Breeda Wool

Breeda Wool (born 30 April 1982) is an American actress, writer and producer. She is best known for her roles as Lou Linklatter in the Audience crime drama series "Mr. Mercedes" (2017–present) and Faith Deluth in the Lifetime/Hulu drama series "UnREAL" (2015–2018).
Her major film credits include "AWOL" (2016), "XX" (2017), "Automatic at Sea" (2016), "Erasing Eden" (2016) and "Craters of the Moon" (2013).
Wool also appeared as Victoria in the Amazon digital series "Betas" (2013). She made guest appearances in Freeform's "Famous in Love" (2017–2018), NBC's "Midnight, Texas" (2017–2018), ', two episodes of ' (2001–2011) and the two-hour series finale of (2000–2015).
HBO's Room 104 Season 4 Episode 4 "Bangs" as Poppy (2021).
Early life.
Wool was born and raised in Urbana, Illinois. Wool knew that she wanted to be a performer at a young age. She starred in numerous theatrical productions throughout her elementary and high school career, before her talent landed her a musical theater scholarship to Wagner College. While there, she transitioned from theater to short films, starring in the Columbia University graduate short, Dandelion Fall. Her desire to pursue acting after college took her to New York City, where she spent ten years performing in theater, reciting Shakespeare, sketch comedy, and avant-garde movement dance before relocating to Los Angeles. Since making the move, she has continued to nurture her craft by taking a weekly class at the Imagined Life Theater.
Wool's late father was a "wild, Irish guitar-playing scientist" and her mother, whom she greatly admires, is a "California, artist beach-babe" who studied in Ireland where they met. They were both college professors.
Education.
Wool graduated in 2004 from Wagner College, where she triple-majored in Psychology, Theater and Philosophy. Wool studied acting at the Imagined Life Theater from 2010 to 2013.
Career.
In 2010, Wool began performing with the Upright Citizens Brigade improv sketch comedy troupe.
In 2010, Wool starred in the critically acclaimed short film "AWOL", which received recognition from the Sundance Women in Film Panel and the Gotham Independent Film Awards before being adapted as a feature-length film in 2016. She was awarded Best Shorts Actress in 2013 by the Woods Hole Film Festival for her role in the short film "Lambing Season."
She appeared in various other short films, including "The Slows" (2018)"," "Rflktr" (2018), "Midnight Confession" (2017), "The Boy Who Cried Fish!" (2016), and "Dandelion Fall" (2007), amongst others.
She was featured in Metallica's music video for "Confusion". Wool has appeared on various television programs, including "The Affair" (2014), "Famous in Love" (2017), "Vice Principals" (2016), "Midnight, Texas" (2017), "Strangers" (2017), ' (2000), "Weeds" (2005), ' (1999) and ""
Wool was an executive producer and co-writer for the feature film "Mother's Little Helpers". She also was a producer for "Rflktr" (2018) and "Miss Miao" (2014), as well as a writer for the short film "Shelton's Oasis" (2013).
In 2013, Wool was cast as Victoria in Amazon's web series "Betas".
In 2015, Wool appeared in the first season of "UnREAL" as Faith, a closeted Christian lesbian. She reprised her role as Faith in a 2017 web series spin off, "The Faith Diaries", and returned to "UnREAL" in the fourth season.
In 2017, Wool was cast as a series regular in the Audience crime drama "Mr. Mercedes", a series based on the Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy. "Mr. Mercedes" has been renewed for a third season on the Audience network.
Personal life.
Wool enjoys traveling on the open road. Wool also practices Bikram Yoga, plays volleyball, draws, and takes piano lessons. Wool favors vegetarian food.
Wool lives in Los Angeles, California with her partner Matt Friedman. Friedman, a music producer and musician, is an outspoken feminist. They have a daughter born in June 2020.


G. Marq Roswell

G. Marq Roswell is an American tech entrepreneur, music supervisor, and film producer based in Los Angeles, California.
Early years.
Roswell was raised in Los Angeles, California. A sixth-generation Californian. He is a descendant of the del Valle Family of Rancho Camulos in Ventura County.
Roswell's interest and taste in music was shaped by attending the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and witnessing seminal performances by The Who, Otis Redding and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, who famously set his guitar aflame in the finale of his performance. In 1968-69, Roswell worked as a stage manager at the Shrine Exhibition Hall in downtown Los Angeles. It was there that he saw many of the major acts of that era, including the Buffalo Springfield, Albert King, The Grateful Dead, Traffic, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buffalo Springfield, Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa's backing band), Jimi Hendrix, The Electric Flag, Cream, Buddy Guy, Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Jeff Beck, Iron Butterfly, and Big Brother and the Holding Company, best known as the band which featured Janis Joplin.
Roswell attended UCLA Film School, graduating in 1971.
In 1976, he helped form and manage the band Player, which was signed to Robert Stigwood's RSO Records. The band's platinum single "Baby Come Back" eventually hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, producing a gold album, and tours with Boz Scaggs, Kenny Loggins, Heart, and Eric Clapton. After attending an early screening at Paramount Studios of the Stigwood-produced "Saturday Night Fever", with its massive breakout soundtrack by the Bee Gees, Roswell sold his management and publishing interest to partner Paul Palmer and pursued a career as a music supervisor for films.
Music supervision.
Roswell found a mentor in top music supervisor Becky Shargo Winding ("Footloose", "Urban Cowboy").
He began his career in music supervision by bringing the Fine Young Cannibals to director Barry Levinson to score and write songs for "Tin Men", which became the catalyst for their follow up triple-platinum album "The Raw and the Cooked", including the number one hits "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing," which was written for the film.
While overseeing music supervision on "The Commitments", Roswell formed and managed a joint venture between Beacon Films and Polygram Publishing (now Universal Music) to develop Irish musical artists and film scores. In that capacity, he was able to sign The Corrs and secure them a deal with Atlantic Records. The band went on to sell 40 million records worldwide.
Roswell produced many score and soundtrack LPs for Beacon; "Air Force One", "Family Man", "Spy Game", "Sugar Hill", "Bring It On, The Hurricane, Playing God, End of Days, Midnight Clear, Love of The Game," and "The Commitments", among others. "The Commitments" was nominated for a Grammy and sold five million albums worldwide.
After music supervising the Chris Farley vehicle "Tommy Boy" for Paramount Pictures, Roswell became a consultant for Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video. It was there that he orchestrated a joint venture between Broadway Video and Mercury Records to develop comedy albums and DVDs featuring the live musical guests on "Saturday Night Live".
Roswell contributed to the musical landscape of more than 60 feature films, numerous documentaries, television series, and produced many successful score and soundtrack albums. His impressive list of credits includes "The Great Debaters", "The Hurricane", "Man with the Iron Fists", "Tommy Boy", "Dawn of the Dead", and "Wild at Heart".
Roswell also produced many "on-camera" songs for actors in feature films, including Nicolas Cage in "Wild at Heart", Kevin Costner in "Love of the Game" and Keanu Reeves in "Sweet November". These production efforts went on to also include many on camera artists appearing on film soundtracks, including Koko Taylor for "Wild at Heart" and Sharon Jones, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Alvin Youngblood Heart for "The Great Debaters". On "The Thing Called Love", set in Nashville song-mills, Roswell hired T Bone Burnett and Steven Soles to produce songs for actors River Phoenix, Sandra Bullock, Samantha Mathis, and Dermot Mulroney. Roswell and T Bone Burnett came together again to produce the end title song for "A Midnight Clear", featuring singer Sam Phillips.
In his capacity as a music supervisor, Roswell has worked with many top screen composers, including Tommy Newman, Alexander Desplat, Danny Elfman, Chris Young, Tyler Bates, Harry Gregson-Williams, Mark Isham, James Newton Howard, Angelo Badalamenti, Jerry Goldsmith, Marvin Hamlisch, John Debney, Christophe Beck, Terrance Blanchard, Aaron Zigman, John Frizzell and Graeme Revell.
Roswell has worked with many musical artists including RZA, the Black Keys, Kanye West, Guns N' Roses, Bob Dylan, The Roots, Mos Def, Eminem, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jewel, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Garth Brooks, Limp Bizkit, Korn, and many others in a variety of capacities.
Roswell paid it forward by mentoring and working with some of the top music supervisors in the TV and Film industry today; Randall Poster, Pilar McCurry, Gary Calamar, Thomas Golubic, Robin Urdang, Jennifer Pyken, Karen Rachtman, Carter Little, Dondi Bastone, Helle Huxley, Garth Trinidad, and Adam Swart.
Roswell has also provided his expertise on award winning documentaries; "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price", "Iraq for Sale", and PBS' "Circus" & "Half the Sky". He is the co-executive music producer with Carter Little on Grammy nominated "Soundbreaking", the 8-hour documentary series, conceived with and inspired by Sir George Martin. He is currently co-music supervisor with Dondi Baste in the upcoming Apollo Theater documentary, directed by Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams and produced by Nigel Sinclair of White Horse Pictures.
Film producer.
Roswell co-produced "I Saw the Light", directed and written by Marc Abraham, starring Tom Hiddleston, who portrays the legendary singer-songwriter Hank Williams. The soundtrack album was produced by Rodney Crowell, Roswell, Carter Little, and Ray Kennedy.
Technology.
Roswell is currently the Founder and CEO of TunesMap, makers of a mobile and TV app that contextually organizes and presents high quality content from preferred partners and artists.
Personal life.
Roswell lives in the Pacific Palisades with his wife Karen, and his son, Cal del Valle.


Lou Levy (publisher)

Lou Levy (December 3, 1910 – October 31, 1995) was a music publisher during the Tin Pan Alley era of American popular music.
Levy established Leeds Music Corporation in 1935 with his friends, lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Saul Chaplin. He is credited with the discoveries of Cahn and Chaplin, Bob Dylan, Charles Strouse, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, and Henry Mancini. He also either discovered, managed, or developed the careers of such artists as the Ames Brothers, Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Eddie Fisher, Connie Francis, Woody Herman, Steve Lawrence, Les Paul, The Andrews Sisters, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman and Charles Aznavour
Levy supplied numerous other singers with hit material: Frank Sinatra with "All or Nothing At All," "Strangers in the Night," and "I'll Never Smile Again"; Petula Clark with "Downtown" and "Call Me"; The Everly Brothers with "Let It Be Me"; Tom Jones with "It's Not Unusual". He published the Beatles' first American hit, "I Want to Hold Your Hand." In 1964, Leeds Music was acquired by MCA
Lou Levy married Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters in 1941; they separated in 1950.
Levy served on the Board of Directors of ASCAP from 1958 to 1970 and was honored by ASCAP in 1986 for "outstanding contributions as a major force in music publishing." In 1987 he received the Songwriters Hall of Fame Abe Olman Award for Excellence in Music Publishing.


