by buying the records. Sales figures are reported to the organization by the record companies and the national member groups of the IFPI, The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The show is broadcast in every major record-buying country in the world. Year on year the World Music Awards keep getting bigger and better with relentless media interest from around the world. The World Music Awards have been instrumental in helping many artists achieve global success. It puts artists in front of a huge global TV audience and has more reach then any other music awards show. The World Music Awards was established in 1989 and is the most televised music awards show in the world today, reaching an estimated one billion viewers in over 160 different countries. It is also the only European Awards show to air on primetime network television in America. The World Music Awards is building a brand new Clinic in Rwanda this year for the prevention of Aids from the 2006 event proceeds. To date, there are 19 fully operational centres in the third world including a day hospital and school on the Ivory Coast; a health centre in Orissa, India with a ambulance service serving a population of 30,000 people; a school and orphanage in Madras, India; a home for abandoned children in Brazil; a home for handicapped girls in Katukuranda, Sri Lanka; a hospital, school and village for the homeless in Madagascar; a hospital in Mokatam, Egypt; a hospital and school in Niger; a shelter, hospital and orphanage in Cameroon; a hospital in Cambodia and a hospital and school in Mali. Visit official website at <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.worldmusicawards.com">http://www.worldmusicawards.com</a> [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Spotlight on Jackson at World Music Awards
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Date Posted: 20:38:05 03/10/07 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 Spotlight on Jackson at World Music Awards LONDON — With a few thrilling bars of We Are the World, Michael Jackson made a triumphant return to the spotlight at the World Music Awards Wednesday. "There have been so many who have loved me and stood by me throughout my 42 years in the entertainment business," Jackson, 48, told screaming fans after he received a lifetime achievement award to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Thriller. Jackson, dressed in a sequined black tuxedo, said little and sang even less, but that didn't dampen the spirits of his fans, many of whom traveled from around the world to witness Jackson's comeback. "I love all of my fans from the bottom of my heart," Jackson told the crowd after accepting the Diamond Award, given to artists who have sold more than 100 million albums. Previous recipients include Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Bon Jovi and Celine Dion. "It was my dream that Thriller would become the biggest-selling album ever. And God has answered my prayers. ... I thank God and you for this success," Jackson said, thanking his parents, siblings and his children. R&B star Chris Brown, backed by dozens of dancers in zombie make-up, opened for Jackson with rendition of Thriller. "He has influenced my life since day one, since I was in my mama's womb," Brown said before the show. "I was listening to his music as I was coming out and I'm here to play tribute to him." The concert marked the latest public appearance by the reclusive celebrity, who moved to Bahrain in a self-imposed exile after his acquittal of child-molestation charges last year. Jackson now lives in Ireland south of Dublin. Jackson spent the past week in London, making several shopping and sightseeing outings. Jackson was toasted by a slew of celebrities including host Lindsay Lohan. Beyonce, Nelly Furtado, Enya, Andrea Bocelli and Katie Melua performed. In the VIP area, guests Paris Hilton, Rachel Hunter, Natalie Imbruglia, Tommy Hilfiger and Jade Jagger mingled, nibbled on sushi and sipped Moet champagne. Hundreds of fans who weren't lucky enough to score tickets to the event held vigil outside, singing Jackson songs and waving banners. "He's part of my heart, part of my life," said Vincent Descamps, 18, of Lille, France, holding a giant American flag printed with Jackson's face. Diana Esquivel, who traveled from San Francisco, said she did not consider the appearance a comeback. "In my eyes, he never left." [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: World Music Awards and MY Network TV will be exclusively airing the show on March 10 at 8pm nationally.
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Date Posted: 20:30:55 03/10/07 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ab02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.66 WORLD MUSIC AWARDS AIR THIS WEEKEND: Michael Jackson Bestowed the Diamond Award at Earl's Court London. (March 9, 2007) The most famous pop star on the planet Michael Jackson was recently honoured with a Diamond Award at the World Music Awards and MY Network TV will be exclusively airing the show on March 10 at 8pm nationally. Michael Jackson is a living legend and cultural icon. Thriller has sold over 50 million copies across the globe since it's release in 1981 making it the best-selling album of all time. The World Music Awards pays tribute to Michael and his unrivalled contribution to music by honoring him with their prestigious and much coveted Diamond Award. The Diamond Award was created to honour artists who have sold over 100 million albums, which for any act is an incredible achievement. Past recipients of the Diamond Award which was created in 2001 include Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion. The World Music Awards is a fantastic event, synonymous with the highest quality of music entertainment in the world. With a mix of glamour, excitement, global superstars, quality music and the most hi tech fabulous Production of all, the World Music Awards is a most exciting television show. Since its inception in 1989 it has continuously pulled in a stellar line-up. Over the years the World Music Awards have staged performances from top selling recording artists including Prince, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Usher, Destiny's Child, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, 50 Cent, P. Diddy, Outkast, Christina Aguilera, Pink, Kanye West, Avril Lavigne, Whitney Houston, Rod Stewart, The Bee Gees, Jon Bon Jovi, Cher, Carlos Santana, Celine Dion, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Andrea Bocelli, Enya, Shania Twain, Alicia Keys, Sheryl Crow, Ray Charles, Julio Iglesias and many more. MY Network TV will air a special version of the recent World Music Awards exclusively on their network on March 10 at 8pm. The show will open with a knock out performance from Beyoncé of her hit single "Déjà vu" followed by performances from Nelly Furtado, Rihanna, Andrea Bocelli, Enya and many more. Chris Brown brings down the house with a superb rendition of the hit single "Thriller" as a Tribute to Michael Jackson who joins him onstage and closes the show with a choir of young fans performing "We are The World". The show is hosted by Lindsay Lohan and Awards are presented to the world's best-selling artists by a hord of beauties including Paris Hilton, Elle Macphersen, Natalie Imbruglia and Eva Herzigova. Unlike other awards, these awards are decided by the public as opposed to an industry panel. The World Music Awards are a reflection of genuine public opinion and are achieved by record sales. Sales figures are reported to the organization by the record companies and the national member groups of the IFPI, the International Federation of Phonographic Industry. Year on year the World Music Awards keep getting bigger and better with relentless media interest from around the world. The World Music Awards have been instrumental in helping many artists achieve global success. It puts artists in front of a huge global TV audience and has more reach then any other music awards show. The World Music Awards was established in 1989 and is the most televised music awards show in the world today, reaching an estimated one billion viewers in over 160 different countries. It is also the only European Awards show to air on primetime network television in America. The World Music Awards is building a brand new World Music Awards Hospital in Africa this year from event proceeds. To date, there are 19 fully operational centres in the third world including a day hospital and school on the Ivory Coast; a health centre in Orissa, India with a ambulance service serving a population of 30,000 people; a school and orphanage in Madras, India; a home for abandoned children in Brazil; a home for handicapped girls in Katukuranda, Sri Lanka; a hospital, school and village for the homeless in Madagascar; a hospital in Mokatam, Egypt; a hospital and school in Niger; a shelter, hospital and orphanage in Cameroon; a hospital in Cambodia and a hospital and school in Mali. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 were presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®.
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Date Posted: 12:52:33 03/08/07 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ab04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.116.68 Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 were presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®. Performance by an actor in a leading role Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm) Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Film Council) Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight) Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children” (New Line) Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Performance by an actress in a leading role Penélope Cruz in “Volver” (Sony Pictures Classics) Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line) Performance by an actress in a supporting role Adriana Barraza in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Best animated feature film of the year “Cars” (Buena Vista) John Lasseter “Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller “Monster House” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan Achievement in art direction “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Art Direction: John Myhre Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh “The Good Shepherd” (Universal) Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik “The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti Achievement in cinematography “The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond “Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki “The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro “The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister Achievement in costume design “Curse of the Golden Flower” (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis “Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle Achievement in directing “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears “United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass Best documentary feature “Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate) A Disarming Films Production Amy Berg and Frank Donner “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production Davis Guggenheim “Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing in association with HBO Documentary Films) A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production James Longley and John Sinno “Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures) A Loki Films Production Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady “My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films) A Praxis Films Production Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer Best documentary short subject “The Blood of Yingzhou District” A Thomas Lennon Films Production Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon “Recycled Life” An Iwerks/Glad Production Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad “Rehearsing a Dream” A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon “Two Hands” A Crazy Boat Pictures Production Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr Achievement in film editing “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Steven Rosenblum “Children of Men” (Universal) Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Thelma Schoonmaker “United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson Best foreign language film of the year “After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production Denmark “Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit Production Algeria “The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production Germany “Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production Mexico “Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production Canada Achievement in makeup “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano “Click” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) David Martí and Montse Ribé Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla “The Good German” (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler Lyric by Anne Preven “Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger Lyric by Siedah Garrett “Our Town” from “Cars” (Buena Vista) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman “Patience” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger Lyric by Willie Reale Best motion picture of the year “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) A Warner Bros. Pictures Production Graham King, Producer “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, Producers “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) A Granada Production Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers Best animated short film “The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada) A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production Torill Kove “Lifted” (Buena Vista) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Gary Rydstrom “The Little Matchgirl” (Buena Vista) A Walt Disney Pictures Production Roger Allers and Don Hahn “Maestro” (SzimplaFilm) A Kedd Production Géza M. Tóth “No Time for Nuts” (20th Century Fox) A Blue Sky Studios Production Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier Best live action short film “Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)” A Peliculas Pendelton and Tus Ojos Production Javier Fesser and Luis Manso “Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)” (Kimuak) An Altube Filmeak Production Borja Cobeaga “Helmer & Son” A Nordisk Film Production Søren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson “The Saviour” (Australian Film Television and Radio School) An Australian Film Television and Radio School Production Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn “West Bank Story” An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production Ari Sandel Achievement in sound editing “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Lon Bender “Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Christopher Boyes and George Watters II Achievement in sound mixing “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Cámara “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton “Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount) John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff Achievement in visual effects “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall “Poseidon” (Warner Bros.) Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett and John Frazier “Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.) Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum Adapted screenplay “Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (20th Century Fox) Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips “Children of Men” (Universal) Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by William Monahan “Little Children” (New Line) Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Patrick Marber Original screenplay “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Written by Guillermo Arriaga “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Iris Yamashita Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) Written by Michael Arndt “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Written by Guillermo del Toro “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Written by Peter Morgan [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 were presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®.
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Date Posted: 10:58:49 02/26/07 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-mtc-ad12.proxy.aol.com/64.12.116.206 Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 were presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®. Performance by an actor in a leading role Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm) Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Film Council) Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight) Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children” (New Line) Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Performance by an actress in a leading role Penélope Cruz in “Volver” (Sony Pictures Classics) Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line) Performance by an actress in a supporting role Adriana Barraza in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Best animated feature film of the year “Cars” (Buena Vista) John Lasseter “Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller “Monster House” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan Achievement in art direction “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Art Direction: John Myhre Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh “The Good Shepherd” (Universal) Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik “The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti Achievement in cinematography “The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond “Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki “The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro “The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister Achievement in costume design “Curse of the Golden Flower” (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis “Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle Achievement in directing “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears “United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass Best documentary feature “Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate) A Disarming Films Production Amy Berg and Frank Donner “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production Davis Guggenheim “Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing in association with HBO Documentary Films) A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production James Longley and John Sinno “Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures) A Loki Films Production Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady “My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films) A Praxis Films Production Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer Best documentary short subject “The Blood of Yingzhou District” A Thomas Lennon Films Production Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon “Recycled Life” An Iwerks/Glad Production Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad “Rehearsing a Dream” A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon “Two Hands” A Crazy Boat Pictures Production Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr Achievement in film editing “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Steven Rosenblum “Children of Men” (Universal) Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Thelma Schoonmaker “United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson Best foreign language film of the year “After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production Denmark “Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit Production Algeria “The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production Germany “Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production Mexico “Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production Canada Achievement in makeup “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano “Click” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) David Martí and Montse Ribé Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla “The Good German” (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler Lyric by Anne Preven “Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger Lyric by Siedah Garrett “Our Town” from “Cars” (Buena Vista) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman “Patience” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger Lyric by Willie Reale Best motion picture of the year “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) A Warner Bros. Pictures Production Graham King, Producer “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, Producers “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) A Granada Production Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers Best animated short film “The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada) A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production Torill Kove “Lifted” (Buena Vista) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Gary Rydstrom “The Little Matchgirl” (Buena Vista) A Walt Disney Pictures Production Roger Allers and Don Hahn “Maestro” (SzimplaFilm) A Kedd Production Géza M. Tóth “No Time for Nuts” (20th Century Fox) A Blue Sky Studios Production Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier Best live action short film “Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)” A Peliculas Pendelton and Tus Ojos Production Javier Fesser and Luis Manso “Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)” (Kimuak) An Altube Filmeak Production Borja Cobeaga “Helmer & Son” A Nordisk Film Production Søren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson “The Saviour” (Australian Film Television and Radio School) An Australian Film Television and Radio School Production Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn “West Bank Story” An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production Ari Sandel Achievement in sound editing “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Lon Bender “Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Christopher Boyes and George Watters II Achievement in sound mixing “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Cámara “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton “Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount) John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff Achievement in visual effects “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall “Poseidon” (Warner Bros.) Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett and John Frazier “Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.) Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum Adapted screenplay “Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (20th Century Fox) Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips “Children of Men” (Universal) Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by William Monahan “Little Children” (New Line) Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Patrick Marber Original screenplay “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Written by Guillermo Arriaga “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Iris Yamashita Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) Written by Michael Arndt “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Written by Guillermo del Toro “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Written by Peter Morgan David Harrison Levi 320 North Palm Drive #302 Beverly Hills, California 90210 USA. 310.271.3555 Email : TVCelebrity90210@aol.com David Levi Communications, Inc. ..David Levi Celebrity Entertainment News Networks, <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.voy.com/195286/">http://www.voy.com/195286/</a> ACADEMY AWARD(S)®, OSCAR(S)®, OSCAR NIGHT® and OSCAR® statuette design mark are the registered trademarks and service marks, and the OSCAR® statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ©2007 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences & ABC, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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Date Posted: 00:10:35 12/26/06 Tue Author Host/IP: 68-232-161-128.clvdoh.adelphia.net/68.232.161.128 >NATALEE HOLLOWAY >Police investigating the disappearance of an Alabama >teenager in Aruba said one of three young men in >custody has admitted “something bad happened” to her >during her island visit. > >Deputy Police Commissioner Gerold Dompig told The >Associated Press that the man was leading police late >Friday to the scene. He refused to identify which of >the three young men who took her to a beach the night >she disappeared made the statement. > >Early Saturday, police refused to say if they had >discovered anything. > >Natalee Holloway, 18, vanished on May 30 during a >five-day trip to the Dutch Caribbean island with 124 >classmates and seven chaperones celebrating their >graduation from Mountain Brook High School, near >Birmingham. Police found her U.S. passport and packed >bags in her hotel room after she failed to show up for >her return flight that day. > >A relative said Holloway’s family continues to believe >she is alive. Rumors raging on the island that she is >dead are “an aggressive interpretation” of what police >are saying, Jar Twitty, the brother of Holloway’s >stepfather, told the AP. > >Prime Minister Nelson Oduber went on national radio >Friday night to say if something happened to Holloway, >it would hurt the island of 97,000, which depends on >tourism and has a reputation as one of the safest >spots in the Caribbean. > > Please share your opinion of what may have >happened to Natalee Holloway. I personaly, think she is still alive. I think she liked it so much there that she did not want to come home. Maybe, there can be something thats going on in her life that only her and maybe her parents or even a close friend or boyfriend knows. She may have just liked it there better, got new friends and started a whole new life. But then again, those boys can just as well be guilty. What ever happened to her, I give my sympanthy to her family and loved ones. I know they miss her deeply, but there is always hope! just prey to god. Maybe shell come home soon!!!!! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  The 400 Richest Americans - Forbes California -Top Richest People
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Date Posted: 23:50:04 11/17/06 Fri Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ab10.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.74 Rank Name Net Worth ($bil) Age Residence Source 4 Lawrence Joseph Ellison 19.5 62 Redwood City, CA Oracle 12 Sergey Brin 14.1 33 Palo Alto, CA Google 13 Larry E Page 14.0 33 San Francisco, CA Google 26 Kirk Kerkorian 9.0 89 Los Angeles, CA investments, casinos 27 Donald L Bren 8.5 74 Newport Beach, CA real estate 35 Sumner M Redstone 7.5 83 Beverly Hills, CA Viacom 42 Eli Broad 5.8 73 Los Angeles, CA investments 45 Eric Schmidt 5.2 51 Atherton, CA Google 49 Steven Paul Jobs 4.9 51 Palo Alto, CA Apple Computer, Pixar 50 David Geffen 4.6 63 Malibu, CA movies, music 50 Charles R Schwab 4.6 69 Atherton, CA discount stock brokerage 52 Charles Bartlett Johnson 4.5 73 San Mateo, CA Franklin Resources 59 David Howard Murdock 4.2 83 Los Angeles, CA investments 61 Bradley Wayne Hughes 4.1 73 Malibu, CA Public Storage 68 Rupert Harris Johnson Jr 3.7 65 San Mateo, CA Franklin Resources 70 George Lucas 3.6 62 Marin County, CA Star Wars 77 Gordon Earle Moore 3.4 77 Woodside, CA Intel 77 Patrick Soon-Shiong 3.4 54 Los Angeles, CA generic drugs 83 Steven Udvar-Hazy 3.1 60 Beverly Hills, CA International Lease Finance 85 Roland Arnall 3.0 67 Holmby Hills, CA mortgage banking 85 A Jerrold Perenchio 3.0 75 Bel Air, CA Univision 94 Steven Allen Spielberg 2.9 59 Pacific Palisades, CA movies 98 Haim Saban 2.8 61 Beverly Hills, CA television 103 Riley P Bechtel 2.7 54 San Francisco, CA engineering, construction 103 Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr 2.7 81 San Francisco, CA engineering, construction Rank Name Net Worth ($bil) Age Residence Source 107 George R Roberts 2.6 62 San Francisco, CA leveraged buyouts 117 Ronald Burkle 2.5 53 Los Angeles, CA supermarkets, investments 117 David Filo 2.5 40 Palo Alto, CA Yahoo 131 John Albert Sobrato 2.4 67 Atherton, CA real estate 133 Gordon Peter Getty 2.3 73 San Francisco, CA inheritance, oil 140 Jess Stonestreet Jackson 2.2 76 Healdsburg, CA Jackson Fay Wines 140 Alfred Mann 2.2 80 Los Angeles, CA inventor, entrepreneur 140 Ernest S Rady 2.2 69 San Diego, CA banking, insurance 140 Jerry Yang 2.2 37 Los Altos, CA Yahoo 153 William Randolph Hearst III 2.1 57 San Francisco, CA Hearst Corp 153 Michael Robert Milken 2.1 60 Los Angeles, CA investments 160 Charles H Brandes 2.0 63 San Diego, CA money management 160 Phoebe Hearst Cooke 2.0 79 San Francisco, CA Hearst Corp 160 Tom T Gores 2.0 42 Beverly Hills, CA leveraged buyouts 160 David Whitmire Hearst Jr 2.0 61 Los Angeles, CA Hearst Corp 160 George Randolph Hearst Jr 2.0 79 Los Angeles, CA Hearst Corp 160 Henry Thompson Nicholas III 2.0 47 Laguna Hills, CA Broadcom 160 Anthony Pritzker 2.0 45 Los Angeles, CA hotels, investments 160 Daniel Pritzker 2.0 47 Marin County, CA hotels, investments 160 John A Pritzker 2.0 53 San Francisco, CA hotels, investments 160 Henry Samueli 2.0 52 Newport Beach, CA Broadcom 189 John Edward Anderson 1.9 89 Bel Air, CA investments 189 Franklin Otis Booth Jr 1.9 83 Los Angeles, CA Berkshire Hathaway 189 Omid Kordestani 1.9 42 Atherton, CA Google 197 Edward P Roski Jr 1.8 67 Los Angeles, CA real estate Rank Name Net Worth ($bil) Age Residence Source 204 Ray Milton Dolby 1.7 73 San Francisco, CA Dolby Laboratories 204 Irwin Mark Jacobs 1.7 72 La Jolla, CA Qualcomm 204 Theodore W Waitt 1.7 43 San Diego, CA Gateway 215 George Leon Argyros 1.6 69 Newport Beach, CA real estate, investments 215 Archie Aldis "Red" Emmerson 1.6 77 Anderson, CA timberland, lumber ls 215 Louis L Gonda 1.6 58 Beverly Hills, CA International Lease Finance 215 Charles T Munger 1.6 82 Los Angeles, CA Berkshire Hathaway 215 Igor Olenicoff 1.6 64 Newport Beach, CA real estate 242 Alan I Casden 1.5 60 Beverly Hills, CA real estate 242 Manny Mashouf & family 1.5 68 Brisbane, CA Bebe 242 John P Morgridge 1.5 73 Portola Valley, CA Cisco 242 Kavitark Ram Shriram 1.5 50 Mountain View, CA Google 242 Thomas M Siebel 1.5 53 San Mateo, CA Siebel Systems 278 Gary Karlin Michelson 1.4 57 Los Angeles, CA medical patents 297 Scott D Cook 1.3 54 Woodside, CA Intuit 297 Robert Addison Day 1.3 62 Los Angeles, CA money management 297 John J Fisher 1.3 45 San Francisco, CA Gap 297 Kenneth L Fisher 1.3 55 Woodside, CA Money management 297 Ernest Gallo & family 1.3 97 Modesto, CA wine 297 Leslie L Gonda 1.3 86 Beverly Hills, CA International Lease Finance 322 Carl Edwin Berg 1.2 69 Atherton, CA real estate 322 Timothy Blixseth 1.2 56 Rancho Mirage, CA timberland, real estate 322 Roy Edward Disney 1.2 76 Los Angeles, CA Walt Disney 322 Robert J Fisher 1.2 53 San Francisco, CA Gap 322 William Sydney Fisher 1.2 49 San Francisco, CA Gap Rank Name Net Worth ($bil) Age Residence Source 322 Alec Gores 1.2 53 Beverly Hills, CA leveraged buyouts 322 William H Gross 1.2 62 Laguna Beach, CA bonds 322 Robert Allen Naify 1.2 84 San Francisco, CA movie theaters 322 Margaret C Whitman 1.2 50 Atherton, CA Ebay 354 Jonathan Lovelace Jr & family 1.1 79 Los Angeles, CA mutual funds 354 Alexander Gus Spanos & family 1.1 83 Stockton, CA real estate 354 Joyce Raley Teel 1.1 75 Sacramento, CA supermarkets 354 Elizabeth S Wiskemann 1.1 NA San Rafael, CA mutual funds 374 Thomas J Barrack 1.0 59 Santa Barbara, CA Colony Capital 374 Weili Dai 1.0 45 Los Altos Hills, CA Semiconductors 374 L John Doerr 1.0 55 Woodside, CA venture capital 374 William Barron Hilton 1.0 78 Los Angeles, CA hotels, casinos 374 George Joseph 1.0 85 Los Angeles, CA insurance 374 David Harrison Levi 1.0 54 Beverly Hills, CA Entertainment, Nightclubs [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  People Magazine - David Harrison Levi = Current Biography Yearbook 2006 —People Celebrities Covered