Arthur Judson

Arthur Leon Judson (February 17, 1881 – January 28, 1975) was an artists' manager who also managed the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra and was also the founder of CBS. He co-founded the Handel Society of New York with entrepreneur James Grayson in 1966.
Early life.
Judson studied violin beginning at the age of eight, and continued his studies for one year as a teenager with the composer, conductor, violinist Max Bendix and the violinist Leopold Lichtenberg in New York. At the age of nineteen, he became the dean of the music department at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, from 1900 to 1907. In 1903 at Denison, he performed the Richard Strauss Violin Sonata in what he called the first public performance in the United States. He returned to New York in 1907 to attempt a recital career. He also spent eight years on the staff of Musical America magazine, serving as advertising manager and critic. Disillusioned of a concert career (he said of this time "I was a good violinist, but no Kreisler or Heifetz"), Judson was pleased to be offered a lucrative management career.
Orchestra manager and artists' manager.
A benefit of Judson's Musical America job was traveling to hear concerts and meeting the people who performed or attended the concerts. Judson was therefore already known for his knowledge of music and judgment on musicians of quality when he was appointed as the manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra in July 1915. Within months, he launched Concert Management Arthur Judson, Inc. in Philadelphia to manage artists, and commuted daily to his New York office where he set up a second artists’ management office. With three partners, he organized the Judson Radio Program as another venue for his artists in 1926. His attempt to get an exclusive contract with David Sarnoff at the National Broadcasting Company for the radio program failed. Judson and his partners therefore purchased a low-power station owned by the Atlantic Broadcasting Company and by January 27, 1927, signed up a network of sixteen stations known as the United Independent Broadcasters to carry his program. William S. Paley purchased this network on September 25, 1927, and it became the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), with Judson as the second largest stockholder.
In 1930, Judson became the president of Columbia Concerts Corporation (which is now Columbia Artists Management). William S. Paley was chairman of the board. Judson amalgamated seven independent concert bureaus in what would become known as the "Judson Empire". These were the Wolfsohn Music Bureau, Haensel and Jones, The Metropolitan Musical Bureau, Evans and Salter, and the Community Concert Service of Ward French. Also included in this amalgamation was Concert Management Arthur Judson. The new company managed 125 artists and organizations, approximately two-thirds of the top musicians in America.
Judson managed the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1915 to 1935 and the New York Philharmonic from 1922 to 1956.
Judson's zenith was reached between 1930 and 1935 when he simultaneously managed the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, instituted and managed the summer New York Stadium concert series at Lewisohn Stadium 1920-1943 in New York and the summer Robin Hood Dell concerts in Philadelphia 1930-1935 as well as serving as president of Columbia Concerts Corporation. He also was the advisory manager of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for five years (1924–1928). As an impresario, he advised many other organizations. When Theodore Spiering, conductor of the Oregon Symphony, suddenly died in 1925 the orchestra called Judson. His recommendation, Willem van Hoogstraten, was hired. When the Minneapolis Symphony (now the Minnesota Orchestra) needed a conductor in 1931, Judson recommended Eugene Ormandy. Judson also recommended the successors to Ormandy in Minneapolis: Dimitri Mitropoulos and Antal Doráti. Some likened the Minneapolis orchestra to Judson's "farm team".
Judson was not only big in the music world, he was also a physically big man described as six foot four, 200 pounds, possessing a massive head, barrel chest, and also huge hands useful for his favorite pastime of chopping wood. He had a ruddy complexion which he explained as a "permanent rage" induced by dealing with artists. He was impeccably groomed and worked standing at a high antique desk while he smoked cigars. He was surrounded by steel engravings, shelves of books, antique furnishings, and old pewter. He was always available to walk across the street to Carnegie Hall to listen to an audition. He was extremely choosy when it came to pianists and violinists, accepting very few. He considered himself a "disappointed conductor" but made up for this by conducting the 100-piece summer orchestra at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, beginning in 1898.
The Community Artists series made it possible for communities to obtain high quality artists without having to assume high financial risks since the concerts were prepaid. Artists had more opportunities too, but in return they paid a 20 percent commission to Judson's Columbia Concerts Corporation and another 20 percent to Community Artists. Many artists believed they were being exploited and not promoted. The only other company in this field, NBC Artists Service (which opened in 1928), shared the market and did not compete with Judson.
In 1939 Judson was called before the Federal Communications Commission to testify. This was described in a highly unflattering Time magazine article on February 6, 1939, titled "Chain-Store Music". Readers were surprised to learn that music was organized just like any other business. Salesmen toured the country selling musicians to 376 communities involved in the Community Artists series. In order to get the big-name artists, lesser known commodities also had to be purchased. There was plenty to choose from in the catalog: Columbia Concerts Corporation controlled two-thirds of the nation's musical artists and conductors. Impending government investigations into the concert management monopoly caused William S. Paley to resign as chairman of the board and sell his interests to Judson in 1941. CBS and NBC also sold their agencies to their directors to avoid monopoly investigations. Judson renamed the company Columbia Artists Management. NBC became the National Concert Artists Corporation.
There were some musicians Judson did not represent. One was the conductor Artur Rodziński. Judson attempted to stop Rodzinski from taking over the Cleveland Orchestra in 1933 (an attempt that failed). Judson succeeded in stopping Rodzinski from taking over the New York Philharmonic in 1936. In 1947, Rodzinski who had finally become the conductor of the New York Philharmonic with Judson's short-term assistance battled with Judson over hiring and programming. Addressing the board, he called Judson (who was present) "a dictator who made musical progress impossible". Rodzinski requested that the orchestra board then choose between himself and Judson The board sided with Judson. Rodzinski also lost his next job as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra over programming disputes, purportedly due to the influence of Judson.
Two other conductors who believed Judson damaged their careers were Eugene Aynsley Goossens and Otto Klemperer. Goossens decided, after twelve years, he no longer needed to pay Judson a commission. Judson forced him to pay in an out-of-court settlement, and then dumped him. Klemperer, engaged by Judson for the first fourteen weeks of the New York Philharmonic's 1935-1936 season made the "mistake" of programming Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 over Judson's objections. Judson thereafter abandoned Klemperer.
Strained relations with a major conductor and the impropriety and conflict of interest in managing artists and orchestras which then hired the same artists caused Judson to resign his orchestra management positions. He announced his resignation as Philadelphia's manager on October 8, 1934 (which became effective May 31, 1935). The cause was increasingly strained relations with its conductor Leopold Stokowski. Although the two collaborated in later years, Stokowski said at the time "Mr. Judson is not my manager". New York Times's music critic Howard Taubman's article "The New York Philharmonic—What's Wrong and Why?" appeared on April 29, 1956. Taubman alleged over-hiring of Columbia artists at the New York Philharmonic and may have encouraged the seventy-five-year-old Judson to resign from that post.
One singer Arthur Judson did not represent (but probably should have) was Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S. Truman. In 1948, Margaret's agent, James A. Davidson, listened to her complaints about getting few bookings. She learned from Davidson that concerts in the U.S. were largely controlled by Columbia and the National Concert Artists Corporation. Margaret told her father what she had heard, and the president requested the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigate. In October 1955, the United States Department of Justice filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Columbia along with three other defendants were charged with restraint of interstate trade and commerce in the booking of artists, and also with monopolizing organized audience associations. The agencies pleaded no contest and were forced to release their monopoly position. By this time, Arthur Judson had been replaced at Columbia by Ward French.
Amongst the artists Judson presented and represented: Ruth St. Denis, Marian Anderson, John Barbirolli, Robert Casadesus, Van Cliburn, Clifford Curzon, Todd Duncan, Nelson Eddy, Benjamino Gigli, Mischa Elman, Zino Francescatti, Gary Graffman, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Jose Iturbi, Lorin Maazel, Yehudi Menuhin, Eugene Ormandy, Lily Pons, Fritz Reiner, Rudolf Serkin, the American Opera Company,and Helen Traubel.
Awards included being elected an officer in the French Academy, 1920; an honorary Doctorate in Music from Denison University, 1931, and the Order of the Academie des Beaux Arts, 1941.
References.
There is one published biography for Arthur Judson:
Apart from that, Norman Lebrecht's book offers by far the most details on the man.
There is no collection of Arthur Judson papers.


Alan Hirschfield

Alan James Hirschfield (October 10, 1935 – January 15, 2015) was an American film studio executive and philanthropist. Hirschfield served as the CEO of Columbia Pictures from 1973 to 1978 and the chairman of 20th Century Fox from 1982 until 1986. Outside of the film industry, Hirschfield helped Clive Davis establish Arista Records in the 1970s.
Early life and education.
Hirschfield was born to a Jewish family in New York City on October 10, 1935, to Norman and Betty Hirschfield. The family moved to Oklahoma City when he was three-years old, where his father worked for Allen & Company's natural gas operations. Hirschfield received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma and a master's degree from Harvard Business School.
Career.
After school, Hirschfield went to work for Allen & Company (he was a close friend with its founder Charles Allen Jr.) and after Allen & Company took a financial stake in the film studio Warner Bros., Hirschfield was appointed financial vice president.
In 1973, again after Allen & Co took a financial stake in Columbia Pictures, Hirschfield was appointed CEO serving in that position from 1973 to 1978. In 1978, Hirschfield was forced out of Columbia Pictures for his refusal to reinstate David Begelman, a studio executive who had embezzled $61,000 from Columbia, citing moral grounds. In 1981, Hirschfield was hired by Marvin Davis to be the chairman of 20th Century Fox; he resigned in 1984 and was replaced by Barry Diller. From 1990 to 1992, Alan Hirschfield served as a co-CEO and investment banker for the former Financial News Network. He was also the co-CEO of the Data Broadcasting Corp from 1992 to 2000.
The Begelman embezzlement and its aftermath were the subject of the best-selling 1982 non-fiction book "Indecent Exposure" by David McClintick.
In 1992, he opposed his friend, attorney Gerry Spence's decision to defend Randy Weaver on charges following the Ruby Ridge siege.
Personal life and death.
In 1962, Hirschfield married Berte Schindelheim; they had three children: Scott Hirschfield; Marc Hirschfield; and Laura Hirschfield. Hirschfield died from natural causes at his home in Wilson, Wyoming, on January 15, 2015, at the age of 79.


Thom Mount

Thomas Henderson Mount (born 26 May 1948) is a former President of Universal Pictures.
Born in Durham, North Carolina, he studied art at Bard College where he received a BA. He received an MFA in Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts.
After leaving Universal in late 1984, Mount founded his own company, which produced acclaimed films like
"Bull Durham",
"Tequila Sunrise",
"Frantic",
"Natural Born Killers",
"Can't Buy Me Love",
"The Indian Runner",
"Night Falls on Manhattan", and
"Death and the Maiden",
which he first produced on stage in London's West End and on Broadway.
Mount is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Film School, two-term president of the Producers Guild of America, and has been a consultant for RKO Pictures. He started a new venture in 2012, Day for Night Productions, which focuses on developing and producing "youth" genre films of high quality.
Frequently rumored to be the model for Robert Altman's "The Player", Mount said "Not me. I've never murdered a screenwriter".
Filmography.
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.


Charles Henry Pace

Charles Henry Pace (August 4, 1886, Atlanta, GADecember 16, 1963, Pittsburgh, PA) was an American composer, publisher, and choral director of Christian music.
At the age of 13, he relocated with his family to Chicago. There, he continued to study piano, and composed gospel songs and arranged spirituals for Beth Eden Baptist Church and for Liberty Baptist Church. In 1925, he founded Pace Jubilee Singers, a gospel group which recorded songs written by himself, Charles Albert Tindley, and others for Victor and for Brunswick Records 19261929. Thomas A. Dorsey briefly accompanied the group.
In 1936, Pace moved to Pittsburgh, where he founded the Pace Gospel Choral Union: an ensemble of 25 singers, enlarged to around 300 on special occasions, which performed gospel songs and spirituals. African-American churches in Pittsburgh and its suburbs would raise funds by having the ensemble perform for them. He also founded two music publishing houses in Pittsburgh: Old Ship of Zion Music Company (1936-51) and Charles H. Pace Music Publishers (195263), through which he published most of his 104 sacred compositions and arrangements and his 26 secular songs. Between 194145, Old Ship of Zion Music Company had 301 agents committed to selling its songs, and 2,511 direct mail order customers in the U.S.; making it one of the best-known publishers of gospel music in America.
His gospel songs "are in the style of Tindley’s songs, with a verse-chorus structure, memorable melodies, and simple, effective harmonies". In a 1980 doctoral thesis for the University of Pittsburgh, Mary Tyler divided his 104 gospel songs into five categories: (1) personal testimonies, (2) questioning belief and introspection, (3) scriptural messages, (4) dialogue with God, and (5) personal counsel to listeners.
His archives are preserved at the University of Pittsburgh.
Some sources confuse or conflate him with Harry Pace (Harry Herbert Pace, 18841943), American music publisher and insurance executive, founder of Black Swan Records.


Charles Rogers (director)

Charles Rogers (born July 5, 1987) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his movie "Fort Tilden" and the TV series "Search Party".
Career.
"Search Party".
Charles Rogers created the 2016 comedy/mystery TBS television series "Search Party", along with Michael Showalter and Sarah-Violet Bliss, which stars Alia Shawkat as Dory, John Early as Elliott, John Reynolds as Drew, Meredith Hagner as Portia, and Brandon Micheal Hall as Julian. The first season focuses on the disappearance of Dory's college acquaintance Chantal Witherbottom (Clare McNulty), whom she sets out to find, with Drew, Elliott, and Portia reluctantly joining her investigation. While her friends also deal with difficulties in their own lives, Dory focuses on her pursuit of Chantal, believing her to be in danger. The second season focuses on the death of Keith Powell (Ron Livingston), a private investigator who is killed as a result of Dory mistakenly believing him to be a threat to Chantal. As the group struggles to return to their normal lives, they also attempt to cover up Keith's death, which affects them in various ways.
"Search Party" received critical acclaim; the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that it was "tightly made and effective on multiple levels", "GQ" wrote that it is "a flawless oddity, a once-in-a-lifetime piece of art. It's not the weekend's best show, it's the year's best." and the series holds a 100% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. On Metacritic, the season holds a rating of 81 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". The second season of "Search Party" premiered on TBS on November 19, 2017 and received positive reviews from television critics. It holds a 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was called a "biting satire made for the Trump era" by "Vanity Fair". More recently, both Bliss and Rogers signed an overall deal with HBO Max.
"Fort Tilden".
His 2014 film "Fort Tilden", written and directed in collaboration with Sarah-Violet Bliss, starring Bridey Elliott and Clare McNulty premiered at SXSW, where it won the Grand Jury Award and was subsequently acquired by revived Orion Pictures. The film, which centers on two inept best friends on a disastrous journey to the beach, was released on August 14, 2015 theatrically and through video on demand. The film received generally positive reviews from major critics. Andy Webster of The New York Times said that "rarely has a movie so humorously illustrated the meaning of 'frenemy'", David Edelstein of New York Magazine called Fort Tilden "a brisk comedy packed with sharply drawn characters", and Katie Walsh of the Los Angeles Times said that the film "has an easy, funky groove and captures the sweaty perfection of a New York City summer, where things always look better on Instagram".
Film.
Charles Rogers is a graduate of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts MFA film directing program.
He, along with Jordan Firstman, co-wrote and co-starred in the short film "Men Don't Whisper", which was an official selection at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as well as the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival. The film follows a gay couple with masculinity issues who attempt to sleep with women. It is produced by JASH and also stars "Fort Tilden" and "Search Party" actors Bridey Elliott and Clare McNulty, as well as a guest appearance by SNL alum Cheri Oteri.
Rogers is also one of the filmmakers behind the multi-director feature film "Black Dog, Red Dog", produced by James Franco and Rabbit Bandini Productions, starring Logan Marshall-Green, Chloe Sevigny, and Whoopi Goldberg, which premiered at the 2015 International Film Festival of Guanajuato. The film was a class project at the NYU Graduate Film program, taught by James Franco, wherein ten student filmmakers adapted the poetry of Stephen Dobyns.
Television.
In addition to his work on "Search Party", Rogers has worked as a writer on the first and second seasons of the Netflix series "" as well as for the second season of the Amazon series "Mozart in the Jungle" which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.
Rogers has appeared twice as a guest on "The George Lucas Talk Show," first during the "May the AR Be LI$$ You" Arli$$ marathon fundraiser, and later on "The George Lucas Holiday Special."
Other Work.
Rogers, along with comedian and multi-media artist, Casey Jane Ellison, co-hosted the Earwolf produced limited series podcast, The Problem with Charles and Casey, which premiered on March 31, 2019. The podcast featured in-depth interviews with guests, Louie Anderson, Jessica Williams, Starlee Kine, Tierney Finster, Jordan Firstman, Michelle Badillo, and Chelsea Peretti, about a problem they are facing in their lives.
Recognition.
Rogers was named one of the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Hollywood and Entertainment section, and was listed in Out Magazine's OUT100 as one of the 100 most compelling LGBT people in 2017. In 2017, The Hollywood Reporter named Rogers and Bliss "Hollywood Power Showrunners: Ones To Watch" in their annual list of the top 50 television showrunners and in 2016, the creative duo were named Variety's 10 Writers to Watch.


Marilyn Agrelo

Marilyn Agrelo is an American film director and producer.
She directed and co-produced the 2005 documentary film "Mad Hot Ballroom". The documentary won several awards, including the Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film in 2005 and the Christopher Award in 2006.
Her documentary "" premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.


Armand Blackmar

Armand Edward Blackmar, was born in Vermont in 1826, to parents Reuben Harmon and Amanda (Cushman) Blackmar. Armand, with his brother, Henry, was the founder of Blackmar Brothers, a music publishing company. Begun in 1860, this publishing company was originally based out of New Orleans, Louisiana, and later Augusta, Georgia. This would become the most successful publisher of music of the Confederacy during American Civil War, issuing about half the songs released during that era. A.E. was best known for the patriotic songs he wrote.
Armand and Henry were music teachers before entering the publishing business.
During the contentious Civil War years, Armand Edward also worked as a lawyer in New Orleans.
When Northern troops took over the city of New Orleans, Henry Blackmar moved the business to Augusta, while Armand — due to his Northern accent — managed to continue working out of New Orleans for a time, but a Union raid on his business forced him to cease working. He continued to live in Louisiana and published songs of his own, under a pseudonym, through his brother.
Blackmar's published work included, among others: "The Bonnie Blue Flag"; "Dixie War Song" (arranged and published); "(State Song) Maryland! My Maryland!"; "Southern Marseillaise"; and "The Beauregard Manassas".
Henry Blackmar continued to operate the Blackmar publishing house out of Augusta, Georgia, extending their distribution chain throughout the South. Following the Civil War, Armand continued to publish music and sell it in several sites in the United States. He returned to New Orleans and re-opened a music store there. His brother Henry operated a music store of his own that was also located in New Orleans.
In 1881 and 1882, A.E. Blackmar created Blackmar's Gambit, a chess opening, and published his work in the July 1882 issue of "Brentano’s Chess".
Armand died on 28 October 1888, several years after returning to New Orleans.
Armand Edward Blackmar was married to Margaret Bridget Meara of New Orleans, Louisiana.


Lou Arkoff

Louis S. Arkoff is an American film producer. He is the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff.
He studied cinema at USC and law at Loyola University. In 1973 he joined AIP as a legal administrator. He worked his way up to be an executive and vice president of the company.
Among his credits are several made for cable movies which were remakes of his father's films in the early 1990s.