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Author: David Harrison Levi - tvcelebrity90210@aol.com (tvcelebrity90210@aol.com) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:39:25 10/01/06 Sun Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ab10.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.74 Current Biography Yearbook 2006 —People Celebrities Covered Aerosmith, Rock group Michelle Akers, Soccer player and writer Anne Applebaum, Writer Rachel Ashwell, Interior designer and entrepreneur Jon Robin Baitz, Playwright Rand Beers, Democratic political adviser and former U.S. government official Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, Founders of the organization MoveOn Kathleen Blanco, Governor of Louisiana Stephanie Blythe, Opera singer Lee Bontecou, Artist Tom Brady, Quarterback with the New England Patriots Rose Marie Bravo, CEO of Burberry Ltd Edward D Breen, Chairman and CEO of Tyco International Ltd. Brooks and Dunn, Country-music duo David Brooks, Political commentator and social critic Dan Brown, Writer Junior Brown, Country musician Augusten Burroughs, Writer Cedric the Entertainer, Comedian and actor Lincoln Chafee, US senator from Rhode Island Steven Curtis Chapman, Christian singer and songwriter Dave Chappelle, Comedian, actor, and writer Maurice Cheeks, Head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers Kenny Chesney, Country musician Chieftains, Irish music group Coldplay, British rock band Norman Coleman, U.S. senator from Minnesota Steve Coleman, Jazz saxophonist and composer Chris Cooper, Actor Lynne Cox, Long-distance ocean swimmer Sylvester Croom Jr, Head coach of the Mississippi State University football team Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. representative from Maryland and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Ann Curry, News anchor for The Today Show Richard J. Davidson, Neuroscientist Debra Dickerson, Writer Amy Dickinson, Advice columnist James Dimon, President and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Vincent D’Onofrio, Actor Jerry Douglas, Guitarist Peter H. Duesberg, Molecular biologist and virologist John Edwards, U.S. senator from North Carolina and Democratic vice presidential nominee Theo Epstein, General manager of the Boston Red Sox Percival Everett, Writer Robert Falls, Stage and theater director Stefen Fangmeier, Film visual-effects supervisor Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, Activist seeking reparations for slavery Paul Farmer, Physician, educator, organization founder, and writer Joy Fawcett, Soccer player Caleb E. Finch, Neurobiologist Jennie Finch, Softball player Colin Firth, Actor Eric Foner, Historian David Frum, Writer, political commentator, and foreign-policy pundit Eric Gagne, Baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers Rulon Gardner, Wrestler Anne Garrels, Journalist Melinda Gates, Philanthropist Julie Louise Gerberding, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Akiva Goldsman, Screenwriter Jerome Groopman, Physician and writer Samuel H. Gruber, Shark expert Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist Lani Guinier, Lawyer, educator, and writer Chuck Hagel, U.S. senator from Nebraska Paul and Morgan Hamm, Gymnasts Ben Harper, Musician and songwriter Eva Harris, Molecular biologist, social activist, and educator David L. Heymann, Epidemiologist and head of the World Health Organization’s polio-eradication program Andrew Hill, Jazz pianist and composer Steven Holl, Architect Chris Hondros, Photojournalist David Harrison Levi, Television Producer/Child Actor/Chippendales Los Angeles Steny Hoyer, U.S. representative from Maryland and Democratic whip Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Opera singer Jeffrey R Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. Alan Jackson, Country singer, songwriter, and guitarist Janine Jagger, Founder and director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center Bill James, Baseball statistician and writer and Boston Red Sox adviser Deborah Jin, Physicist Edward P Jones, Writer Elaine Jones, Lawyer and former president of the N.A.A.C.P.’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund Olivia Judson, Evolutionary biologist and writer Jackson Katz, Anti-sexism activist Robert Keegan, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Toby Keith, Country-music singer and songwriter Marthe Keller, Actress and opera director Thomas Keller, Chef, restaurant owner, and cookbook writer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chief prosecuting attorney for Riverkeeper Inc. and senior attorney for the National Resources Defense Council John Kerry, U.S. senator from Massachusetts and Democratic presidential nominee Jean Kilbourne, Educator and author Kwame M. Kilpatrick, Mayor of Detroit William Klein, Photographer, filmmaker, and painter Clea Koff, Forensic anthropologist Saul Kripke, Philosopher and logician Don LaFontaine, Voice-over actor Barbara Lee, U.S. Representative from California Carl Levin, U.S. Senator from Michigan Kenneth Lewis, President, chairman, and CEO of Bank of America Marvin Lewis, Head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals football team Kristine Lilly, Soccer player Ann Marie Lipinski, Senior vice president and editor of the Chicago Tribune William Ivey Long, Costume designer Ludacris, Rapper Ken Ludwig, Playwright and lawyer Michael Madsen, Actor Joshua Malina, Actor George R. R. Martin, Fantasy and science-fiction writer Vilma Martinez, Lawyer and social activist Massive Attack, Music group Floyd Mayweather, Boxer Martina McBride, Country-music singer Craig McCracken, Creator of The Powerpuff Girls Jack McKeon, Manager of the Florida Marlins baseball team John McLaughlin, Jazz and fusion guitarist Donovan McNabb, Football player with the Philadelphia Eagles Tehreema Mitha, Dancer and choreographer W. Deen Mohammed, Islamic scholar and spiritual leader of the American Society of Muslims Alfred Molina, Actor Viggo Mortensen, Actor, painter, poet, and photographer Adam Moss, Magazine editor Mark Murphy, Jazz vocalist Bill Murray, Actor Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona Martina Navratilova, Tennis player Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chairwoman and CEO of Carlson Companies Inc. The Neptunes, Music production team and singer/songwriters Lee Ann Newsom, Paleoethnobotanist Lynn Nottage, Playwright Daniel Okrent, Public editor of the New York Times Sean Patrick O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston Jermaine O’Neal, Basketball player with the Indiana Pacers OutKast, Rap duo Sandi Patty, Christian singer Harvey Pekar, Creator of the comic-book series American Splendor Michael Phelps, Swimmer Leonard Pitts Jr., Newspaper columnist and nonfiction writer Myrtle S. Potter, President of commercial operations at Genentech Kevin Powell, Writer and commentator Albert Pujols, Baseball player with the St Louis Cardinals Tina Ramirez, Founder and artistic director of Ballet Hispanico Jorge Ramos, Television journalist Christie Rampone, Soccer player John C. Reilly, Actor Uwe E. Reinhardt, Economist and educator Ann Reinking, Dancer, choreographer, actress, and educator Andy Roddick, Tennis player Jim Romenesko, Journalist Jalen Rose, Basketball player Gary Ross, Screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer Atoosa Rubenstein, Editor in chief of Seventeen Daniela Rus, Computer scientist and roboticist Kurt Russell, Actor Elie Saab, Fashion designer Stephen Sanger, Chairman and CEO of General Mills Inc Robert Sapolsky, Neurobiologist, writer, and educator Jan Schakowsky, US representative from Illinois Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California and actor Tony Scott, Film director Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas Lorna Simpson, Photographer and video artist Maria Spiropulu, Particle physicist Andrew Stanton, Animator and filmmaker Michael S. Steele, Lieutenant governor of Maryland David L. Steward, Founder and chairman of World Wide Technology Inc Jon Stewart, Comedian and host of the Daily Show Ethan Stiefel, Ballet dancer John A. Thain, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange Charlize Theron, Actress Lonnie Thompson, Glaciologist Pete Tridish, Co-founder and technical director of the Prometheus Radio Project Travis Tritt, Country musician Eve Troutt Powell, Historian, writer, and educator Tanya Tull, Social activist Adam Vinatieri, Football player with the New England Patriots Ben Wallace, Basketball player with the Detroit Pistons Alice Waters, Chef and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant David Wells, Pitcher for the San Diego Padres Christopher Wheeldon, Choreographer Armstrong Williams, Talk-show host; columnist; writer; businessman Deborah Willis, Photographer, writer, and curator Marie C. Wilson, President of the White House Project and former president of the Ms. Foundation for Women Reese Witherspoon, Actress Rod Woodson, Football player Will Wright, Computer-game designer Winky Wright, Boxer Zakk Wylde, Rock musician Alexei Yagudin, Figure skater Renée Zellweger, Actress Barry Zito, Pitcher with the Oakland Athletics Eugenia Zukerman, Flutist, writer, and television journalist [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  Houston's Restaurant - Century City
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Author: David Harrison Levi [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 11:49:51 10/01/06 Sun Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ab10.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.74 10250 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90067-6501 1 310 557 1285 Open Hours 11:30a-10:30p Su-Th, 11:30a-11:30p F-Sa - Located at Century City Shopping Center, this is a great place to take a date after catching a flick at the multiplex. If peace and quiet is what you are seeking, you should try elsewhere since everyone from teenagers to their grandparents has discovered it. With dark orange lighting and a bar big enough to spread out huge portions of ribs and BBQ chicken along with spinach and artichoke dip, this place is constantly busy. If you stick it out until your food arrives, though, it won't take you long to realize that it was worth the wait. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  "The Cheesecake Factory®" 364 N Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills
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Date Posted: 11:43:18 10/01/06 Sun Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ab10.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.74 The Cheesecake Factory, Inc.® operates 100 + upscale, casual dining restaurants under The Cheesecake Factory® name. Distinctive architecture, stylish décor, superior service and an extensive, innovative menu of more than 200 items with generous portions at moderate prices combine to create an overall dining experience with unparalleled value. The Company's common stock began trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market® in September 1992 under the ticker symbol "CAKE." The Cheesecake Factory® also operates a bakery production facility that produces over 40 varieties of quality cheesecakes and other baked products for the Company's restaurants and for other foodservice operators and distributors. Grand Lux Cafe®, the Company's upscale casual dining restaurant created for the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, was opened in May 1999. The Company also operates a self-service limited menu foodservice operation under The Cheesecake Factory Express® name inside the DisneyQuest® family entertainment concept in Orlando, Florida. Additionally, the Company licenses three bakery cafe outlets to another foodservice operator under The Cheesecake Factory® name. The Cheesecake Factory® Story... In the late 1940’s, Evelyn Overton opened a small cheesecake shop in Detroit. In order to raise her two small children, David and Renee, Evelyn gave up the shop and moved her baking to her basement kitchen, where she continued supplying local restaurant clients with her cakes. Then in 1972, with her children grown, Evelyn and her husband Oscar decided to move the business to Los Angeles. Oscar concentrated on selling cakes and building new accounts while Evelyn baked and managed the office. Finding that Los Angeles loved Evelyn’s cheesecakes as much as Detroit, their reputation and sales grew! A larger, new and improved bakery was born, creating over 20 varieties of Evelyn’s delicious cheesecakes and other incredible desserts which were sold to wholesalers from Santa Barbara to San Diego and eventually out-of-state. In 1978, the Overtons founded their first full-service restaurant, "The Cheesecake Factory®", which opened in Beverly Hills. Today, Evelyn and Oscar’s son, David carries on the same commitment to quality, entrepreneurial spirit, energy and creativity that his parents inspired. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Len Bourret [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:27:30 07/29/06 Sat Author Host/IP: dialup-4.245.227.209.Dial1.Stamford1.Level3.net/4.245.227.209 ================================= L e o n a r d J . B o u r r e t 4 0 - B P a s c a l L a n e M a n c h e s t e r , C T 0 6 0 4 0 - 4 6 2 6 P h o n e : ( 8 6 0 ) 6 4 7 - 9 6 0 6 e - M a i l : Len9876@juno.com ================================= July 27, 2006 To: RutaLeeWebbLowe@aol.com Ruta Lee The Thalians <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.thethalians.com/">http://www.thethalians.com/</a> Dear Ruta: Subject: Lifetime Achievement Award for June Allyson - It would be an honor, if The Thalians would posthumously offer a Lifetime Achievement Award for June Allyson, to be accepted by Dr. David Ashrow (the late June Allyson's husband), Pamela Powell (the late June Allyson's daughter), or Dick Powell, Jr. (the late June Allyson's son). June Allyson was not only a legend as an actress, but as a spokesperson for Hollywood's golden years, and educator about the problems of incontinence. She was loved by multitudes of fans, both young and old. Additionally, both June Allyson and Dr. David Ashrow have supported the Judy Garland and James Stewart Museums (June Allyson was a close friend of James Stewart and Judy Garland, often co-starring with these and other Hollywood legends). Furthermore, the late June Allyson (along with Dick Powell) and Dr. David Ashrow, as Ojai residents, have made positive contributions to The Thalians and the Hollywood community. Please advise, and thank you. Awaiting Your Reply, Len Bourret Poet and Writer Attachments: see Attachments, below. ======================================================================== Attachments: June Allyson: Hollywood's Sweetheart... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2006/07/21/stories/2006072100740100.htm">http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2006/07/21/stories/2006072100740100.htm</a> "One remembers feeling sad when her character, Constance, died in `Three Musketeers'. Today, her death brings back the same feeling again." - From June Allyson: Hollywood's Sweetheart June Allyson and Memories: Gone, but Not Forgotten... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0607160253jul16,1,3734229.story?ctrack=1&cset=true">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0607160253jul16,1,3734229.story?ctrack=1&cset=true</a> June Allyson, the Passing of a Legend (Ojai Valley News - 07/12/2006)... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://ojaivalleynews.com/CurrentEditions/Wednesday/OVN7-12_joonangels.pdf">http://ojaivalleynews.com/CurrentEditions/Wednesday/OVN7-12_joonangels.pdf</a> June Allyson, screen icon... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-07-10-allyson-obit_x.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-07-10-allyson-obit_x.htm</a> More about June Allyson... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1023152006">http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1023152006</a> "She (June Allyson) arrived in Los Angeles by train with $10 and knowing only two people there: Powell, whom she had met just once backstage on Broadway, and Johnson, whom she had dated in New York and who was making his way as an actor in Hollywood." - From Scotsman.com My Tribute to June Allyson (1917 to 2006)... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.reeljewels.com/allyson/fanarticle1.htm">http://www.reeljewels.com/allyson/fanarticle1.htm</a> June Allyson: Still "Warmer Than May"... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/ArticleJuneAllyson.html">http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/ArticleJuneAllyson.html</a> Jack Heinzman's Tribute to June Allyson (1917 to 2006)... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,1375,VCS_125_4839860,00.html">http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,1375,VCS_125_4839860,00.html</a> Charles Michel's Tribute to June Allyson (1917 to 2006)... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.reeljewels.com/allyson/rememberingjunie.htm">http://www.reeljewels.com/allyson/rememberingjunie.htm</a> Jim Bishop's Tribute to June Allyson (1917 to 2006)... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://news.pajamasmedia.com/entertainment/2006/07/14/9626631_Victoria_Advocat.shtml">http://news.pajamasmedia.com/entertainment/2006/07/14/9626631_Victoria_Advocat.shtml</a> "Like the memory of her smile and her tears and her raspy little voice, some things will stay with us forever." -- from Jim Bishop's Tribute to June Allyson Guestbook for June Allyson... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.legacy.com/Guestbook.asp?Page=Index&PersonID=18425456">http://www.legacy.com/Guestbook.asp?Page=Index&PersonID=18425456</a> June Allyson Images (WireImage.com)... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=SRH&str=June%20Allyson&sfld=C&sevntI=2019">http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=SRH&str=June%20Allyson&sfld=C&sevntI=2019</a> Down on Your Heels, and Up On Your Toes! by Len Bourret (Copyright 2006) She was the girl GIs gravitated towards, the kind of woman every man wanted to marry, and the special friend everyone wanted to know. She loved people, and they loved her back. She exuded positive energy and a sunshiny smile that was uplifting--and, somehow, just being around her was uplifting and made people feel better. She was, and shall always be, "Good News" itself. Harry James' trumpet (from "Two Girls and a Sailor") is blowing in the heavens, and one can hear and see June Allyson exuberantly singing, "He's the young man with a horn!" To know "Junie" (as she was personified by her closed friends), one only had to become familiar with Ella Van Geisman, the little girl from the Bronx. She was a hard worker, and a powerhouse. She danced her way out of poverty and, on a dare from her schoolchums, learned to dance like and eventually befriended her #1 heroine, Ginger Rogers. And, out of a Third Avenue el, she learned to follow in the footsteps of her #1 hero, Fred Astaire. She had a distinctive voice, and a winsome personality. And, it was not an accident or coincidental that she became destined to become the actress and human being that everyone wanted to emulate and have as their nextdoor neighbor. Hers was a rags-to-riches story, a kind of Shirley Temple real-life doll (more than merely on paper), a Jo March tomboy with feminine grace. She was a princess, who married a prince, Richard Ewing Powell. And Richard, or Dick Powell as he is known to the world, was a kind man who loved kids. But, he was--and taught June Allyson to be, strong as a redwood-- and this served to be her strength, after Richard's passing. And, indeed, June Allyson went through an extremely difficult period from 1963 (after Richard passed from this earth) to 1976 (when she married an equally-kind man, David Ashrow). But, during this time of magnificent independence, the little girl became quite a woman. And, she was a loyal friend and partner (she was married to Dick Powell for almost 20 years, and was married to David Ashrow for almost 30 years). When I was a little boy, Dick Powell used to call me from Four Star Television (where he became a still-respected Louis B. Mayer kind of television mogul), and he gave me a 16m.m. print of "Sister Mary Slugger" (a segment I loved from early-television's June Allyson Show). I deeply cherished and faithfully preserved the print, for years, and presented it to June Allyson on videocassette. And, at the Judy Garland Festival in 2002, I had the rare opportunity to read my poetry to June Allyson. Some people are fortunate to meet their heroine once in a lifetime. I was privileged and proud to meet June Allyson on four special occasions: once when she was appearing in "Goodbye Ghost" (in Coconut Grove, Florida), twice when she was appearing in "Forty Carats" (on Broadway), thrice when she was appearing in "No No Nanette" (in Hollywood), and at the Judy Garland Festival (an annual event held to honor June Allyson's friend in Judy Garland's hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota). But, this shall not be yours and my final meeting. We shall see June, Judy, and Richard at the rainbow--and June Allyson will be dancing and singing The Varsity Drag (from MGM's "Good News")! Author's Note: How about an award, or two, for June Allyson's performance in "Good News" and "The Glenn Miller Story"? ======================================================================== ================================= L e o n a r d J . B o u r r e t 4 0 - B P a s c a l L a n e M a n c h e s t e r , C T 0 6 0 4 0 - 4 6 2 6 P h o n e : ( 8 6 0 ) 6 4 7 - 9 6 0 6 e - M a i l : Len9876@juno.com ================================= July 12, 2006 Dr. David Ashrow 1651 Foothill Road Ojai, CA 93023-1748 Dear Dr. David: Junie was, and shall always be, "Good News" itself. Harry James' trumpet (from "Two Girls and a Sailor") is blowing in the heavens, and one can hear and see June Allyson exuberantly singing, "He's the young man with a horn!" This shall not be a final meeting of yours and mine. We shall see Junie, Judy, and Richard at the rainbow--and Junie will be dancing and singing The Varsity Drag! Down on your heels, and up on your toes! To you, Pam and Rick, I send my best wishes. Warmest Regards, Len Bourret Poet and Writer ======================================================================== [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Date Posted: 20:24:59 09/30/06 Sat Author Host/IP: dialup-4.245.227.223.Dial1.Stamford1.Level3.net/4.245.227.223 >================================= >L e o n a r d J . B o u r r e t >4 0 - B P a s c a l L a n e >M a n c h e s t e r , C T 0 6 0 4 0 - 4 6 2 6 >P h o n e : ( 8 6 0 ) 6 4 7 - 9 6 0 6 >e - M a i l : Len9876@juno.com >================================= > >July 27, 2006 > >To: RutaLeeWebbLowe@aol.com > Ruta Lee > The Thalians > <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.thethalians.com/">http://www.thethalians.com/</a> > >Dear Ruta: > >Subject: Lifetime Achievement Award for June Allyson - >It would be an honor, if The Thalians >would posthumously offer a Lifetime Achievement Award >for June Allyson, to be accepted by >Dr. David Ashrow (the late June Allyson's husband), >Pamela Powell (the late June Allyson's daughter), or >Dick Powell, Jr. (the late June Allyson's son). > >June Allyson was not only a legend as an actress, but >as a spokesperson for Hollywood's golden >years, and educator about the problems of >incontinence. She was loved by multitudes of fans, both >young and old. Additionally, both June Allyson and Dr. >David Ashrow have supported the Judy >Garland and James Stewart Museums (June Allyson was a >close friend of James Stewart and >Judy Garland, often co-starring with these and other >Hollywood legends). > >Furthermore, the late June Allyson (along with Dick >Powell) and Dr. David Ashrow, as Ojai >residents, have made positive contributions to The >Thalians and the Hollywood community. >Please advise, and thank you. > > >Awaiting Your Reply, > > >Len Bourret >Poet and Writer > >Attachments: see Attachments, below. > >======================================================= >================= > >Attachments: > >June Allyson: Hollywood's Sweetheart... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2006/07/21/stories/200607210">http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2006/07/21/stories/200607210</a> >0740100.htm > >"One remembers feeling sad when her character, >Constance, died in `Three Musketeers'. Today, > her death brings back the same feeling again." - >From June Allyson: Hollywood's Sweetheart > >June Allyson and Memories: Gone, but Not Forgotten... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-06071602">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-06071602</a> >53jul16,1,3734229.story?ctrack=1&cset=true > >June Allyson, the Passing of a Legend (Ojai Valley >News - 07/12/2006)... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://ojaivalleynews.com/CurrentEditions/Wednesday/OVN">http://ojaivalleynews.com/CurrentEditions/Wednesday/OVN</a> >7-12_joonangels.pdf > >June Allyson, screen icon... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-07-10-allyson-">http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-07-10-allyson-</a> >obit_x.htm > >More about June Allyson... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1023152006">http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1023152006</a> > >"She (June Allyson) arrived in Los Angeles by train >with $10 and knowing only two people there: > Powell, whom she had met just once backstage on >Broadway, and Johnson, whom she had dated > in New York and who was making his way as an actor in >Hollywood." - From Scotsman.com > >My Tribute to June Allyson (1917 to 2006)... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.reeljewels.com/allyson/fanarticle1.htm">http://www.reeljewels.com/allyson/fanarticle1.htm</a> > >June Allyson: Still "Warmer Than May"... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/ArticleJuneAllyson.html">http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/ArticleJuneAllyson.html</a> > >Jack Heinzman's Tribute to June Allyson (1917 to >2006)... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,">http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,</a> >1375,VCS_125_4839860,00.html > >Charles Michel's Tribute to June Allyson (1917 to >2006)... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.reeljewels.com/allyson/rememberingjunie.htm">http://www.reeljewels.com/allyson/rememberingjunie.htm</a> > >Jim Bishop's Tribute to June Allyson (1917 to 2006)... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://news.pajamasmedia.com/entertainment/2006/07/14/9">http://news.pajamasmedia.com/entertainment/2006/07/14/9</a> >626631_Victoria_Advocat.shtml > >"Like the memory of her smile and her tears and her >raspy little voice, some things will stay with > us forever." -- from Jim Bishop's Tribute to June >Allyson > >Guestbook for June Allyson... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.legacy.com/Guestbook.asp?Page=Index&PersonID">http://www.legacy.com/Guestbook.asp?Page=Index&PersonID</a> >=18425456 > >June Allyson Images (WireImage.com)... ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=SRH&">http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=SRH&</a> >str=June%20Allyson&sfld=C&sevntI=2019 > > >Down on Your Heels, and Up On Your Toes! >by Len Bourret (Copyright 2006) > >She was the girl GIs gravitated towards, the kind of >woman every man wanted to marry, and the special >friend everyone wanted to know. She loved people, and >they loved her back. She exuded positive energy and a >sunshiny smile that was uplifting--and, somehow, just >being around her was uplifting and made people feel >better. She was, and shall always be, "Good News" >itself. Harry James' trumpet (from "Two Girls and >a Sailor") is blowing in the heavens, and one can hear >and see June Allyson exuberantly singing, "He's the >young man with a horn!" > >To know "Junie" (as she was personified by her closed >friends), one only had to become familiar with Ella >Van Geisman, the little girl from the Bronx. She was a >hard worker, and a powerhouse. She danced her >way out of poverty and, on a dare from her >schoolchums, learned to dance like and eventually >befriended >her #1 heroine, Ginger Rogers. And, out of a Third >Avenue el, she learned to follow in the footsteps of >her >#1 hero, Fred Astaire. She had a distinctive voice, >and a winsome personality. And, it was not an accident >or coincidental that she became destined to become the >actress and human being that everyone wanted to >emulate and have as their nextdoor neighbor. Hers was >a rags-to-riches story, a kind of Shirley Temple >real-life doll (more than merely on paper), a Jo March >tomboy with feminine grace. She was a princess, >who married a prince, Richard Ewing Powell. And >Richard, or Dick Powell as he is known to the world, >was a kind man who loved kids. But, he was--and taught >June Allyson to be, strong as a redwood-- >and this served to be her strength, after Richard's >passing. And, indeed, June Allyson went through an >extremely difficult period from 1963 (after Richard >passed from this earth) to 1976 (when she married >an equally-kind man, David Ashrow). But, during this >time of magnificent independence, the little girl >became quite a woman. And, she was a loyal friend and >partner (she was married to Dick Powell for >almost 20 years, and was married to David Ashrow for >almost 30 years). > >When I was a little boy, Dick Powell used to call me >from Four Star Television (where he became a >still-respected Louis B. Mayer kind of television >mogul), and he gave me a 16m.m. print of "Sister >Mary Slugger" (a segment I loved from >early-television's June Allyson Show). I deeply >cherished >and faithfully preserved the print, for years, and >presented it to June Allyson on videocassette. And, >at the Judy Garland Festival in 2002, I had the rare >opportunity to read my poetry to June Allyson. >Some people are fortunate to meet their heroine once >in a lifetime. I was privileged and proud to >meet June Allyson on four special occasions: once when >she was appearing in "Goodbye Ghost" >(in Coconut Grove, Florida), twice when she was >appearing in "Forty Carats" (on Broadway), thrice >when she was appearing in "No No Nanette" (in >Hollywood), and at the Judy Garland Festival (an >annual event held to honor June Allyson's friend in >Judy Garland's hometown of Grand Rapids, >Minnesota). But, this shall not be yours and my final >meeting. We shall see June, Judy, and Richard >at the rainbow--and June Allyson will be dancing and >singing The Varsity Drag (from MGM's >"Good News")! > >Author's Note: How about an award, or two, for June >Allyson's performance in "Good News" and >"The Glenn Miller Story"? > >======================================================= >================= > >================================= >L e o n a r d J . B o u r r e t >4 0 - B P a s c a l L a n e >M a n c h e s t e r , C T 0 6 0 4 0 - 4 6 2 6 >P h o n e : ( 8 6 0 ) 6 4 7 - 9 6 0 6 >e - M a i l : Len9876@juno.com >================================= > >July 12, 2006 > >Dr. David Ashrow >1651 Foothill Road >Ojai, CA 93023-1748 > >Dear Dr. David: > >Junie was, and shall always be, "Good News" itself. >Harry James' trumpet (from "Two Girls >and a Sailor") is blowing in the heavens, and one can >hear and see June Allyson exuberantly >singing, "He's the young man with a horn!" > >This shall not be a final meeting of yours and mine. >We shall see Junie, Judy, and Richard at >the rainbow--and Junie will be dancing and singing The >Varsity Drag! Down on your heels, >and up on your toes! > >To you, Pam and Rick, I send my best wishes. > > >Warmest Regards, > > >Len Bourret >Poet and Writer > >======================================================= >================= =============================== L e o n a r d J . B o u r r e t 4 0 - B P a s c a l L a n e M a n c h e s t e r , CT 0 6 0 4 0 - 4 6 2 6 P h o n e : ( 8 6 0 ) 6 4 7 - 9 6 0 6 e - M a i l : Len9876@juno.com =============================== September 30, 2006 To: karen@karencadleinternational.com Karen Cadle Karen Cadle International To: RutaLeeWebbLowe@aol.com Ruta Lee the Thalians Links: Hollywood Salutes June Allyson... <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=12352,">http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=12352,</a> and <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.elportaltheatre.com/events/">http://www.elportaltheatre.com/events/</a> Dear Karen and Ruta: Re: Tribute to June Allyson - As a long-standing June Allyson fan for more than fifty years, I was befriended by Dick Powell when I was a little boy. I have had the honor and privilege of meeting June, on four special occasions, which included reading my poetry to her (which she thoroughly enjoyed) at the Judy Garland Festival 2002. I am moved by the gala event, Hollywood Salutes June Allyson, scheduled on Thursday, November 2nd, at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, California. I am gratified that it will be a star-studded tribute to June Allyson-Powell-Ashrow, a fitting tribute so close to the former Four Star Productions (the company which Dick Powell served as president and studio head), and that there will be testimonials by many stars (including Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Margaret O'Brien, Gloria DeHaven, Debbie Reynolds, and Kathryn Grayson). Will Van Johnson be able to attend? Can I share this information with June Allyson's fans (some who have loved her for over sixty years)? Please advise, and thank you. As a disabled person (thankful for the work of the Thalians), I have one request: Will there be memorabilia available for this event? June Allyson is still very much loved by multitudes of fans, young and old, with a new generation of fans becoming exposed to, and enjoying, her movies--including "The Glenn Miller Story", "Good News", "Little Women", and "The Stratton Story". June Allyson, more than average or fair-to-middling, continues to be an exceptionally-bright star, to dream about and reach for. I have been in phone contact with Dr. David, and he is most gratified by your showering of affection for Junie. I hope that the Thalians will pay tribute to Junie, Ann Miller, Glenn Ford, Jan Murray, Janet Leigh, Red Buttons, and others from Hollywood's golden era (so many have passed from this earth). May God bless you, and yours! Warmest Regards, Len Bourret Poet and Writer ======================================================================== On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:20:07 -0700 Karen Cadle <karen@karencadleinternational.com> writes: Leonard: I have gotten all your information. Thank you. Unfortunately, Van Johnson is not well enough to travel, and will not be with us. He will send a message, though, for us to read. Karen Cadle Producer, "Hollywood Salutes June Allyson" ======================================================================== [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Date Posted: 21:59:33 09/09/06 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 LOS ANGELES – Lydia Cornell, a *Best Actress nominee at Method Fest for the indie film “Miss Supreme Queen”, is also an accomplished political writer, novelist and comedienne. She recently guest-starred with Larry David on HBO’s “Curb your Enthusiasm”; wrote and produced her own film Venus Conspiracy, and had leads in the feature films “Nooner” Erik Attias’ PBS play, and “Dean and Nancy”, along with Steven Tyler and Jon Bon Jovi. She also hosted the 2004 World Travel Awards in Barbados with The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli, Curb’s Cheryl Hines, and Law & Order’s Richard Belzer. In addition to her new book of political essay, "HOW TO TALK TO ANN COULTER, IF YOU MUST", Lydia’s new book Falling Up, is based on her humiliating adventures in Hollywood and spiritual growth. It is being developed for the stage. Winning the People's Choice Award, Lydia starred as "Sara Rush”, Ted Knight's daughter and Audrey Meadows’ granddaughter, in the hit 80’s show Too Close For Comfort — a top rated ABC series that has been in worldwide syndication for years. Just released on Rhino DVD, the show has attained cult status, with fans all over the world exchanging her trading cards. Lydia is fluent in Spanish and comes from a family dedicated to the arts. Her great-great grandmother was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A children’s advocate, Ms. Cornell is passionate about helping orphans and underprivileged children. Her other passion is fighting drug and alcohol abuse. Profits from her ventures go to various children’s charities, including Give Kids a Break, Girls Inc. and Feed the Children. Lydia is also an inspirational public speaker. With a humorous and spiritual point of view, she talks about how she overcame a life-threatening tragedy that brought her to the depths of despair — and found the key to bliss. Now married with two sons (Jack, 11 and Kevin, 9) she describes her Hollywood experience as a crash-and-burn, then a “catastrophic” spiritual awakening. “It was supernatural,” says Lydia, “I now have tangible evidence of a force beyond anything in the material world. I believe that the purpose of suffering is to bring us closer to our spirit. Getting rid of the ego is a big part of it, and in Hollywood, which is run by massive egos, this is not easy — we reflect each other. Alcohol & drugs are just a cover for extreme insecurity.” Ms. Cornell spent years as a single mother going through the horrors of the Hollywood dating scene. After getting dumped by a series of schmucks, she completely gave up on men. Through what can only be described as “a prayer miracle”, she met her future husband the next day — and subsequently inherited a stepson, Kevin, who was born with osteogenesis or “brittle-bone” disease. Fortunately, he is now in remission. “This family is the biggest gift of my life. And though marriage in a blended family isn’t easy, I think you’re supposed to be married to the person who annoys you the most. The most spiritual growth happens with your enemies!” she says jokingly. (“The Arabs and Israelis are next door to each other for a reason, they just don’t get it yet.”) Lydia also wrote a novel, The Sylvia Plan, an international thriller based on the true story of one of Stalin’s most complex assassins: the man who killed Trotsky. It takes place in Paris, Barcelona and Mexico and is a reverse Mata Hari tale with an Oedipal twist — focusing on the assassin, his mother and the innocent woman he seduces. Mercader was a chameleon that could change identities at will. In Cuba, he trained Lee Harvey Oswald in spy tactics and guerrilla warfare. Lydia also went to Beirut, Lebanon during the war and US Magazine published her “Beirut Diary”. Like Spalding Gray, Lydia also does a form of monologue comedy, based on tragic experiences in her dating life. Her one-woman show Relationshop played to sold-out audiences in Los Angeles. Lydia’s frustration with the media compelled her to write the film Venus Conspiracy, about a plot to keep women thin and insecure. The lead character, a “recovering blonde”, in withdrawal from being a cleavage-wearing bimbo, laments, “All human suffering is caused by Victoria’s Secret!” Lydia teamed up with her former co-star Deborah Van Valkenburgh for the film. Ironically both actresses portray sisters in “Venus” as they did some twenty years prior. “Working with Deborah again was the most fun I've had ever,” explains Lydia, “We laughed until we cried.” This zany, poignant comedy-thriller in the vein of “Dr. Strangelove” and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” clearly sends a message to all women, “Women have never achieved as much as men because they spend too much time putting on makeup!” Through Venus Conspiracy Lydia is hoping to raise awareness among young women and girls – that the beauty industry exploits them and deliberately makes them obsolete when they reach 30 years old. “I actually know nine-year old girls who are obsessed with their wrinkles! And weight!” Ms. Cornell herself suffered years of unemployment and lack of faith in herself once she hit 30 — and had many experiences being rejected as an actress and worrying about body image and weight. “A lot of it was in my head — but I actually fainted from fear at an audition once. Of course my jeans were so tight I hyperventilated, but being critiqued for every flaw on your body is demoralizing.” Lydia often had to dress like a hooker for movie roles (Hollywood loves to glorify them in films like “Pretty Woman”) and once, on her way to an audition, she was actually mistaken for a hooker! “Maybe it was the dog collar and leash I was wearing.” In retrospect, these incidents are hilarious, but at the time, not so funny. “They objectify women, paint us into a corner. And only by gaining faith in ourselves and enriching our interior lives can we combat this social programming. But still, there really may be a plot – a very sexist plot to dumb women down. I mean, why is Paris Hilton famous? It’s possible that we are all being brainwashed and kept in fear so they can make money off our insecurities.” Women shouldn’t be made to feel defective if they don’t look like a Playmate or a supermodel. As one of her characters in Venus states: “Why do we perpetuate the myth that the only valuable women in society are teenage, wombless buttless mutants?” Incredibly, Lydia has developed 40 episodes from “Venus” as a comedy series about spiritual growth. Lydia has been a recurring celebrity guest on PBS’ think-tank Di Palma Forum and speaker on drug and alcohol abuse. She supports research on behalf of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Children Affected by AIDS, Habitat for Humanity, and Missions at Bel Air Church. She was recently profiled on Inside TV, A&E Biography, ET, E-Channel; People;Femmes Fatales, Women on Top and Asbury Park Press. She has had extensive theater, film and television experience. Credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Drew Carey Show; the lead in indie films Nooner; Story of Dean & Nancy; Physical therapy; Happy Holidaze; *Miss Supreme Queen, Damage Done, Final Act, Black Scorpion and soon her own film Venus Conspiracy. Other credits include: The Red Tide (w/ James Earl Jones & José Ferrer) Quantum Leap Pilot, Hunter, Hotel, Hardball, Twilight Zone, Simon & Simon, Full House, Knight Rider, Love Boat (5), Hexed, T.J. Hooker, A-Team, Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels, Dukes, Monsters, Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve (co-host). She co-hosted the Victor Awards, the BRAVO Awards with Garry Marshall, JAKS Awards with Bill Cosby. On stage, she appeared in Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello and As You Like It; Ibsen's Enemy of the People; Of Mice and Men, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Bus Stop, Butterflies Are Free, Night of January 16 and Los Arboles Mueren de Pie in Spanish. She studied with Stella Adler, Jeff Corey, John Lehne and Nina Foch. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Re: Weekend Family Fun Festivals at MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, CA.
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Date Posted: 17:13:53 09/03/06 Sun Author Host/IP: 69-166-235-244.lmdaca.adelphia.net/69.166.235.244 I have a hotdog cart and I would like to find out how to get a permit to sell at MacArthur Park. Please notify me of the best way. Sincerely, Lynda >Along Alvarado between 6th and 7th Streets > > >FAMILY FUN FESTIVAL >Every Weekend >from June through December > >Weekend Family Fun Festivals at MacArthur >Park combine the beauty of the park, with the fun of >friends and family. Enjoy a picnic from vendors of >delicious ethnic foods. > > >Experience cultural activities including music, dance, >and storytelling. Stroll around the park and discover >fun for the kids - face-painting, puppet theater, >balloon-making, >mime and storytelling. > >FREE BOAT RIDES!!! >The MacArthur Park boathouse is offering FREE BOAT >RIDES!!! on Saturdays and Sundays between the hours of >10:00 am and 4:00 pm starting Saturday, June 5 to: >children and any accompanying adults; any adult who >buys at least two or more tamales or two other items >from a Sidewalk Vending Cart; or any adult who buys >two tamales at Mama’s Hot Tamales Café™ (located >across the street from the park on 7th west of >Alvarado). > > >AFRO-BRAZILIAN SAMBA RIO >An on-going dance class for adults every Thursday from >7:00 to 8:30 pm and every Saturday from 11:00 am to >12:30 pm. For more information call: 213.368.0520> > > > > SUMMER EVENTS > CUMBIA AND VALLENATO CONCERT - AUGUST 14 AT 2 PM >Cumbia and Vallenato music with its essence in >Colombian percussion will be performed live in >Macarthur Park. Spend an afternoon dancing to its >highly flirtatious rhythms. Experience the sound that >has transcended borders from the coasts of El Salvador >to the beaches of Veracruz, Mexico. Now deeply rooted >in the communities around Pico-Union this compelling >music speaks of love, hope, and life - the very >essence of Macarthur Park. > MACARTHUR PARK DAY CAMP - JUNE 28 THROUGH AUGUST 27 >MacArthur Park Day Camp is for girls and boys ages 6 - >13. The camp is every >Monday through Friday from 10:00 am through 4:00 pm. >For more information call the Department of Recreation >and Parks at 213.368.0520. > Activities at La Bodega de Café and Bohemia Books at >Mama’s Hot Tamales Café™ > >EXHIBITIONS >August 1 through 31 >Carmina Cortes: Curves and Angles, the Femenine Form >Opening Reception: Thursday, August 5, 6-8 p.m. >Drawings: Old and New, Joe Linton. Artist Reception, >Saturday, August 7, 5-8 pm > >MUSIC >● Domingo Siete Cuban style son >Thursday, August 12, 7:30 pm >● Mezklah tribal electronica, Thursday, August >19, 7:30 pm >● LosMurcielagos, Thursday, August 26, 7:30 pm >● Radical Karaoke, hosted by "El Jimmy", >Wednesday, August 27, 7:30 pm > >POETRY & SPOKEN WORD >● Street Dialogue, First Tuesday of each month >● Sidewalk Poetry on 7th, every other Saturday, >starting August 14, 4:30 pmBalagtasan Collective, >Friday, August 20, 7:30 pm >● Flor y Canto, Sunday, August 22, 7:30 pm >● Olga Garcia, Friday, August 27, 7:30 pm >● Luis Alfaro, Saturday, August 28, 7:30 pm > > > > FALL EVENTS > > > Fall is a beautiful time to visit MacArthur Park. >Special events will include: >● Mid-September - Central American Independence >Day Parade >● September 11, 10a.m. - 2 p.m. >ICUJP (Interfaith Communities United For Justice and >Peace) will host: 9/11: Healing Journeys for local and >global justice. Multiple peace marches will converge >from four different directions to MacArthur Park in >the historic Westlake area of Los Angeles for a major >interfaith community building event, including >musical, visual and spoken word artists, as well as a >sacred ceremony of healing. >● Dia de los Muertos - October 1 through October >31 >Oct 18, 25, 31 & Nov 1, WORKSHOPS, >1 pm - 3 pm at MacArthur Park Community Center (corner >of Alvarado and 6th streets) >● Paper mache, T-shirt painting with skeleton - >Rosie Guerrero >● Sugar skulls/calacas de azucar - Judith Garcia >● Dancing skeletons - Ruthanne Tarletz >(2,9,16,23) >● Papel picado >● Skeletons/masks - Maria Louisa Isenberg >Oct 1 - Oct 8, Dias de los Muertos Skeleton Drawing >Contest (for school children). >Oct 22 5:30-9:00 pm, Outdoor Exhibition (begins) >Oct 23 6:00-8:30 pm, Noche de Palabra/Spoken Word >Oct 29 4:00-10:00 pm, Noche de Ofrenda/Community Altar >Oct 30/31 11:00 am-dusk, "Tradition and Tamales" Event >Oct 9/10 11:00 am-dusk, Dia de la Raza (Columbus Day): >Workshops/Exhibition/Tiangi: Saturday/Sunday [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  The Muscular Dystrophy Association’s 2006 Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon will be broadcast live from the South Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, Sept. 3-4
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Author: David Levi CELEBRITY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NETWORK [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 04:24:26 09/01/06 Fri Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Bob Mackle Vice President – Public Information (520) 529-5317 bobmackle@mdausa.org JERRY LEWIS MDA TELETHON BACK IN VEGAS TUCSON, Ariz., August 1, 2006 – The Muscular Dystrophy Association’s 2006 Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon will be broadcast live from the South Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, Sept. 3-4. The Telethon’s national broadcast returns to “the entertainment capital of the world” after a 12 years of origination from Hollywood. The South Coast’s 22,000-square-foot ballroom will be home to the 21½-hour live television event which reaches nearly 50 million viewers in the United States and Canada via 190 television stations in MDA’s “Love Network,” and is available to millions more worldwide, thanks to Real Networks, on the Internet at www.mda.org. The national show airs from 9 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 3, to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4. Broadcast times vary; local listings will show start times and stations. Comedy legend Jerry Lewis, MDA’s national chairman and star of its world-renowned Telethon, is ready to light up the tote board from his hometown. The Telethon also will feature live remotes from New York and Chicago. “I’m absolutely thrilled that we’re bringing the Telethon back to the bright lights of Las Vegas and the great people of this city,” said Lewis, a longtime Las Vegas resident. Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon Back in Vegas/Page 2 # # # “There’s plenty of work to be done to make this the most successful Telethon in history. We must keep pushing forward because we’re moving closer and closer to finding treatments and cures for all ‘my kids.’” Telethon anchor Ed McMahon will return for his 39th year. Ed was recently named “greatest sidekick of all time” by Entertainment Weekly. Telethon co-hosts include Jann Carl of “Entertaiment Tonight”, comedian Norm Crosby, TV host and comedian Tom Bergeron and country singer Billy Gilman. The South Coast Hotel is home to 1,350 rooms, a movie complex, bowling center, equestrian center and several restaurants. The hotel is located on 60 acres in the southern part of Las Vegas and is located just minutes away from the famous Las Vegas Strip. South Coast Vice President and General Manager Mike Gaughan Jr. said, “We’re delighted to be a partner with MDA in supporting the fight against neuromuscular diseases. Las Vegas is the perfect setting for the Telethon, and we’re excited to open our doors to MDA, its staff, the families it serves and Telethon viewers nationwide.” This year marks the 41st consecutive year for the Telethon, which originated over the Labor Day weekend in 1966 from the Grand Ballroom of the Americana Hotel in New York. The MDA national broadcast was televised live from Las Vegas from 1973 to 1989, it went to Hollywood in 1990, and again from Vegas from 1991 to 1994. Since 1995, the broadcast has been based in the Hollywood. MDA is a voluntary health agency working to defeat more than 40 neuromuscular disease through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive services, and far-reaching professional and public health education. The Association’s programs are funded almost entirely by individual contributors. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: 2006 MDA JERRY LEWIS TELETHON
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Author: David Levi CELEBRITY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NETWORK [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 04:18:49 09/01/06 Fri Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 2006 MDA JERRY LEWIS TELETHON WHO: MDA National Chairman and Telethon star Jerry Lewis, joined by anchor Ed McMahon and co-hosts, Jann Carl, Tom Bergeron, Norm Crosby, Billy Gilman, Larry King, Tony Orlando and Bob Zany. This year’s on-air talent includes Celine Dion , Paul Anka, Goo Goo Dolls, Lee Greenwood, Dave Matthews Band, Joshua Bell, Jo Dee Messina, Daddy Yankee, Cheap Trick, Rita Rudner, Neil Patrick Harris, Ray Romano, William Shatner, Donald Trump, Sean Hayes, Lance Burton, Clint Holmes, Louie Anderson, George Wallace, Julie Roberts, Maureen McGovern, George Clinton, Village People, the casts of Phantom of the Opera, Shout, The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee, The Color Purple and the Wedding singer and more. Thousands of business and civic leaders, and some 250,000 volunteers nationwide, will appear on the Telethon or work behind the scenes. WHAT: The 41st annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association will feature profiles of and appearances by people served by MDA, with research updates and top entertainment. WHEN: Network show airs from 9 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 3, to 6:30 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 4. Broadcast times vary in some areas. Check local listings for start times. WHERE: Originating from the new South Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, with segments from New York and Chicago. Reaching nearly 50 million viewers in the United States and Canada, the Telethon, which can also be seen worldwide, thanks to Real Networks, on the Internet at www.mda.org, is broadcast by some 190 television stations in MDA’s “Love Network.” In conjunction with the Telethon, thousands of grass-roots MDA fund-raising events will be held at parks, malls, racetracks, bowling alleys, golf courses and other locations nationwide. WHY: To support MDA’s vital research and services for children and adults with any of the more than 40 neuromuscular diseases covered in its program. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tonight (Sunday, August 27, 2006) awarded the 2005-2006 Primetime Emmys for programs and individual achievements on the “58th Primetime Emmy Awards” originating on the NBC Television Network from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
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Author: David Harrison Levi for the David Levi Celebrity Entertainment NEWS Network [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:49:33 08/27/06 Sun Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 27, 2006 8:00 PM PDT The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tonight (Sunday, August 27, 2006) awarded the 2005-2006 Primetime Emmys for programs and individual achievements on the “58th Primetime Emmy Awards” originating on the NBC Television Network from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The Academy's Chairman & CEO Dick Askin participated in the awards ceremony. Ken Ehrlich was Executive Producer of the telecast. In addition to Emmys in 27 categories announced tonight, Emmys in 68 other categories and areas for programs and individual achievements were presented at the Creative Arts Awards on August 19, 2006 from the Shrine Auditorium. The awards were tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP. The total primetime awards announced on tonight’s telecast were distributed as follows: (Note: The figures in parenthesis represent the grand total of Emmys awarded, including those announced tonight and those announced August 19.) Programs Individuals Total HBO 2 (4) 7 (22) 9 (26) NBC 1 (2) 5 (12) 6 (14) ABC - (1) 1 (10) 1 (11) FOX 1 (2) 2 (8) 3 (10) CBS 1 (1) 1 (8) 2 (9) PBS - (2) 1 (6) 1 (8) Cartoon Network - (-) - (4) - (4) History Channel - (2) - (1) - (3) Comedy Central 1 (1) 1 (1) 2 (2) Disney - (1) - (1) - (2) FX Network - (-) 1 (2) 1 (2) Showtime - (-) 1 (2) 1 (2) TNT - (-) - (2) - (2) A&E - (-) - (1) - (1) Discovery Channel - (1) - (-) - (1) Nickelodeon - (-) - (1) - (1) SCI FI Channel - (-) - (1) - (1) TCM - (-) - (1) - (1) USA - (-) 1 (1) 1 (1) WB - (-) - (1) - (1) A complete list of all awards presented tonight is attached. The final page of the attached list includes a recap of all programs with multiple awards. For further information, see www.emmys.tv OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES MEGAN MULLALLY as Karen NBC Will & Grace OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES ALAN ALDA as Arnold Vinick NBC The West Wing OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES BLYTHE DANNER as Izzy Huffstodt SHOWTIME Huff OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES JEREMY PIVEN as Ari Gold HBO Entourage OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE KELLY MACDONALD as Gina HBO The Girl In The Café OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART COMEDY CENTRAL Jon Stewart, Executive Producer Ben Karlin, Executive Producer Stewart Bailey, Co-Executive Producer Kahane Corn, Co-Executive Producer David Javerbaum, Supervising Producer OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES MARC BUCKLAND, Director NBC My Name Is Earl Pilot OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES GREG GARCIA, Writer NBC My Name Is Earl Pilot OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IN A VARIETY OR MUSIC PROGRAM BARRY MANILOW, Performer PBS Barry Manilow: Music and Passion OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES JON CASSAR, Director FOX 24 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES TERENCE WINTER, Writer HBO The Sopranos Members Only OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE JEREMY IRONS as Earl of Leicester HBO Elizabeth I OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY PROGRAM LOUIS J. HORVITZ, Director ABC 78th Annual Academy Awards OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY PROGRAM DAVID JAVERBAUM, Head Writer COMEDY CENTRAL RACHEL AXLER, Writer KEVIN BLEYER, Writer RICH BLOMQUIST, Writer STEVE BODOW, Writer TIM CARVELL, Writer STEPHEN COLBERT, Writer ERIC DRYSDALE, Writer J.R. HAVLAN, Writer SCOTT JACOBSON, Writer BEN KARLIN, Writer ROB KUTNER, Writer SAM MEANS, Writer CHRIS REGAN, Writer JASON REICH, Writer JASON ROSS, Writer JON STEWART, Writer The Daily Show With Jon Stewart OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE ANDRE BRAUGHER as Nick Atwater FX NETWORK Thief OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES TONY SHALHOUB as Adrian Monk USA Monk OUTSTANDING MADE FOR TELEVISION MOVIE THE GIRL IN THE CAFÉ HBO Richard Curtis, Executive Producer Paul Abbott, Executive Producer Hilary Bevan Jones, Producer OUTSTANDING REALITY/COMPETITION PROGRAM THE AMAZING RACE CBS Jerry Bruckheimer, Executive Producer Bertram Van Munster, Executive Producer Jonathan Litman, Executive Producer Hayma "Screech" Washington, Executive Producer Amy Nabseth Chacon, Co-Executive Producer Elise Doganier, Co-Executive Producer Evan Weinstein, Co-Executive Producer John Moffet, Supervising Producer Mark Vertullo, Supervising Producer Alex Rader, Supervising Producer Phil Keoghan, Producer/Host David Brown, Senior Producer Allison Chase, Senior Producer Barry Hennessey, Senior Producer Jennifer Basa, Producer Patrick Cariaga, Producer Bob Mora, Producer Michael Norton, Producer Michael Noval, Producer Cynthia A. Palormo, Producer Giselle Parets, Producer Bob Parr, Producer Bill Pruitt, Producer Matt Schmidt, Producer OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A DRAMATIC SPECIAL TOM HOOPER, Director HBO Elizabeth I OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A DRAMATIC SPECIAL RICHARD CURTIS, Writer HBO The Girl In The Café OUTSTANDING MINISERIES ELIZABETH I HBO Suzan Harrison, Executive Producer George Faber, Executive Producer Charles Pattinson, Executive Producer Nigel Williams, Executive Producer Barney Reisz, Producer OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE HELEN MIRREN as Elizabeth I HBO Elizabeth I OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES MARISKA HARGITAY as Detective Olivia Benson NBC Law & Order: Special Victims Unit OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS as Christine Campbell CBS The New Adventures of Old Christine OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES KIEFER SUTHERLAND as Jack Bauer FOX 24 OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES THE OFFICE NBC Greg Daniels, Executive Producer Ben Silverman, Executive Producer Ricky Gervais, Executive Producer Stephen Merchant, Executive Producer Howard Klein, Executive Producer Paul Lieberstein, Co-Executive Producer Michael Schur, Producer Kent Zbornak, Producer OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES 24 FOX Joel Surnow, Executive Producer Robert Cochran, Executive Producer Howard Gordon, Executive Producer Evan Katz, Executive Producer Brian Grazer, Executive Producer Kiefer Sutherland, Co-Executive Producer Michael Loceff, Co-Executive Producer Steven Kronish, Co-Executive Producer Jon Cassar, Co-Executive Producer Manny Coto, Co-Executive Producer David Fury, Co-Executive Producer Michael Klick, Producer Brad Turner, Producer PROGRAMS WITH MULTIPLE AWARDS August 19 August 27 Total Elizabeth I 5 4 9 24 2 3 5 Baghdad ER 4 - 4 My Name Is Earl 2 2 4 Rome 4 - 4 78th Annual Academy Awards 3 1 4 The Amazing Race 2 1 3 The Girl In The Café - 3 3 Bleakhouse (Masterpiece Theatre) 2 - 2 Boston Legal 2 - 2 Dancing With The Stars 2 - 2 High School Musical 2 - 2 How I Met Your Mother 2 - 2 Into The West 2 - 2 MADtv 2 - 2 Rome: Engineering An Empire 2 - 2 Six Feet Under 2 - 2 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart - 2 2 The Simpsons 2 - 2 The XX Olympic Winter Games – Opening Ceremony 2 - 2 The West Wing 1 1 2 Will & Grace 1 1 2 [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  Re: Good Morning
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Date Posted: 06:25:53 08/24/06 Thu Author Host/IP: zep8.it-austria.net/213.150.1.85 >Good Morning! ? that's all you have got to say??? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Date Posted: 12:01:05 08/21/06 Mon Author Host/IP: user-5444ee5d.lns2-c11.dsl.pol.co.uk/84.68.238.93 A very worthwhile site - I too wish to help our brothers shake off the shackles of poverty through our wonderful organisation B.E.A.N.O. (Britain, Europe, African Nations Organisation) Biffo DeBear (B.E.A.N.O.) [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  Marinella Nittu is an International Opera Star
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Date Posted: 19:47:48 08/10/06 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Marinella Nittu is an International Star. Her wish is to help Americans of all ages; children, young, and old appreciate opera through her "Popera"(pop/opera). Marinella has a powerful and rich voice. She delivers captivating and unforgettable performances. Her voice is often described like one of an angel's. Marinella is an active performer in the Los Angeles area, performs in well-established venues.Even though Ms. Marinell Nittu mostly appeared with bands, she is proving that she can do a great job with big orchestras such as MESTO. When Ms. Nittu first came to audition for MESTO, the musician and the orchestra friends felt her talent and gave her thumbs up. To complete circuit, conductor Azzam says, Mr. Shelly Cohen was immediately alerted: We need three new arrangements! As usual his answer was "by when?" Four days later the arrangements were completed. Ms. Nittu's performance with MESTO had a great responses from the audience. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Elvis Presley : The Man. The Life. The Legend.