Jennifer Lee (filmmaker)

Jennifer Michelle Lee (née Rebecchi; October 22, 1971) is an American screenwriter, film director, and chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. She is best known as the writer and director of "Frozen" and its sequel "Frozen II", the former of which earned her an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Lee is the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and the first female director of a feature film that earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue. She has won one Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Annie Award, and has been nominated for one BAFTA Award and two Annie Awards.
Early life.
Lee was born in October 22, 1971 to Linda Lee and Saverio Rebecchi, who were living in Barrington, Rhode Island at the time; after their divorce, Lee and her older sister, Amy who is an English teacher, lived with their mother in East Providence, Rhode Island. Both Lee and her older sister graduated from East Providence High School and the University of New Hampshire. Lee earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1992 and went to New York City, where she worked as a graphic artist in publishing; she designed audiobooks for Random House. As an adult, she began using her mother's maiden name, Lee, in a professional capacity and in January 1995, legally changed her last name from Rebecchi to Lee.
Career.
Lee graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts' Film Program with an MFA in film in 2005. While at Columbia, she won several awards for excellence in screenwriting and gave birth to her daughter, Agatha Lee Monn.
Her script for "The Round Up" was a quarter-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition in 2009 and was subsequently optioned by Appian Way Productions.
In March 2011, Phil Johnston, a former classmate at Columbia, called Lee to ask her to join him at Disney Animation in Burbank to help him write "Wreck-It Ralph". What was supposed to be a temporary eight-week writing gig eventually turned into a much longer commitment. First, she was asked to stay on until "Ralph" was finished. She then became involved with "Frozen", initially as screenwriter and later as co-director with Chris Buck. When Lee was brought on board, she helped transition the film from an action-adventure to "more musical, with more comedy." She worked closely with the songwriters (Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez) in the writing of the script. "Frozen" gave her the opportunity to celebrate "wild and wonderful" girls like her childhood self, and her daughter, Agatha. It was also the highest-earning film with a female director in terms of domestic earnings, until surpassed by Warner Bros.' "Wonder Woman".
On May 17, 2014, Lee delivered the commencement address to the class of 2014 at her alma mater, the University of New Hampshire. She revealed that she had struggled with self-doubt while growing up, and then in April of her junior year of college, her boyfriend was killed in a boating accident, after which she felt "no doubt, only grief ... and for a brief moment ... [knew] better than to waste a second doubting." Years later, that memory would help her overcome her initial doubt over whether she was good enough to apply to Columbia. At Columbia, Johnston recognized she was talented but insecure, and one day asked her to "promise ... that you'll leave it out of your work, just know that you're good enough and move on." She concluded: "If I learned one thing it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel and my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it ... Please know, from here on out, you are enough and dare I say, more than enough." UNH then awarded her the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
In September 2014, it was announced that Lee and Buck would co-direct a short film featuring the "Frozen" characters called "Frozen Fever". It was released in March 2015. Lee was one of several Disney writers and directors who received credit for "Creative Leadership" on the 2014 film "Big Hero 6" and the 2016 film "Moana", and received screen credit as one of the writers who developed the story for the 2016 film "Zootopia".
In August 2014, "Variety" reported that Lee's next project after "Frozen" would be an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 novel "A Wrinkle in Time". After the news broke, Lee tweeted: "Been in love with the book for over 30 years. Writing this script means the world to me." Catherine Hand, the executive producer of the 2003 television film version, and Jim Whitaker produced for Disney, and Ava DuVernay directed the film, based on Lee's script. "A Wrinkle in Time" was released in March 2018.
On March 12, 2015, Disney announced that Lee and Buck would co-direct a full length sequel to "Frozen".
In June 2018, Lee was named the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, following John Lasseter's departure from Disney. Lee is also set to write and produce a film titled "The Way Between", for Tooley Entertainment, with Kyra Sedgwick set to direct.
Personal life.
Lee married Robert Joseph Monn on May 30, 1999, at the Rhode Island Country Club (they later divorced). They have a daughter Agatha Lee Monn (born in 2003), who voices pre-teen Anna for the middle verse of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" in "Frozen". Lee and her daughter now live in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California.
In November 2019, Lee confirmed that she is in a relationship with actor Alfred Molina.


Leonard Chess

Lejzor Szmuel Czyż (March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969), best known as Leonard Chess, was a Polish-born American record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records. He was influential in the development of electric blues, Chicago blues, and rock and roll.
Early life.
Chess was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Motal, now in Belarus. He and his brother, Fiszel, sister, Malka, and mother arrived in New York in 1928 from Poland. They quickly went to Chicago to join their father, Joseph, who was already engaged in the liquor business, which was illegal at the height of Prohibition and controlled in Chicago by Al Capone. The family name was changed to Chess, with Lejzor becoming Leonard and Fiszel becoming Philip.
Chess Records.
Leonard and his brother Phil became involved in the black nightclub scene on the South Side of Chicago in 1938 running a series of jazz clubs, culminating in the Macomba Lounge. In 1947, Leonard became associated with Aristocrat Records, increasing his share in the company over time; eventually he and Phil would acquire complete control. The Chess brothers moved the company away from black pop and jazz and other genres into down home blues music with artists such as Muddy Waters. In 1950, the Chess brothers renamed the company Chess Records. "My Foolish Heart" (Gene Ammons), "Rollin' Stone" (Muddy Waters), and "That's All Right" (Jimmy Rogers) were among the first releases on the new label. Leonard Chess played bass drum on one of Muddy Waters' sessions in 1951, specifically on the tracks "She Moves Me" and "Still A Fool".
Chess contacted Sam Phillips (of Sun Records) to help find and record new artists from the South. Phillips supplied Chess with recordings by Howlin' Wolf, Rufus Thomas, and Doctor Ross among others. Of these, Howlin' Wolf in particular became very popular, and Chess Records had to vie for him with other companies which had also been supplied with Wolf recordings by Phillips. In time, other important artists signed with Chess Records, including Bo Diddley and Sonny Boy Williamson, while Willie Dixon and Robert Lockwood Jr. took on a significant role behind the scenes. In the 1950s, Chess Records' commercial success grew with artists such as Little Walter, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, and Chuck Berry, and in the '60s with Etta James, Fontella Bass, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Laura Lee, and Tommy Tucker, as well as with the subsidiary labels Checker, Argo, and Cadet. As the 1960s progressed, Chess's recording enterprise branched out into other genres including gospel, traditional jazz, spoken word, comedy, and more. In the early 1960s, Chess became involved in the broadcasting business as part owner of WVON-AM radio and later acquired WSDM-FM, both in Chicago.
Personal life and legacy.
In 1941, he married Revetta Sloan, who was also Jewish; they had three children: son Marshall, daughter Pam, and another son, Kevin. On October 16, 1969, a few months after selling his namesake label to General Recorded Tape, Leonard Chess died of a heart attack.
Music industry historian John Broven has written that "Leonard Chess was the dynamo behind Chess Records, the label that, along with Atlantic and Sun, has come to epitomize the independent record business. ... Leonard Chess set new standards for the industry in artist development, deal making, networking, and marketing and promotion…" He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, posthumously, in the non-performer category.
Film and TV adaptations.
Chess was the focus of 2008 movies "Cadillac Records" (portrayed by Adrien Brody) and "Who Do You Love?" (portrayed by Alessandro Nivola) which are also fictional accounts of the ascent (and descent) of the label itself and the personnel who were involved or recorded at Chess Records.
He is portrayed by Rob Morrow on CMT's drama series titled "Sun Records".


Howard T. Owens

Howard Thomas Owens is an American media executive who is founder and Co-CEO of Propagate Content.
Early life.
Before launching his media career, Owens was an attorney in private practice in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he also served as a staff clerk for the Office of the State's Attorney. Owens is a graduate of Southern Methodist University (BA) and received his Juris Doctorate from the Quinnipiac University School of Law.
Career.
William Morris Agency.
Prior to Reveille, Owens was an agent in the corporate consulting and television packaging divisions at the William Morris Agency, representing television producers as well as top brands including Maxim Magazine, InStyle Magazine, eBay and Miramax Films. Before working at William Morris, he co-founded and served as a managing partner for Outdoor Concepts, a privately held outdoor media company that was purchased by Titan Media/New York.
Reveille.
In 2002, Howard T. Owens served as Managing Director, Co-Head of Domestic Television and Head of Digital for Reveille LLC, which he co-founded with Ben Silverman. Owens was responsible for creating and developing a wide range of innovative programming and content for television and across various online platforms.
While at Reveille, Owens was the co-creator and executive producer of "Nashville Star", which aired for five seasons on USA Network and debuted on NBC in the summer of 2008. Owens also executive produced "American Gladiators", the hit show from NBC that premiered in January 2008, and was a co-executive producer of NBC's "The Biggest Loser", "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad", MasterChef, and "One Born Every Minute", as well as "Eyes on Target" on the History Channel.
Owens is also the co-creator and co-executive producer of NBC's "The Restaurant", Bravo's "Blow-Out", and MTV's "Date My Mom" and "Parental Control". He executive produced the first two seasons of F/X's "30 Days", as well as ESPN's "Bound for Glory", an eight-episode docu-series that Reveille produced in partnership with Full Circle Entertainment and was fully financed by Dodge, State Farm and Reebok. Owens also crafted Reveille's landmark deal with Microsoft, whereby Reveille created and produced online content for MSN. Additionally, in digital, he produced over 20 web series including "Who Knew?", "Fit to Boom", "Real-Life Makeover with Holly Robinson Peete", and "Appetite for Life with Andrew Zimmerman", among others.
Owens departed Reveille in the June 2011.
National Geographic Channels.
On 4 November 2011, Owens was named President of National Geographic Channels where he oversaw the programming, development, communications, research and business affairs units at the U.S. networks.
Propagate Content.
In March 2015, Owens founded Propagate Content, an independent TV production company, backed by A&E Networks. Owens was the founding CEO of the company. He and chief creative officer David McKillop, former A&E channel general manager, also are owners of the company. In May 2015, Propagate announced key hires and had a small slate of projects in development, Apple's first original unscripted television series, produced in partnership with musician and tech entrepreneur will.i.am and scripted series, "Isn't That Rich?" with ABC Studios, and "Red Team" for Amazon.
By April 2016, McKillop had exited the company, at which time Ben Silverman joined the company as co-chairman and co-CEO bring with him handful of projects from Electus. A&E Networks had also gave another round of funding to the company.
In early June 2016, the Oxygen Channel green lit Propagate's "Unprotected", a docu-comedy. In January 2017, Propagate started up its international distribution division head by president Cyrus Farrokh. The company signed in February 2017 to develop, pitch and produce in the U.S. market Caracol formats.
By January 2018, Propagate Content agreed to create content based on stars', Gwyneth Paltrow, and Grammy Award-winner Zac Brown, lifestyle brands. Also, its slate included 17 in production series and 40 development projects at over 21 channels and streaming services.
Propagate Content in January 2018 received additional investment from The Raine Group, global merchant bank, to speed up growth and for targeted acquisitions and new ventures. In April 2018, Propagate invested in Incognita, former Europacorp Deputy CEO Edouard de Vesinne's production company, to be their European production arm. The company was also in process of setting a podcast studio to develop properties due to their success in adapting Lore podcast to TV and "Sword and Scale" podcast series. Propagate purchased Electus including its majority share in Artists First, from IAC in October 2018 using Raine's funds.
Awards.
As part of the "30 Days" production team, Owens received two 2007 Insight Awards of Excellence from the National Association of Film and Digital Media Artists for his work on the "Atheist/Christian" episode and for outsourcing other episodes. In addition, Owens received a GLAAD Award for the episode "Straight/Gay" and has been honored by the Muslim Public Affairs Council with its 2005 Voice of Courage and Conscience Media Award for the episode "Muslims and America". He was also nominated for a PGA award for his work on "30 Days."