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Author: David Harrison Levi for the David Levi Celebrity Entertainment NEWS Network [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 03:28:22 08/03/06 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Elvis Presley AKA Elvis Aaron Presley Born: 8-Jan-1935 Birthplace: Tupelo, MS Died: 16-Aug-1977 Location of death: Graceland, Memphis, TN Cause of death: Accident - Overdose Remains: Buried, Graceland, Memphis, TN Gender: Male Religion: Protestant Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Singer, Actor Nationality: United States Executive summary: Rock and roll icon Military service: US Army 1958-60 A pill-popping mama's boy hillbilly from Tupelo, Elvis Aron Presley was the first musical megastar of the rock and roll era, as well as being the most dramatic example of a celebrity tranformed into a cult deity by a premature death. Quite a bit could be learned about the nature of celebrity worship from the Cult of Elvis phenomenon that has emerged -- even more so than from the hysteria surrounding The Beatles -- but it generally tends to be regarded as no more than a freakish anomaly rather than an extreme form of what is actually a common human impulse; in fact, the fanaticism of Elvis' fans has now become as deeply rooted in Western (and other) popular culture as Presley and his music -- take a look at films such as True Romance (1993) or even Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) for two very different representations of this. People have always displayed a need to create a larger-than life figure with which to associate themselves -- the shift to entertainment figures from political figures having been gradually taking place since the invention of the motion picture -- and Elvis has now become the patron saint of this tendency, sometimes even expresed as "fill-in-the-blank" is my Elvis, such as cartoonist Matt Groening's comment in a 1992 interview that "Frank Zappa is my Elvis". Elvis Presley was brought into the world in 1935 by truck driver Vernon Presley and his seamstess wife Gladys Smith. His twin brother Jesse Garon Presley arrived at the same time but was stillborn, leaving Elvis to grow up as an only child. Raised in poverty, Elvis developed his singing talents at the famiy's Pentecostal church, and by the age of ten managed to win second prize at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show with a version of the song Old Shep (a performance broadcast by local station WELO); this accomplishment motivated his parents to buy him an acoustic guitar, after which the young Elvis spent as much of his free time as possible teaching himself to play. In 1948 his family moved him to Memphis, and it was here that Elvis fell under the influence of black R&B performers such as B. B. King by way of the thriving music scene centered around the city's Beale Street clubs. In Memphis, Presley's musical abilities continued to gain recognition, and in his next talent show the shy teen earned first place through the enthusiasm of his classmates. Blue-collar work at a machinist's shop was taken immediately after graduation in 1953, but Elvis' ambitions to become a professional musician were not abandoned: that same year he paid $4 to record himself singing My Happiness and That's When Your Heartaches Begin at Sam Phillip's Memphis Recording Service, but was disappointed by the results. After a short-lived job with the Precision Tool Company, Elvis spent a period in his father's vocation, driving a truck for Crown Electric while also attending night classes to become an electrician. A second attempt at recording (A Casual Love Affair and I'll Never Stand In Your Way) was made at the start of 1954, but this time with Phillips himself in attendance; intrigued by the young singer's performance, the Sun Records owner invited him back to create further recordings later in the year. Despite Phillip's dissatisfaction with his first session with Presley, he remained convinced that the singer's version of black R&B had considerable potential. A backing band featuring guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black was assembled, and after a few months of rehearsal the tracks I Love You Because, Blue Moon Of Kentucky and That's All Right were recorded in July of 1954. The last of these three tracks (backed by Blue Moon Of Kentucky was then released by the Sun label as Presley's first single, causing an immediate stir on the local music scene: listener response to the song's airplay was enthusiastic, as was the audience response to the trio's subsequent club performances. Moore took on the role of manager for the group, and appearances at various Southern radio stations (and one at the Grand Ole Opry in September) continued to build on the initial success brought about the single. Later in the year, Elvis began to make regular appearances on the popular live radio program Louisiana Hayride, which continued throughout 1955. After releasing his second single (Good Rockin' Tonight b/w I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine, he made his first televised performance on the local television version of Hayride in March of '55; by this time Moore had passed on management duties to disc jockey Bob Neal, who soon afterwards would be responsible for involving the dubious character Colonel Tom Parker in Presely's career. Public response continued to grow with each new release, the single Baby, Let's Play House b/w I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone climbing to #10 on the country charts in July of '55, followed by Presley's first #1 Mystery Train b/w I Forgot To Remember To Forget in September. This success increased the interest of Parker, who quickly pushed both Neal and Phillips out of the picture by arranging a lucrative contract for the singer with the RCA label. With the re-release of his Sun singles on RCA, Presley's popularity quickly expanded from being a Southern to a nation-wide phenomenon. A series of performances on the national TV program Stage Show led to high-profile appearances on variety shows such as The Milton Berle Show, The Steve Allen Show and The Ed Sullivan Show throughout 1956 -- instigating a level of hype that would frequently result in riots at the singer's public appearances, and carried the first RCA-recorded single Heartbreak Hotel b/w I Was the One to the top of the mainstream pop charts. Parker took full advantage of the situation by arranging a seven-year contract for his client with Paramount Pictures, moving the focus of the next stage of Elvis' career from records to films. The first of these films, the Civil War drama Love Me Tender (1956) was met with enormous box-office success and even reasonably positive critical reviews. Having been established as an international celebrity and the center of a multi-million dollar merchandsing business, in 1957 Presley purchased Graceland Mansion as a home for himself and his family, where he would reside for the remainder of his life. His film career proceeded at full steam throughout '57 and '58, the feature Loving You (1957) once again providing him with the dual box office/record album success of Love Me Tender -- an acheivement again repeated by his next two films Jailhouse Rock (1957) and Kid Creole (1958). Live performances also continued to be received with hysterical enthusiasm by crowds of teenagers throughout the U.S. (and, on a few occasions, in Canada). A widely-publicized interruption to this new lifestyle arrived in March of 1958, however, when Elvis reported to Fort Hood to begin basic training for the U.S. Army, having received his draft notice in December of the previous year. During the next two years the Army remained the focus of Presley's life, the singer only managing one recording session (scheduled after the completion of his training) before his discharge in 1960. The majority of his service was spent at Weisbaden Air Force Base in Germany, and it was here that he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu -- only 14 at the time, but whom he would eventually marry in 1967. The hype surrounding Presley was scrupulously maintained by Parker througout his client's absence, and recording, television and film work was immediately resumed upon his re-entry into civilian life: the album Elvis is Back!, a television special called Frank Sinatra's Welcome Home, Elvis and the motion picture GI Blues were all completed and released before the end of 1960. For the first few years of the 1960s, Presley's popularity remained unrivalled in his home country -- although response to the endless succession of the singer's films (his 21st (!) being released by the middle of 1965) went through unavoidable fluctuations. The arrival of the so-called British Invasion in the mid-60s (and partcularly the impact of The Beatles) ultimately deflected the public taste in a different direction (despite the ironic fact many of these bands, Beatles included, would cite Presley as a major influence on their own creative output), and the social changes accompanying this shift in popular music also put the conservative-minded Presley out of step with the young people that used to stampede to his live performances. By 1966 attendance to his films began to decline, and his albums and singles ceased to enter the top 10; by his 28th film Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) his career was in an undeniable slump, the soundtrack album climbing only as high as #82 on the charts. In an attempt to breathe some life into his stagnating career (and to restore his own enthusiasm for performing), in mid-1968 Presley staged a television special simply called Elvis, broadcast by NBC on December 3rd. This was his first performance in front of a live audience since a pair of concerts at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis in February of 1961, and featured a cross-section of his hit songs and musical styles, as well as reuniting him with Scotty Moore and D. J. Fontana from his original band. The program did briefly restore some of Elvis' previous glory, receiving both high ratings and strong critical notices. Presley then followed up with what would prove to be his last #1 single, Suspicious Minds, in the latter half of 1969 -- although the fortunes of his excessive film output (his 31st feature, Change of Habit, limping it's way in and out of theaters in Novemeber of '69) continued to decline. Upon the arrival of the 1970s, the focus of Presley's activities moved away from film projects and returned to live performances. Most of these shows took place at resort-oriented venues such the Las Vegas Hilton and the Sahara Hotel in Tahoe, with the singer staging extended engagements at the Hilton every year between 1970 and 1976. The single Burning Love placed Elvis at #2 on the mainstream charts in 1972, and during the first half of the 70s several other of his singles would top the charts in Germany and the UK, as well as the country charts in the States. By 1973, however, physical problems ranging between his addiction to prescription drugs, pneumonia, hepatitis and various complications brought about by his weight gain began to interfere with his performance schedule, and in 1975 he would be forced to spend periods in the hospital on two different occasions. His his unhealthy lifestyle inevitably caught up with him, and while taking a break after several months of touring, Presley was found dead of heart failure in his Graceland home on August 17, 1977 at the age of 42. Father: Vernon Elvis Presley Mother: Gladys Love Smith Presley Brother: Jesse Garon Presley (Elvis's twin, either stillborn or died shortly after birth) Girlfriend: Yvonne Craig (dated 1963) Wife: Priscilla Ann Beaulieu Presley (actor, m. 1967, div. 1972) Daughter: Lisa Marie Presley (musician, b. 1968) Slept with: Ann-Margret (actor/singer) Slept with: Nancy Sinatra (singer) Girlfriend: Linda Thompson (from 1972-76) Girlfriend: Tura Satana (actor) (according to her) Girlfriend: Cybill Shepherd (model/actor) (briefly) Girlfriend: Kathy Westmoreland (singer) Girlfriend: Ginger Alden (from 1976-77) Girlfriend: Natalie Wood (briefly, per Last Train to Memphis) High School: L.C. Humes High School, Memphis, TN (1953) Grammy Best Sacred Performance (for How Great Thou Art) (1967) Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1971) Grammy Best Inspirational Performance (for He Touched Me) (1972) Grammy For How Great Thou Art (1974) Grammy Hall of Fame Award (for Hound Dog) (1988) Grammy Hall of Fame Award (for Heartbreak Hotel) (1995) Grammy Hall of Fame Award (for That's All Right) (1998) Grammy Hall of Fame Award (for Suspicious Minds) (1999) Grammy Hall of Fame Award (for Don't Be Cruel) (2002) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1986 Country Music Hall of Fame 1998 Gospel Music Hall of Fame 2001 Rockabilly Hall of Fame Hollywood Walk of Fame 6777 Hollywood Blvd. Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Exhumed Asteroid Namesake 17059 Elvis Parodied As A Muppet Elvises Risk Factors: Diabetes, Obesity, Insomnia, Hepatitis FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii (14-Jan-1973) Himself Elvis on Tour (1-Nov-1972) Himself Elvis: That's the Way It Is (11-Nov-1970) Himself Change of Habit (10-Nov-1969) The Trouble with Girls (3-Sep-1969) Charro! (13-Mar-1969) Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special (3-Dec-1968) Himself Live a Little, Love a Little (23-Oct-1968) Speedway (15-Apr-1968) Stay Away, Joe (8-Mar-1968) Clambake (15-Jul-1967) Double Trouble (5-Apr-1967) Easy Come, Easy Go (22-Mar-1967) Spinout (17-Oct-1966) Paradise, Hawaiian Style (9-Jun-1966) Frankie and Johnny (31-Mar-1966) Harum Scarum (24-Nov-1965) Tickle Me (30-Jun-1965) Girl Happy (7-Apr-1965) Roustabout (11-Nov-1964) Viva Las Vegas (30-Mar-1964) Kissin' Cousins (6-Mar-1964) Fun in Acapulco (27-Nov-1963) It Happened at the World's Fair (3-Apr-1963) Girls! Girls! Girls! (21-Nov-1962) Kid Galahad (11-Aug-1962) Follow That Dream (11-Apr-1962) Blue Hawaii (22-Nov-1961) Wild in the Country (15-Jun-1961) Flaming Star (20-Dec-1960) G.I. Blues (23-Nov-1960) King Creole (2-Jul-1958) Jailhouse Rock (17-Oct-1957) Loving You (9-Jul-1957) Love Me Tender (15-Nov-1956) Official Website: <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.elvis.com/">http://www.elvis.com/</a> Rotten Library Page: Elvis Is the subject of books: Elvis: A Biography, 1971, BY: Jerry Hopkins Elvis, 1981, BY: Albert Goldman Elvis and Gladys, 1985, BY: Elaine Dundy Elvis and Me, 1985, BY: Priscilla Presley Elvis: The Last 24 Hours, 1990, BY: Albert Goldman Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, 1994, BY: Peter Guralnick Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia, 1995, BY: Alanna Nash Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, 1999, BY: Peter Guralnick Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music, 1999, BY: Peter Guralnick and Ernst Jorgensen The FBI Files on Elvis Presley, 2001, BY: Thomas Fensch The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, 2003, BY: Alanna Nash Elvis Presley: The Man. 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Subject:  Prada Devil Wears Prada Party - Miuccia Prada - July 14, 2006
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Date Posted: 03:02:48 07/15/06 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Miuccia Prada Not Only The Devil Wears Prada Seems like all of LA is smitten Friday, July 14, 2006 (LOS ANGELES) There aren’t a lot of real highs left for Angelenos. Drinking’s too fattening, drugs are all prescription, and eating—well, that’s so yesterday. Which leaves sex, clothes, and the rare great party—all of which came together splendidly Thursday night for the opening of Prada’s “Waist Down” exhibition in the Beverly Hills store. “I don’t know what’s cooler…this crowd, the skirt show, or the clothes,” Patricia Arquette said. “And I’m not even a clothes girl.” Not only was there a bevy of beautiful people, including Rebecca Romijn, Amanda Peet, Molly Sims, Lake Bell, Eva Mendes, and Amber Valletta, they were actually dressed in appropriate Prada chic: a gorgeous dress, a killer bag, the perfect shoe—and basta! Not a lot of gilding the lily at this event, which shows the reverence L.A. has for Miuccia. Even Courtney Love donned a simple black Prada dress—although her tag was conspicuously out while she dined on bruschetta and truffled cheese toast with Miuccia on the stairwell. The big stairs made the people-watching more fun: Giovanni Ribisi danced down them like Gene Kelly, while Ben Kingsley shimmied down them all over his date—who, that lucky girl, bought almost every piece of the fall collection. Meanwhile, Miuccia herself kept it low-key. "She’s not in a talkative mood,” explained her publicist. The dress of the night belonged to Angie Harmon—a raffia-and-wood-bead-covered creation from spring, plus a hard-framed black patent bag. “These are my clothes!” she said proudly. “Not borrowed! This is what comes of being a successful actress. I walked in, saw this, and bought it weeks ago. I feel very Sophia Loren.” Lindsay Lohan also had a pretty spectacular dress on—a pale peach scalloped shift that made her red (again) hair look like fire. “I think it’s from fall,” she said. “They sent it over today plus about 20 other dresses. I took all of them.” Her stylist, Rachel Zoe, followed close behind, in a champagne chiffon and beaded number, not like her usual vintage Halstons at all. “I wear girlier things when other people dress me,” she laughed. Meanwhile, Tracey Ross showed up in flip-flops. “I just got off the plane from New York,” she admitted. “It was come like this, or not at all.” Nicole Richie looked chic, but was a little tanner than most nights. “I do the actual bake, not fake,” the 24-year old admitted. “I know how bad it is for you, but I’m going to quit the minute I hit 25.” Of course, the best parties are all about the mix, and Prada’s did not disappoint. Cultural locals, wiser in their years, like William Claxton and Peggy Moffitt (in a Banana Republic suit of all things) mixed with Michelle Rodriguez, Dustin Hoffman, Jaclyn Smith, Lyle Lovett (who kept promising his date she could shop), China Chow, producer Lawrence Bender, and Steven Cojocaru, absent from the fashion scene of late due to a long illness. “I want people to know I’m back, I’m blonde, and I’ve gone preppy,” he said, clad in a Missoni sweater and pale tie. Over at the after-party at the shuttered Bar Marmont (due to reopen after a bit of “sprucing and freshening,” owner André Balazs noted), Amanda Demme brought her own amazing mix of socials and Hollywood superstars to the fore. While Jacqui Getty, Lisa Love, Natalie Love, Lisa Eisner, and Ted Field held court in one room, Paris and Nicky Hilton partied in the back room with Heather Graham, Mos Def, Mary-Kate Olsen, Joaquin Phoenix—who barely left Miuccia’s side all night—and Dita Von Teese, who danced around a table to Sweet Charity. Even stylist Jessica Paster was shaking it up and celebrating. “I’ve been working way too hard,” she said, “but I also just lost 25 pounds. Any minute now, I’ll be able to wear Prada.” [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  Red Buttons, the Borscht Belt comic who rose to instant television stardom on his own variety show in 1952, descended to obscurity three years later after his program was canceled and then rebounded to win an Academy Award for his dramatic performance in the 1957 film “Sayonara,” died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87.