Sir Philip Booth, 2nd Baronet

Sir Philip Booth, 2nd Baronet (8 February 1907 – 5 January 1960) was a British television director and producer who emigrated to California.
Biography.
Early life.
He was born on 8 February 1907, the son of Sir Alfred Allen Booth, 1st Baronet, by his wife, Mary Blake Dwight. He attended Malvern College before going up to King's College, Cambridge where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He pursued postgraduate studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, before serving as a Captain in the British Army during World War II. Upon his father's death in 1948, he succeeded to his baronetcy.
Career.
Booth worked in television as a director and producer. He served as Senior Director and Program Director of KTLA, a television station in Los Angeles, California, and also directed animated film series for television.
Personal life.
On 22 August 1935 Booth married Stella Fenton Wood Gerr, whom he divorced in 1946. He married secondly, on 20 November 1948, Ethel Greenfield, (March 21, 1914 - February 9, 2018) by whom he had two sons, Sir Douglas Allen Booth, 3rd Baronet (born 2 December 1949) and Derek Blake Booth, PhD (born 7 April 1953). Sir Philip died on 5 January 1960, being survived by his 2nd wife.


Bruce Faulconer

Bruce Faulconer is an American musician, composer and record producer. He writes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, and various instrumental, and choral music groups. Faulconer recently composed, performed, and recorded the music for the feature film, Bystander Theory in 2013. He worked on the feature film score for "War and Honor". Faulconer also writes music for feature films and television series including the anime "Dragon Ball Z", that has aired on Cartoon Network, it received ratings as the Nielsen Number One Rated show in Children's Programming for Cable TV (awarded 3 times, awarded from 2001-2003), see Nielsen Company. Faulconer's Dragon Ball Z music aired on the Cartoon Network version of the series from 1999 to 2008. He is the owner and founder of Faulconer Productions, and CakeMix Recording studio.
Education.
Bruce Faulconer received advanced musical training in composition at the University of Texas with composers Hunter Johnson, Karl Korte, Joseph Schwantner, and Eugene Kurtz. While studying at the University of Texas at Austin, he was awarded a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree in Composition. He has also received two Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Ohio State University as a composer in residence.
Career.
Faulconer records much of his music at CakeMix Recording, including 243 episodes of series "Dragon Ball Z" on Cartoon Network, 3 seasons of "Your New House" on the Discovery Channel, "Your House and Home", "To Life" on iLife, "Reality of Speed" on Spike and Speed Channel, "Bass Champs" on HDNet and the Outdoor Channel, and sound design for 2 seasons of the infamous "Cheaters" in syndicated television, and sound design and surround sound mix for "", the motion picture, and audio post for HD shows including "Higher Definition", "PASSPORT LOVE", and "Higher Definition Take 2". In 2013, Faulconer composed the music for the feature film, Bystander Theory.
His television music for Dragon Ball Z, commissioned by FUNimation, began with season 3, episode 67/68 in 1999 and continued through the end of the series in 2003 with episode 291. Faulconer created a 9 album soundtracks series with almost 9 hours of the Faulconer Productions "Dragon Ball Z" television musical score, which was recorded and mastered at CakeMix Recording. Despite the fact that Faulconer takes credit for all of this soundtrack, he has composed only around 10% of the music. The majority of the Faulconer Productions music was made by Scott Morgan, Mike Smith and 12 tracks were worked on by Julius Dobos.
Awards.
Faulconer's music has been acknowledged by numerous national and international performances and first prizes from competitions sponsored by organizations including the Elkhart Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, the World Saxophone Congress (second prize), as well as recognition from the International Gaudeamus Music Week, the Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo, and the Texas Manuscript Archives.
Commissions.
Faulconer has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, Midwestern Composers Alliance, McLean-Paris Foundation, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, violist David Lowe, Bethany College, Texas Composers Forum, Texas Sesquicentennial Commission, North Texas City Faire Arts Project, the MacDowell Colony, and BMI. Faulconer has also received commissions from the Voices of Change, Bethany College, Marygrove College, and the University of Texas Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
Other commissioned works composed by Faulconer include film scores ("Scenes in the Dark", "Lebensborn", ""), PBS National Television documentaries ("Tornado Alert", "Fiesta in the Sky", "Fire! What You Need to Know", "Locked Out of the American Dream", "The Writing Coach"), and commercial music production for television and radio. One of his many commissions, "Washington-on-the-Brazos, a Symphonic Poem", received a premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The San Antonio Symphony also performed "Washington-on-the-Brazos" on tour in Texas and performed it for the National League of Cities Mayoral National Conference. Faulconer also has guest conducted the Mesquite Symphony in performances of "Washington-on-the-Brazos". The music for the feature film "Scenes in the Dark", a musical play within a movie, was scored and music-produced by Faulconer and won a prestigious Gold Award in the Houston International Film Festival.


Andy Albeck

Andreas "Andy" Albeck (September 25, 1921 – September 29, 2010) was an American movie executive, who was president and chief executive of United Artists, during a time when it released two films by Woody Allen, along with two films in both the James Bond and Rocky film series. He also oversaw production of Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull", a movie frequently mentioned as one of the films considered the greatest ever, as well as "Heaven's Gate", the box office bomb that led to the studio's demise as an independent studio.
Biography.
Albeck was born on September 25, 1921, in Vladivostok, Russia. His father was a Danish executive with a shipping firm, while his mother was a Russian escaping the Bolshevik Revolution. His family was taken aboard an American naval vessel to Yokohama, Japan, where Albeck was raised and educated at St. Joseph College. His first connection to the film industry was in 1939, when he became a sales representative for Columbia Pictures in what was then the Dutch East Indies, present day Indonesia. He came to United Artists when the company made the 1951 acquisition of Eagle-Lion Films, the British film company he had been working for.
His first marriage, to Nelly Stal, produced two children, Johannes and Nina. The marriage ended in divorce. In 1958 Albeck remarried Lotte Jamel, whom he had met in 1952 when she had been brought to the United States by her cousin Mickey Marcus, a colonel in the United States Army and Israel's first general. Albeck later had Marcus' experience during World War II and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War made into the 1966 United Artists film "Cast a Giant Shadow", starring Kirk Douglas.
Albeck worked his way up through the sales department at United Artists, earning promotions to become president of its broadcasting division and senior vice president of operations. In 1978, Transamerica Corporation chose him to head the studio after its former chairman Arthur B. Krim left with a group of executives to form Orion Pictures, picking Albeck for his ability to control costs and his positive relationship with wary Transamerica executives. Author Steven Bach, who served as head of production at United Artists under Albeck, wrote, "Andy Albeck was not show business; that much was clear," in his book "Final Cut".
During his tenure at United Artists, the studio produced "The French Lieutenant's Woman" starring Meryl Streep, "Manhattan" and "Stardust Memories" by director Woody Allen and the James Bond films "Moonraker" and "For Your Eyes Only". Albeck also oversaw two films in the "Rocky" series, both of which were box office successes. "Raging Bull", with Robert De Niro playing the role of Jake LaMotta, was a critical success that went on to be ranked on the American Film Institute's top 100 films of all time. Albeck's undoing was the film "Heaven's Gate", which went several times over its original budget and earned little in box office revenue in the wake of overwhelmingly negative reviews, such as by Vincent Canby of "The New York Times", who called the film "an unqualified disaster" when it was released in November 1980. In the following weeks Albeck was named chairman of United Artists and removed from his post as president, resigning from the firm in February 1981 in the wake of media reports that he had been forced to retire. In the wake of losses amounting to $44 million, making it what was then the biggest money losing film in history, the studio was purchased in May 1981 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from Transamerica to form MGM/UA in a deal valued at $380 million.
In his retirement, he operated the award-winning Albeck Family Christmas Tree farm in Lafayette Township, New Jersey, growing blue spruce trees on a farm. A resident of Manhattan, Albeck died there at the age of 89 on September 29, 2010, at NYU Langone Medical Center due to heart failure. He was survived by his second wife, Lotte, as well as by his son and daughter from his first marriage, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.