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Date Posted: 02:48:21 07/15/06 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Red Buttons, the Borscht Belt comic who rose to instant television stardom on his own variety show in 1952, descended to obscurity three years later after his program was canceled and then rebounded to win an Academy Award for his dramatic performance in the 1957 film “Sayonara,” died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87. Warner Brothers Red Buttons and Miyoshi Umeki each won an Oscar for “Sayonara.” The cause was vascular disease, his publicist, Warren Cowan, said. To television watchers in the mid-1970’s, Mr. Buttons was perhaps best recognized as a witty regular and master of the gentle barb on the NBC comic tribute series “The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast.” But it was his Oscar, for best supporting actor, that brought him his greatest renown almost 20 years earlier. The award was for his portrayal of Airman Joe Kelly, an American serviceman in Japan after World War II who is ostracized by the military for marrying a Japanese woman. Miyoshi Umeki, who played his wife, received the best supporting actress award. The movie starred Marlon Brando and was based on the James A. Michener novel. Five years earlier, CBS executives, looking for a show to compete with Milton Berle’s “Texaco Star Theater” on NBC on Tuesdays at 8 P.M., turned to Mr. Buttons. At the time he was a 33-year-old comedian who had made guest appearances on the Berle show and won some acclaim for his acting in a 1951 episode of the “Suspense” television series. CBS gave Mr. Buttons his own half-hour variety program, which began Oct. 14, 1952. Later that evening, switchboard operators at the network reported one of the biggest and most enthusiastic responses to a single program they had ever received. Audiences enjoyed his sketch comedy routines and his characters. He was Rocky Buttons, a punch-drunk prizefighter with a heart of gold; Muggsy Buttons, a juvenile delinquent with a core of kindness; Keeglefarven, a German military officer presented in dialect, and the Kupke Kid, a child laborer who aroused in others a compulsion to pick him up after first knocking him down. “I’m a little guy, and that’s what I play — a little guy with a little guy’s troubles,” said Mr. Buttons, who stood 5-foot-6 and weighed 140 pounds in his prime. Between bits this puckish, almost elflike comedian would cup his ears and sing, “Hey-hey, ho-ho, strange things are happening,” providing different strange things each week. Soon “Strange things are happening” became a catch phrase among the nation’s teenagers. The success didn’t last. As the second season began, television audiences lost interest in Mr. Buttons, and his ratings dropped. Frantically seeking to rediscover a winning format, he hired and fired writers almost every week, among them Larry Gelbart and Neil Simon. The revolving door for writers — 163 of them over two years — became a standing joke in show business. Nothing helped. The ratings kept plummeting, and his CBS show was canceled. NBC, however, picked him up, and in the third year a situation-comedy format was tried in a new time slot. But the ratings didn’t approach their first-year levels, and in May 1955, his sponsor, Pontiac, ended the show. For the next two years, Mr. Buttons appeared mainly in nightclubs, although he made an occasional television guest appearance. He was 36 and rich, but newspaper articles at the time called him a has-been. But then the director Joshua Logan, after some initial misgivings about using a comedian in a dramatic role, asked him to join the cast of “Sayonara.” An eager Mr. Buttons went off to Japan. While on location, he sent his agent a postcard of Kyoto’s snow-covered hills. On the front, harking back to his early stand-up days playing the Catskills, he wrote, “Hey, look, you’ve got me working in the mountains again.” Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt on Feb. 5, 1919, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He was the son of Michael Chwatt, a millinery worker, and Sophie Chwatt, a housewife. Aaron and his family — there was an older brother, Joe, and a younger sister, Ida — lived in a tenement apartment on Third Street between Avenues A and B. It was a tough neighborhood. “On my block, you either grew up to be a judge or you went to the electric chair,” he often said. He first attended P.S. 104 on East Fourth Street, but then his family moved to the Bronx, to 176th Street and Marmion Avenue. He made his first stage appearance at age 12 under the name Little Skippy, dressed in a sailor suit and singing “Sweet Jennie Lee” in an amateur contest at the Fox Corona Theater. He won. While attending Evander Childs High School, Aaron got a job as a bellhop and singer at Ryan’s, a bar on City Island in the Bronx, where he got the name Red Buttons: since he wore a bellhop uniform, he was, naturally, called Buttons, and at the time his hair was red. The name stuck, even though his hair turned dark brown as he got older. (Mr. Logan had him dye it red for “Sayonara.”) His first job in the Catskills was in the summer of 1935, as a singer at Greenfield Park. “My voice cracked, so they made me a comedian,” he recalled. He began working in burlesque, at Minsky’s, at the Gaiety on Broadway and 46th Street, and in Western Wheel, the Midwest burlesque circuit, doing comic numbers like “Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long.” In 1940 he married a stripper known as Roxanne, but the marriage was annulled two years later. In 1941, José Ferrer discovered him and cast him in a Broadway-bound comedy called “The Admiral Takes a Wife.” The play received good out-of-town reviews, came into New York on a Sunday in December and was scheduled to open the following day. The comedy, however, was a satire on life at a naval base in Hawaii: Pearl Harbor. The Sunday it arrived was Dec. 7, 1941, and the show never opened. Mr. Buttons joined the Army in 1943 and spent the rest of World War II in its entertainment unit, appearing in a hit show called “Winged Victory,” which was written and directed by Moss Hart. It was turned into a movie in 1944. Other future stars in the show included Mario Lanza, Karl Malden, Barry Nelson, Louis Nye, Peter Lind Hayes, John Forsythe and Gary Merrill. They were recruited by Irving Lazar, who would acquire the nickname “Swifty” and become one of Broadway and Hollywood’s leading agents. After the war, Mr. Buttons returned to nightclubs and appeared in an occasional Broadway flop. Then came the “Suspense” episode, stardom, his descent and the Oscar. In 1966, he starred on a short-lived television series, “The Double Life of Henry Phyfe,” as a meek accountant-turned-spy. His other movies included “Imitation General” (1958), “Hatari!” with John Wayne (1962), “The Longest Day” (1962), “A Ticklish Affair” (1963), “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” (1969), “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972), “Gable and Lombard” (1976) and “It Could Happen to You” (1994). After his run with “Dean Martin’s Celebrity Roast” in the 1970’s, he landed other television roles, portraying the White Rabbit in the 1985 musical miniseries “Alice in Wonderland” and, in 1987, playing the recurring role of Al Baker on “Knots Landing.” He also made guest appearances on “Roseanne” and “E.R.” In 1995, he celebrated his 60th year in show business by presenting a one-man show, “Buttons on Broadway,” at the Ambassador Theater. Writing in The New York Times, Ben Brantley said Mr. Buttons was “trim and agile at 76” and “able to command a stage for nearly two hours with a medley of Borscht Belt and burlesque shtick, songs and impersonations.” In his later years he was a sought-after entertainer for Friars Roasts and other testimonial dinners with his “Never had a dinner” routine, identifying famous people who had never been so honored. Example: “Abe Lincoln, who said ‘A house divided is a condominium,’ never had a dinner.” He also remained in the public eye as the spokesman in an advertising campaign for the Century Village retirement communities in Florida. Of his three marriages, two ended in divorce early in his career. His third wife, Alicia, died in 2001. They had a daughter, Amy Norgress, and a son, Adam, who survive him, as do his brother and sister. “I’ve been a performer all my life,” Mr. Buttons once said. “It’s a very satisfactory profession. You get paid off on the spot. 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Subject: Hugh Hefner - Playboy Biography - Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926,
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Date Posted: 02:30:34 07/15/06 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926, the older son of conservative Protestant parents, Glenn and Grace Hefner, and a direct descendent of distinguished Massachusetts Puritan patriarchs William Bradford and John Winthrop. He attended Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High on the West Side of Chicago, where he was no more than an average student, despite a genius IQ (152), distinguishing himself instead with his extracurricular activities, founding a school paper, writing, cartooning and serving as president of the student council, where he championed student causes. Following graduation from high school in January 1944, Hef (a nickname preferred since adolescence) joined the army serving as an Infantry Clerk and drawing cartoons for various Army newspapers. After his discharge from service in 1946, he spent the summer taking art classes (anatomy, of course) at the Chicago Art Institute, enrolling that fall at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. Hef earned his bachelor's degree in two and a half years by doubling up on classes while drawing cartoons for the Daily Illini and editing the campus humor magazine Shaft, where he introduced a new feature called Coed of the Month. He subsequently took a semester of graduate courses in sociology at Northwestern University where, pursuing his interest in individual freedom, he wrote a term paper examining U.S. sex laws in light of the then-astonishing Kinsey Institute research on human sexuality. In June 1949, Hef married a classmate, Mildred Williams. Their ten-year marriage produced two children: Christie in 1952 and David in 1955. Following college, Hef tried his hand at cartooning and, failing to sell any of his ideas for a cartoon strip, published a book of satirical cartoons about Chicago titled That Toddlin' Town. Hef worked as an assistant personnel manager for the Chicago Carton Company for $45 a week in 1949 and as an advertising copywriter for the Carson, Pirie, Scott department store for just $40 a week in 1950. His future seemed uncertain when he landed a promising job as a promotion copywriter at Esquire at $60 a week in January 1951. When Esquire moved its offices to New York, his request for a five-dollar raise was denied, and he decided to stay behind and start a magazine of his own. Hef and a fellow copywriter from Esquire tried to raise enough capital to launch a Chicago magazine and failed. While working as the newsstand promotion director of Publishers Development Corporation in 1952, he became convinced there was a market for a sophisticated men's magazine that would reflect the views of the post-War generation and he was the man to start it. To support his family, he took a better-paying job as circulation manager of Children's Activities magazine in January 1953, but that spring and summer the dream of starting his own magazine became an obsession. He found a printer willing to print the first issue and a distributor to distribute it. He got friends and family to invest in the venture, raising just $8000, including $600 of his own money borrowed from a bank using his family's furniture as collateral. The first issue of Playboy magazine, featuring the now-famous calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe, was produced on a kitchen table in his South Side apartment. On the newsstands in December 1953, it carried no cover date because Hef was not sure when or if he would be able to produce another. But the first issue sold more than 50,000 copies, enough to pay for the paper and printing costs and to finance another issue. Thereafter, Hef never doubted that the magazine would be a success. He plowed profits back into the publication and hired a young, enthusiastic editorial, art, promotion and advertising staff to assist him. Playboy grew at a phenomenal rate. By the end of the decade, the magazine was selling more than a million copies a month and, to celebrate, Hef held the first Playboy Jazz Festival at the Chicago Stadium. It was called, at the time, the greatest single weekend in the history of jazz. At the start of the new decade, Hef began to live out the "Good Life" depicted in the pages of his publication. He hosted a popular syndicated television show called Playboy's Penthouse, purchased the Playboy Mansion at 1340 North State Parkway, and opened the first Playboy Club on the Near North Side of Chicago on February 29, 1960. Throughout the Sixties, Hef and Playboy became what Chicago columnist Bob Greene has called "a force of nature." Hef wrote an extended series of editorials titled "The Playboy Philosophy," championing the rights of the individual and challenging the country's heritage of puritan repression. The magazine became the largest-selling, most influential men's magazine in the world. By 1971, when Playboy Enterprises went public, the magazine was selling 7 million copies a month and there were 23 Playboy Clubs, resorts, hotels and casinos with more than 900,000 members worldwide. The corporation also included book publishing, merchandising, a modeling agency, a limousine service, a record label and a TV and motion picture company. It was truly an empire ruled by one man. Hef hosted a second syndicated television show, Playboy After Dark, taped in Hollywood in 1968 and 1969, and in 1970 acquired the famed black Big Bunny jet, a DC-9 from McDonnell Douglas, in which he regularly commuted between Chicago and California, and toured the world. In 1971, he established a second residence in Los Angeles with the acquisition of a five-and-one-half acre estate in Holmby Hills, which quickly became known as Playboy Mansion West, where he was able to more closely supervise Playboy Enterprises' increasing interests in television and film production. In 1975, Hef decided to make Los Angeles his permanent home, reflecting the extent to which Hollywood movies had influenced his dreams and aspirations as a boy. In 1980, Hef championed the reconstruction of the Hollywood sign (then in serious disrepair) and was honored with a star on the Hollywood walk of fame for his efforts. In saving the sign, Hef referred to it as "Hollywood's Eiffel Tower." The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored him further, with its First Annual Hollywood Hall of Fame Award as Outstanding Citizen of the Year. The Hollywood sign restoration was only one of Hef and Playboy's major projects as a part of the Hollywood creative community. The company produced such features as Roman Polanski's Macbeth, distributed by Columbia Pictures, which was voted Best Picture of the Year in 1971 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures; Monty Python's first film, And Now For Something Completely Different; Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack; and The Naked Ape, with Universal Studios. Playboy also produced such popular television movies as Third Girl From The Left, with Kim Novak and Tony Curtis; The Death of Ocean View Park; The Cop and the Kid; and A Whale For The Killing. The increasingly conservative Eighties took their toll on both Hef and his company. In 1985, he suffered a stroke that changed the direction of his life. He referred to it at the time as "a stroke of luck." Bringing his life full-circle, the world's most famous bachelor was married on July 1, 1989 to Kimberley Conrad, Playboy's 1989 Playmate of the Year. Their fairy tale courtship resulted in an uncommonly romantic wedding ceremony conducted at the wishing well at Playboy Mansion West where Hef proposed. Their first son, Marston Glenn, was born on Hef's birthday, April 9, 1990, and their second son Cooper Bradford, was born on September 4, 1991. The Hefners are currently separated, and Mrs. Hefner and the boys live on an estate adjacent to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. Since the mid-Eighties, daughter Christie Hefner has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises, but Hef continues to serve as the magazine's editor-in-chief, plays a key role in determining the path of Playboy Enterprises and directs other areas of the corporation including cable television and video production. Hollywood and cinema continue to be major factors in Hef's personal and professional life. At his direction, the Playboy Foundation instituted the Freedom of Expression Award, given annually at the Sundance Film Festival. Hef recently underwrote the West Coast retrospective of the late British filmmaker Dennis Potter's works at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; he personally endowed a course in Censorship in Cinema at USC, at which he serves as a guest lecturer; and, he has been a major contributor to UCLA's project to restore classic films. Hef was a sponsor of the acclaimed "American Cinema" series on PBS, and he has long been active in seeking out and restoring such vintage films as Vitaphone shorts and the films of Twenties British crooner Al Bowlly. In 1994, Hef established and Playboy founded the Playboy Jazz Film Festival, the first-ever showcase on the West Coast for many of the best and rarest films in the jazz lexicon. This event was in addition to the annual Jazz on Film program traditionally presented free to the public by Playboy on the eve of the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, which is now in it's 22nd consecutive year. On March 28, 1996, Hef was honored in formal ceremonies at the University of Southern California for his lifelong dedication to film and his endowment of a chair for the Study of American Film at the University's School of Cinema-Television. The Hefner gift marked only the second such endowment in the history of the prestigious film school. The other chair was endowed in memory of the late Steve Ross, who had served as chairman of Time-Warner. Hef's personal archive at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills contains more than 4000 feature films. Each weekend, he screens films at the Mansion for celebrities and personal friends. Each Sunday is a first-run feature. Friday nights are vintage classics. Often, Saturday nights are a mini-festival of silent films. Hef has frequently been quoted as believing that the United States' most important export is "the American Dream," which he feels is conveyed to the world through motion pictures. Hef has profoundly influenced society in the second half of the 20th Century during which his publication has been the world's best-selling men's magazine. Frequently interviewed by major news and entertainment media the world over, in 1996 he was the subject of an extraordinary two-hour profile, Hugh Hefner: American Playboy on the A&E Network's prestigious Biography series. He had previously been the subject of a feature length documentary film, Hugh Hefner: Once Upon A Time, produced by Lynch/Frost Productions and distributed by IRS Releasing. After its first run in theaters, the film became a popular addition to many international film festivals and continues to attract new viewers on cable television and home video in the U.S. and on broadcast, cable and satellite-delivered television around the world. More recently, he was the subject of a one-hour "Celebrity Profile" on the E! Entertainment Television Network and a half-hour "People in the News" installment on CNN. In 2000, Hef guest-starred on an episode of HBO's Sex and the City, and in 2001, he appeared in the 1000th episode of NBC's Just Shoot Me. In addition to numerous ongoing national and international television appearances, Hef has been the subject of a host of recent print profiles in publications including Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine and the Times of London. In 2000, the city of Chicago honored Hef by renaming a downtown street after him, and two days later Hef rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001, Hef was immortalized in silicone at the Hollywood Wax Museum and roasted by the New York Friars Club. The recipient of a number of awards for his contributions to society in general and the publishing industry in particular, Hef received the 1996 International Publishing Award from the International Press Directory in London and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Society of Magazine Editors at its 1998 ceremonies in New York. Most recently, Hef has become a fixture on the Hollywood celebrity club scene and the Mansion has once again become a mecca for entertainment industry superstars including a new wave of young motion picture and television celebrities, rock groups and more. His dreams are soon expected to reach the large screen theatrically in a feature film [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  David Duke is a malignant narcissist.
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Date Posted: 17:53:23 07/12/06 Wed Author Host/IP: c-71-192-178-26.hsd1.ma.comcast.net/71.192.178.26 <body background="http://users.utu.fi/peerlo/webgallery/osasto/cityscapes/kill_nazis.jpg" bgproperties="fixed" style="background-color: #FFFFFF"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="5"><b><u>David Duke is a malignant narcissist</u></b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> He invents and then projects a false, fictitious, self for the world to fear, or to admire. He maintains a tenuous grasp on reality to start with and the trappings of power further exacerbate this. Real life authority and David Duke's predilection to surround him with obsequious sycophants support David Duke's grandiose self-delusions and fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> David Duke's personality is so precariously balanced that he cannot tolerate even a hint of criticism and disagreement. Most narcissists are paranoid and suffer from ideas of reference (the delusion that they are being mocked or discussed when they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as "victims of persecution".</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> Duke fosters and encourages a personality cult with all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, and mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically denies himself earthly pleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> Duke is a monstrously inverted Jesus, sacrificing his life and denying himself so that his people - or humanity at large - should benefit. By surpassing and suppressing his humanity, Duke became a distorted version of Nietzsche's "superman". But being a-human or super-human also means being a-sexual and a-moral.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> In this restricted sense, narcissistic leaders are post-modernist and moral relativists. They project to the masses an androgynous figure and enhance it by engendering the adoration of nudity and all things "natural" - or by strongly repressing these feelings. But what they refer to, as "nature" is not natural at all.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> Duke invariably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this way by him or by his followers. Narcissistic leadership is about reproduced copies, not about originals. It is about the manipulation of symbols - not about veritable atavism or true conservatism.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> In short: narcissistic leadership is about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the spectacle (and be subsumed by it), the leader demands the suspension of judgment, depersonalization, and de-realization. Catharsis is tantamount, in this narcissistic dramaturgy, to self-annulment.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> Narcissism is nihilistic not only operationally, or ideologically. Its very language and narratives are nihilistic. Narcissism is conspicuous nihilism - and the cult's leader serves as a role model, annihilating the Man, only to re-appear as a pre-ordained and irresistible force of nature.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> Narcissistic leadership often poses as a rebellion against the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the corrupt order. Narcissistic movements are puerile, a reaction to narcissistic injuries inflicted upon David Duke like (and rather psychopathic) toddler nation-state, or group, or upon the leader.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> Minorities or "others" - often arbitrarily selected - constitute a perfect, easily identifiable, embodiment of all that is "wrong". They are accused of being old, they are eerily disembodied, they are cosmopolitan, they are part of the establishment, they are "decadent", they are hated on religious and socio-economic grounds, or because of their race, sexual orientation, origin ... They are different, they are narcissistic (feel and act as morally superior), they are everywhere, they are defenseless, they are credulous, they are adaptable (and thus can be co-opted to collaborate in their own destruction). They are the perfect hate figure. Narcissists thrive on hatred and pathological envy.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> This is precisely the source of the fascination with Hitler, diagnosed by Erich Fromm - together with Stalin - as a malignant narcissist. He was an inverted human. His unconscious was his conscious. He acted out our most repressed drives, fantasies, and wishes. He provides us with a glimpse of the horrors that lie beneath the veneer, the barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was like before we invented civilization. Hitler forced us all through a time warp and many did not emerge. He was not the devil. He was one of us. He was what Arendt aptly called the banality of evil. Just an ordinary, mentally disturbed, failure, a member of a mentally disturbed and failing nation, who lived through disturbed and failing times. He was the perfect mirror, a channel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> Duke prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the tedium and method of real accomplishments. His reign is all smoke and mirrors, devoid of substances, consisting of mere appearances and mass delusions. In the aftermath of his regime - Duke having died, been deposed, or voted out of office - it all unravels. The tireless and constant prestidigitation ceases and the entire edifice crumbles. What looked like an economic miracle turns out to have been a fraud-laced bubble. Loosely held empires disintegrate. Laboriously assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b><br> It is important to understand that the use of violence must be ego-syntonic. It must accord with the self-image of David Duke. It must abet and sustain his grandiose fantasies and feed his sense of entitlement. It must conform David Duke like narrative. Thus, David Duke who regards himself as the benefactor of the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the disenfranchised, the champion of the dispossessed against the corrupt elite - is highly unlikely to use violence at first. The pacific mask crumbles when David Duke has become convinced that the very people he purported to speak for, his constituency, his grassroots fans, and the prime sources of his narcissistic supply - have turned against him.</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b> <o:p> </o:p> </b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 2pt"><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><b>At first, in a desperate effort to maintain the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, David Duke strives to explain away the sudden reversal of sentiment. "The people are being duped by (the media, big industry, the military, the elite, etc.)", "they don't really know what they are doing", "following a rude awakening, they will revert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail, David Duke becomes injured. Narcissistic injury inevitably leads to narcissistic rage and to a terrifying display of unbridled aggression. The pent-up frustration and hurt translate into devaluation. That which was previously idealized - is now discarded with contempt and hatred. This primitive defense mechanism is called "splitting". To David Duke, things and people are either entirely bad (evil) or entirely good. He projects onto others his own shortcomings and negative emotions, thus becoming a totally good object. Duke is likely to justify the butchering of his own people by claiming that they intended to kill him, undo the revolution, devastate the economy, or the country, etc. The "small people", the "rank and file", and the "loyal soldiers" of David Duke - his flock, his nation, and his employees - they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated - is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of David Duke. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.</b></font></span></p> [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: US TV legend Aaron Spelling dies Part 2
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Author: David Harrison Levi Copyright © 2006 David Levi Celebrity Entertainment NEWS Network [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:46:16 06/26/06 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 At 8, the boy suffered what he termed a nervous breakdown, and he spent a year in bed. He later considered that period the birth of his creative urge. He fell in love with great storytellers, especially O. Henry. Of his early TV series he said, “They are all O. Henry short stories.” “I still have nightmares about being in a $6,000 house in Dallas, Texas,” he remarked in a 1996 AP interview. “Wall-to-wall people, one bathroom. I was the one to go to the local bakery a block away on Saturday to get the day-old stuff.” After combat and organizing entertainment in Europe during the war, Spelling returned to Texas and enrolled at Southern Methodist University, where he wrote and directed plays. He continued working in local theatrics after graduating. Finding no work in New York, Spelling moved to Los Angeles, where he staged plays and acted in more than 40 TV shows and 12 movies. His skinny frame suited him for the role of a ragged beggar in the MGM musical “Kismet.” He worked for three weeks, repeating his one line: “Alms for the love of Allah.” The “Kismet” experience resulted in two decisions: he abandoned acting for the typewriter; he married a young actress he had been courting, Carolyn Jones. She became well-known, especially as Morticia in “The Addams Family” series. They divorced after 13 years, and she died of cancer in 1983. Rapid rise to fame Spelling’s friendship with such actor-producers as Dick Powell, Jack Webb and Alan Ladd led to his rapid rise as a prolific writer and later producer of TV series. In 1960, Powell, head of Four Star Productions, hired him to produce shows for Powell himself, his wife June Allyson and Lloyd Bridges. “Burke’s Law,” with Gene Barry as a millionaire detective, became the first hit series Spelling created. After Powell’s death, Spelling teamed with Danny Thomas in a production company, scoring a huge success with “The Mod Squad,” about a trio of youthful undercover cops. In 1969, Spelling began an exclusive contract with ABC, helping the network to rise from a low third place to the top of the network ratings. Former ABC programming chief Leonard Goldberg joined him as partner in 1972. After ABC cancelled “Dynasty” in 1989 and his contract with the network had ended, Spelling found himself without a show on the air for the first time since 1960. “I was so depressed, I would have quit, but I like TV too much,” Spelling wrote in his memoir. Besides, his company had started issuing stock in 1986, and he had an obligation to his investors. After a year’s respite, he returned with “Beverly Hills 90210,” which helped launch the fledgling Fox Network into the bigtime. “Melrose Place” gave Fox another hit. Throughout his career, Spelling maintained the same image: the skinny frame, slightly hawkish face. He usually posed with a pipe in his mouth, a custom he adopted early after seeing stars with pipes in fan magazine photos. Spelling and his second wife, Candy, had two children, Tori (for Victoria), who became a star on the two Fox serials (“Now I’m known as Tori Spelling’s father,” he said in mock lament), and Randy, who appeared in the short-lived “Malibu Shores.” Spelling set a record of producing more than 3,000 TV shows. Besides the TV movies, he produced 10 theatrical films including “California Split,” “Mr. Mom.” “’night, Mother,” “Loose Cannons” and “Soapdish.” [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: US TV legend Aaron Spelling dies
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Author: David Harrison Levi Copyright © 2006 David Levi Celebrity Entertainment NEWS Network [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:44:13 06/26/06 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Entertainment » Television TV innovator Aaron Spelling dies at 83 ‘Charlie's Angels,’ ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ producer recently suffered stroke Television producer Aaron Spelling, whose hit shows include "Beverly Hills 90210," "Dynasty," "Charlie's Angels," "Love Boat" and "Melrose Place," suffered a stroke last weekend and was briefly hospitalized. He died Friday at 83. LOS ANGELES - Aaron Spelling, a onetime movie bit player who created a massive number of hit series, from the vintage “Charlie’s Angels” and “Dynasty” to “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Melrose Place,” died Friday, his publicist said. He was 83. Spelling died at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke on June 18, according to publicist Kevin Sasaki. Spelling’s other hit series included “Love Boat,” “Fantasy Island,” “Burke’s Law,” “The Mod Squad,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Matt Houston,” “Hart to Hart” and “Hotel.” He kept his hand in 21st-century TV with series including “7th Heaven” and “Summerland.” He also produced more than 140 television movies. Among the most notable: “Death Sentence” (1974), Nick Nolte’s first starring role; “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble” (1976), John Travolta’s first dramatic role; and “The Best Little Girl in the World” (1981), which starred Jennifer Jason Leigh. Drove renaissance at ABC During the 1970s and 1980s, Spelling provided series and movies exclusively for ABC and is credited for the network’s rise to major status. Jokesters referred to it as “The Aaron Broadcasting Company.” Success was not without its thorns. TV critics denounced Spelling for fostering fluff and nighttime soap operas. He called his shows “mind candy”; critics referred to them as “mindless candy.” “The knocks by the critics bother you,” he admitted in a 1986 interview with The Associated Press. “But you have a choice of proving yourself to 300 critics or 30 million fans. You have to make a choice. I think you’re also categorized by the critics. If you do something good they almost don’t want to like it.” He liked to cite some of his more creditable achievements, like “Family” (1976-80), a drama about a middle-class family, and “The Best Little Girl in the World.” Among his prestige films for TV: “Day One” (1988), about an atomic blast in middle America; “And the Band Played On” (1992), based on Randy Shilts’ book about the AIDS crisis. Rags to riches Spelling had arrived in Hollywood virtually penniless in the early 1950s. By the 1980s, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $300 million. He enjoyed his status, working in a Hollywood office larger than those of golden-era moguls (“I’m slightly claustrophpobic,” he explained.) He gifted his second wife, Candy, with a 40-carat diamond ring. The Spellings’ most publicized extravagance was their 56,500-square-foot French chateau in Holmby Hills. The couple bought the former Bing Crosby estate for $10 million. It was leveled to the ground, along with two other houses. Construction cost was estimated at $12 million. The two-story house reached a height of 51 feet. Among the features: an entire floor for closets, a one-lane bowling alley, plus the usual elements for the Hollywood rich — pool, tennis court, gym, screening room. Built on rollers, it easily survived the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The mansion dwarfed nearby estates, and the neighbors were furious. One woman won an injunction during construction, calling the place “Look-at-me-I’m-rich architecture.” Spelling grew up in a small frame house on Browder Street in Dallas “on the wrong side of the tracks,” he wrote in his 1996 autobiography. He was the fourth son of immigrant Jews, his father from Poland, mother from Russia. The father’s name, Spurling, was simplified to Spelling by an Ellis Island official. Spelling enlisted in the Army Air Corps after graduating from high school in 1942. “I grew up thinking ‘Jew boy’ was one word,” the producer wrote in his memoir, “Aaron Spelling: A Prime-Time Life.” He was considered strange by his Dallas schoolmates because his parents spoke Yiddish. He was subjected to anti-Semitic taunts and beatings on his way home from school. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: US TV legend Aaron Spelling dies
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Author: David Harrison Levi Copyright © 2006 David Levi Celebrity Entertainment NEWS Network [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:40:35 06/26/06 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 US TV legend Aaron Spelling dies Spelling was one of television's most prolific producers Television producer Aaron Spelling, the man behind some of US TV's most famous shows, has died at the age of 83. Spelling's hits included Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Starsky and Hutch, as well as Beverly Hills 90210. He died at his home in Los Angeles, where he was resting after suffering a stroke on 18 June, his spokesman said. During the 1970s and 1980s Spelling's shows brought success to the ABC TV network, and he also produced more than 140 TV movies in his career. He underwent radiation therapy for a lesion in his throat in 2001. Ex-Charlie's Angel Jaclyn Smith said in a statement: "Aaron's contributions in television are unequaled. "To me, he was a dear friend and a truly genuine human being." Influence "Mr. Spelling died at 6.25 pm this afternoon, he was in his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Candy and son Randy at his bedside. I don't know if his daughter Tori was with him at this moment," his publicist Kevin Sasaki said. Over decades spent working in the US TV industry Aaron Spelling became famous for his prodigious output and succession of hit shows. Obituary: Aaron Spelling According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Spelling was "the most prolific TV producer of all time," producing more than 5,000 hours of television programming, including more than 300 hours of made-for-television movies and at least a dozen films. A succession of stars launched their careers in Spelling's productions, from Farah Fawcett in Charlie's Angels to John Travolta and Nick Nolte, who won their first major roles in Spelling's TV movies. He was credited with launching the career of Heather Locklear, who co-starred with a post-Star Trek William Shatner in TJ Hooker and later appeared in Melrose Place. Other shows he produced included Hart to Hart, Matt Houston, Fantasy Island and Burke's Law. Spelling's own daughter, Tori Spelling, won a role in Beverly Hills 90210, a show based around a California high school which became popular in the 1990s. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Hugh Hefner - Playboy Biography - Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926,
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Author: David Harrison Levi for the David Levi Celebrity Entertainment NEWS Network [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:08:00 04/05/06 Wed Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926, the older son of conservative Protestant parents, Glenn and Grace Hefner, and a direct descendent of distinguished Massachusetts Puritan patriarchs William Bradford and John Winthrop. He attended Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High on the West Side of Chicago, where he was no more than an average student, despite a genius IQ (152), distinguishing himself instead with his extracurricular activities, founding a school paper, writing, cartooning and serving as president of the student council, where he championed student causes. Following graduation from high school in January 1944, Hef (a nickname preferred since adolescence) joined the army serving as an Infantry Clerk and drawing cartoons for various Army newspapers. After his discharge from service in 1946, he spent the summer taking art classes (anatomy, of course) at the Chicago Art Institute, enrolling that fall at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. Hef earned his bachelor's degree in two and a half years by doubling up on classes while drawing cartoons for the Daily Illini and editing the campus humor magazine Shaft, where he introduced a new feature called Coed of the Month. He subsequently took a semester of graduate courses in sociology at Northwestern University where, pursuing his interest in individual freedom, he wrote a term paper examining U.S. sex laws in light of the then-astonishing Kinsey Institute research on human sexuality. In June 1949, Hef married a classmate, Mildred Williams. Their ten-year marriage produced two children: Christie in 1952 and David in 1955. Following college, Hef tried his hand at cartooning and, failing to sell any of his ideas for a cartoon strip, published a book of satirical cartoons about Chicago titled That Toddlin' Town. Hef worked as an assistant personnel manager for the Chicago Carton Company for $45 a week in 1949 and as an advertising copywriter for the Carson, Pirie, Scott department store for just $40 a week in 1950. His future seemed uncertain when he landed a promising job as a promotion copywriter at Esquire at $60 a week in January 1951. When Esquire moved its offices to New York, his request for a five-dollar raise was denied, and he decided to stay behind and start a magazine of his own. Hef and a fellow copywriter from Esquire tried to raise enough capital to launch a Chicago magazine and failed. While working as the newsstand promotion director of Publishers Development Corporation in 1952, he became convinced there was a market for a sophisticated men's magazine that would reflect the views of the post-War generation and he was the man to start it. To support his family, he took a better-paying job as circulation manager of Children's Activities magazine in January 1953, but that spring and summer the dream of starting his own magazine became an obsession. He found a printer willing to print the first issue and a distributor to distribute it. He got friends and family to invest in the venture, raising just $8000, including $600 of his own money borrowed from a bank using his family's furniture as collateral. The first issue of Playboy magazine, featuring the now-famous calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe, was produced on a kitchen table in his South Side apartment. On the newsstands in December 1953, it carried no cover date because Hef was not sure when or if he would be able to produce another. But the first issue sold more than 50,000 copies, enough to pay for the paper and printing costs and to finance another issue. Thereafter, Hef never doubted that the magazine would be a success. He plowed profits back into the publication and hired a young, enthusiastic editorial, art, promotion and advertising staff to assist him. Playboy grew at a phenomenal rate. By the end of the decade, the magazine was selling more than a million copies a month and, to celebrate, Hef held the first Playboy Jazz Festival at the Chicago Stadium. It was called, at the time, the greatest single weekend in the history of jazz. At the start of the new decade, Hef began to live out the "Good Life" depicted in the pages of his publication. He hosted a popular syndicated television show called Playboy's Penthouse, purchased the Playboy Mansion at 1340 North State Parkway, and opened the first Playboy Club on the Near North Side of Chicago on February 29, 1960. Throughout the Sixties, Hef and Playboy became what Chicago columnist Bob Greene has called "a force of nature." Hef wrote an extended series of editorials titled "The Playboy Philosophy," championing the rights of the individual and challenging the country's heritage of puritan repression. The magazine became the largest-selling, most influential men's magazine in the world. By 1971, when Playboy Enterprises went public, the magazine was selling 7 million copies a month and there were 23 Playboy Clubs, resorts, hotels and casinos with more than 900,000 members worldwide. The corporation also included book publishing, merchandising, a modeling agency, a limousine service, a record label and a TV and motion picture company. It was truly an empire ruled by one man. Hef hosted a second syndicated television show, Playboy After Dark, taped in Hollywood in 1968 and 1969, and in 1970 acquired the famed black Big Bunny jet, a DC-9 from McDonnell Douglas, in which he regularly commuted between Chicago and California, and toured the world. In 1971, he established a second residence in Los Angeles with the acquisition of a five-and-one-half acre estate in Holmby Hills, which quickly became known as Playboy Mansion West, where he was able to more closely supervise Playboy Enterprises' increasing interests in television and film production. In 1975, Hef decided to make Los Angeles his permanent home, reflecting the extent to which Hollywood movies had influenced his dreams and aspirations as a boy. In 1980, Hef championed the reconstruction of the Hollywood sign (then in serious disrepair) and was honored with a star on the Hollywood walk of fame for his efforts. In saving the sign, Hef referred to it as "Hollywood's Eiffel Tower." The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored him further, with its First Annual Hollywood Hall of Fame Award as Outstanding Citizen of the Year. The Hollywood sign restoration was only one of Hef and Playboy's major projects as a part of the Hollywood creative community. The company produced such features as Roman Polanski's Macbeth, distributed by Columbia Pictures, which was voted Best Picture of the Year in 1971 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures; Monty Python's first film, And Now For Something Completely Different; Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack; and The Naked Ape, with Universal Studios. Playboy also produced such popular television movies as Third Girl From The Left, with Kim Novak and Tony Curtis; The Death of Ocean View Park; The Cop and the Kid; and A Whale For The Killing. The increasingly conservative Eighties took their toll on both Hef and his company. In 1985, he suffered a stroke that changed the direction of his life. He referred to it at the time as "a stroke of luck." Bringing his life full-circle, the world's most famous bachelor was married on July 1, 1989 to Kimberley Conrad, Playboy's 1989 Playmate of the Year. Their fairy tale courtship resulted in an uncommonly romantic wedding ceremony conducted at the wishing well at Playboy Mansion West where Hef proposed. Their first son, Marston Glenn, was born on Hef's birthday, April 9, 1990, and their second son Cooper Bradford, was born on September 4, 1991. The Hefners are currently separated, and Mrs. Hefner and the boys live on an estate adjacent to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. Since the mid-Eighties, daughter Christie Hefner has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises, but Hef continues to serve as the magazine's editor-in-chief, plays a key role in determining the path of Playboy Enterprises and directs other areas of the corporation including cable television and video production. Hollywood and cinema continue to be major factors in Hef's personal and professional life. At his direction, the Playboy Foundation instituted the Freedom of Expression Award, given annually at the Sundance Film Festival. Hef recently underwrote the West Coast retrospective of the late British filmmaker Dennis Potter's works at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; he personally endowed a course in Censorship in Cinema at USC, at which he serves as a guest lecturer; and, he has been a major contributor to UCLA's project to restore classic films. Hef was a sponsor of the acclaimed "American Cinema" series on PBS, and he has long been active in seeking out and restoring such vintage films as Vitaphone shorts and the films of Twenties British crooner Al Bowlly. In 1994, Hef established and Playboy founded the Playboy Jazz Film Festival, the first-ever showcase on the West Coast for many of the best and rarest films in the jazz lexicon. This event was in addition to the annual Jazz on Film program traditionally presented free to the public by Playboy on the eve of the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, which is now in it's 22nd consecutive year. On March 28, 1996, Hef was honored in formal ceremonies at the University of Southern California for his lifelong dedication to film and his endowment of a chair for the Study of American Film at the University's School of Cinema-Television. The Hefner gift marked only the second such endowment in the history of the prestigious film school. The other chair was endowed in memory of the late Steve Ross, who had served as chairman of Time-Warner. Hef's personal archive at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills contains more than 4000 feature films. Each weekend, he screens films at the Mansion for celebrities and personal friends. Each Sunday is a first-run feature. Friday nights are vintage classics. Often, Saturday nights are a mini-festival of silent films. Hef has frequently been quoted as believing that the United States' most important export is "the American Dream," which he feels is conveyed to the world through motion pictures. Hef has profoundly influenced society in the second half of the 20th Century during which his publication has been the world's best-selling men's magazine. Frequently interviewed by major news and entertainment media the world over, in 1996 he was the subject of an extraordinary two-hour profile, Hugh Hefner: American Playboy on the A&E Network's prestigious Biography series. He had previously been the subject of a feature length documentary film, Hugh Hefner: Once Upon A Time, produced by Lynch/Frost Productions and distributed by IRS Releasing. After its first run in theaters, the film became a popular addition to many international film festivals and continues to attract new viewers on cable television and home video in the U.S. and on broadcast, cable and satellite-delivered television around the world. More recently, he was the subject of a one-hour "Celebrity Profile" on the E! Entertainment Television Network and a half-hour "People in the News" installment on CNN. In 2000, Hef guest-starred on an episode of HBO's Sex and the City, and in 2001, he appeared in the 1000th episode of NBC's Just Shoot Me. In addition to numerous ongoing national and international television appearances, Hef has been the subject of a host of recent print profiles in publications including Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine and the Times of London. In 2000, the city of Chicago honored Hef by renaming a downtown street after him, and two days later Hef rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001, Hef was immortalized in silicone at the Hollywood Wax Museum and roasted by the New York Friars Club. The recipient of a number of awards for his contributions to society in general and the publishing industry in particular, Hef received the 1996 International Publishing Award from the International Press Directory in London and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Society of Magazine Editors at its 1998 ceremonies in New York. Most recently, Hef has become a fixture on the Hollywood celebrity club scene and the Mansion has once again become a mecca for entertainment industry superstars including a new wave of young motion picture and television celebrities, rock groups and more. His dreams are soon expected to reach the large screen theatrically in a feature film. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
[> Subject:  Re: Hugh Hefner - Playboy Biography - Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926,
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Date Posted: 20:13:03 06/24/06 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-rtc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/152.163.100.198 > >Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, >1926, the older son of conservative Protestant >parents, Glenn and Grace Hefner, and a direct >descendent of distinguished Massachusetts Puritan >patriarchs William Bradford and John Winthrop. He >attended Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High on >the West Side of Chicago, where he was no more than an >average student, despite a genius IQ (152), >distinguishing himself instead with his >extracurricular activities, founding a school paper, >writing, cartooning and serving as president of the >student council, where he championed student causes. >Following graduation from high school in January 1944, >Hef (a nickname preferred since adolescence) joined >the army serving as an Infantry Clerk and drawing >cartoons for various Army newspapers. After his >discharge from service in 1946, he spent the summer >taking art classes (anatomy, of course) at the Chicago >Art Institute, enrolling that fall at the University >of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. Hef earned his >bachelor's degree in two and a half years by doubling >up on classes while drawing cartoons for the Daily >Illini and editing the campus humor magazine Shaft, >where he introduced a new feature called Coed of the >Month. > >He subsequently took a semester of graduate courses in >sociology at Northwestern University where, pursuing >his interest in individual freedom, he wrote a term >paper examining U.S. sex laws in light of the >then-astonishing Kinsey Institute research on human >sexuality. > >In June 1949, Hef married a classmate, Mildred >Williams. Their ten-year marriage produced two >children: Christie in 1952 and David in 1955. > > Following college, Hef tried his hand at cartooning >and, failing to sell any of his ideas for a cartoon >strip, published a book of satirical cartoons about >Chicago titled That Toddlin' Town. > >Hef worked as an assistant personnel manager for the >Chicago Carton Company for $45 a week in 1949 and as >an advertising copywriter for the Carson, Pirie, Scott >department store for just $40 a week in 1950. His >future seemed uncertain when he landed a promising job >as a promotion copywriter at Esquire at $60 a week in >January 1951. When Esquire moved its offices to New >York, his request for a five-dollar raise was denied, >and he decided to stay behind and start a magazine of >his own. > >Hef and a fellow copywriter from Esquire tried to >raise enough capital to launch a Chicago magazine and >failed. While working as the newsstand promotion >director of Publishers Development Corporation in >1952, he became convinced there was a market for a >sophisticated men's magazine that would reflect the >views of the post-War generation and he was the man to >start it. > >To support his family, he took a better-paying job as >circulation manager of Children's Activities magazine >in January 1953, but that spring and summer the dream >of starting his own magazine became an obsession. He >found a printer willing to print the first issue and a >distributor to distribute it. He got friends and >family to invest in the venture, raising just $8000, >including $600 of his own money borrowed from a bank >using his family's furniture as collateral. > >The first issue of Playboy magazine, featuring the >now-famous calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe, was >produced on a kitchen table in his South Side >apartment. On the newsstands in December 1953, it >carried no cover date because Hef was not sure when or >if he would be able to produce another. But the first >issue sold more than 50,000 copies, enough to pay for >the paper and printing costs and to finance another >issue. > >Thereafter, Hef never doubted that the magazine would >be a success. He plowed profits back into the >publication and hired a young, enthusiastic editorial, >art, promotion and advertising staff to assist him. >Playboy grew at a phenomenal rate. By the end of the >decade, the magazine was selling more than a million >copies a month and, to celebrate, Hef held the first >Playboy Jazz Festival at the Chicago Stadium. It was >called, at the time, the greatest single weekend in >the history of jazz. > >At the start of the new decade, Hef began to live out >the "Good Life" depicted in the pages of his >publication. He hosted a popular syndicated television >show called Playboy's Penthouse, purchased the Playboy >Mansion at 1340 North State Parkway, and opened the >first Playboy Club on the Near North Side of Chicago >on February 29, 1960. > >Throughout the Sixties, Hef and Playboy became what >Chicago columnist Bob Greene has called "a force of >nature." Hef wrote an extended series of editorials >titled "The Playboy Philosophy," championing the >rights of the individual and challenging the country's >heritage of puritan repression. The magazine became >the largest-selling, most influential men's magazine >in the world. > >By 1971, when Playboy Enterprises went public, the >magazine was selling 7 million copies a month and >there were 23 Playboy Clubs, resorts, hotels and >casinos with more than 900,000 members worldwide. The >corporation also included book publishing, >merchandising, a modeling agency, a limousine service, >a record label and a TV and motion picture company. It >was truly an empire ruled by one man. > >Hef hosted a second syndicated television show, >Playboy After Dark, taped in Hollywood in 1968 and >1969, and in 1970 acquired the famed black Big Bunny >jet, a DC-9 from McDonnell Douglas, in which he >regularly commuted between Chicago and California, and >toured the world. > >In 1971, he established a second residence in Los >Angeles with the acquisition of a five-and-one-half >acre estate in Holmby Hills, which quickly became >known as Playboy Mansion West, where he was able to >more closely supervise Playboy Enterprises' increasing >interests in television and film production. > >In 1975, Hef decided to make Los Angeles his permanent >home, reflecting the extent to which Hollywood movies >had influenced his dreams and aspirations as a boy. In >1980, Hef championed the reconstruction of the >Hollywood sign (then in serious disrepair) and was >honored with a star on the Hollywood walk of fame for >his efforts. In saving the sign, Hef referred to it as >"Hollywood's Eiffel Tower." The Hollywood Chamber of >Commerce honored him further, with its First Annual >Hollywood Hall of Fame Award as Outstanding Citizen of >the Year. > >The Hollywood sign restoration was only one of Hef and >Playboy's major projects as a part of the Hollywood >creative community. The company produced such features >as Roman Polanski's Macbeth, distributed by Columbia >Pictures, which was voted Best Picture of the Year in >1971 by the National Board of Review of Motion >Pictures; Monty Python's first film, And Now For >Something Completely Different; Peter Bogdanovich's >Saint Jack; and The Naked Ape, with Universal Studios. > >Playboy also produced such popular television movies >as Third Girl From The Left, with Kim Novak and Tony >Curtis; The Death of Ocean View Park; The Cop and the >Kid; and A Whale For The Killing. > >The increasingly conservative Eighties took their toll >on both Hef and his company. In 1985, he suffered a >stroke that changed the direction of his life. He >referred to it at the time as "a stroke of luck." > >Bringing his life full-circle, the world's most famous >bachelor was married on July 1, 1989 to Kimberley >Conrad, Playboy's 1989 Playmate of the Year. Their >fairy tale courtship resulted in an uncommonly >romantic wedding ceremony conducted at the wishing >well at Playboy Mansion West where Hef proposed. Their >first son, Marston Glenn, was born on Hef's birthday, >April 9, 1990, and their second son Cooper Bradford, >was born on September 4, 1991. The Hefners are >currently separated, and Mrs. Hefner and the boys live >on an estate adjacent to the Playboy Mansion in Los >Angeles. > >Since the mid-Eighties, daughter Christie Hefner has >served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of >Playboy Enterprises, but Hef continues to serve as the >magazine's editor-in-chief, plays a key role in >determining the path of Playboy Enterprises and >directs other areas of the corporation including cable >television and video production. > >Hollywood and cinema continue to be major factors in >Hef's personal and professional life. At his >direction, the Playboy Foundation instituted the >Freedom of Expression Award, given annually at the >Sundance Film Festival. Hef recently underwrote the >West Coast retrospective of the late British filmmaker >Dennis Potter's works at the Los Angeles Museum of >Contemporary Art; he personally endowed a course in >Censorship in Cinema at USC, at which he serves as a >guest lecturer; and, he has been a major contributor >to UCLA's project to restore classic films. > >Hef was a sponsor of the acclaimed "American Cinema" >series on PBS, and he has long been active in seeking >out and restoring such vintage films as Vitaphone >shorts and the films of Twenties British crooner Al >Bowlly. > >In 1994, Hef established and Playboy founded the >Playboy Jazz Film Festival, the first-ever showcase on >the West Coast for many of the best and rarest films >in the jazz lexicon. This event was in addition to the >annual Jazz on Film program traditionally presented >free to the public by Playboy on the eve of the >Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, which is >now in it's 22nd consecutive year. > >On March 28, 1996, Hef was honored in formal >ceremonies at the University of Southern California >for his lifelong dedication to film and his endowment >of a chair for the Study of American Film at the >University's School of Cinema-Television. The Hefner >gift marked only the second such endowment in the >history of the prestigious film school. The other >chair was endowed in memory of the late Steve Ross, >who had served as chairman of Time-Warner. > >Hef's personal archive at the Playboy Mansion in >Holmby Hills contains more than 4000 feature films. >Each weekend, he screens films at the Mansion for >celebrities and personal friends. Each Sunday is a >first-run feature. Friday nights are vintage classics. >Often, Saturday nights are a mini-festival of silent >films. > >Hef has frequently been quoted as believing that the >United States' most important export is "the American >Dream," which he feels is conveyed to the world >through motion pictures. > >Hef has profoundly influenced society in the second >half of the 20th Century during which his publication >has been the world's best-selling men's magazine. > >Frequently interviewed by major news and entertainment >media the world over, in 1996 he was the subject of an >extraordinary two-hour profile, Hugh Hefner: American >Playboy on the A&E Network's prestigious Biography >series. He had previously been the subject of a >feature length documentary film, Hugh Hefner: Once >Upon A Time, produced by Lynch/Frost Productions and >distributed by IRS Releasing. After its first run in >theaters, the film became a popular addition to many >international film festivals and continues to attract >new viewers on cable television and home video in the >U.S. and on broadcast, cable and satellite-delivered >television around the world. > >More recently, he was the subject of a one-hour >"Celebrity Profile" on the E! Entertainment Television >Network and a half-hour "People in the News" >installment on CNN. > >In 2000, Hef guest-starred on an episode of HBO's Sex >and the City, and in 2001, he appeared in the 1000th >episode of NBC's Just Shoot Me. In addition to >numerous ongoing national and international television >appearances, Hef has been the subject of a host of >recent print profiles in publications including Vanity >Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, the >Los Angeles Times, Time magazine and the Times of >London. In 2000, the city of Chicago honored Hef by >renaming a downtown street after him, and two days >later Hef rang the closing bell at the New York Stock >Exchange. In 2001, Hef was immortalized in silicone at >the Hollywood Wax Museum and roasted by the New York >Friars Club. > >The recipient of a number of awards for his >contributions to society in general and the publishing >industry in particular, Hef received the 1996 >International Publishing Award from the International >Press Directory in London and was inducted into the >Hall of Fame of the American Society of Magazine >Editors at its 1998 ceremonies in New York. > >Most recently, Hef has become a fixture on the >Hollywood celebrity club scene and the Mansion has >once again become a mecca for entertainment industry >superstars including a new wave of young motion >picture and television celebrities, rock groups and >more. > >His dreams are soon expected to reach the large screen >theatrically in a feature film. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I AM TRULY HOPEING THAT THIS LETTER REACHES MR. HEFNER I HAVE BEEN A HUGE FAN OF MR HEFNER ALL OF MY LIFE. I NEVER WANTED TO BE IN THE MAGAZINE,BUT HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED AND RESPECTED THE LADIES IN THE PICTURES ETC.. MR HEFNER AND I ARE BOTH BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF ARIES. MINE IS APRIL THE 5TH, HIS AS YOU KNOW IS APRIL THE 9TH. I WAS WATCHING THE BIO CHANNEL ABOUT IS LIFE AND FOUND OUT THAT ONCE A WEEK HE WILL SHOW OLD MOVIES AND SPEEK ABOUT THE FLIMS BEING SHOWN. I LOVE OLD MOVIES TOO. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT OLD HOLLYWOOD. SO, MUCH SO THAT I WROTE A SONG ABOUT THE STARS WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US IN BODY. I CALLED IT STARS IN TIME.THIS SONG WON 1ST PLACE IN A SINGER-SONGWRITER CONTEST IN 2001. I WOULD LOVE TO GIVE MR HEFNER A COPY I'M SURE HE WOULD LOVE IT. IF YOU CAN DO ANYTHING TO HELP ME FORWARD MY SONG TO MR. HEFNER I WOULD BE VERY GREATFUL. AND THANKFUL PLEASE TRY AND GET BACK TO ME WHEN YOU CAN THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR TIME ANGELA WARNER [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: The 28th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival - Saturday, June 17, 2006
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Author: David Harrison Levi [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:21:07 06/17/06 Sat Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Saturday, June 17th 2006 Stanley Clarke/George Duke Project Branford Marsalis Quartet Jamie Cullum Benny Golson Quartet The Golden Striker Trio featuring: Ron Carter, Mulgrew Miller, Russell Malone Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra plus special guest Stefon Harris in a Tribute to Milt Jackson Baaba Maal featuring Daande Lenol Spanish Harlem Orchestra Hiromi Cos of Good Music featuring: Walter Blanding, Jr., Dwayne Burno, Ndugu Chancler, Gerald Clayton, Kevin Eubanks, Steve Turre Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Jason Goldman Sunday, June 18th 2006 McCoy Tyner Trio with the Lula Washington Dance Theatre Elvis Costello and the Imposters featuring the piano and songs of Allen Toussaint with his New Orleans Horn Section, The River In Reverse Tour 2006 Groovin' For Grover featuring Gerald Albright, Jeff Lorber and Kirk Whalum A Celebration of the Music of Grover Washington, Jr. The Grover Washington Jr. Protect the Dream Foundation to benefit young musicians. Ozomatli Eddie Palmieri Afro-Caribbean Jazz All-Stars with special guests Regina Carter and David Sanchez Chuck Mangione The Preservation Hall Jazz Band Eldar Christian Scott Lesa Terry and the Women's Jazz Orchestra of Los Angeles Elder Edward Babb & The McCollough Sons of Thunder Bill Cosby Master of Ceremonies About Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl Established in 1979, The Playboy Jazz Festival has become internationally acclaimed, emerging as the West Coast's premier jazz event. Sold out every year, it is a month-long affair culminating on one weekend in June at the Hollywood Bowl featuring jazz, latin and world music. Virtually every jazz legend and major contemporary artist has performed here, yet the festival has also showcased up and coming talent from around the world and from various genres. As part of its commitment to foster a greater awareness of jazz music, the festival presents a comprehensive six-week series of free pre-festival events most notably: the standing room only "Jazz on Film" night and the "Old Pasadena Summerfest", a three-day event featuring 20 hours of free live jazz, arts & crafts, gourmet foods, rides and a variety of family entertainment. Begun in 1959 as a one-time landmark event in Chicago to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Playboy Magazine, it was revived in 1979 and remains one of the most unique festivals with its forward thinking and creative programming. Past performers include Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Joe Williams, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Gerry Mulligan, Mel Torme, Etta James, Pancho Sanchez, Chris Botti, Arturo Sandoval, Brian Setzer, Gladys Knight, Joshua Redman, Chucho Valdes, Ozomatli and hundreds of others. 28th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival Lease Events LE Sunday, June 18, 2006, 2:00 PM Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Avenue Hollywood, CA (323) 850-2000 Artists: McCoy Tyner Trio Lula Washington Dance Theatre Elvis Costello and the Impostors Allen Toussaint with his New Orleans Horn Section Groovin' for Grover Gerald Albright Jeff Lorber Kirk Whalum Ozomatli Eddie Palmieri Afro-Carribbean Jazz All-Stars Regina Carter David Sánchez Chuck Mangione The Preservation Hall Jazz Band Eldar Christian Scott Lesa Terry Women's Jazz Orchestra of Los Angeles Elder Edward Babb McCollough Sons of Thunder Bill Cosby, master of ceremonies Program: View the Playboy Jazz Festival program on Saturday. See below for Shuttle information and Park & Ride information. Contact Festival Productions at www.festivalproductions.net for more details. SHUTTLE INFORMATION Relax and beat the traffic! Don't drive to the Bowl! Use our easy and inexpensive Bowl Shuttle Service or Bowl Park & Ride. SHUTTLE LOTS 4 Convenient locations! Round Trip Cost: only $3.00 per person Parking: FREE* (Except Hollywood & Highland Lot) A) VENTURA LOT, LINE 668 (10801 Ventura Blvd., near Lankershim). From the Hollywood Freeway (101) North or South, exit at Lankershim Blvd., to Ventura Blvd., turn right into parking lot. Departures every 10 minutes from 12 noon to 6:30pm (Please note: Ventura Lot is stack parked.) B) VENTURA ANNEX LOT, LINE 668A (10601 Ventura Blvd.) Parking lot is on the corner of Ventura and Lankershim Blvd. Departures every 15 minutes from 12 noon to 6:30pm (Please note: Ventura Annex Lot is stack parked.) C) L.A. ZOO LOT, LINE 672 (5333 Zoo Drive) Section "C" of L.A. Zoo parking lot. Departures every 20 minutes from 12 noon to 6:30pm. D) HOLLYWOOD & HIGHLAND LOT, LINE 671 Hollywood & Highland Entertainment Complex (6801 Hollywood Blvd.) Entrance to parking structure off Highland Ave. or Orange Dr. *PARKING FEE REQUIRED. (Cannot be ordered in advance.) Departures every 15 minutes from 12 noon to 6:30pm. RETURN TRIPS: One bus will depart from the Bowl for each lot at 8:30 p.m. All other departures will begin at the conclusion of the concert. PARK & RIDE INFORMATION Park & Ride lets you park in your neighborhood and brings you directly to the Bowl's main entrance. Following each performance, the same buses will speed you on your way homeward - no parking headaches, no traffic jams. ONLY $2.50 EACH WAY, PER PERSON. PARKING: FREE. BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE TO ENSURE PRIORITY BOARDING! Beginning May 6, Park and Ride tickets are available in advance through Ticketmaster (213) 480-3232, at all Ticketmaster outlets, and at the Bowl Box Office. Passengers with pre-purchased Park & Ride tickets will be given boarding preference, provided they arrive no later than five minutes prior to their selected departure time. PARK & RIDE BUS DEPARTURES 5 Convenient Locations! WESTWOOD (Line 652) Federal Building parking lot at 11000 Wilshire Blvd. Entrance to parking area is off Veteran Ave. Bus stop is in parking lot. Departures at 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30 and 5:00. CHATSWORTH (Line 653) Chatsworth Metrolink Station, 21510 Devonshire St. (one block west of Canoga Ave.) Bus stop is in parking lot. Departures at 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30 and 5:00. PASADENA (Line 655) Pasadena public parking lot, northeast corner of Marengo Ave. and Ramona St. Entrance to parking area is off Ramona St. Departures at 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30 and 5:00. TORRANCE (Line 657) Wilson Community Park, 2000 North Crenshaw Blvd. (between Carson St. and Sepulveda Blvd.) Entrance to parking lot is off Jefferson St. Parking is located at east end of the park near rollerhockey arena and batting cages. Departures at 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30 and 5:00. LAKEWOOD (Line 660) Lakewood Center Mall, (Lakewood Blvd. and Candlewood St.) Parking area is off Candlewood St. and Graywood Ave. Bus departs across from Hometown Buffet. Departures at 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30 and 5:00. RETURN TRIPS: One bus will depart from the Bowl for each lot at 8:30 p.m. All other departures will begin at the conclusion of the concert. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: The Historic Playboy Mansion West - 10236 Charing Cross Road - Holmby Hills, California
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Author: David Harrison Levi - Copyright © 2006 David Levi Celebrity Entertainment NEWS Network [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 04:15:27 06/12/06 Mon Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 "Playboy Mansion West" (as it is officially named by Playboy Enterprises) was originally built at 10236 Charing Cross Road circa mid-1920's as the home of Arthur Letts, JR. He is the SON of the founder of the Broadway and Bullocks department stores, Arthur Letts, Sr. The younger Letts commissioned the construction of this stately English Tudor manor to be his private residence. (To be absolutely accurate, Letts, Sr., who DID found the Broadway department store in downtown Los Angeles, staked one of his most trusted employees, John Bullock, in underwriting Bullock's enterprise to create his namesake department store. Thus, Letts, Sr. was more the original "financier" of Bullock's Department Store rather than its "founder." Many books, however, somewhat carelessly use the shortcut description of Letts, Sr. as the "founder" of both the Bullocks AND Broadway chains.) More about Letts, Sr.: he was a Trustee of the California State Normal School (forerunner to the "Southern Branch of the University of California," later renamed "University of California at Los Angeles, and still later, "UCLA"). Letts, Sr. died somewhat suddenly, circa 1923 or '24 I believe. (I am writing this from memory, without the benefit of access to my books or reseach materials, so please forgive the fact that I do not have this date down EXACTLY). Letts, Sr.'s death occurred largely before he could live to realize his vision to develop an area of grandious estates - some say the finest in Southern California - which was his master plan for the prime acreage he devoted to his Holmby Hills development. Incidentally, "Holmby Hills" was personally christened by Letts, Sr. The name was loosely derived from his birthplace, a small hamlet in England called "Holdenby." After Letts, Sr. died, it was left to his son-in-law, Harold Janss (one of the two brothers who ran the Janss Investment Corporation), who married Letts, Sr.'s daughter, Gladys, to consummate the agreement to sell some 373 acres to the UC Regents for the new home for UCLA. This decision by the Regents to relocate UCLA to the then-undeveloped area of "Westwood Hills" sparked the accelerated development of Westwood (offically "Westwood Hills"), Westwood Village, and Holmby Hills. The home of Arthur Letts, Jr., now the Playboy Mansion, still exists today as one of the finest estates in all of Southern California. Incidentally, Gladys Letts (and her husband, Harold Janss) also built one of the premiere estates in Holmby Hills as their private residence. This estate was very near (possibly adjacent to) her brother's mansion, which is now home to Hef and his bunnies. I thought you might find this of interest.... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
Subject:  David Duke is a malignant narcissist
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Date Posted: 02:39:49 06/11/06 Sun Author Host/IP: c-71-192-178-26.hsd1.ma.comcast.net/71.192.178.26 David Duke is a malignant narcissist & a Domestic Terrorist. He invents and then projects a false, fictitious, self for the world to fear, or to admire. He maintains a tenuous grasp on reality to start with and the trappings of power further exacerbate this. Real life authority and David Duke’s predilection to surround him with obsequious sycophants support David Duke’s grandiose self-delusions and fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience. David Duke's personality is so precariously balanced that he cannot tolerate even a hint of criticism and disagreement. Most narcissists are paranoid and suffer from ideas of reference (the delusion that they are being mocked or discussed when they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as "victims of persecution". Duke fosters and encourages a personality cult with all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, and mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically denies himself earthly pleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling. Duke is a monstrously inverted Jesus, sacrificing his life and denying himself so that his people - or humanity at large - should benefit. By surpassing and suppressing his humanity, Duke became a distorted version of Nietzsche's "superman". But being a-human or super-human also means being a-sexual and a-moral. In this restricted sense, narcissistic leaders are post-modernist and moral relativists. They project to the masses an androgynous figure and enhance it by engendering the adoration of nudity and all things "natural" - or by strongly repressing these feelings. But what they refer to, as "nature" is not natural at all. Duke invariably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this way by him or by his followers. Narcissistic leadership is about reproduced copies, not about originals. It is about the manipulation of symbols - not about veritable atavism or true conservatism. In short: narcissistic leadership is about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the spectacle (and be subsumed by it), the leader demands the suspension of judgment, depersonalization, and de-realization. Catharsis is tantamount, in this narcissistic dramaturgy, to self-annulment. Narcissism is nihilistic not only operationally, or ideologically. Its very language and narratives are nihilistic. Narcissism is conspicuous nihilism - and the cult's leader serves as a role model, annihilating the Man, only to re-appear as a pre-ordained and irresistible force of nature. Narcissistic leadership often poses as a rebellion against the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the corrupt order. Narcissistic movements are puerile, a reaction to narcissistic injuries inflicted upon David Duke like (and rather psychopathic) toddler nation-state, or group, or upon the leader. Minorities or "others" - often arbitrarily selected - constitute a perfect, easily identifiable, embodiment of all that is "wrong". They are accused of being old, they are eerily disembodied, they are cosmopolitan, they are part of the establishment, they are "decadent", they are hated on religious and socio-economic grounds, or because of their race, sexual orientation, origin ... They are different, they are narcissistic (feel and act as morally superior), they are everywhere, they are defenseless, they are credulous, they are adaptable (and thus can be co-opted to collaborate in their own destruction). They are the perfect hate figure. Narcissists thrive on hatred and pathological envy. This is precisely the source of the fascination with Hitler, diagnosed by Erich Fromm - together with Stalin - as a malignant narcissist. He was an inverted human. His unconscious was his conscious. He acted out our most repressed drives, fantasies, and wishes. He provides us with a glimpse of the horrors that lie beneath the veneer, the barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was like before we invented civilization. Hitler forced us all through a time warp and many did not emerge. He was not the devil. He was one of us. He was what Arendt aptly called the banality of evil. Just an ordinary, mentally disturbed, failure, a member of a mentally disturbed and failing nation, who lived through disturbed and failing times. He was the perfect mirror, a channel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls. Duke prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the tedium and method of real accomplishments. His reign is all smoke and mirrors, devoid of substances, consisting of mere appearances and mass delusions. In the aftermath of his regime - Duke having died, been deposed, or voted out of office - it all unravels. The tireless and constant prestidigitation ceases and the entire edifice crumbles. What looked like an economic miracle turns out to have been a fraud-laced bubble. Loosely held empires disintegrate. Laboriously assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem. It is important to understand that the use of violence must be ego-syntonic. It must accord with the self-image of David Duke. It must abet and sustain his grandiose fantasies and feed his sense of entitlement. It must conform David Duke like narrative. Thus, David Duke who regards himself as the benefactor of the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the disenfranchised, the champion of the dispossessed against the corrupt elite - is highly unlikely to use violence at first. The pacific mask crumbles when David Duke has become convinced that the very people he purported to speak for, his constituency, his grassroots fans, and the prime sources of his narcissistic supply - have turned against him. At first, in a desperate effort to maintain the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, David Duke strives to explain away the sudden reversal of sentiment. "The people are being duped by (the media, big industry, the military, the elite, etc.)", "they don't really know what they are doing", "following a rude awakening, they will revert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail, David Duke becomes injured. Narcissistic injury inevitably leads to narcissistic rage and to a terrifying display of unbridled aggression. The pent-up frustration and hurt translate into devaluation. That which was previously idealized - is now discarded with contempt and hatred. This primitive defense mechanism is called "splitting". To David Duke, things and people are either entirely bad (evil) or entirely good. He projects onto others his own shortcomings and negative emotions, thus becoming a totally good object. Duke is likely to justify the butchering of his own people by claiming that they intended to kill him, undo the revolution, devastate the economy, or the country, etc. The "small people", the "rank and file", and the "loyal soldiers" of David Duke - his flock, his nation, and his employees - they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated - is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of David Duke. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Elaine Young the real estate agent - Elaine Young was my friend and next door neighbor! Elaine was my friend and my life is just a bit richer from knowing her! My prayers go out to Jennifer Young and Tony Garber - family and the many tens of thousands Elaine's young life, touched! God Bless You- David Harrison Levi - Beverly Hills California 90210
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Date Posted: 08:30:51 05/24/06 Wed Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Celebrity Real Estate Agent Elaine Young Dies at 71 LOS ANGELES -- Elaine Young, the real estate agent who bought and sold so many properties to and from the stars that she became a celebrity herself, has died. She was 71. Young died Thursday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center after a months-long battle with cancer, according to her daughter, Jennifer Young, and her brother, Tony Garber. Glamorous and ebullient, Young lived a life that rivaled those of her star clients, who included Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Stevie Wonder, among others. She married six times, once to film star Gig Young, who was the father of her daughter. She appeared on television, was profiled in major publications and drove a Rolls-Royce convertible with the license plate "Elaine 7." It was in the Rolls that she shuttled her clients to some of the most pricey properties in Southern California. "She was a gallant soul. I knew her from way back because Gig Young was a good friend of mine," author Dominick Dunne told The Associated Press. "I always think of her sitting in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, holding court, saying hello to people, being funny." One of her sales was a $25 million estate belonging to the Sultan of Brunei. Her more recent listings included the multimillion-dollar estate of rock legend Smokey Robinson. Fame and Hollywood's glitzy lifestyle had its dark side, however. In the 1970s, Young did what many Hollywood stars were doing: She sought to improve her appearance through cosmetic surgery. It was the beginning of a horror story that would haunt her for the rest of her life. As she told it many times in interviews warning others about the pitfalls of such operations, she was maimed by a doctor who injected loose silicone into her face to accentuate her cheekbones. After a time, the silicone began to migrate, causing eye problems and disfigurement. She underwent 46 surgeries to try to remove the material and correct the problem. The doctor, meanwhile, committed suicide and Young never received any compensation for the medical disaster. In the end, the disease that claimed her life began with a cancerous tumor in the part of her face that had endured so many surgeries. Young's soft voice and gentle manner belied her flossy image, and famous clients were drawn to her. She was one of them, born and raised in the realm of Hollywood fantasy. Her father, David S. Garber, was a manager at Universal Studios and she grew up with the movie business. She graduated from North Hollywood High School and attended the University of California at Los Angeles. When she began selling wildly expensive Southern California palaces, she acknowledged that even bringing herself to tell clients the price was daunting. She listed her first million-dollar home in the 1970s and recalled showing it to a potential buyer who pointed out that it had only one bathroom. "I got up all my courage and I said, `Well, what do you expect for a million dollars?'" Young recalled. That story and many others became the basis for her book, "A Million Dollars Down," an often humorous memoir of her adventures with the rich and famous. The secret of her success, she said, was in keeping tabs on the domestic lives of celebrities. If she heard that a famous couple was divorcing or marrying, she knew that a home sale or purchase was likely, and she would contact them. A slogan on her Web site read: "If you want to live in heaven, acquire a home or condo from Elaine Young." ___ Elaine Young was my friend and next door neighbor! Elaine was my friend and my life is just a bit richer from knowing her! My prayers go out to Jennifer Young and Tony Garber and family and the many tens of thousands Elaine's young life, touched! God Bless You- David Harrison Levi - Beverly Hills California 90210 On the Web: <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.elaineyoung.com/">http://www.elaineyoung.com/</a> [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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[> Subject: Re: Elaine Young the real estate agent - Elaine Young was my friend and next door neighbor! Elaine was my friend and my life is just a bit richer from knowing her! My prayers go out to Jennifer Young and Tony Garber - family and the many tens of thousands Elaine's young life, touched! God Bless You- David Harrison Levi - Beverly Hills California 90210 Elaine has worked with over the course of her legendary career.
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Date Posted: 13:20:20 05/24/06 Wed Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Elaine has worked with over the course of her legendary career. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edie Adams Michael Douglas Susan Hayword George Montgomery Slash Lou Adler Ned Doheny Don Henley Marilyn Monroe Romy Schneider Alan Alda The Eagles Rock Hudson Franco Nero Peter Sellers Julie Andrews Shelly Fabares Jim Hutton Anthony Newley Sisqo Rosanne Barr Dennis Farina Angelina Jolie Paul Newman O.J. Simpson Rona Barrett Sharon Farrell Elton John Mike Nichols Jean Simmons Alan Bates Jose Ferrer Tom Jones Richard Nixon Sylvestor Stallone David Begelman Heidi Fleiss Curt Jergens Shaquile O' Neal Connie Stevens Warren Beatty Rhonda Fleming Garson Kanin Al Pacino Susan Strausberg Richard Brooks Nina Foch Elliott Kastner Patti Page Barbara Streisand Johnny Carson Peter Fonda Sally Kellerman Bill Persky Max Von Sydow Jeff Chandler Clark Gable Jack Kennedy Jon Peters Wu-Tang Jackie Chan Zaza Gabor Bobby Kennedy Roman Polansky Liz Taylor Don Cornelius David Geffen Martin Landau Elvis Presley Billy Bob Thornton Bill Cosby Paul Michael Glaser Def Leopard Freddie Prinze Lana Turner Jim Croce Ruth Gordon Jack Lemmon Lee Remick Natalie Wood Bing Crosby Elliott Gould Peggy Lipton Jennifer Revson Leslie Ann Warren Xavier Cugat Charles Grodin Louis Malle Burt Reynolds Dionne Warwick Bobby Darin George Hamilton Ian McShane Harold Robbins Raquel Welch Carter DeHaven M.C. Hammer Elle McPherson Mickey Rooney Orson Wells Laura Dern Issac Hayes Juliet Mills Mort Saul Stevie Wonder Barry Diller Rita Hayworth Yvette Mimieux Telly Savalas Gig Young [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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[> Subject: Re: Elaine Young the real estate agent - Elaine Young was my friend and next door neighbor! Elaine was my friend and my life is just a bit richer from knowing her! My prayers go out to Jennifer Young and Tony Garber - family and the many tens of thousands Elaine's young life, touched! God Bless You- David Harrison Levi - Beverly Hills California 90210 Elaine has worked with over the course of her legendary career.
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Date Posted: 13:22:29 05/24/06 Wed Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Elaine Young, realtor to the stars with over forty years of excellence. Elaine has specialized in real estate deals involving some of the most expensive residential properties in the world. She has handled transactions such as the now infamous O.J. Simpson estate on Rockingham. Additional clients include Bill Cosby, Sylvester Stallone, Shaquille O'Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Wonder, Cher, M.C. Hammer, David Geffens, Elvis Presley, and President John F. Kennedy to name a few. Media luminaries can't resist Elaine's timely advice on Beverly Hills real estate, and she is often seen on the nation's top television shows such as Larry King (CNN), Oprah Winfrey, 60 Minutes, Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous, Showtime, HBO, Jenny Jones, Christina (Spanish & English), Joan Rivers, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, and more. Elaine Young has been profiled in the following publications: Forbes, People, Money, Time, Millionaire, Wall Street Journal, Life, Savvy Woman, Working Woman, Celebrity, Vogue, Town & Country, Star, Globe, Enquirer, New York Times, London Daily News, Good Housekeeping and more. Ms. Young is Director of Coldwater Canyon Association and serves on the Friars' Club Board of Directors, the first woman to be so honored. She is also an active sponsor of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency in Los Angeles, California. Elaine Young is in love with real estate. That's why celebrities trust her judgment when it comes to finding them the home of their dreams. When John F. Kennedy wanted to lease a house in Beverly Hills, he knew what to do… call Elaine Young. When Elvis Presley needed a special room for his pet monkey, he knew what to do… call Elaine Young. When Elizabeth Taylor wanted a dreamy, romantic house, she knew what to do [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Restaurant Review: Lawry's Prime Rib
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Date Posted: 01:21:10 05/14/06 Sun Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 I have been coming to Lawry's since 1952! 54 YEARS!!! By far this is my favorite restaurant in Beverly Hills. The prime rib, despite what others say, is absolutely juicy, tender, delicious, and quite simply, some of the best prime rib I've ever tasted. As many other people have stated, the cream corn really is to die for! The lobster that can be added to the dinner is delicious, not the best, but definitely delicious! While this restaurant may seem a bit steep in price, the quality and quantity of prime rib you get is an incredible deal! While there, Say hello to Pepe (manager of parking) an old friend of mine in the parking area! Pros: Prime Rib, Cream Corn, Great Value Overall user rating: Highly Recommended [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Restaurant Review: The Palm
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Date Posted: 01:10:55 05/14/06 Sun Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Restaurant Review: The Palm Your Guide to Miami / Miami Beach, FL. The Palm offers everything a good steakhouse should: deliciously tender cuts of meat, filling sides, wonderful, fresh salads and dressings (the bleu cheese is to die for!), and desserts that are meals in themselves (the chocolate layer cake probably weighs about two pounds). There are also many surprises that you may not expect. The lobsters at The Palm start at three pounds, and go up from there; when I went, they had some 15-pounders. I just had to see what a 15 pound lobster looked like, so I asked my server about it. He brought out a live lobster that made our table look very small! The cheesecake served for dessert is flown in from a bakery in Brooklyn each day, authentic New York cheesecake! The service at The Palm is unmatched. The restaurant is founded on making you feel at home, and I was instantly made to feel like an “old regular”. The server regales guests with stories about the first Palm restaurant in New York, the owners, and what is special about the Coral Gables Palm. They are fluent in the menu and answered my many questions. The table is always neatly cleared and water glasses are kept full, but the servers are unobtrusive and friendly. When I returned for a second visit and got the same server, it was obvious that he remembered me and my family. While the food and service at The Palm is four-star quality, the atmosphere is laid-back. Appropriate dress ranges from suit and ties to khakis. The walls are covered with cartoons and caricatures of famous locals and guests, and make for interesting reading between courses. The story goes that the first Palm restaurant was down the street from a large newspaper syndicate. The cartoonists would come for lunch and offer to pay by decorating their walls with scenes from their famous cartoon strips. The tradition stuck, and now each Palm features cartoons and caricatures as part of the décor. All this comes with a deal that may be too good to pass up. Their VIP club is known as the 837 Club (the address of the first Palm restaurant) and is $25 to join. You’re your membership card, you get that back in the form of a $25 gift certificate. I know, that doesn’t put much of a dent in the bill when steaks start at $35, but there’s more. On your birthday, you get a gift of a free lobster! At a restaurant where the average lobster is over $60, this is a great deal. You will also receive specials throughout the year (such as a dinner for two for $60) that makes going there extremely reasonable. Overall, The Palm offers great food in a great atmosphere with great service for a reasonable price tag. With one location at 425 Ponce de Leon Blvd in Coral Gables and another at 9650 E Bay Harbor Dr on Bay Harbor Island, there’s one near you. Bon appetit! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Surprising pull of Fox's 'War at Home' Critics trashed it but earthy sitcom may return
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Date Posted: 05:35:24 05/04/06 Thu Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Author: David Harrison Levi Subject: Surprising pull of Fox's 'War at Home' Critics trashed it but earthy sitcom may return Surprising pull of Fox's 'War at Home' Critics trashed it but earthy sitcom may return By Abigail Azote May 3, 2006 The critics were brutal, but then what do critics know? They widely panned Fox's "War at Home" when it debuted last September as a cheesy ripoff of Fox's 80s hit "Married with Children." And that it was. So of course no one expected "War" to hang around. But it did, and then some. Rather than sinking into a quick cancellation, "War" held onto its viewers, and now it even stands a chance to be picked up for next season, as unlikely as that might have seemed back in September. "War's" finale, airing on Sunday night, posted a 3.6 rating among 18-49s. While that was down 14 percent from the 4.2 it averaged in its premiere, it’s even with the show’s 3.6 season average in the demo. More important, though, "War" bettered the numbers for its timeslot. "War" aired in the plush 8:30 period, leading out of "The Simpsons" and into "Family Guy" at 9 p.m. Even so, it boosted the period's season average by 20 percent over the year-earlier period, according to Fox. The trend also held among total viewers, with the show’s 7.3 million viewers bettering the 6.5 million averaged during the same period last season by 12 percent. That makes a pretty good argument for a second season. "Three-point-six is pretty good for a first-year comedy," says Brad Adgate, research director at Horizon Media. "My gut reaction is it probably will return." Whether it actually does will depend on what new comedies Fox is working on for next season, but with two established sitcoms, "That '70s Show" and "Malcolm in the Middle," ending and a third, "Bernie Mac," on the bubble, "War's" chances of renewal grow stronger. Fox will want to balance its new shows with established shows as insurance against a nightmare scenario in which all if its new offerings bomb. "A lot of these issues are going to be decided on how good Fox’s development is," Adgate says. Already, the network has picked up 13 episodes of the new Brad Garrett comedy "‘Til Death." Adgate thinks that if "War" does return, it could end up on a different night, perhaps Monday. While the berth between The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" gave "War" as good launch pad, as a live action show it would likely be a better fit among similar comedies, he says. In other broadcast ratings for the week ended April 30: Among adults 18-49, Fox was first with a 4.3 rating and 12 share, followed by CBS with a 3.7/10. ABC and NBC tied at third with a 3.1/9. Univision was fifth with a 1.5/4, UPN was sixth with a 1.3/4 and WB seventh with a 1.2/3. Among adults 18-34, Fox finished first with a 4.2 rating and 13 share, followed by ABC at 2.6/8, NBC at 2.5/8, CBS at 2.3/7, Univision at 1.6/5, and the WB and UPN tied for sixth at 1.4/4. Among adults 25-54, CBS was first at 4.8/12, followed by Fox at 4.5/11, ABC and NBC tied for third at 3.6/9, Univision fifth at 1.4/4, the WB sixth at 1.2/3 and UPN seventh at 1.1/3. Top five (18-49s): 1. Fox’s “American Idol-Wednesday” 11.6; 2. Fox’s “American Idol-Tuesday” 11.5; 3. Fox’s “House” 9.9; 4. ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” 9.7; 5. ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” 8.9 Top five (total viewers): 1. Fox’s “American Idol-Tuesday” 28.7 million; 2. Fox’s “American Idol-Wednesday” 28.3 million; 3. CBS’s “CSI” 27.4 million; 4. Fox’s “House” 24.5 million; 5. ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” 21.3 million Bottom five (18-49s): All from WB: T110. “Pepper Dennis” and “Bedford Diaries” 0.8; T115. “Modern Men” and “Reba” 0.7; 117. “Survival of the Richest” 0.6 Bottom five (total viewers): T112. UPN’s “Cuts” and “Eve” 1.8 million; 115. UPN’s “America’s Next Top Model” 1.7 million; 116. WB’s “Bedford Diaries” 1.6 million; 117. WB’s “Survival of the Richest” 1.3 million Show on the rise: “American Idol,” Fox, Tuesday 8 p.m., Wednesday 9 p.m. “Idol” continues to perform better than last year, with both the Tuesday and Wednesday editions outpacing the same week last year by at least 6 percent. Show on the decline: “Desperate Housewives,” ABC, Sunday 9 p.m. Sure, “Housewives” is still hot, but it’s nowhere near as hot as it was this time last year. Sunday’s episode averaged an 8.9 18-49 rating, off 23 percent from the 11.5 the show averaged the same week last year. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Surprising pull of Fox's 'War at Home' Critics trashed it but earthy sitcom may return
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Date Posted: 22:06:57 05/03/06 Wed Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Surprising pull of Fox's 'War at Home' Critics trashed it but earthy sitcom may return By Abigail Azote May 3, 2006 The critics were brutal, but then what do critics know? They widely panned Fox's "War at Home" when it debuted last September as a cheesy ripoff of Fox's 80s hit "Married with Children." And that it was. So of course no one expected "War" to hang around. But it did, and then some. Rather than sinking into a quick cancellation, "War" held onto its viewers, and now it even stands a chance to be picked up for next season, as unlikely as that might have seemed back in September. "War's" finale, airing on Sunday night, posted a 3.6 rating among 18-49s. While that was down 14 percent from the 4.2 it averaged in its premiere, it’s even with the show’s 3.6 season average in the demo. More important, though, "War" bettered the numbers for its timeslot. "War" aired in the plush 8:30 period, leading out of "The Simpsons" and into "Family Guy" at 9 p.m. Even so, it boosted the period's season average by 20 percent over the year-earlier period, according to Fox. The trend also held among total viewers, with the show’s 7.3 million viewers bettering the 6.5 million averaged during the same period last season by 12 percent. That makes a pretty good argument for a second season. "Three-point-six is pretty good for a first-year comedy," says Brad Adgate, research director at Horizon Media. "My gut reaction is it probably will return." Whether it actually does will depend on what new comedies Fox is working on for next season, but with two established sitcoms, "That '70s Show" and "Malcolm in the Middle," ending and a third, "Bernie Mac," on the bubble, "War's" chances of renewal grow stronger. Fox will want to balance its new shows with established shows as insurance against a nightmare scenario in which all if its new offerings bomb. "A lot of these issues are going to be decided on how good Fox’s development is," Adgate says. Already, the network has picked up 13 episodes of the new Brad Garrett comedy "‘Til Death." Adgate thinks that if "War" does return, it could end up on a different night, perhaps Monday. While the berth between The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" gave "War" as good launch pad, as a live action show it would likely be a better fit among similar comedies, he says. In other broadcast ratings for the week ended April 30: Among adults 18-49, Fox was first with a 4.3 rating and 12 share, followed by CBS with a 3.7/10. ABC and NBC tied at third with a 3.1/9. Univision was fifth with a 1.5/4, UPN was sixth with a 1.3/4 and WB seventh with a 1.2/3. Among adults 18-34, Fox finished first with a 4.2 rating and 13 share, followed by ABC at 2.6/8, NBC at 2.5/8, CBS at 2.3/7, Univision at 1.6/5, and the WB and UPN tied for sixth at 1.4/4. Among adults 25-54, CBS was first at 4.8/12, followed by Fox at 4.5/11, ABC and NBC tied for third at 3.6/9, Univision fifth at 1.4/4, the WB sixth at 1.2/3 and UPN seventh at 1.1/3. Top five (18-49s): 1. Fox’s “American Idol-Wednesday” 11.6; 2. Fox’s “American Idol-Tuesday” 11.5; 3. Fox’s “House” 9.9; 4. ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” 9.7; 5. ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” 8.9 Top five (total viewers): 1. Fox’s “American Idol-Tuesday” 28.7 million; 2. Fox’s “American Idol-Wednesday” 28.3 million; 3. CBS’s “CSI” 27.4 million; 4. Fox’s “House” 24.5 million; 5. ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” 21.3 million Bottom five (18-49s): All from WB: T110. “Pepper Dennis” and “Bedford Diaries” 0.8; T115. “Modern Men” and “Reba” 0.7; 117. “Survival of the Richest” 0.6 Bottom five (total viewers): T112. UPN’s “Cuts” and “Eve” 1.8 million; 115. UPN’s “America’s Next Top Model” 1.7 million; 116. WB’s “Bedford Diaries” 1.6 million; 117. WB’s “Survival of the Richest” 1.3 million Show on the rise: “American Idol,” Fox, Tuesday 8 p.m., Wednesday 9 p.m. “Idol” continues to perform better than last year, with both the Tuesday and Wednesday editions outpacing the same week last year by at least 6 percent. Show on the decline: “Desperate Housewives,” ABC, Sunday 9 p.m. Sure, “Housewives” is still hot, but it’s nowhere near as hot as it was this time last year. Sunday’s episode averaged an 8.9 18-49 rating, off 23 percent from the 11.5 the show averaged the same week last year. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Subject: Gone But Not Forgotten - Soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice - 2006
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Date Posted: 03:41:56 05/03/06 Wed Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.198 Service: A=Army; M=Marine Corps; N=Navy; F=Air Force (M) Cpl. Andres Aguilar Jr., age 21, died April 2, 2006 (A) Sgt. Kevin D. Akins, age 29, died March 12, 2006 (N) Hospitalman Geovani Padilla Aleman, age 20, died Apr. 2, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Nicholas R. Anderson, age 21, died March 13, 2006 (A) Maj. Stuart Marlin Anderson, age 44, died January 7, 2006 (M) Cpl. Carlos Arellano, age 22, died January 20, 2006 (A) 1st Lt. Garrison Charles Avery, age 23, died February 1, 2006 (M) Cpl. Salem Bachar, age 20, died April 13, 2006 (A) Spc. Scott M. Bandhold, age 37, died April 12, 2006 (M) Cpl. Felipe Carvalho Barbosa, age 21, died January 28, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Ricardo Barraza,age 24, died March 18, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Matthew Ryan Barnes, age 20, died February 14, 2006 (M) Cpl. David A. Bass, age 20, died April 2, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Brock A. Beery, age 30, died March 23, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Jacob W. Beisel, age 21, died March 31, 2006 (M) Pfc. Matthew Lee Bertolino, age 20, died February 9, 2006 (A) Sgt.1st Class Jason Lee Bishop, age 31, died January 1, 2006 (A) Cpl. Joseph A. Blanco, age 25, died April 11, 2006 (A) Sgt. Jeremiah James Boehmer, age 22, died February 5, 2006 (A) Sgt. Dale G. Brehm, age 23, died March 18, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Billy Don Brixey, Jr. age 21, died January 27, 2006 (M) Pfc. Kyle William Brown, age 22, died January 7, 2006 (A) Spc. Marlon Andres Bustamante, age 25, died February 1, 2006 (M) Pvt. Lewis D Calapini, age 21, died January 23, 2006 (A) Pfc. Roland E. Calderon-Ascencio, age 21, died April 12, 2006 (A) Sgt. Matos Radhames Camilo, age 24, died January 7, 2006 (A) 1st Lt. Jaime Lynn Campbell, age 25, died January 7, 2006 (M) Sgt. Adam Leigh Cann, age 23, died January 5, 2006 (M) Pfc. Sean Thomas Cardelli, age 20, died February 1, 2006 (A) Spc. Frederick A. Carlson, age 25, died March 25, 2006 (A) Chief Warrant Ofc. Mitchell Kyle Carver, Jr. age 31, died January 13, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Lance Michael Chase, age 32, died January 23, 2006 (M) Pfc. Javier Jr Chavez, age 19, died February 9, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Darrell P. Clay, age 34, died April 2, 2006 (M) Staff Sgt. Jay Tirona Collado, age 31, died February 20, 2006 (A) Sgt. David S. Collins, age 24, died April 9, 2006 (M) Cpl. Matthew Dwain Conley, age 21, died February 19, 2006 (A) Sgt.1st Class Lance Scott Cornett, age 33, died February 3, 2006 (A) Pfc. James F. Costello III, age 27, died April 11, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Derrick J. Cothran, age 21, died April 15, 2006 (A) Capt. Simon Timothy Cox, Jr. age 30, died February 2, 2006 (A) Spc. Shawn R. Creighton, age 21, died April 8, 2006 (A) Master Sgt. Clinton W. Cubert, age 38, died April 16, 2006 (A) Sgt. Corey A. Dan, age 22, died March 13, 2006 (A) Sgt. Jessie Davila, age 29, died February 20, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Edwin Herbert Dazachacon, age 38, died February 13, 2006 (A) 1st Lt. Joseph David DeMoors, age 36, died January 7, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Brandon Christopher Dewey, age 20, died January 20, 2006 (M) 1st Lt. Brandon Ryan Dronet, age 33, died February 17, 2006 (A) Spc. Kasper Alan Camacho Dudkiewicz, age 22, died January 15, 2006 (A) Pfc. Joseph J. Duenas, age 23, died March 30, 2006 (A) Pfc. Amy A. Duerksen, age 19, died March 11, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Jerry Micheal Durbin, Jr. age 26, died January 25, 2006 (M) Pfc. Chase A. Edwards, age 19, died April 6, 2006 (A) Sgt.1st Class Amos Collins Edwards, Jr. age 41, died February 17, 2006 (A) Spc. Michael Ignatius Edwards, age 26, died January 7, 2006 (A) Pfc. Jeremy W. Ehle, age 19, died April 2, 2006 (A) Master Sgt. Emigdio Efrain Elizarraras, age 37, died February 28, 2006 (A) Spc. Clay Patrick Farr, age 21, died February 26, 2006 (A) Sgt. Nathan Robert Field, age 23, died January 7, 2006 (M) 1st Lt. Almar Laron Fitzgerald, age 23, died February 21, 2006 (A) Sgt. Dennis James Flanagan, age 22, died January 20, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Felipe D. Sandoval-Flores, age 20, died April 2, 2006 (M) Sgt. James Floyd Fordyce, age 22, died February 17, 2006 (N) Petty Ofc. 3rd Class John Thomas Fralish, age 30, died February 6, 2006 (A) Spc. Matthew Curtis Frantz, age 23, died January 20, 2006 (M) Gunnery Sgt. John D. Fry, age 28, died March 8, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Patrick J. Gallagher, age 27, died April 2, 2006 (A) Capt. Anthony Ricardo Garcia, age 48, died February 17, 2006 (A) Sgt. Israel Devora Garcia, age 23, died April 1, 2006 (A) Chief Warrant Ofc. Ruel Mamaril Garcia, age 34, died January 16, 2006 (A) Spc. Villareal Felipe Jose Garcia, age 26, died February 12, 2006 (A) Spc. James W. Gardner, age 22, died April 10, 2006 (M) Cpl. Orville Gerena, age 21, died February 6, 2006 (M) Cpl. Brian R. St. Germain, age 22, died April 2, 2006 (M) Cpl. Albert Pasquale Gettings, age 27, died January 5, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Marcus S. Glimpse, age 22, died April 12, 2006 (A) Sgt. 1st Class Chad Ayron Gonsalves, age 31, died February 13, 2006 (A) Spc. Carlos M. Gonzalez, age 22, died March 16, 2006 (F) Senior Airman Alecia Sabrina Good, age 23, died February 17, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Gregson Glenn Gourley, age 38, died February 22, 2006 (A) Spc. Dustin J. Harris, age 21, died April 6, 2006 (A) Chief Warrant Officer Michael L. Hartwick, age 37, died April 1, 2006 (A) Spc. William Stephen Hayes, III age 23, died February 5, 2006 (A) Maj. William Freder Hecker, III age 37, died January 5, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Robert Hernandez, age 47, died March 28, 2006 (A) Sgt. David Lee Herrera, age 26, died January 28, 2006 (A) Spc. Patrick William Herried, age 29, died February 6, 2006 (A) Cpl. Kenneth D. Hess, age 26, died April 11, 2006 (A) Sgt. Anton J. Hiett, age 25, died March 12, 2006 (A) Spc. Joshua L. Hill, age 24, died March 12, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Curtis Tyrone Howard, II age 32, died February 22, 2006 (A) Cpl. Walter B Howard, II age 35, died February 2, 2006 (A) Spc. Joshua Ut Humble, age 21, died February 26, 2006 (A) Sgt. Matthew David Hunter, age 31, died January 23, 2006 (A) Chief Warrant Ofc. Kyle Edward Jackson, age 28, died January 13, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Jeriad Paul Jacobs, age 19, died January 7, 2006 (A) Sgt. 1st Class Kevin P. Jessen, age 28, died March 5, 2006 (A) Sgt. Joshua Allen Johnson, age 24, died January 25, 2006 (A) Spc. Robert Thomas Johnson, age 20, died January 7, 2006 (A) Spc. Ty J. Johnson, age 28, died April 4, 2006 (A) Sgt. Rickey Edward Jones, age 21, died February 22, 2006 (N) Petty Ofc. 1st Class Michael Anthony Jordan, age 35, died January 13, 2006 (A) Cpl. Andrew Joseph Kemple, age 23, died February 12, 2006 (A) Cpl. Dustin Lee Kendall, age 21, died January 15, 2006 (A) Chief Warrant Ofc. Rex Christopher Kenyon, age 34, died January 16, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Kun Y. Kim, age 20, died April 2, 2006 (A) Sgt. Allen Dale Kokesh, Jr. age 21, died February 7, 2006 (A) Maj. Douglas Amuel La Bouff, age 36, died January 7, 2006 (A) Sgt. 1st Class Randall L. Lamberson, age 36, died April 10, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Samuel Wayne Large, Jr. age 21, died February 17, 2006 (M) Sgt. Donnie Leo Ford Levens, age 25, died February 17, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Bryan A. Lewis, age 32, died March 13, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Dwayne Peter Ryan Lewis, age 26, died February 27, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Jason Thomas Little, age 20, died January 7, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Bunny Long, age 22, died March 10, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Hugo Razziel Lopezlopez, age 20, died January 27, 2006 (A) Pfc. Joseph I. Love, age 22, died April 9, 2006 (A) Sgt. Jason Lopez-Reyes, age 29, died January 5, 2006 (M) Cpl. Brett Lee Lundstrom, age 22, died January 7, 2006 (M) Cpl. Matthieu Marcellus, age 31, died February 17, 2006 (A) Pvt. Robbie Matthew Mariano, age 21, died January 5, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Kristen K. Marino, age 20, died March 12, 2006 (A) Pfc. Christopher Lee Marion, age 20, died February 22, 2006 (A) Maj. Michael Ray Martinez, age 43, died January 7, 2006 (A) Spc. Salazar Roberto Luis Martinez, age 21, died February 4, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Philip J. Martini, age 24, died April 8, 2006 (M) Gunnery Sgt. Justin R. Martone, age 31, died March 7, 2006 (A) Sgt. Charles E Matheny, IV age 23, died February 18, 2006 (M) Cpl. Pablo V. Mayorga, age 33, died April 15, 2006 (A) Sgt 1st Class Randy D. McCaulley, age 44, died March 23, 2006 (M) Sgt. Jonathan Eric Mccolley, age 23, died February 17, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Ryan Stanley Mccurdy, age 20, died January 5, 2006 (F) Staff Sgt. Brian Mcelroy, age 28, died January 22, 2006 (M) Staff Sgt. Eric A. McIntosh, age 29, died April 2, 2006 (A) Spc. Antoine J. McKinzie, age 25, died March 21, 2006 (A) Lt. Col. Michael Erich Mclaughlin, age 44, died January 5, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Michael Joseph Mcmullen, age 20, died January 10, 2006 (A) Spc. Mark W. Melcher, age 34, died April 15, 2006 (F) Staff Sgt.T Luis Manuel Melendez-Sanchez, age 33, died February 17, 2006 (A) Spc. Jacob Eugene Melson, age 22, died January 7, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Raul Mercado, age 21, died January 7, 2006 (A) Spc. Saez Sergio Antonio Mercedes, age 23, died February 5, 2006 (A) Spc. Christopher Scott Merchant, age 32, died March 1, 2006 (A) Pfc. Scott Anthony Messer, age 26, died February 2, 2006 (M) Sgt. Sean Henry Miles, age 28, died January 24, 2006 (A) Sgt. Gordon Foster Misner, II age 23, died February 22, 2006 (A) Pvt. Jody W. Missildine, age 19, died April 8, 2006 (A) Sgt. Alberto Dasilveira Montrond, age 27, died February 13, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Christopher Randolph Morningstar, age 27, died February 5, 2006 (A) Pfc. Allan Andrew Morr, age 21, died February 22, 2006 (A) Capt. Timothy J. Moshier, age 25, died April 1, 2006 (F) Tech. Sgt. Walter M. Moss Jr., age 37, died March 29, 2006 (A) Sgt. Dimitri Muscat, age 21, died February 24, 2006 (N) Petty Officer 3rd Class Marcques J. Nettles, age 22, died April 2, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Juana NavarroArellano, age 24, died April 8, 2006 (N) Petty Officer 3rd Class Marcques J. Nettles, age 22, died April 2, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Clinton Thomas Newman, age 26, died February 13, 2006 (F) Tech Sgt. Jason Lynn Norton, age 32, died January 22, 2006 (A) Spc. Anthony Chad Owens, age 21, died February 1, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Eric A. Palmisano, age 27, died April 2, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. David S Parr, age 22, died February 6, 2006 (A) Spc. Joshua Michael Pearce, age 21, died February 26, 2006 (A) Sgt. Johnny Joe Peralez, Jr. age 25, died January 5, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Stephen J. Perez, age 22, died April 13, 2006 (A) Capt. Christopher Paul Petty, age 33, died January 5, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Steven Lee Phillips, age 27, died February 7, 2006 (A) Sgt. Amanda N. Pinson, age 21, died March 16, 2006 (A) Pvt. Joshua Francis Powers, age 21, died February 24, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Jonathan Kyle Price, age 19, died January 13, 2006 (A) Pfc. Tina Marie Priest, age 20, died March 1, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Michael Stuart Probst, age 26, died February 14, 2006 (M) Cpl. Scott J. Procopio, age 20, died April 2, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Joseph, R. Ray, age 29, died March 12, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Christopher L. Robinson, age 36, died March 25, 2006 (A) Pfc. George R. Roehl Jr., age 21, died April 11, 2006 (A) Sgt. 1st Class Gregory S. Rogers, age 42, died April 9, 2006 (A) Sgt. Michael D. Rowe, age 23, died March 28, 2006 (A) Pfc. Ricky Salas, Jr. age 22, died March 7, 2006 (A) Cpl. Brian James Schoff, age 22, died January 28, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Christopher James Schornak, age 28, died February 26, 2006 (M) Cpl. Brandon Scott Schuck, age 21, died February 6, 2006 (A) Pfc. Benjamin Chandler Schuster, age 21, died February 25, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Joshua Adam Scott, age 24, died January 23, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Rickey Scott, age 30, died January 20, 2006 (A) Spc. Daniel L. Sesker, age 22, died April 6, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Darin T. Settle, age 23, died April 14, 2006 (A) Pfc. Robert J. Settle, age 25, died April 19, 2006 (A) Pfc. Adam Roger Shepherd, age 21, died January 17, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Marco, A. Silva, age 27, died March 13, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Justin D. Sims, age 22, died April 15, 2006 (M) Cpl. Ross A Smith, age 21, died February 9, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Matthew Albert Snyder, age 20, died March 3, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Nicholas Joseph Sovie, age 20, died February 17, 2006 (M) Pfc. Jacob D Spann, age 21, died February 6, 2006 (A) Sgt. 1st Class John T. Stone, age 52, died March 28, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Bryan N. Taylor, age 20, died April 6, 2006 (A) Pfc. Sean D. Tharp, age 21, died March 28, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. John Joshua Thornton, age 22, died February 25, 2006 (A) Pfc. Patrick A. Tinnell, age 25, died April 19, 2006 (A) Chief Warrant Ofc. Chester William Troxel, age 44, died January 7, 2006 (M) Staff Sgt. Abraham G. Twitchell, age 28, died April 2, 2006 (A) Spc. Clinton Robert Upchurch, age 31, died January 7, 2006 (M) Lance Cpl. Adam John Vanalstine, age 21, died February 25, 2006 (A) Staff Sgt. Christopher Jon Vanderhorn, age 37, died January 1, 2006 (A) Pfc. Caesar Samuel Viglienzone, age 21, died February 1, 2006 (A) Cpl. Peter Daniel Wagler, age 18, died January 23, 2006 (A) Spc. Andrew K. Waits, age 23, died April 13, 2006 (A) Spc. Ryan Doran Walker, age 25, died January 5, 2006 (M) Cpl. Richard P. Waller, age 22, died April 7, 2006 (M) Cpl. Rusty Lee Washam, age 21, died February 14, 2006 (M) Cpl. Justin James Watts, age 20, died January 14, 2006 (A) Capt. Ian P. Weikel, age 31, died April 18, 2006 (A) Sgt.1st Class Stephen Jerome White, age 39, died January 5, 2006 (M) Capt. Bryan Douglas Willard, age 33, died February 17, 2006 (N) Petty Officer 2nd Class Nicholas Wilson, age 25, died February 12, 2006 (A) Spc. Thomas Joseph Wilwerth, age 21, died February 22, 2006 (M) Pfc. Ryan G. Winslow, age 19, died April 15, 2006 (A) Cpl. Nyle Yates III, age 22, died March 16, 2006 (A) Sgt. Clifton Jerrod Yazzie, age 23, died January 20, 2006 (A) Sgt. Joshua Vernon Youmans, age 26, died March 1, 2006 (A) Cpl. Jesse Maria Zamora, age 22, died February 3, 2006 (M) Cpl. Adam O. Zanutto, age 26, died March 6, 2006 (A) Pfc. Angelo A. Zawaydeh, age 19, died March 15, 2006 These lists include those soldiers who died in both Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) THANK YOU to Sean M. Rich for updating these lists. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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