Daniel Dart

Daniel Dart is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, photographer, and human rights advocate who made his name as the founder and frontman for punk band Time Again. He has composed original music for such feature films as "Get Him To The Greek", "Stepbrothers", "The Haunting in Connecticut" as well as the TV show "Dr. Phil". In early 2015, he founded the company that would evolve into DEC Projects, focused on working in the world's most difficult places. It is continuously rumored he is working on a new record with his band Time Again as revealed in a German magazine in July 2015. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Early life.
Dart's early life and his troubles growing up and dealing with drug addiction and family problems have been well documented.
He often cites his own personal experiences as influences in his lyrics and the direction of the music he writes and creates. He also cites his difficulties growing up as the reason for his heavy activity in volunteer and non-profit work. He talks easily with people about his past and the difficulties he has had to face and overcome.
Time Again.
In 2004, Dart was discovered by Rancid frontman and guitar player Tim Armstrong and two years later signed to Armstrong's label Hellcat Records. On Time Again's first record, "The Stories Are True", Armstrong joined Dart on the song as they both sing about facing the troubles of the world and how the stories of both are true. Dart announced plans for a new Time Again record titled "May The Bridges We've Burned Light The Way" hinting at a release in early 2016.
Producing / Composing / The Riot Bros.
From 2008 to 2011, Dart owned a recording studio in Hollywood with long-time friend and partner Donal Finn called Riot Riot Studios. The two worked out of this studio under the pseudonym, The Riot Bros. During this time they also recorded two records under the name Swapmeet Shakedown/The Riot Bros, of which songs have been used in TV shows "Shameless" on Shotime, "Blacklist" and NBC's "Under The Dome". The two composed original music for television and film advertising as well, working on projects such as "Jennifer's Body", "All About Steve", "The Haunting in Connecticut", "The International", and "New In Town" among others.
Dart also produced and worked on many other various projects during this time. Ranging from MC Lars and Mighty Mighty Bosstone's to projects with Ne-Yo and original music for commercial enterprises such as The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.
DEC Artists.
In early 2015, Dart started his own Talent Management company DEC Artists ("Dart Entertainment and Creative Artists") with his first client being his former songwriting and producing partner Donal Finn. He made a sizable leap by signing his first major client, the #1 BillBoard charting band The Crash Kings shortly after. DEC Artists roster at one time included actor/ musician Devon Werkheiser, Jurassic 5's Soup (Jurassic 5), Grammy award-winning artist Salvador Santana, songwriter/composer Antonio Beliveau, Los Angeles street artist Teacher, Time Again and actor/ musician Brad Carter among others. He also worked with Brian Bell of Weezer and British icon Seal. In 2017, as Dart began focusing more on social impact work, he changed the name of the company to DEC Projects and moved away from management.
Legal trouble.
In late 2011, Dart was arrested on multiple charges including Kidnapping, Carjacking, Dissuading a Witness, Assault and Extortion among others. He was originally sentenced to 6 years although he denied any wrongdoing vehemently. In 2013 he won an appeal and was released shortly thereafter in 2014. He originally did not speak publicly about this after being released, but in June 2015 while announcing the revival of Time Again he finally spoke out in Czech Republic magazine "Kids and Heroes" about how winning his appeal and getting released was one of the most victorious days of his life.
He has since become a leading voice in the criminal justice reform movement. In January 2016, Dart was invited to speak in Washington, D.C. at the AFL-CIO Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights conference about his experience and how he is working to help others in similar situations.
DEC Projects.
What began in 2015 as DEC Artists officially evolved in 2017 to DEC Projects, an impact-focused strategy and development firm whose tagline is - Creating Global Campaigns & Content That Raise Awareness + Change Culture.
DoMore104 with Duplass Brothers and Wounded Warrior Project.
In July 2017, Dart teamed up with Mark Duplass and Wounded Warrior Project to create a campaign called DoMore104. The campaign launched and ran during the lead up to Duplass Brothers HBO series Room 104, as a way to both promote the new show, but also as a way to raise money and bring awareness to issues wounded veterans face.
May Day Action.
Dart co-created and produced a national call to action and event in partnership with CASA de Maryland, UFCW, and SEIU and the AFL-CIO in Washington DC on May 1st calling for comprehensive immigration reform. The event took place in Lafayette Square in front of the White House and featured DNC Chair Tom Perez and Rep. Luis Gutiérrez.
A Day Without Immigrants.
He created and appeared in a series of PSA - Call to action videos for Movimiento Cosecha calling for support of a national strike and economic boycott on May 1, 2017. The goal is to create solidarity and protection for immigrants from all origins.
This Is My Home.
In 2016, Dart created the #ThisIsMyHome campaign for immigrant rights with Salvador Santana for We Are Casa and CASA in Action (CASA de Maryland). The campaign focused around creating awareness across the United States with specific calls to action in the hopes of achieving comprehensive immigration reform.
CA Prop 57.
In 2016, Dart wrote and directed a public service announcement television ad endorsing California Proposition 57 (2016) for Californians for Governor Brown for public safety and rehabilitation for Governor Jerry Brown's ballot measure committee and the California Democratic Party.
Film and television.
Dart was the Executive Producer of "Leather Bound".


Lionel Job

Lionel G. Job (born January 23, 1942) is an American music producer, publisher, lyricist, and songwriter based in White Plains, New York. His music career dates back years. Job is widely known for writing and producing for Keith Sweat, Joe Public, Starpoint, Walter Beasley, Sharon Bryant, Atlantic Starr, The Detroit Spinners, and Third World.
Selected career highlights.
In 1977, Job worked in the professional department as creative director of R&B for the Famous Music, the music publishing wing of Paramount Pictures since 1929, and by extension, the music publishing arm of its parent company, Gulf and Western. Simultaneously, Job was the founder, leader, manager, and producer of Southroad Connection, a disco-funk studio group. Before joining Famous music, Job had been a prolific promoter for Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp., a large music publisher. As a producer and writer, Job collaborated with Preston Glass (Starpoint),


Steve Munisteri

Stephen Peter Munisteri (born December 25, 1957) is an American attorney who served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2010 to 2015.
In 2017, Munisteri was appointed to the White House staff as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison.
Munisteri was elected chairman at the state convention held in Dallas on June 13, 2010, when he unseated Cathie Adams, the wife of a Dallas chiropractor, who had held the position for only eight months. He is the first challenger in modern Texas Republican history to defeat a sitting incumbent for the position of state chairman. Early in his political career, Munisteri served as state chairman of the Texas Chapter of Young Americans for Freedom and founded the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) in 1980.
Munisteri stepped down as party chairman to join U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky as a senior advisor to Paul's 2016 presidential campaign.
Background.
Munisteri received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the UT Law School, completing both degrees in five, instead of seven, years. With his law degree in hand, Munisteri returned to Houston and worked at the law offices of Funderburk and Funderburk (now Funderburk Funderburk Courtois, L.L.P.) for fourteen months before deciding to open his solo law practice, which he continued in partnership with others, for twenty-seven years. Munisteri founded the firm on November 1, 1982, the day before the defeat of Bill Clements as the first Republican governor of Texas since 1873. The firm is now known as Sprott, Rigby, Newson, Robbins & Lunceford, P.C.
In addition to his legal practice, Munisteri was also involved in numerous other businesses in his professional career. He founded Munisteri Properties, a company with interests in commercial properties and whose primary asset was a Greenway Plaza-area building built in 1961 by Gerald D. Hines, which Munisteri redeveloped in 1993. Munisteri sold the Greenway Plaza Area building in 2007. However he still owns an interest in two shopping centers and a commercial building, as well as residential property. He also founded Munisteri Exploration in 1989, and has participated as a partner in the drilling of 60 oil and natural gas wells through 2014. As a side business, Munisteri managed dozens of professional boxers from 1989 to 2009, when he fully retired from the business.
Early political involvement.
Munisteri was active in politics early in his teenage years, first working as a volunteer for the campaigns of Texas Republicans Hank Grover and John Tower in 1972, though the two were bitter intraparty rivals. Munisteri then formed a conservative club at Memorial High School in Houston. In 1976, he was elected State Vice Chairman for Texas Young Americans for Freedom, was an active volunteer for Ronald Reagan and attended the Republican National Convention. From 1977 to 1980, he served as State Chairman for YAF and was also elected to YAF's national board of directors. In 1977, Texas YAF was named the most improved state organization at its 1977 national convention. Under Munisteri's chairmanship, YAF began the practice of issuing legislative rankings for members of the Texas House of Representatives.
In 1980, after experiencing dissatisfaction with the top-down leadership of the national YAF organization at its February 1980 convention, Munisteri proposed a new Texas-based conservative organization to the Texas YAF board. The board voted unanimously to create a new organization named Young Conservatives of Texas. The organization was founded on Texas Independence Day, March 2, 1980 at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas. Munisteri served as the first state Chairman.
Munisteri served as State Chairman of Young Texans for Reagan in 1980 under Reagan Texas Chair Ernie Angelo. He continued his Republican Party (GOP) activism as a precinct chairman of precincts 213 and 133 in Harris County in the 1980s, and was also elected to the State Republican Executive Committee for Senate District 17. Munisteri has worked in over 50 campaigns in a volunteer capacity. In 1995, he worked for the Lamar Alexander presidential campaign and helped to put together the Texas volunteer organization under Alexander's state chair Robert Mosbacher Jr. He also traveled to New Hampshire, Iowa, Florida and South Carolina on behalf of the Alexander campaign in 1996. In 1999, Munisteri spent a month in Iowa to assist the George W. Bush presidential campaign in the Iowa straw poll, and then spent a month in California running a Bush campaign office in San Fernando. In 2004, Munisteri was part of the Bush legal response team in Ohio during that year's presidential race. In 2008, he traveled to Iowa to assist Texas Land Commissioner Jerry E. Patterson in supporting Fred Thompson for President. That same year, Munisteri went on to South Carolina to volunteer on behalf of Thompson, and then later spent two months in Iowa assisting John McCain Iowa director Charlie Liebschutz.
Texas GOP chairman.
2009-2011.
In September 2009, Texas GOP State Chairman Tina Benkiser announced her resignation at the quarterly State Republican Executive Committee meeting in Austin. Under Texas law, each major party must at all times have a woman as either its chairman or vice-chairman. Since Vice-Chairman Robin Armstrong did not relinquish his position to seek to succeed Benkiser as State Chairman, only a woman could be elected to fill the position. On October 24, 2009, the SREC elected Texas GOP National Committeewoman Cathie Adams as Benkiser's successor by a vote of 36-25.
On January 22, 2010, Munisteri announced his candidacy for State Chairman citing a desire to make the RPT a "more effective organization" by utilizing his "strong business administrative skills". He was the second declared challenger in the race, as former SREC member Tom Mechler of Amarillo, had announced his candidacy the previous summer. Munisteri’s election marked the first time in modern history that a challenger defeated a sitting incumbent at the state convention. When Munisteri stepped down early in 2015, Mechler was elected his successor on the third secret ballot by the 62-member Republican State Executive Committee.
On the second day of the convention, delegates voted by senatorial district for the position of State Chairman. Munisteri won 13 districts, Adams won 12 districts, and Mechler won 6 districts. Since no candidate received a majority of districts, a vote was held in the nominations committee of the convention, and Munisteri won the second ballot by a count of 22-9. After the nominations committee presented their results to the full convention, Adams then proceeded to force an unprecedented floor vote for the position, at which point Tom Mechler officially endorsed Munisteri's candidacy. Munisteri then addressed the full convention and declared that his differences with Adams are "insignificant to the duty we have to our country." He placed the reelection of Perry as top priority and then the regaining of Republican majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He added, "there's no question we have to get rid of that man in the White House," a reference to U.S. President Barack Obama. In the ensuing floor vote, Munisteri prevailed with a margin of 4,170 to 2,950 for Adams.
Munisteri has issued a monthly "Chairman's Update" email to Texas Republicans with information regarding his activities as chairman. In December 2010, Munisteri announced that the RPT had fully retired its crippling debt and would end 2010 with zero debt, all bills paid, a record net worth, and a record positive cash balance in its accounts.
Under Munisteri's chairmanship in the 2010 General Election, the Republican Party of Texas had a net gain of 324 Republican elected offices, obtained a super majority in the Texas House of Representatives, and won all statewide races on the ballot. In December 2011, Munisteri announced that for the first time in a decade, the state party had successfully recruited Republican county chairmen for the 2012 election cycle in all 254 Texas counties. In 2012, Munisteri served as a Presidential Elector for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
2012-2013.
Munisteri was reelected as State Chairman in June 2012. Out of the over 9,000 delegates registered at the time of the 2012 convention vote only one voted against him. The party has continued to be debt free since December 2010 and has now adopted a policy to pay down all invoices to $0 by the end of each calendar month. The Party has also maintained cash reserves of at least $500,000 since November 2010. During the first three years of Munisteri’s Chairmanship the Party has brought in approximately $13.5 million including approximately $6.7 million in 2012 alone.
The party’s improved financial condition allowed the RPT to be a major player in the 2010 and 2012 elections. This included, among other things, organizing three weekends of statewide block walk operations. This resulted in the Republican Party candidates winning 500 more offices in 2010 compared to 2008. Moreover, 75 additional office holders switched parties in 2010 for a net gain of 575 between the 2008 and 2010 election cycles. In 2012, the state party exclusively ran the Victory operations for the first time in years, resulting in the party making 2.6 million calls and sending out over 3 million pieces of mail. The state party spent a total of $2.2 million on its election efforts in 2012. Today there are currently 853 more Republicans in elected office than at the end of the elections in 2008.
Since his election, Chairman Munisteri has added a full-time Youth Director, Outreach Director, and Political Director. The party has also initiated an aggressive outreach program to the Hispanic, African American, and Asian American communities which has resulted in a significant increase in the number of minority delegates to the state convention, a significant increase in the number of minority members of the SREC, and an increase in the number of minority Republican elected officials statewide. In 2012 the number of Hispanic Republican elected officials statewide increased from 58 to 78.In June 2013, Chairman Munisteri announced a partnership with the RNC to establish Victory Centers that will operate on a year-round basis and that the Party would be hiring significant number of new field staff for these offices, including staffers assigned specifically to outreach to the Hispanic, African American, and Asian American communities.
2014.
At the March 2014 meeting of the State Republican Executive Committee, Chairman Munisteri announced that he would seek re-election at the request of the successful Republican gubernatorial nominee Gregg Abbott. Munisteri also reported at that meeting the party had brought in approximately $17 million in revenues during his tenure as Chairman. He indicated that the Party was in excellent financial health and has been completely debt free since November 2010. He also indicated that cash reserves had never fallen below $500,000 during that time. Munisteri also reported at that meeting that the outreach and Victory efforts continued to be expanded to include 10 full-time engagement and field staffers, include a full-time Director of Youth Engagement, Director of African American Engagement, Director of Hispanic Engagement, and a full-time Director of Asian American Engagament.
The Chairman reported on the great success of the Victory efforts. Specifically, he noted that the new statewide Asian American, African America, and Hispanic engagement organizations had been very active and attending numerous events around the state signing up hundreds of new contacts. Most encouraging, he also reported the engagement efforts has yielded verifiable results in the form of a February 2014 Gallup study that concluded that the Texas Republican Party had obtained 6% more support from the Hispanic community than the Republican Parties in all other 49 states. Moreover, the study indicated that Democrat support among Hispanics in Texas declined 7% over last few years. The Chairman also reported that the RPT has opened permanent Victory centers in Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, El Paso, and The Valley. These centers have overseen numerous block walks utilizing thousands of volunteers knocking on tens of thousands of doors.
In 2014, Chairman Munisteri was also an active member of the RNC's Commission on Convention Planning which presented its final report to the RNC in Memphis during the second week of May. Munisteri was also a member of the Rules Committee for the RNC and was appointed to a subcommittee that dealt with the Presidential Primary Process. He was an active supporter of reforming the process which included wrestling control of the debate process away from the media and giving it to the RNC. Munisteri also supported efforts to ensure that other states do not jump in front of Texas's March 1 primary date so Texas can be a major player in the 2016 presidential primary process.
At the 2014 State Convention, Munisteri was re-elected as Chairman with only four votes against him out of approximately 7,000 delegates and alternates in attendance.
In November, Munisteri announced that the party had set a new record for the number of Republicans elected to office around the state. As of December 4, 2014 Republicans held 3,652 elected offices around the state. This represented an increase of 360. When Munisteri was elected to office, Republicans held 2,470 offices. Under his watch, the total increase in the number of republicans who hold office around the state is 1,262.
The RPT also announced in November that under Munisteri's chairmanship, the party had brought in approximately $22 million and had reached the milestone of being completely debt-free for four consecutive years.
At the final quarterly meeting of the SREC, Munisteri announced that he had secured funding to maintain permanent Victory centers and staff across the state. This was the first time in the history of the party that Victory operations did not cease at the conclusion of an election cycle.
2015-present.
In 2015, Munisteri announced he would be joining Senator Rand Paul's team of senior advisors. According to the Republican Party of Texas his resignation is effective March 7, 2015. In an official statement explaining his reasoning behind the decision Munisteri writes: Today I informed the SREC that I will be stepping down on March 7th. I have done so, in part, in order to accept the position of Senior Advisor to Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Senator Paul shares my vision of promoting the conservative values of individual freedom, limited government, a strong national defense, and defense of the Constitution in each and every community in our country.
Munisteri said he's supporting Paul, in part because of the Kentucky Republican's strategy to court nontraditional GOP voters, like African-Americans and young people.
On March 7, 2015, Munisteri presided over his last meeting of the SREC and provided a final report as to the condition of the party during his term. He also provided a more detailed report in writing to supporters of the party. He reported that he was turning over the chairmanship with $959,514 cash on hand plus $148,175 in pledges coming in. He reported that all liabilities were paid to $0. He also reported that during his tenure as Chairman, the RPT collected $22,839,611 including $7,798,117 in 2014 alone. He reported that as of the date he was stepping down there were 3,660 Republican officeholders across the state, totaling approximately 67% of all offices in Texas. This represented a 1,190 Republican officeholder increase as compared to the time he took over the Chairmanship. He also noted that in 2008 the party had only held 45% of the offices across the state.
He also provided a summary of the party's Victory and field operations. He reported that during his tenure, the RPT sent out 10,201,811 pieces of mail and made 8,622,336 phone calls. In 2014, RPT volunteers also knocked on over half a million doors. He noted that during his term, Republicans set the record for the most number of Republicans in the State House at 102, tied the record for most number of State Senators at 20, and set the record for the most Republican Congressmen at 25. The day before he resigned, the RPT also announced, for the second time, that the party had successfully filled all 254 county chair seats.
Munisteri was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Texas. Munisteri was one of 48 delegates from Texas bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention. As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016 and the Presidential election of 2016.
Beginning in 2017 Munisteri served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director for the Office of Public Liaison in Trump Administration. He left the Trump Administration in 2019 to help run the 2020 re-election campaign of Texas Senator John Cornyn.In December 2020 he joined the office of Texas Governor Abbott as Senior Adviser and Policy Director


Lew Chudd

Lewis Robert Chudd (July 11, 1911 – June 15, 1998) was an American record label and radio executive who founded Imperial Records in 1946. The record company was influential in the development of rock and roll, with a roster of musicians including Fats Domino, Slim Whitman, Chris Kenner, and Ricky Nelson.
Biography.
Chudd was born Louis Chudnofsky in Toronto, Canada, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He grew up in Harlem, New York, and after (in his own words) "skipp[ing] college and... loafing for four years" – although on other occasions he claimed to be a university graduate – joined NBC as an advertising salesman in 1934. He promoted swing bands and created the radio program "Let's Dance", featuring Benny Goodman, before moving to head the corporation's bureau in Los Angeles. During World War II he worked for the Office of War Information, where he produced radio programmes, and became a naturalized US citizen in 1943.
In 1945, he set up his first record label, Crown, to record jazz. He sold the label the following year, and established Imperial Records, which he initially saw as targeting the growing black and Hispanic record-buying markets in Southern California. He recorded a various jump blues musicians and Mexican artists, including Los Madrugadores and Lalo Guerrero. After diversifying into such genres as square dancing and Dixieland jazz, in 1947 he met the bandleader Dave Bartholomew, who became his A&R man and record producer in New Orleans. Bartholomew introduced Chudd to a young pianist, Fats Domino, and Chudd signed Domino to Imperial. The company's first national hits, Domino's "The Fat Man" and "3 x 7 = 21" by singer Jewel King, soon followed, in 1950. Bartholomew left Imperial after a disagreement with Chudd at the end of 1950, though they were later reconciled. Imperial had a series of hits in the early 1950s, many by Fats Domino, and others by the R&B musicians Roy Brown, Smiley Lewis, Chris Kenner, and Ernie Freeman; blues musicians Smokey Hogg, T-Bone Walker, and Lightnin' Hopkins; and country singer Slim Whitman. Chudd signed Ricky Nelson, the star of the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", to Imperial in 1957, and the singer had a succession of hits through the early 1960s. The label also had hits with records by Sandy Nelson and Frankie Ford.
A "shrewd and astute businessman", Chudd became known for his "caustic tongue and abrasive personality." He bought other record labels, including Aladdin and Minit, incorporating them into Imperial. In 1963 he sold the Imperial label to Liberty Records. The label was discontinued later in the 1960s and incorporated into United Artists.
After leaving the recording business, Chudd bought several radio stations. He continued to live in Los Angeles after he retired. He died there in 1998, aged 86.


Laura Checkoway

Laura Checkoway is an American journalist and filmmaker, best known for her documentary, "Edith+Eddie" for which she received Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject nomination at the 90th Academy Awards. She was a writer for numerous publications including "Rolling Stone".
Filmography.
2017: "Edith+Eddie" (Documentary short)
2014: "Lucky" (Documentary feature)


Stephen M. Badger

Stephen Mills Badger II (born September 18, 1968) is an American businessman and documentary producer.
Early life.
Stephen Mills Badger is a member of the Mars family, His mother is Mars heiress Jacqueline Mars. His father was David H. Badger. His maternal great-grandfather, Franklin Clarence Mars, was the founder of Mars, Incorporated.
Career.
Badger serves on the Board of Directors of Mars, Inc, his family business. In 2007, he spoke on behalf of Seeds of Change, a retailer of organic food acquired by Mars, Inc. In November 2014, he attended the third annual Global Action Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, where he accepted the Global Shared Value Award on behalf of the company.
Additionally, Badger serves on the Board of Directors of Island Press, a publisher of books on ecology and conservation.
In 2012-2013, Badger produced "Muscle Shoals", a documentary film about FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Personal life.
He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Wally Uihlein

Wally Uihlein (born 1949) in Haverhill, Massachusetts is a retired president and chief executive officer of the Acushnet Company, which comprises the golf brands Titleist, FootJoy, Pinnacle, and Scotty Cameron.
The Acushnet Company is publicly traded (NYSE) with a majority share owned by Fila Korea
Uihlein (pronounced "EE-Line") attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and completed graduate courses in business management at Suffolk University in Boston.
In 1976, he joined Acushnet as a regional sales representative and within a year, Uihlein became Titleist's national sales manager. He was named vice president of sales and distribution in 1982, and was eventually named president and chief executive officer in May 2000.
Wally's son, Peter, was named Boys Rolex
Junior Player of the Year in 2005. Peter won the 2010 U.S. Amateur and turned professional in 2012.


Mark Miller (actor)

Mark Miller (born Claude Herbert Miller, November 20, 1924) is an American stage and television actor and writer who starred in over 30 plays and made more than forty appearances in television programs and films since 1953. He is best known for his roles as Bill Hooten in "Guestward, Ho!", Jim Nash in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" TV series and Alvie in the movie he wrote and produced, "Savannah Smiles."
Biography.
Miller was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1952. After graduation he was immediately cast in the revival of Philadelphia Story in Newport, RI, at the Casino Playhouse and began a long-lasting career acting on stage and in television.
He co-starred with Joanne Dru, J. Carrol Naish, and Flip Mark in the 1960-1961 ABC sitcom, "Guestward, Ho!", the story of a New York City family named "Hooten" who relocates to New Mexico to operate a dude ranch.
Miller guest starred in numerous series, including NBC's western, "The Tall Man", with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He also had a role in the film "Youngblood Hawke" (1964), and appeared on Jack Lord's ABC rodeo adventure series, "Stoney Burke".
In 1965 to 1966, he portrayed college professor Jim Nash, the leading role opposite Patricia Crowley, on the NBC-MGM television sitcom, "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", loosely based on the theatrical film starring Doris Day and David Niven.
He played various roles in numerous other television shows, such as "Gunsmoke", "The Millionaire", "Marcus Welby, M.D.", "The Andy Griffith Show", "General Hospital" and "I Dream Of Jeannie". He also appeared in a 1963 episode of "The Twilight Zone" entitled "I Dream of Genie".
From 1969 to 1970, Miller played the role of sidekick Ross Craig in NBC's "The Name of the Game" and starred in a 1962 episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" called "Apex" in which he plays a philandering husband intent on killing his wife but is constitutionally unable to carry out the crime. In 1973, he appeared in the episode "Death by Prescription" of Lorne Greene's ABC crime drama "Griff". The following year he wrote, produced and appeared in the film "Ginger in the Morning" starring Sissy Spacek. He also portrayed characters in the films "Mr. Sycamore" (1975) and "Dixie Dynamite" (1976).
Miller wrote the story and screenplay, and starred in the 1982 movie "Savannah Smiles." He also starred alongside Slim Pickens in the 1981 movie "Christmas Mountain".
In December 1959 Miller married costume designer and publicist Beatrice Hudson Ammidown. The couple had three daughters together: Marisa Miller, Peneope Ann and Savannah Miller. The two older girls both became actors. The curly blonde hair of youngest daughter Savannah gave Miller the initial idea for the movie "Savannah Smiles", and ended up having a small role in it as well. The couple divorced in 1975. Miller remarried in 1976, to actress Barbara Stanger. The two co-wrote the screenplay for the 1995 film, "A Walk in the Clouds", starring Keanu Reeves and directed by Alfonso Arau. The couple divorced in 1998. Miller has 6 grandchildren, Amelia Miller Eberline, Eloisa May Huggins, Gretta Miller Eberline, Sophie Miller Eberline, Maria Adela Huggins, and Celeste Ariella Berzer.
Miller retired from Hollywood in the late 1990s and moved to Taos, New Mexico with his then wife Barbara Stanger. In 2010, he wrote the play, "Amorous Crossings", that starred Loretta Swit and premiered at the Alhambra Theater in Jacksonville, Florida. The play ran for four weeks to sold-out audiences. In 2014, he moved back to Los Angeles where he formed the production company Gypsy Moon Entertainment, and he continues to write and sell screenplays.


Debbie Abono

Debbie Abono (born Deborah Ann Downer; August 31, 1929 – May 16, 2010) was an American manager of death metal and thrash metal bands during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.
Biography.
Abono was born in Oakland, California, as Deborah Ann Downer, a granddaughter to E. M. Downer, who founded Mechanics Bank. She had served on the Board of Directors for the bank at one time. Her career as a heavy metal manager began in the mid-eighties when the members of Possessed, one of the first death metal bands, asked her to manage the group. After they assured her there was "nothing to it ... all you gotta do is get us shows," she agreed and even let them practice at her house. A grandmother at that time, Abono had no connections to heavy metal music other than through one of her daughters, who was dating Possessed's then-guitarist Larry LaLonde.
According to author David Konow, Abono was unaware of the sometimes blasphemous themes of heavy metal, and was offended after reading the lyrics to "Seven Churches", the band's debut album. Nevertheless, she agreed to continue managing Possessed on the condition that LaLonde and vocalist Jeff Becerra finished high school. Because Possessed suffered from internal conflicts, Abono would go on to manage additional bands in the Bay Area metal scene like Exodus, Vio-lence, and Forbidden, as well as death metal bands like Chicago's Broken Hope and Florida's Cynic and Obituary. Other bands that she managed included Sepultura and Skinlab.
Abono died on Sunday, May 16, 2010, after a battle with cancer. She was 80 years old. In honour of Abono and Ronnie James Dio (the latter who had also recently died on the same day from cancer), Machine Head's Robb Flynn recorded and released for free online a cover of Black Sabbath's "Die Young". Abono managed Flynn and Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel when they were members of Vio-lence.


Clarence L. Partee

Clarence Lockhart Partee (born Concord, North Carolina January 20, 1864, died Manhattan, New York April 17, 1915) was an American composer and arranger and music publisher. He was also founder, editor and publisher of "The Cadenza" magazine, and devoted his life to teaching and advancing the banjo, mandolin and guitar, arranging more than 150 works for these three instruments. He was a charter member of the "American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists", now two separate organizations, the "American Guild of Music" and the "Fretted Instrument Guild of America ".
Partee took up the banjo as a profession after his parents died before he was 14, and he moved to Chicago to pursue that goal. In 1881 he began an office manager for the J. B. Schall banjo company, giving banjo lessons and meeting prominent banjo players of the time, including E. M. Hall. He also began studying the guitar and the mandolin.
He became a soloist performer, traveling the country and teaching the banjo, guitar and mandolin. He also composed music and became a music publisher. Places he traveled included Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Omaha and Kansas City.
"The Cadenza".
Partee settled in Kansas City about 1890, where his magazine "The Cadenza" was published, beginning with the September/October 1894 issue. "The Cadenza was" "the first legitimate, high class magazine devoted to the interests of ... players at large of the banjo, mandolin and guitar." Partee set his own standard, keeping the tone "literary" and the content educational, and as a result, improved the overall standard for magazines of this type. In an effort to expand his magazine's reach, Partee moved it from the Midwest to the New England area and added content tailored toward the cosmopolitan crowd, with stylish women on the cover and stories of banjo, mandolin and guitar players who had found success and love through their music. He also branched out adding sections to the magazine for voice, violin, harp and piano.
Partee chose a non-standard niche for "The Cadenza", promoting sheet music rather than specific musical instruments. Another content difference noted by the "Musical Journal" was that the "Cadenza" did not devote itself to advertising the owner's merchandise or vilifying his competitors, unlike in other musician-oriented magazines.
Partee moved his "Cadenza" to New York in 1900, and it was bought in May 1908 by Boston publisher Walter Jacobs. Jacobs ceased publication in 1924.
Works.
He was the author of: