Alfred Dellentash

Alfred Dellentash (Born August 19, 1948) is a former American music producer, private airline owner, and drug smuggler, who was involved in the large scale importation of marijuana during the 1980s.
Dellentash has been reluctant to discuss his criminal life saying "he keeps his past locked in a shadowy corner of his mind." In 2014 Dellentash was diagnosed with cancer, and it motivated him to reveal his story. As of 2016 Dellentash's stage-four cancer was in remission.
In September 2015 Fox Searchlight purchased the option to make a film of Dellentash's career based on Jeff Maysh's article "The Man Who Got America High" published by Narratively magazine. Lucas Ochoa and Thomas Benski were named as producers by Pulse Films.
Early life.
Dellentash was born in New Rochelle, New York. His father was a high-rise building contractor who worked on the construction of the World Trade Center. His mother was a pianist and was the head of the local Republican Party. Dellentash obtained his pilot’s license aged 16.
Private jet companies.
Between the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dellentash ran a number of multimillion-dollar private jet leasing companies, including ‘Triple-D Corporation’ and ‘IBEX Corp.’ According to a People magazine profile, his planes were furnished with ‘thick carpeting, plants, phones, telex printer, electric typewriter, bedroom and bar’. His clients included the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, the Doobie Brothers, Kiss, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and John Denver.
Drug smuggling.
Dellentash’s plane companies were a front for a major drug smuggling operation. In the book ‘Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti’, and in court documents, Dellentash is described as a ‘drugs partner’ to the New York City gangster Salvatore Ruggiero. He has since admitted to flying marijuana from Colombia to New York via the Bahamas, for the Gambino crime family.
Music business.
A successful music manager in the 1980s, Dellentash managed bands including Meatloaf, the Bay City Rollers, and Whiplash. He partnered with producer David Sonenberg, to create the 1982 Meat Loaf movie 'Dead Ringer'.
In his 2000 autobiography, Meat Loaf accused Dellentash of misappropriating funds, adding: “The music biz was just a sideline for Al…He would tell these stories of flying to Libya with a load of automatic weapons.”
Plane crash.
One of Dellentash’s planes, a Learjet, was responsible for the death of Salvatore Ruggiero and three others on May 6, 1982. The plane crashed into the ocean near Georgia, in what an FAA report described as "an uncontrolled descent from cruise altitude for undetermined reasons, from which a recovery was not or could not be effected". Shortly afterwards, according court documents, Dellentash "drove to Salvatore's house in New Jersey, meeting [John] Carneglia, Angelo Ruggiero, and Gene Gotti, whom they notified of Salvatore's death". The crash attracted the attention of the FBI, the FAA, and the Organized Crime Strike Force.
Arrest and imprisonment.
Dellentash was arrested and convicted in Baton Rouge in 1984, for conspiracy to distribute drugs. His case, number 1-83-907, was dismissed in the nineteenth judicial district court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, on November 26, 1984. He served just five years, having turned informant. It has been rumored that Dellentash entered the witness protection program, and had facial surgery to change his appearance, however a 2014 magazine profile disproved the surgery rumors.


Milton Goldstein (film executive)

Milt Goldstein or "Milton Goldstein" (1 August 1926) is an American executive in the Motion Picture Industry.
Early life.
Goldstein was born in New York City, New York, and was educated at New York University, 1949.
Career.
Goldstein worked as an executive at Paramount. He was foreign sales coordinator for the movies "The Ten Commandments" and "Psycho". He was Vice President of foreign sales at Samuel Bronston Org, Assistant to the President of Paramount International Special Productions in 1964, and Foreign Sales Manager in 1966. He became VP of World Wide Sales in 1967 of Cinerama, and Senior VP of Cinema Center Films in 1969.
In 1971 Goldstein was president of Cinema Center Films, and VP of Theatrical Marketing & Sales of Metromedia Producers Corp in 1973. He was presented with a Johann awards for his success in marketing Columbia Masterworks products.
Goldstein formed Boasberg-Goldstein in March 1974 as a consultant in production and distribution of motion pictures. He was named Executive VP of Avco Embassy Pictures in 1975, Executive VP & CEO of Melvin Simon Productions in 1978 and president in 1980, and CEO of Simon/Reeves/Landburg.
Goldstein was president of Milt Goldstein Enterprises Inc. in 1985, and Chairman and CEO of HKM Films in 1990. He was President of Introvision movies in 1991.
Goldstein acted as Executive Producer of "Captive Hearts" 1987 and "Porky's 3 Revenge" 1985. Played Bernie in Reckless Kelly 1993.


Mike Appel

Mike Appel (born October 27, 1942) is an American music industry manager and record producer, best known for his role in both capacities in the early career of Bruce Springsteen.
Appel was born in Flushing in Queens, New York, of three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Jewish heritage and was raised Roman Catholic. His father was a successful real estate broker on Long Island. Appel began playing the guitar at age 14.
Appel was a guitarist and songwriter for several obscure groups during the 1950s and 1960s. He was a member of The Balloon Farm, and co-wrote their 1967 hit "A Question of Temperature". He also was a producer and songwriter for the early metal band Sir Lord Baltimore.
In 1971, Carl 'Tinker' West, the manager of some of Springsteen's early bands - Child, Steel Mill and The Bruce Springsteen Band - referred Springsteen to Appel. Springsteen auditioned for Appel in 1971; Appel told him to come back when he had written more songs. When Springsteen returned in 1972, Appel signed Springsteen to a production contract, and got Springsteen the audition with Columbia Records' John H. Hammond that led to Clive Davis signing Springsteen. He produced Springsteen's first two albums, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." and "The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle", both released in 1973. He also co-produced Springsteen's third and breakthrough album, "Born to Run".
Appel gradually alienated Springsteen during the recording of "Born to Run" and Springsteen sought to replace Appel as both manager and record producer with Jon Landau. By 1976 a lengthy legal battle between Appel and Springsteen ensued, which was eventually settled out of court. Appel, who was not able to find further success in the industry, subsequently co-wrote, with Marc Eliot, the 1992 book "Down Thunder Road" about his experiences with Springsteen.
Appel is generally credited for his aggressive tactics in getting Springsteen's career started, although his production abilities have often been criticized. However, Appel is also sometimes credited with fostering the looser, more musically adventurous and lyrically romantic approach of Springsteen's first two albums. After Landau took over, Springsteen's work became more tightly focused in musical terms and more political in content.
With producer and songwriter Wes Farrell and Jim Cretecos, Appel co-wrote five songs recorded by the Partridge Family: the chart hit "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted" (US no. 6, 1971) and the album tracks "I Can Feel Your Heartbeat" and "Somebody Wants To Love You" (both 1970) and "Umbrella Man" and "Rainmaker" (1971).


Mr. Collipark

Michael Antoine Crooms (born October 5, 1970), better known by his stage name Mr. Collipark (and also known as DJ Smurf), is a hip hop producer and the president of his own Atlanta-based record label, Collipark Music, which was started in 1999.
The name "Collipark" was derived from the city of College Park, Georgia. Crooms is credited as playing a major role in the career of the Ying Yang Twins, Soulja Boy, Taurus, Hurricane Chris, V.I.C., and Vistoso Bosses.
In 2007, Mr. Collipark won BMI's "Songwriter of the Year" award. He was also nominated for a 2008 Grammy for his work with Soulja Boy.
In 2011, Mr. Collipark debuted his mixtape "Can I Have the Club Back Please", which features tracks from artists including Translee, Treal Lee & Prince Rick and the Ying Yang Twins.
Other ventures.
Collipark Music.
Crooms founded his record label Collipark Music in 1999. He has signed various artists to the label including Soulja Boy, Ying Yang Twins and Vistoso Bosses. As of 2013, there are rumors of Mr. Collipark signing a distribution deal with Epic Records for the label.
The Package Store and record producing.
Mr. Collipark, along with his production/writing team The Package Store, have produced and written artists including Kilo Ali, Hurricane Chris, Mike Jones, Lil Jon, Jermaine Dupri, Soulja Boy, DJ Unk, E-40, Bubba Sparxxx, and Nia Chongg.


Ivan Rogers (actor)

Ivan Rogers (1954–2010) was an independent film actor, director and producer. He was also a musician. He appeared to be following in the footsteps of his mentor, fellow Indiana native, Fred Williamson.
Background.
Rogers was born on September 20, 1954. He was one of three boys born to Paul B. Rogers and his wife Ola. His father was a building contractor.
Rogers studied at Ball State University and was in a music program. He left the university to become a professional musician. He worked in various R&B bands and even backed Marvin Gaye. He was also a martial artist and a second dan black belt. A professional kick boxer, he competed in martial arts and kickboxing tournaments in the US and abroad. He was approached by a video disc company executive to make an instructional video which he ended up starring in as well as writing and producing. In his travels he met former Elvis Presley bodyguard Mike Stone who had a degree of success with producing made-for-television movies. On the advice of Stone, Rogers moved to Los Angeles to further his film career. Fred Williamson gave him advice on other aspects of the film business.
Career.
In the mid 1980s, he had a video out called Karate & Self Defense, released through Best Film & Video Corporation.
His 1987 film "Two Wrongs Make a Right" was directed by Robert Brown. It had a resemblance harking back to the black actioners of the 1970s. According to "Variety Film Reviews" it also had an abstract tone and a similarity to work by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.
He produced and directed "Caged Women II" about a woman who encounters, drugs, molestation and torture. Rogers played Detective Nate Penna in the film. His films include "Forgive Me Father" which came out in the early 2000s. In the film Rogers plays a hit man who has been living as a priest in Canada. Thought to be dead Father Virgil Garrett (played by Rogers) goes after the people who killed his brother. It premiered at the Madame Walker Theatre Center in Indiana in March 2000. Rogers donated a portion of the premiere takings to Indianapolis Police department.
Death.
He died in Indianapolis on 22 August 2010.


Casey Affleck

Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor and director. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film "Lemon Sky" (1988) and the miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (1990). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films – "To Die For" (1995), "Good Will Hunting" (1997), and "Gerry" (2002) – and in Steven Soderbergh's comedy heist trilogy "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), "Ocean's Twelve" (2004), and "Ocean's Thirteen" (2007). His first leading role was in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama "Lonesome Jim" (2006).
Affleck's breakthrough was in 2007, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Western drama "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and acted in the crime drama "Gone Baby Gone", directed by his brother Ben Affleck. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary "I'm Still Here". He then had a string of successful films in the early 2010s, with "Tower Heist", "ParaNorman", and "Interstellar", and received particular praise for his performance as an outlaw in the indie film "Ain't Them Bodies Saints".
In 2016, Affleck starred as the lead in the drama film "Manchester by the Sea". For his performance as Lee Chandler, a man grieving the loss of his children, he received universal acclaim and won the Critics Choice, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actor, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2017, Affleck received critical acclaim for his leading role in the supernatural drama film "A Ghost Story".
Early life.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born on August 12, 1975, in Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Christine Anne "Chris" Boldt and Timothy Byers Affleck. The surname "Affleck" is of Scottish origin. He also has Irish, German, English, and Swiss ancestry. Affleck's maternal great-great grandfather, , known for the discovery of the Curmsun Disc, emigrated from Prussia in the late 1840s. Casey's mother was a Radcliffe College- and Harvard-educated elementary school teacher. His father worked sporadically as an auto mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender, and a janitor at Harvard University. In the mid-1960s, he had been a stage manager, director, writer and actor with the Theater Company of Boston. During Affleck's childhood, his father was "a disaster of a drinker". Affleck first started acting by "reenacting what was happening at home" during role play exercises at Alateen meetings.
Following his parents' divorce when he was 9, Affleck and his older brother, Ben, lived with their mother and visited their father weekly. He learned to speak Spanish during a year spent traveling around Mexico with his mother and brother when he was 10. The two siblings spent "all of our time together, pretty much. Obviously at school we were in different grades, but we had the same friends." When Affleck was 14, his father moved to Indio, California, to enter a rehabilitation facility, and later worked there as an addiction counselor. Affleck reconnected with his father during visits to California as a teenager: "I got to know him, really, because he was sober for the first time ... The man I knew before that was just completely different."
Growing up in a politically active, liberal household in Central Square, Cambridge, Affleck and his brother were surrounded by people who worked in the arts, were regularly taken to the theater by their mother, and were encouraged to make their own home movies. The brothers sometimes appeared in local weather commercials and as movie extras because of their mother's friendship with a local casting director. Casey acted in numerous high school theater productions while a student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. He has said he "wouldn't be an actor" if not for his high school theater teacher Gerry Speca: "He kind of turned me on to acting, why it can be fun, how it can be rewarding."
At the age of 18, Affleck moved to Los Angeles for a year to pursue an acting career, and lived with his brother and their childhood friend Matt Damon. Despite having "the best possible first experience" while filming "To Die For", he spent much of the year working as a busboy at a restaurant in Pasadena. He decided to move to Washington, D.C., to study politics at George Washington University. He soon transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he followed the core curriculum for a total of two years. However, he did not graduate: "I would do a semester of school, go do a movie ... Opportunities kept presenting themselves that were hard for me to turn down ... By then, I didn't really have roots at the school or a group of friends."
Career.
1988–2006: Early work.
Affleck acted professionally during his childhood due to his mother's friendship with a Cambridge-area casting director, Patty Collinge. In addition to local weather commercials and movie extra work, he appeared as Kevin Bacon's brother in the PBS television movie "Lemon Sky" (1988), directed by Collinge's husband Jan Egleson, and as a young Robert F. Kennedy in the ABC miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (1990). These early acting experiences "meant nothing more than a day off from school" to Affleck, and he only began to consider a career as an actor when in high school. When he later moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career in earnest, his first movie role was as a sociopathic teenager in Gus Van Sant's 1995 satirical comedy "To Die For". During filming in Toronto, Affleck shared an apartment with co-star Joaquin Phoenix and they became close friends. Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" praised Affleck's performance, saying he "skillfully capture[s] the pang of adolescence among no-hopers." However, Affleck then had a "disappointing" experience while making the 1996 drama "Race the Sun" and, "as soon as the film finished, I went to school."
While studying at Columbia, Affleck had a supporting role in Van Sant's "Good Will Hunting" (1997), written by his brother and their childhood friend Matt Damon. Despite arranging a first meeting between Van Sant and his brother to discuss the project, Affleck was reluctant to leave college temporarily to act in the film. He was eventually persuaded to play one of four friends living in South Boston – a role written specifically for him – and improvised many of his lines. Jay Carr of "The Boston Globe" praised the "emotional subtleties and variety" of the performances, and singled out "Casey Affleck's junior member of the quartet, dying to be taken as seriously as the others." Following the critical and commercial success of the movie, Affleck's career opportunities did not significantly improve. At the same time, his life became exposed to the public and parts of his life became "part of pop culture and public life." Also in 1997, he had a small role in Kevin Smith's "Chasing Amy", starring his brother. He returned to university for a semester before quitting to focus on his acting career.
Affleck's career entered a "dark" period, with a series of supporting roles in critical and commercial failures. He later remarked: "It dawned on me late that I should be selective about what I do." In the independent comedy "Desert Blue" (1998), he starred opposite Kate Hudson as a small-town jock. Peter Stack of the "San Francisco Chronicle" felt that, while "interesting", his character was "entirely underdeveloped". In 1999, he made an uncredited cameo in the teen comedy "American Pie" and appeared as a punk rocker romantically involved with both Gaby Hoffmann and Christina Ricci's characters in the New Year's Eve ensemble comedy "200 Cigarettes". In the comedy "Drowning Mona" (2000), starring Danny DeVito, Affleck played a shy gardener suspected of murder. Elvis Mitchell of "The New York Times" acknowledged, in an otherwise negative review, that his role was "well played". Also in 2000, Affleck had a small role in the comedy "Attention Shoppers" and played Fortinbras in Ethan Hawke's "Hamlet". He appeared as the brother of Heather Graham's character in the romantic comedy "Committed" (2000), with Emanuel Levy of "Variety" praising a "terrific" performance. Also in 2001, he had a small role in "American Pie 2" and appeared in the teen slasher film "Soul Survivors". Robert Koehler of "Variety" found him "bland" while Carla Meyer of the "San Francisco Chronicle" said that he did not make "much of an impression, [but may] have been too depressed to really act." One positive experience Affleck had during this period was working with Van Sant and cinematographer Harris Savides on "Finding Forrester" (2000) as Van Sant's assistant and technical consultant: "Can you imagine a better film school than that? Gus is not only somebody who I love a lot but is also who has taught me, maybe more than anybody else in film."
Affleck found a degree of commercial success when he was cast in Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Damon. In roles Soderbergh originally intended for Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson, Affleck and Scott Caan played Mormon brothers and wisecracking mechanics who help to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously. While it was a "great, fun social experience," Affleck spent much of his time on set "being, like, 100 feet away from the camera in the background." He would later reprise his role in "Ocean's Twelve" (2004) and "Ocean's Thirteen" (2007).
In 2002, Affleck and Damon starred in Van Sant's experimental drama "Gerry", playing two men who get lost while hiking in the desert. Affleck, Damon, and Van Sant conceived of the idea and wrote the screenplay together while living in neighboring New York apartments. The film, which had minimal dialogue, received mixed reviews. Affleck, who rarely watches his own movies, said of "Gerry" in 2016: "That was an incredible experience. I saw one scene recently out of context at the Telluride Film Festival and I can't believe anyone ever sat through the whole thing. It probably works better as a whole but one scene lifted out – I thought, 'This is unbearable!'" Also in 2002, Affleck starred with Damon and then-girlfriend Summer Phoenix in a West End stage production of Kenneth Lonergan's "This Is Our Youth". Lonergan and Affleck became friends during rehearsals, and Affleck later acted in workshop productions of Lonergan's plays in New York.
Affleck's first leading role was in 2006's little-seen independent comedy-drama "Lonesome Jim", directed by Steve Buscemi. He played a depressed writer who returns from New York to live with his parents in Indiana, and begins a relationship with Liv Tyler's character. Buscemi has said he knew Affleck would be able to carry the movie after watching his performance in "Gerry". Stephen Hunter of "The Washington Post" remarked: "Affleck's interesting .. He probably can't be a star in big movies because his drawback is a voice that sounds like a snivel drawn through a wet nasal passage into a whine ... And yet in certain kinds of films – this kind – he's 100 percent authentic." Ty Burr of "The Boston Globe" said Affleck "gets so far under the skin of this semi-charming jerk that the performance becomes both brave and aggravating." However, Stephen Holden of "The New York Times" felt it "would be a stronger movie if Mr. Affleck had the wherewithal to bare more of the passive-aggressive rage inside ... a more resourceful actor would have used this blank slate to scrawl a thousand telling details." Also in 2006, he had a supporting role in the romantic comedy "The Last Kiss" as a friend of Zach Braff's character.
2007–2012: Breakthrough.
Affleck had a breakthrough year in 2007, with the release of two films featuring critically acclaimed performances. The first of these performances was in the Western drama "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", in which he played Robert Ford to Brad Pitt's Jesse James. Affleck auditioned repeatedly for the role. While the director Andrew Dominik had seen Affleck in "Gerry", he cast him partly because of his "beautiful-sounding voice. The voice is the thing that really gets you." Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" described Affleck's performance as a "revelation" which "manages to make the character seem dumb and the actor wily and smart." Similarly, Claudia Puig of "USA Today" declared him a "real revelation [who] perfectly inhabits the role" while Todd McCarthy of "Variety" said Affleck made "an indelible impression as the insecure, physically unprepossessing weakling." Dana Stevens of "Slate" said "the movie belongs to Affleck [who] goes for broke in a wonderfully brave and weird performance as the craven naif Bob. Somehow he makes us want to flee this creep at top speed, even as we pray no harm will come to him." For his performance, Affleck was nominated for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
While he was filming "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" in Calgary, Affleck was visited by his brother, who offered him the leading role in his directorial project, the Boston crime thriller "Gone Baby Gone" (2007). While his brother was a first-time director and in the midst of a career downturn, Affleck had confidence in the project: "I felt like I knew him better than anyone else did." His performance, as an inexperienced private investigator tasked with finding a missing child, earned Affleck further plaudits for his acting. Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" said: "I'm not sure exactly when Casey Affleck became such a good actor ... Most actors want you to love them, but [he] doesn't seem to know that, or maybe he doesn't care." Jim Ridley of "The Village Voice" described him as "a major talent coming into his own" while Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" remarked that "the revelation is Casey Affleck, who heretofore has been a rather wormy, uncharismatic screen presence." Ty Burr of "The Boston Globe" commented: "I'd never stopped to consider Casey Affleck as a movie star before, but under his big brother's tutelage, he blooms as a leading man of richly watchable savvy and intelligence."
While "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and "Gone Baby Gone" were a financial failure and a modest box office success, respectively, Affleck's acting career was widely believed to be at a turning point. However, he lost career momentum while directing "I'm Still Here" (2010), a divisive mockumentary about the musical career of his friend and then brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix. While Affleck later clarified that it was "a planned, staged and scripted work of fiction," there was much media speculation during filming about whether Phoenix's public behaviour was performance art or a genuine breakdown. Claudia Puig of "USA Today" remarked that, "whether truth or folly, it's not particularly well made. Even in the midst of Phoenix's most oddball and obsessive torment, it's boring ... What, exactly, is the point of a joke that nobody really gets?" Ty Burr of "The Boston Globe" described it as "an interesting but half-baked exercise in persona deconstruction, celebrity politics, and meta-meta-entertainment ... Parts of it are close to genius; most of it is actively torturous to watch." Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" said the film "turns out to be much more interesting to speculate about than to actually watch." Reflecting on the experience in 2016, Affleck said: "We never thought people would actually think it was real ... In hindsight, we should have had a press junket and done talk shows and said how it was a mockumentary."
Affleck used his own money to fund "I'm Still Here" and, after running out of cash, filming was paused for a month to allow him to play a Texan serial killer in Michael Winterbottom's crime drama "The Killer Inside Me" (2010). Affleck later expressed regret over the movie's graphic violence. Philip French of "The Guardian" found him "disturbingly brilliant" while Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" praised "a mesmeric, implosively powerful performance." Mark Olsen of the "Los Angeles Times" said Affleck "showcases his uncanny ability to project a person holding two thoughts in his head at once, as he often gives away nothing in his face to convey the firestorm obviously raging in his soul." Affleck then had a supporting role in the heist comedy "Tower Heist" (2011) and voiced a character in the 2012 animation "ParaNorman".
2013–present: Wider recognition.
After spending "a big chunk of time" directing "I'm Still Here" and dealing with the subsequent backlash, Affleck returned to regular acting work in 2013. "It was ugly for a minute ... I sort of remembered why I liked acting and I missed it." In David Lowery's "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" (2013), Affleck and Rooney Mara starred as outlaw lovers in 1970s-era Texas. Affleck was drawn to the opportunity to play a character who "was a much better person than anyone thought," after a string of roles as "assassins or murderers or just creeps." Shannon M. Houston of "Paste Magazine" described him as the movie's "standout actor": "Down to his very jawline, Affleck captures the physicality and feeling of a sincerely romantic outlaw." Betsy Sharkey of the "Los Angeles Times" remarked: "Affleck plays conflicted souls so very well ... Here you wish for a criminal's redemption." Michael Phillips of the "Chicago Tribune" said: "He has great instincts when it comes to morally compromised anti-heroes, and without trolling for our sympathy, Affleck's Bob is more than just a collection of behaviors; it's a smartly considered performance." Sebastian Doggart of "The Guardian" said he "shows himself again to be a master of the criminal outsider" while Chuck Wilson of "The Village Voice" found him "flat-out heartbreaking."
The opportunity to act opposite Christian Bale in the drama "Out of the Furnace" "reinvigorated" Affleck and reminded him why he enjoyed acting. Claudia Puig of "USA Today" found his performance as an Iraq War veteran dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder "completely captivating ... The chemistry between Bale and Affleck is powerful, intensifying the credibility of their brotherly bond." Michael Phillips of the "Chicago Tribune" said Affleck "finds something fierce and noble in uneven material and in his character's rage. He's not like any other actor in American movies." Ann Hornaday of "The Washington Post" described the performance as "a searing portrayal of a young man who pushes himself to the punishing physical limit in search of both money and catharsis." Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" remarked that Affleck "can come across as intensely vulnerable on screen, which nicely works for a broken man like Rodney." In 2014, Affleck and Jessica Chastain had supporting roles in Christopher Nolan's science fiction film "Interstellar" as the grown-up children of Matthew McConaughey's character, with Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" describing his character as "thinly developed". Also in 2014, Affleck and producer John Powers Middleton launched the production company, The Affleck/Middleton Project.
Affleck starred in three films in 2016, the first two of which underperformed financially. In John Hillcoat's crime thriller "Triple 9", Affleck played an uncorruptible detective. Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" said he "arrests our attention. I wonder if any other screen actor has ever seemed so focused and so distracted at the same time. He thinks more than he says, and so we listen, trying to get the part he's leaving out." Justin Chang of "Variety" described him as "one of the most persuasive leading men of his generation" while Brogan Morris of "Paste Magazine" declared him "maybe Hollywood's best offbeat leading man ... Few actors can suggest so much with such quiet precision, and even here Affleck is compulsively watchable despite his undercooked character." In Disney's disaster drama "The Finest Hours", Affleck played a taciturn engineer on board a sinking ship. David Sims of "The Atlantic" said he "gives the kind of measured, thought-out performance he's so eminently capable of, even if the film isn't complex enough to rise to his level ... He animates an introverted character with subtle mental busywork whenever he's on the screen." Sheri Linden of "The Hollywood Reporter" noted that he "manages to turn his man of few words into the movie's most compelling figure."
In his final role of 2016, Affleck starred as Lee Chandler, a grief-stricken alcoholic loner, in Kenneth Lonergan's drama "Manchester by the Sea". One of the film's producers, Matt Damon, initially intended to star in the film. When scheduling conflicts made this unfeasible, Damon agreed to step aside on the condition that he be replaced with Affleck. Lonergan readily agreed, remarking that Affleck was "the natural person to go to." Affleck had close relationships with both men and had previously offered notes on early drafts of the script. The movie was a box office success, and Affleck's performance received widespread critical praise. A.O. Scott of "The New York Times" described it as "one of the most fiercely disciplined screen performances in recent memory. [He] conveys both Lee's inner avalanche of feeling and the numb decorum that holds it back."
Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" praised his "quietly ferocious performance, his willingness to submerge himself into this character to an almost frightening extent." Ann Hornaday of "The Washington Post" said the film was "anchored by a quietly volcanic central performance by Casey Affleck, in a breathtaking breakout role he's long deserved." David Fear of "Rolling Stone" stated: "He's given impressive turns before [but] the way Affleck gradually shows you the man's bone-deep grief and emotional damage makes you believe that one of this generation's finest actors has simply been waiting to be coaxed out." Affleck won the National Board of Review, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award for his performance.
After dropping out of Lowery's "Pete's Dragon" in order to star in "Manchester by the Sea", Affleck reteamed with the director to star opposite Rooney Mara in the experimental drama "A Ghost Story", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2017. Affleck's character dies suddenly at the outset and he spends much of the film covered by a white sheet with two eye-holes, haunting his former home. David Rooney of "The Hollywood Reporter" said Affleck's performance managed to resonate despite limited time onscreen. Peter Debruge of "Variety" said Affleck "has never been an easy actor to read. He's a low-charisma mumbler who tends to keep his characters' emotions bottled up, making him the rare performer who can convey as much with a sheet over his head as he does without." Jordan Hoffman of "The Guardian" described him as "cinema's finest mumbler ... I can't even tell if he's speaking or just emitting high-pitched vibrations anymore." In 2018, Affleck starred opposite Robert Redford in the outlaw drama "The Old Man & the Gun", his third collaboration with Lowery.
In 2019, he directed, wrote and starred in the survival drama "Light of My Life". It had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 8, 2019 and received positive reviews from film critics. Affleck next starred in "Our Friend", opposite Dakota Johnson and Jason Segel, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, based upon a true story revolving around a couple, whose best friend moves in for support, following a cancer diagnosis. which had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Affleck next acted in and produced "The World to Come", directed by Mona Fastvold alongside Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby.
Personal life.
Relationships and family.
Affleck was introduced to actress Summer Phoenix by her brother, Joaquin, in the late 1990s. They began dating in 2000, and acted together in both the 2000 film "Committed" and a 2002 stage production of "This is Our Youth". The couple became engaged in January 2004 and married on June 3, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia. They have two sons, Indiana August (b. May 2004) and Atticus (b. January 2008). On August 1, 2017, Phoenix officially filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences", and it was finalized later that year. Affleck has said it was an amicable divorce and that they remain friends.
Alcoholism.
In a 2016 interview, Affleck said that he had been sober for "almost three years ... My father was a disaster of a drinker, my grandmother was an alcoholic, my brother spent some time in rehab – it's in our genes."
Political views.
In 2008, Affleck filmed an episode of documentary series "4Real", in which he visited the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, and remarked upon the progress they had made due largely to "their own resourcefulness and determination and their character, and not because of the goodness of our collective heart." During the 2016 presidential campaign, Affleck supported Hillary Clinton and characterized Donald Trump as "a dangerous fool." In 2017, multiple financial contributions to Trump were made by Affleck's production company, which he co-founded with John Powers Middleton. In a statement, Affleck denied involvement: "I had no knowledge of it, was never asked, and never would have authorized it ... The policies of the Trump administration, and the values they represent, are antithetical to everything I believe in."
Sexual harassment allegations.
Affleck has settled two sexual harassment lawsuits out of court for an undisclosed amount.
In 2010, two of his former co-workers from "I'm Still Here" filed civil lawsuits against Affleck. Amanda White, one of the film's producers, sued Affleck for $2 million with multiple complaints including sexual harassment and breach of oral contract. She detailed numerous "uninvited and unwelcome sexual advances" in the workplace. White alleged that Affleck refused to honor the terms of the production agreement, including her fee, in retaliation.
The film's cinematographer, Magdalena Gorka, sued Affleck for $2.25 million with multiple complaints including intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of oral contract. Gorka alleged that she had been subjected to "routine instances" of sexual harassment by crew members including Antony Langdon, "within the presence and with the active encouragement of Affleck."
Initially, Affleck denied the allegations and threatened to countersue; his lawyer described both claims as "total fiction" and "completely fabricated." No countersuits were filed. His lawyer claimed, "Both women left the film in April 2009 and both were refused when they wanted to return," and "there was no mention of sexual harassment before June [2010]." The film's associate producer Nicole Acacio and an unnamed female editor both defended Affleck's conduct on set, saying that "I never saw anything out of the ordinary either on or off set," and "nothing I've ever witnessed would lead me to think he could ever do anything like that." The lawsuits were later settled out of court. Both women received credit for their work on the project; no details of any financial settlement were released.
Affleck addressed the allegations in a 2016 interview with "The New York Times", stating, "It was settled to the satisfaction of all. I was hurt and upset — I am sure all were — but I am over it. It was an unfortunate situation — mostly for the innocent bystanders of the families of those involved." The allegations and lawsuits attracted scrutiny during the 2016–17 film awards season, when Affleck was rewarded for his critically acclaimed performance in "Manchester by the Sea", which culminated in further controversy following his Best Actor win at the 89th Academy Awards. The following year, amid the Me Too movement, Affleck withdrew from presenting the award for Best Actress at the 90th Academy Awards.
In a 2018 interview with the Associated Press, Affleck discussed the lawsuits and allegations in light of the Me Too movement. He characterized his behavior at the time of the lawsuits as defensive and said he has since worked to understand his own culpability. He acknowledged that the set of "I'm Still Here" was "an unprofessional environment" and that "I contributed to that unprofessional environment and I tolerated that kind of behavior from other people and I wish that I hadn't. And I regret a lot of that . . . I behaved in a way and allowed others to behave in a way that was really unprofessional. And I'm sorry."
Philanthropy.
Affleck has been a vegan since 1995. He has been involved with animal rights campaigns for both People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Farm Sanctuary.
In 2017, Affleck supported the 37th Annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games hosted by Paralyzed Veterans of America. In January 2019, he attended the 4th Annual Veterans Awards as a presenter.
In June 2020, Affleck, with his mother Christine, founded a fundraising effort, Stories from Tomorrow. The initiative was co-sponsored by Room to Read, WriteGirl and New Earth, an organization where Affleck is a board member. 'Stories from Tomorrow' matches original writing by children ages 5–18 with celebrities who read their work, which is then presented in video form. The money raised will be used to ensure that children around the world have access to education and food.


Albert Berger

Albert Berger is an American film producer of such films as "King of the Hill", "Election", "Cold Mountain", "Little Children", "Little Miss Sunshine", "Ruby Sparks", "Mr. Russo" and "Nebraska". He is also a co-executive producer on the HBO series "The Leftovers".
Berger and fellow producer Ron Yerxa founded the production company, Bona Fide Productions, and the two producers were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film "Nebraska".
Education.
Berger graduated from Tufts University in 1979 before attending the MFA program in film at the Columbia University School of the Arts.


Mark Archer

Mark Archer is an American film and television producer, director and writer. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Career.
His credits include the 1997 Sundance Film Festival winner, "In the Company of Men", for which he was nominated for "Best First Feature" at the 1997 Independent Spirit Awards. "In the Company of Men" also won the Filmmaker's Trophy at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. The film was shot in eleven days at a cost of $20,000. Archer's other feature film credits include "American Reel", starring David Carradine, Michael Maloney and Mariel Hemingway.
Since then, Archer moved into other fields, such as cinematography, and founded his own production company, New Hollywood Studios, which handles commercials and post-production.


Frank K. Root

Frank Kimball Root (1856–1932) was a music publisher in Chicago and the proprietor of Frank K. Root & Co. His father, Ebenezer Towner Root, co-founded Root & Cady. Among the many notable songs published by the firm is "I Ain't Got Nobody".
Biography.
Frank Kimball Root was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on June 23, 1856. He moved to Chicago with his family at a young age and was educated in public schools in Hyde Park.
He married Harriet Elizabeth Irwin on October 30, 1890, and they had three children.
In politics, he was a Republican.
Frank K. Root's firm had close ties to the McKinley Music Company.
His home, the Root-Badger House at 326 Essex Rd. in Kenilworth, Illinois outside Chicago (also known as the Centennial House), was designed by Daniel Burnham and built by Paul Starrett. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Illinois).
Frank K. Root died in Kansas City, Missouri on February 10, 1932, and was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
Background.
His father cofounded Root & Cady. It was hit by the Great Chicago fire of 1871 and bankrupted. It was reorganized several years later as The Root & Sons Music Company.
Songwriter George F. Root was his uncle.


Daniel Melnick

Daniel Melnick (April 21, 1932 – October 13, 2009) was an American film producer and movie studio executive who started working in Hollywood as a teenager in television and then became the producer of such films as "All That Jazz", "Altered States" and "Straw Dogs". Melnick's films won more than 20 Academy Awards out of some 80 nominations.
Early life and education.
Melnick was born on April 21, 1932, in New York City, the son of Celia and Benjamin Melnick, Jewish immigrants from Russia. His father was killed in a car crash when Melnick was a child. His mother remarried. Melnick attended the High School of Performing Arts. After high school, Melnick attended New York University. He served in the United States Army during the 1950s, where he produced entertainment for troops while stationed at New Jersey's Fort Dix and in Oklahoma.
Television, film and theater.
After relocating to Hollywood as a 19-year-old, he became CBS Television's youngest producer, and then shortly thereafter was hired by ABC, where he worked on the development of such programs as "The Flintstones" and "The Fugitive".
Talent Associates.
After a stint in the army, Melnick returned to New York City in the late '50s, becoming a partner in Talent Associates, a production company founded several years earlier by David Susskind and Leonard Stern. Among other productions, TA created the Emmy Award winning secret agent satire "Get Smart" that ran from 1965 to 1970 on CBS and NBC, as well as the police drama "N.Y.P.D." that ran on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from 1967–69. Melnick's role in "Get Smart" was to hire Mel Brooks and Buck Henry to create a half hour "sitcom" addressing in Melnick's words "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today – James Bond and Inspector Clouseau". ABC paid for a pilot episode, but did not purchase the series, so Melnick turned to Grant Tinker at NBC, who had Don Adams under contract and were looking for a project for the comedian.
Talent Associates produced the Emmy Award-winning TV productions aired on CBS, with "Ages of Man" starring John Gielgud in 1966, which included readings from William Shakespeare's works ranging from "Romeo and Juliet" to "Richard II", with critic Jack Gould of "The New York Times" calling it "a viewing occasion to be treasured". In 1967 they presented Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", starring Lee J. Cobb, a production that Jack Gould of "The Times" described as one "that will stand as the supreme understanding of the tragedy of Willy Loman." The firm, Talent Associates, was bought out by Norton Simon, Inc. in August 1968 for an undisclosed price, with the commitment that the unit would operate independently and the principals would stay on in senior positions to manage the company.
Together with Joseph E. Levine of Embassy Pictures, Susskind and Melnick produced the Broadway theatre musical comedy "Kelly", by Eddie Lawrence and Mark Charlap. Promotion for the play included an event on the Brooklyn Bridge with a series of chorus girls. The play, a story about the 1886 incident of Steve Brodie who (claimed to have) jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and survived, opened on February 16, 1965. The play lasted only one performance on Broadway, which was later described by Melnick's son as "not his favorite moment in history", but nonetheless one he wore with grace.
The 1971 psychological thriller "Straw Dogs" was his first feature film.
Head of MGM.
He was hired by MGM as head of production in February 1972. It was a time of decline for MGM with the studio pulling back on production but while there his films included the 1975 Neil Simon comedy "The Sunshine Boys" and the 1976 production of Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay for "Network", directed by Sidney Lumet, a satire of television production that was credited with boosting the studio's financial performance. He also mined the studio's archives to create the "That's Entertainment!" series of compilation films.
Columbia.
He was hired by Columbia Pictures as its president in June 1978 to replace David Begelman, who had resigned in the wake of an embezzlement scandal. There he oversaw the development of the 1978 picture "Midnight Express" and the 1979 films "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "The China Syndrome".
In 1980, he moved to 20th Century Fox where he completed Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz", with Fox paying for filming that Columbia would not finance. That same year he produced "Altered States" with Warner Brothers, an adaptation of a Chayefsky novel that Columbia was unwilling to fund.
Later years.
Melnick's later films included the 1987 Steve Martin comedy "Roxanne", an adaption of the classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac", and the 1999 action comedy "Blue Streak" (1999), which was his final film credit.
Personal life.
He married Linda Rodgers, the daughter of Richard Rodgers and his wife, Dorothy Feiner, in February 1955, at the Manhattan home of her parents. Their son, Peter Rodgers Melnick, became a composer. After he and Linda Rodgers divorced in 1971, Melnick fathered a daughter.
Melnick was known for personal elegance and refined tastes in art, dress, and architecture. A thinker, he often offered sage advice, once telling a young assistant that "the best contracts are written not in the thrall of a new marriage but with the possibility of a divorce in mind."
He once said to the same assistant that, when facing a business dilemma, he would sometimes ask himself what the 17th-century French statesman Cardinal Richelieu, whose genius for intrigue he admired, might do in a similar situation.
During Melnick's days on the 20th Century-Fox lot, some of his staffers would affectionately refer to him (albeit privately) as Mel Nick. The inspiration for the name arose when deliverymen arrived in front of the unmarked Indieprod building with a wardrobe box of clothes from Ralph Lauren – on which someone had scrawled in large letters MEL and below it NICK. Not knowing who he was or where to find him, one shouted loudly, "We're looking for a Mel Nick! There a Mel Nick around here?"
In regard to producing films, Melnick once reminded one of his assistants, who he thought was working too hard, that "this business is supposed to be fun."
His regular poker games would include such Hollywood notables as Johnny Carson, Chevy Chase, Barry Diller, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner and Neil Simon.
Melnick died at the age of 77 on October 13, 2009, at his home in Los Angeles of lung cancer. He was survived by a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren.
Select credits.
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.


Robert Mellin

Israel Melnikoff (September 22, 1902 – July 10, 1994), known professionally as Robert Mellin, was a Ukrainian-born American composer and lyricist and music publisher. Born in Kiev and raised in Chicago, he wrote the music or lyrics for several hit songs in the 1950s and 1960s. From the late 1950s onwards he ran his own music publishing company. Mellin wrote the theme music for the TV series "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and "Don Quijote". He also wrote music for films in the 1960s.


John Baldecchi

John Baldecchi is a film producer known for The Mexican (2001) and Point Break (2015). He is an executive producer on Happy Death Day (2017) and the sequel, Happy Death Day 2U (2019) along with Jason Blum with Blumhouse Productions and Universal Studios.
Career.
Baldecchi worked for Laurence Mark Productions producing The Adventures of Huck Finn and the sequel Tom and Huck, Gunmen, Oliver Twist, Deep Rising and Simon Birch. After being named President of Production, the company produced Jerry Maguire and As Good As It Gets.
Baldecchi partnered with Lawrence Bender in a production deal at Fox 2000 and together they made The Mexican and Stark Raving Mad. Baldecchi then segued into a long-term production deal at Sony Pictures and started the sales, finance, production outfit Fusion Films. Baldecchi produced UltraViolet, Odd Thomas, Conan the Barbarian, 88 Minutes, and Point Break.
Baldecchi founded Digital Riot Media with Doug Barry in 2016. The company produced the digital feature FML. The next two features produced were Happy Death Day and the sequel Happy Death Day 2 U.


Pam Brady

Pam Brady is an American writer and television producer, best known for her work with "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Career.
Pam Brady first met Parker, Stone and Jason McHugh while working under Brian Graden at the Fox Broadcasting Company. Brady suggested that the two make a weekly version of their student film "Cannibal! The Musical". The three came up with the idea for "Time Warped". While "Time Warped" was not produced, Parker and Stone decided to make "South Park" for Comedy Central and brought Brady on as a writer.
Brady is known as the live-action fiancée of Mr. Adler in the episode "Tweek vs. Craig". Although Brady left the show in the fourth season to write Hollywood films and co-create the short-lived series "The Loop", she would later co-write "" and occasionally produce or consult on episodes of the series. Brady wrote and directed the horror-inspired animated TV series "Neighbors from Hell", which premiered in June 2010 on TBS.
Brady began collaborating with "Arrested Development" creator Mitch Hurwitz to create a television show starring Maria Bamford. The series, "Lady Dynamite", was released on Netflix on May 20, 2016.


Bruce Jones (surfboards)

Bruce Jones was a founding pioneer in the surfboard shaping industry.
The company he founded, Bruce Jones Surfboards, has built premium surfboards since 1973.
Jones developed his skills by working with industry pioneers Hobart Alter founder of Hobie, Gordon Duane founder of Gordie Surfboards, and Dick Brewer founder of Dick Brewer Surfboards. Jones still shaped all of his company's boards until his death.
Early years.
Bruce Jones had been surfing since the age of 15, and his love for the sport and interest in the art of building boards suggested to him that he pursue this as a career choice. It turned out to be a good decision.
Jones started in the gluing room for Hobie Surfboards.
As the gluing room was right next to the shaping room, he had exposure to the finest shapers in the world at that time. Among them were Terry Martin, Ralph Parker, Dale Velzy and the legendary Phil Edwards. With some careful screening from Edwards, it was not long before Jones moved into shaping full-time.
Jones worked his way into rough shaping and then into the actual shaping room and lost no time in getting help from everyone involved.
More experience.
In the mid to late 1960s, Jones moved to Huntington Beach, California, where he shaped for Vardeman Surfboards, doing all the Jackie Baxter Models, which to this day are considered rare collector's items, being the first board on the west coast to combine the low tail rails of the Hawaiian gun (for speed), with a refined longboard outline and eventually a turned down, flat-bottom nose for superb nose riding (influenced by the famous Morey/Pope John Peck Penetrator model).
At night, he would shape for Gordie Surfboards. Gordie (Gordon Duane) had a reputation for being a superb craftsman but very hard to get along with. Jones put up with him and learned some of Gordie's shaping techniques and most of all his dedication to perfection through using these techniques. He did a short stint with Dick Brewer in 1969, ghost shaping for him on Maui. He then went on to shape for Russell Surfboards, Newport Beach, California, and then Ole Surfboards in Sunset Beach, California, from where he launched his own business.
Also during this time (1970) Jones received a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University, Long Beach.
Bruce Jones Surfboards.
He opened Bruce Jones Surfboards on September 15, 1973. In 1974, he moved the shaping and manufacturing portion of his business to Costa Mesa, California, where it remains today, albeit closed. In the mid-1980s, Jones demolished the old shop and built the new store, which officially opened January 1, 1986 and closed in late December 2014.
Present day.
To this day, the Bruce Jones Surf Shop in Sunset Beach stands as a testament to the vision that a true surf shop can survive, even amongst the giant surf mega stores that have more or less taken over the surf retail business. Put out a quality product and give friendly one-on-one service and it will flourish.
Jones died on January 13, 2014, of a heart attack at the age of 68. A paddle-out ceremony (friends and family sitting on surfboards in the ocean holding hands as a tribute) was held March 9, 2014.
Recognition.
One of the things that I admire about Bruce is that he is one of the few shapers who can still create his boards totally by hand, without the use of the "shaping" machines that are in common use. He shapes all kinds of boards, from longboards to shortboards to big wave guns to "fish."
"He is a master. And as long as I have known him, he has always remained a mellow and genuinely nice dude."
"When he opened his shop (Bruce Jones Surfboards) on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, it became an iconographic part of the surf scene...He was a laid-back, super-together guy, and the shop reflected his persona.”


Hovie Lister

Hovie Franklin Lister (September 17, 1926 - December 28, 2001) was an American gospel musician, Baptist Minister, and politician. Lister was best known for his time as the front man of the Statesmen Quartet, perhaps the most well known and renowned Southern Gospel quartet in the decades of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as one of the most respected groups of all time.
Biography.
Lister was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and learned piano from the age of six. He accompanied a singing group composed of his father and three of his uncles (The Lister Brothers Quartet) at 14, and toured with Mordecai Ham at the same age. He attended the Stamps-Baxter School of Music in Dallas.
Following his education, Lister served as an accompanist for The Lefevres, The Homeland Harmony, and The Rangers Quartet in the 1940s. In 1948, he formed The Statesmen Quartet, and remained the group's anchor for decades. Lister's style, which differed from his predecessors in his adoption of jazz, soul and ragtime idioms over the staid, solemn accompaniment of prior generations, influenced the sound of gospel and CCM in the later 20th century. Lister remained a member of The Statesmen Quartet into the 2000s.
Aside from performing, Lister also had interests in music publishing and promotion. Lister was inducted into the Southern Gospel Hall of Fame in 2001.


Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer. He formerly owned the production company Witchseason Productions and Hannibal Records. Boyd has worked on recordings of Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, R.E.M., Vashti Bunyan, John and Beverley Martyn, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Billy Bragg, 10,000 Maniacs, and Muzsikás.
Life and career.
Boyd was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut. He first became involved in music promoting blues artists while a student at Harvard University. After graduating, Boyd worked as a production and tour manager for music impresario George Wein, which took Boyd to Europe to organise concerts with Muddy Waters, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Boyd was responsible for the sound at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when Bob Dylan played a controversial set backed by electric musicians.
In 1964, Boyd paid his first visit to Britain, returning the following year to establish an overseas office of Elektra Records. In 1966, Boyd and John "Hoppy" Hopkins opened the UFO Club, a famous but short-lived UK Underground club in London's Tottenham Court Road. He worked with UFO regulars Pink Floyd, and produced their first single, "Arnold Layne" and recordings by Soft Machine. Boyd worked extensively with audio engineer John Wood at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea. In this studio, Boyd and Wood made a succession of celebrated albums with British folk and folk rock artists, including the Incredible String Band, Martin Carthy, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Fairport Convention and Richard Thompson. Some of these were produced by Boyd's production company, Witchseason.
Boyd returned to the United States at the end of 1970 to work as a music producer for Warner Bros. with special input into films, where he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the sound track release of "A Clockwork Orange". Boyd also contributed to the soundtrack of "Deliverance", directed by John Boorman, where he supervised the recording of "Dueling Banjos", which became a hit single for Eric Weissberg. Boyd also produced and co-directed the film documentary "Jimi Hendrix" (1973). In the States, Boyd produced albums by Maria Muldaur and Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Boyd subsequently founded the Hannibal Records label in 1980 (later absorbed into Rykodisc), which released albums by Richard Thompson and many recordings of world music, including Hungarian band Muzsikás. Boyd also produced R.E.M.'s third album "Fables of the Reconstruction" (1985) and records by Billy Bragg and 10,000 Maniacs.
Boyd was executive producer for the 1989 feature film "Scandal", starring John Hurt and Bridget Fonda about the Profumo affair in UK politics in 1963. Boyd left Hannibal/Ryko in 2001 and his autobiography, "White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s", was published in 2006 by Serpent's Tail in the UK.
In 2008, Boyd was a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.
Boyd was a producer on the long-delayed Aretha Franklin concert film "Amazing Grace."


Abe Olman

Abe Olman (December 20, 1887 – January 4, 1984), born Abraham Olshewitz, was an American songwriter and music publisher. He composed a number of successful ragtime and popular songs including "Red Onion Rag" (1912), "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" (1915), "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" (1917), and "Down By the O-Hi-O" (1920). He was later director of ASCAP, and a founder of the Songwriters Hall of Fame which, in 1983, named the annual Abe Olman Publisher Award in his honor.
Career.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Julius and Corrlina Olshewitz, who had been born in Russia and Germany respectively. He learned piano as a child, and in the early 1900s started work as a traveling music salesman around Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. His first compositions were published in Cincinnati in 1907, and then in 1909 in Indianapolis, where he lived for a period. In 1912, he moved to New York City, where his "Red Onion Rag" was published by George W. Meyer. He also spent time in Europe, performing in clubs in London and Paris before the outbreak of the First World War. After returning to the US, he set up the LaSalle Music Publishing Company in Chicago in 1914, and published his own song, "Down Among the Sheltering Palms", with words by James Brockman. He sold the song to New York publisher Leo Feist; it was performed and recorded by Al Jolson and became a great success. He continued to write prolifically, mainly with lyricist Ed Rose, and in 1917 they published "Oh Johnny, Oh!". The song was recorded in 1917 by both Billy Murray and Nora Bayes. It was successfully revived in 1939 by Orrin Tucker with singer "Wee" Bonnie Baker, and by The Andrews Sisters, and was recorded in 1959 by Peggy Lee on her album "I Like Men!".
In 1920, Olman began working in Manhattan for the Forster music publishing firm, and became a member of ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Two of his songs were included in the 1920 Ziegfeld Follies, including "O-Hi-O (O-My!-O!)", with lyrics by Jack Yellen, which was introduced by Al Jolson and which later (as "Down By the O-Hi-O") became a hit for the Andrews Sisters. Although he continued to write songs thereafter, he worked increasingly as an executive in the music industry. He became the secretary and general manager of Leo Feist, Inc. in 1935, holding the post until 1956, and also began working for the much larger firm of Robbins Music in the early 1940s. He is credited as being one of the first to see the benefits of promoting a song by placing it in a motion picture, particularly by playing the theme song under the opening credits. Olman was also director of ASCAP from 1946 to 1956.
In 1969, with Johnny Mercer and Howie Richmond, he co-founded the National Academy of Popular Music's Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1983, the Songwriters Hall of Fame established and named the annual Abe Olman Publisher Award in his honor.
Personal life.
He married actress Mattie Adele Parker (stage name Peggy Parker) in 1922; they had two daughters. In later life he moved to live in southern California. He died in Rancho Mirage, California in 1984, at the age of 96.


Jana Robbins

Jana Robbins, née Marsha Eisenberg, (born April 18, 1947) is an American producer, actress, director, teacher, and speaker. She has been nominated for Broadway’s Tony Award and is the winner of Olivier and Drama Desk Awards for her West End, Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.
Early life.
Robbins was born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Daughter of Phillip and Edythe Eisenberg, she is the middle child of three children. Her mother studied at the Gene Kelly Studio of Dance in Johnstown, PA with Gene Kelly himself. Her father, a businessman and owner of Consolidated Vending Machine Company, also owned The Golden Key Restaurant and Lounge, where 16 year old Robbins could be found singing.
With her mother’s encouragement, she first began performing in recitals at the Gene Kelly Studio of Dance, and got her first solo at 6 years old. She continued to star in various school productions in high school. She received a BFA in Theater from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri in 1967.
Career.
1960s.
Robbins attended her first New York City theater production, "Man of La Mancha", when she was 21 years old. Less than a year later in 1969, she appeared as Aldonza in the Broadway National Tour.
1970s.
In 1974, Robbins made her Broadway debut in "Good News" as Patricia Bingham and standby for Alice Fay as Professor Kenyon. One year later in 1975, she toured as The Leader in "Zorba" with Theodore Bikell. In 1976, she appeared in “Tickles by Tucholsky” Off-Broadway. That same year, she played Louise in "Gypsy" at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. In 1977, she played Cleo and Monica in "I Love My Wife" on Broadway. In 1979, she appeared in the Off-Broadway show “The All Night Strut!”
1980s.
In 1983, Robbins starred as Lenny McGrath in "Crimes of the Heart" on Broadway. That same year, she toured as Melba in "Pal Joey" starring Joel Grey. Also in 1983, she starred as Colette in the York Theatre Company’s production of "Collette Collage".
In 1984, she starred as Ruth Van Horn in a regional production of "Follow Thru" at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. Also in 1984, she starred in a New York production of "Circus Gothic".
She returned to Broadway in 1988 in "Romance, Romance". She finished off the decade in the original cast of the 1989 Broadway revival of "Gypsy", in which she played Mazeppa and served as a standby for Mama Rose.
1990s.
Robbins completed her Broadway run in "Gypsy" as Mazeppa and standby for Tyne Daly as Mama Rose in 1991. In 1992, she made her first foray into screen acting as a guest star on "Cheers". Throughout the course of the decade, she had roles in "Family Album", "The Home Court", "Bless This House", "Mother", "Roseanne", "The Last Days of Frankie the Fly", "Executive Target", "Night Stand", and "Babylon 5".
In 1995, Robbins began her career as a producer by forming Better World Productions. She developed, directed, and produced "The Participant" in association with Chazz Palminteri, written by and starring Dayton Callie in Los Angeles which was nominated for a Best Solo Performance Award by "LA Weekly".
In 1997, she returned to the stage as Alda in a regional production of "Death Takes a Holiday" at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara, California. The following year, she reprised her role as Mazeppa in "Gypsy" at the Papermill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey and served as standby for Betty Buckley as Mama Rose.
In 1999, she performed in "So Long, 174th Street!" in a concert staging at the 14th Street Y in New York City.
2000s.
In 2000, Robbins played Ethel McCormack in the National Tour of "Footloose".
Also in 2000, Robbins appeared in "The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife" on Broadway as the standby for Marjorie and Lee. After the show closed on Broadway in 2002, Robbins went on to play Lee in the National Tour opposite Valerie Harper.
Robbins made her Broadway producing debut in 2005 with Allan Knee's "Little Women" starring Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern, which garnered a Tony nomination for Sutton Foster in the leading role. Also that year, she was honored with the Tree of Life Award by the Jewish National Fund. In 2006, she produced an Off-Broadway production of I Love You Because.
Also in 2006, Robbins starred as Bessie in a production of "Awake and Sing!" at the Arena Stage in New York City. In 2007, she played The Attic Lady in "The As If Body Loop" in the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky.
Throughout the decade, Robbins had roles in television shows "Law and Order: SVU", "Law and Order: Criminal Intent", and "Law and Order". She had roles in the movies "Stanley Cuba" and "The Women".
In 2008, she began early development as executive producer on "The Jazz Age", which had its first developmental production at 59E59th street in New York City. In 2009, "The Jazz Age" had another developmental production with The Blank Theater Company in Los Angeles, California.
2010s.
In 2010, Robbins received a Tony nomination for “Best Revival of a Musical" for her part in helping to transfer the Kennedy Center production of "Ragtime" to Broadway with producer Kevin McCollum.
Also in 2010, Robbins produced "White’s Lies" Off-Broadway at New World Stages in New York City.
In 2011, she produced the Off-Broadway production "Through the Night" with producer Daryl Roth and starred as The Chaperone in a 2011 production of "The Drowsy Chaperone" at the Victoria Theater in Ohio. In 2012, she originated the role of Maxine in the world premiere of "Managing Maxine" at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
In 2012, Robbins returned to her alma mater Stephen’s College as the guest artistic director of their Okoboji Summer Theater, where she directed "Crimes of the Heart", in which she previously appeared on Broadway, and "Little Women", in which she previously produced on Broadway.
She also continued her television acting career with 2014 appearances in "Nurse Jackie" and "The Good Wife".
In 2016, Robbins joined the advisory board of The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and served as lead producer of the world premiere production of "Roof of the World" at Kansas City Repertory Theatre.
In 2017, Robbins starred as Janet in the Off-Broadway show "This One’s For the Girls" at St. Luke’s Theater in New York City. That same year, she produced and starred as Rita in "Johnny Manhattan" at the Meadow Brook Theater in Rochester Hills, New York. She also directed the 2017 Off-Broadway production of "She Has a Name". The following year in 2018, she appeared as Alice in "Clever Little Lies" at Penquin Rep..
In 2018, Robbins stepped up as the lead commercial producer of "Fiddler on the Roof" in Yiddish, along with producing partner Hal Luftig, to transfer The National Yiddish Theater Folksbeine’s production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in Yiddish directed by Joel Grey up town to Off-Broadway’s Stage 42. The show garnered both she and Hal Luftig the 2019 Drama Desk Award for “Outstanding Revival of a Musical,” the New York Outer Critics Circle Award for “Best Revival of a Musical,” the Drama Critics Circle Award “Special Citation,” and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for “Best Musical Revival.”
Robbins also won the 2018 Olivier Award as a producer on the West End production of "Company" directed by Marianne Elliot, which will open on Broadway in March, 2020.
In 2019, Robbins directed and produced the UK premiere and Off-West End developmental production of "The Jazz Age" by Allan Knee at the Playground Theatre. She also produced the World Premiere of "The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit", a new musical with book by Allan Knee and music and lyrics by Andre Catrini, in association with Hope Aria Productions at The Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, England.


Arthur Longbrake

Arthur Longbrake was a songwriter and lyricist. He established the Eclipse Music Company. He wrote the words to "I'd like to know where I met you" and "On the Beach 'Neath the Old Willow Tree".
"Brother Noah Gave Out Checks for Rain" recounts the story of a church deacon with a leaky roof and a baseball game with Biblical figures.
Several performances of the songs he wrote were recorded with Arthur Collins singing them. They are minstrel songs. Joseph Smith published several.


Jason Gerken

Jason Gerken is an American musician, who has played in Molly McGuire, Shiner, Open Hand, Project 86, and most recently, HUM as well as The Birth Defects and Sie Lieben Maschinen. Gerken took over for Bryan St. Pere of HUM, when he decided to part ways with the band. According to Bruce Fitzhugh, Gerken met the band, Project 86, on a tour of theirs along with Living Sacrifice and Stavesacre.


Brad Schumacher

Bradley Darrell Schumacher (born March 6, 1974) is an American former competition swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic gold medalist. Schumacher is a two-time, two-sport Olympian. He was a member of the winning relay teams at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Four years later, he was a member of the U.S. men's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Schumacher's two gold medals came as a member of the U.S. men's swimming relay teams at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia: in the men's 4×100-meter freestyle relay and in the men's 4 × 200 m-meter freestyle relay. Although Schumacher qualified for both swimming and water polo for the 2000 Olympic Games, he chose to compete only in water polo. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, he helped the U.S. men's water polo team to a sixth-place finish. He was the top sprinter at the 2000 Olympics, with 20 sprints won.
Schumacher was the first American world champion in swimming and water polo since the 1904 Olympic Games. In 1997, he earned a gold medal at the Pan-Pacific Games and his first national championship at the U.S. Spring Nationals. In water polo, he has represented the U.S. at the FINA World Championships, FINA World Cup, World University Games and the Goodwill Games.
In 1998, Schumacher competed in World Championships in both sports and joined an elite group of aquatics stars that competed in both sports on the world-class level: Duke Khanamoku, Johnny Weissmuller, Bob Hughes, and Matt Biondi.
He was a swimming and water polo All-American in college for coach John Tanner at the University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California, where he completed bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration.
Schumacher is the co-founder of KAP7 International, Inc., a water polo equipment company, and he spends his time as the head coach of SET water polo club, a Southern California-based team that continues to rank among the top water polo clubs in the country. His 18-and-under girls club team won the gold medal at the 2009 S&R Sport National Junior Olympics.


Jeff Glixman

Jeff Glixman is an American record producer. He has produced, mixed or remastered artists such as Kansas, Gary Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Georgia Satellites and Black Sabbath. Combined sales of his projects exceed 30 million units.
Career.
His first production was the 1975 Kansas album "Song for America" and he went on to produce their albums "Masque" (1975), "Leftoverture" (1976) and "Point of Know Return" (1977). He wrote additional lyrics on Black Sabbath's "Seventh Star" (1986). In addition, Glixman has worked as a mixer on 5.1 surround sound projects for the Allman Brothers' "Eat a Peach" and "At Fillmore East", Ludacris' "Chicken-n-Beer", Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" and Bob Marley & The Wailers' Live at Leeds, the second disc in the reissue of "Burnin"'.
Glixman is the Executive Vice President of StarCity Recording Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is involved in the ownership and management of professional studios including Axis Sound Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, Caribbean Sound Basin in Trinidad and Lobo Recording Studios in Deer Park, New York.
Discography.
The following is an incomplete list of the records worked on by Glixman since 1974.


Josh Abraham

Josh Abraham is an American record producer, songwriter, and music executive. He has worked with artists including P!nk, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Kelly Clarkson, Shakira, Weezer, Linkin Park, Velvet Revolver, Carly Rae Jepsen, Adam Lambert, and Slayer.
His career began in the recording studio in the mid-1990s, as a self-taught musician, producer, mixer, and engineer. He met vocalist Jay Gordon leading to production work on some of the biggest selling albums of the decade. As a client of The Firm, Inc. he became A&R and Staff Producer, leading to a similar role at Virgin Records where he teamed up with the likes of Thirty Seconds to Mars and Courtney Love.
Pulse Recording.
In 2004, Abraham formed Pulse Recording, after purchasing the property which operated as Soundcastle Recording Studios for more than 25 years. Designed in 1967 by influential mid-century modern architect Carl Maston, the Pulse Recording headquarters consists of two redwood block and glass buildings on a one-acre lot, housing two recording studios and an office space. The building has received the prestigious American Institute of Architects award for quality of construction and design. Notable artists that have recorded on the property since its inception include: U2, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Tupac Shakur, Billy Joel, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dr. Dre, Herbie Hancock, and Mary J. Blige.
He went on to create Pulse Management and Songs of Pulse, both operating under the Pulse Recording umbrella with partner Scott Cutler. Since 2010, the company's client roster has co-written Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream", "California Gurls", "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" and "Part of Me", Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" Phillip Phillips' "Home" and Neon Trees' "Animal" and "Everybody Talks". Pulse Recording now operates two Recording studios, one based at its headquarters in Los Angeles, and one based in Burbank, California. In 2012, the company established a partnership with Creative Nation, the Nashville-based music management and publishing company owned by songwriter Luke Laird and his wife Beth Laird.
Awards and nominations.
Latin Grammy Awards


Mark A. Altman

Mark A. Altman is a writer, producer and actor.


J. Fred Helf

J. Fred. Helf (1870? – November 19, 1915) was an American composer and sheet music publisher during the early 20th century.
Helf was born in Maysville, Kentucky. He went to seek his fortune in New York City at the age of 31. There he composed over 100 songs, some in collaboration with Will A. Heelan.
In October 1910 his music publishing company, J. Fred Helf Music, filed for bankruptcy with Elihu Root, Jr. acting as receiver. All the company's property and assets were sold at auction on March 12, 1913 in New York.
He retired from the music business five months before he died due to an illness. He died in Liberty, New York at the age of 45 leaving a widow and a daughter.
Credits.
His credits as composer or co-composer include


Pete Ganbarg

Pete Ganbarg is a 2-time Grammy Award winning music business executive who is currently President of A&R for Atlantic Records. and President of ATCO Records.
Pete started his career in A&R in 1989 at SBK Records. When SBK ceased operations in the late-1990s, Pete joined Clive Davis at Arista Records as Sr. Director, A&R. The first artist he worked with at Arista was Santana, for whom Pete conceived and A&R’d the 30X Platinum World Wide, 9X Grammy Winning Album of the Year, "Supernatural".
In early 2001, Pete left Arista and joined Epic Records as Sr. Vice President, A&R.
Pete left Epic in late 2003 to start his own A&R consulting business, Pure Tone Music. Pure Tone’s label clients included Arista Records, RCA Records, Virgin Records, and Atlantic Records. Company projects included albums by Daughtry, Kelly Clarkson, David Cook, Halestorm, Train, Santana, Kenny G, Aaron Neville, America, Donna Summer, and Chaka Khan.
He joined Atlantic Records as Executive Vice President/Head of A&R in mid-October 2008 and was named President of A&R in late 2017.
As of 2021, he also hosts "Rock & Roll High School," a podcast interview series that spotlights figures from the history of contemporary music.
Ganbarg is a graduate of Wesleyan University.


Patricia Cardoso

Patricia Cardoso is a director, writer, and producer. Cardoso's feature film "Real Women Have Curves" was a box office and critical success and has become a landmark of Latino cinema.
Cardoso is a graduate of UCLA's film school, an anthropologist, and a Fulbright scholar; her anthropological approach to directing guides her film and television work.
Cardoso was the first Hispanic woman director to receive a Sundance Audience Award and a Student Academy Award®.
Episodic directing work includes Netflix's "The Society" and "Tales of the City", "All Rise", "Emergence", "Party of Five", and "Diary of a Future President".
In 2017, Cardoso was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Directors Branch.
In 2018, Ava DuVernay tapped her to direct an episode of her acclaimed television series "Queen Sugar".
In 2019, her film "Real Women Have Curves" was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry "as a cinematic treasure and worthy of preservation as part of America’s patrimony".
Early life.
As a child Cardoso wrote and illustrated home-made picture-books. Only when she became a film student at UCLA she realized these books were story boards. Cardoso's first film was a humorous documentary titled "Vacas Flacas y Vacas Gordas" (Skinny Cows and Fat Cows) about the famine and feast periods her family endured. Due to the lack of technology in her household the film was made with toothpicks, paper, and cardboard.
She studied anthropology at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
Career.
At UCLA film school she was at the top of her class earning all major directing awards at the school: the Colin Higgins Foundation Award in Film, the Lynn Weston Fellowship in Film, and the Verna Fields Award.
Cardoso’s directing credits include episodes of "The Society", "All Rise", and "Tales of the City" and the feature"Teresa" —the largest box office for a woman director in Colombia.
Cardoso was the first Latinx woman to win a Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Audience Award and to receive a Student Academy Award.
Cardoso attributes her anthropological background to the respect she has for every character in her films, the depth and dimension of her character development, and for the rigorous research she does during pre-production to create reality and truthfulness in her movies.
Cardoso's "Real Women Have Curves" broke many conventions of traditional Hollywood filmmaking and became a landmark in American independent film. According to "Entertainment Weekly", it is "one of the most influential movies of the 2000s," and cast "a wide shadow over the new generation of filmmakers to come." The movie is cited for showing "the impact a movie could have in the culture," and it is acclaimed for its nuanced portrayal of its characters and of Los Angeles.
Filmography.
El Regalo.
Written and produced by Dago García and directed by Cardoso, the film stars Cesar Mora, Ella Becerra, Javier Ramirez and Margalida Castro.
The Toymaker.
Directed and produced by Cardoso the documentary film is about Horst Damme, a blind German toymaker, who has lived in Bogotá since 1936 when he arrived with his family as refugees from Nazi-Germany.
La Clave.
Directed by Cardoso and written by Josefina Lopez the short film tells the story of a family faced with the mental illness of their daughter. The film stars Mariana Montes, Luis Enrique, and Ivette Gonzales. The film won the First Place Drama Short for the United Latino Film Festival, a Gold CINDY Award, a Robert Townsend Social Issues Award and Merit Special Mention at The Best Shorts Competition.
Meddling Mom.
Directed by Cardoso, written by Nina Weiman and produced by Frank Konigsberg and Patricia Clifford, "Meddling Mom" was the first Latino film ever made by Hallmark Channel. The film stars Sonia Braga, as Carmen Vera, a ceramics art dealer and meddling mother pursued by a charming dance professor played by Tony Plana. The film was nominated to an IMAGEN Award for Sonia Braga's strong performance.
Carmen Vega is guilty of being a meddling mom. Her crimes include slipping into daughter Yolanda's home to leave behind "how-to" books on starting a family and manipulating daughter Ally into a doomed relationship with her best friend Marisol's son Pablo. Now Carmen Vega, notorious mother of good intentions, is about to get a crash course in butting out and maybe she'll even find a romantic life of her own.
The film was shot on location at Jose Vera's Fine Arts and Antiques wonderful store in Eagle Rock.
Ro.
Cardoso directed a six-episode web series for YouTube channel WIGS. Ro, a young woman in parole, played by Melonie Diaz, goes to a speed dating bar trying to rebuild his life after prison. The series was produced by Rodrigo García, John Avnet and Jake Avnet.
The series is written by talented Mattie Brickman and stars along Diaz William Mapother, Jonathan Tucker and Christopher Carley.
Lies in Plain Sight.
Cardoso directed the remake of the Israeli movie "". Written by Teena Booth based on Noa Greenberg's script the film stars Rosie Perez, Martha Higadera, Chad Michael Murray and Benito Martinez. It was produced by Frank Konigsberg and Yan Fisher-Romanovsky for Sony Television and Lifetime.
The story of Eva and her blind cousin Sofia (Martha Higadera), who were inseparable as children, with Eva the loyal companion who helped Sofia through her tough adolescent years. When Eva suddenly commits suicide, Sofia rushes home to her father, Hector (Benito Martinez), and Eva's parents, Marisol (Rosie Perez) and Rafael (Yul Vásquez), to find answers. But the more she delves into Eva's life, questioning her past boyfriend's Ethan (Chad Michael Murray) and Christian (Christoph Sanders), the more Sofia realizes that their childhood was actually filled with dark, disturbing secrets.
The film received a NAMIC Vision Award, an IMAGEN Award for Martha Higadera's performance and was selected as Lifetime Movie of the Year in 2011. It was nominated to an NAACP Image Award for Rosie Perez's performance.
Awards.
Cardoso received:


Bob Beckham

Robert Joseph Beckham (July 8, 1927 – November 11, 2013) was an American country music publisher based in Nashville, who mentored generations of songwriters as head of Combine Music Publishing from 1964 to 1989. He played a pivotal role in the career of Kris Kristofferson and guided other artists including Dolly Parton, Larry Gatlin, Tony Joe White and Billy Swan.
As a young man, he had stint of acting in motion pictures in Hollywood and he himself became a recording artist with some fleeting success — but Beckham turned to music publishing in 1961 as his primary career. In the 1970s, Beckham became a major power on Music Row, and nurtured many great songwriters who wrote classic hits like "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (Kris Kristofferson), and Elvis Presley's "Burning Love" (Dennis Linde). Beckham was a gruff but supportive father figure to his staff songwriters, whom he truly loved. He was given the Mentor Award by the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Nashville Entertainment Association presented him with its Master Award in 1988 and he received the Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music in 2014. Beckham died in 2013 in a Nashville hospital at age 86.
Early years.
Beckham was born in Stratford, Oklahoma. Beginning at age 8, he got into entertainment as a child actor with a traveling show. He was a Hollywood movie actor for a while ("Junior G Men", "Starmaker" ) but returned to Oklahoma in 1940 to attend school. He served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper during World War II and then worked as an electrician. He got a job on the radio with Arthur Godfrey before signing a record deal with Decca Records. As a recording artist, three of his records charted in 1959-1960: "Just as Much as Ever" peaked at No. 32 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1959; "Crazy Arms" peaked at No. 36 in 1960; "Mais Oui" charted at 105. Beckham composed Vic Dana's 1963 chart song "Danger". On tour, Beckham was the opening act for Brenda Lee. When his performing career waned, he settled in Nashville in 1959, where producer Owen Bradley suggested song publishing as a possibility. Beckham's starting job in publishing was in 1961 as the Nashville liaison for Atlanta's Bill Lowery, helping nurture the careers of Ray Stevens, Jerry Reed and Joe South. He then worked for Shelby Singleton Music.
Career.
In the early 1960s Fred Foster, owner of both Monument Records and Combine Music, was having success producing singer Roy Orbison on the Monument label. In 1964, Foster asked Beckham to run Combine Music, the publishing arm of the developing juggernaut, which was struggling when Beckham signed on. After two years, Beckham was made president of Combine. According to historian Michael Kosser, "Beckham was one of those rare publishers who truly loved songwriters, and he quickly established his reputation as a gruff but very supportive father figure to his staff writers." When Combine moved to Nashville's Music Row it became a gathering place for songwriters. According to musician Norbert Putnam, "Beckham, we felt, built his company because he had free beer every day at five." Putnam said that every day there would be 18 or so people at Combine, and half of them worked for other publishers. Combine staff writer, Chris Gantry said, "He wasn't like a publisher. He was like a dad. He knew how to connect with his writers". Journalist Robert K. Oermann called Beckham "a master raconteur who kept listeners spellbound... The trend developing in those years was to sign singer-songwriters not only for their songs, but also to develop them as performing artists — that way, the publisher had both the singer and the song. An example is Kris Kristofferson, signed to record on Monument records, with his songs published by Combine. Beckham was also shrewd in pioneering deals for song exposure in commercials, placing Combine's copyrights in advertising jingles.
Dolly Parton.
In 1964, Dolly Parton moved to Nashville the day after she graduated from high school in East Tennessee. Parton said, "I went down on Music Row to get my contract or an audition. I tried two or three places and they all were filled up with girl singers". She found Fred Foster who signed her on Monument Records. Beckham signed her to a publishing deal at Combine (she had written hundreds of songs). They were unsure of what genre would be best for her voice. "They recorded me as a rock singer", Parton said; " I really came to do country because I always sung country. That's what I was and what I wanted to be". The attempt at rock was unsuccessful; however, two of the songs she had co-written with her uncle, Bill Owens, made the top ten when recorded by Bill Phillips in 1966. Parton was then allowed to try country music and she recorded "Dumb Blonde" which was a hit. In 1967, she released her first full album, "Hello, I'm Dolly " on which Parton had written (or co-written with her uncle) all the songs. It peaked at No.11 on the country albums chart. This album caught the attention of Porter Waggoner and shortly after, Parton gained national attention joining the syndicated weekly "Porter Waggoner Show". With her approval, Beckham began to place some her songs to be recorded by other artists. She said, "he works real hard on our behalf".
Kris Kristofferson.
In 1967, a new songwriter named Kris Kristofferson came into Beckham's office and said his previous publishing deal had expired. Beckham heard his material and immediately called Foster. The two had a rule that every candidate had to sing four songs for them (anybody could write one or two..."you can't write four great songs unless you're a writer"). Both Beckham and Foster immediately realized what they had when Kristofferson sang for them. Foster said, "My God, there's never been a writer of this caliber here that's come to my office". Kristofferson was signed to Combine for publishing and to a record contract with Monument, but Kristofferson protested the latter, saying "I can't sing— I sound like a frog". The answer was "you can communicate".
When Kristofferson was a new hire in 1969, he was having a little dry spell in writing and Foster suggested he come up with a song where the hook would be about the name of a woman; a secretary named "Bobbie McKee" who worked in their office. Kristofferson came up with "Me and Bobby McGee" and sang it for her in the office. Kristofferson said, "You know, somebody would give you a title and then bet you couldn't write a song to fit it". The song began to take off, first recorded by Roger Miller in 1969. Kristofferson's own version was released on his first Monument album in 1970 but it did not chart. It was Janis Joplin's posthumously-released version that pushed the song to No. 1. Joplin's version changed the gender of "Bobby McGee" into a male. Other artists took three of the songs on his "Kristofferson" album to top-ten status: "For the Good Times" (Ray Price); "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (Johnny Cash); and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Sammi Smith).
Dennis Linde.
In 1969, a 26 year old musician and songwriter from St. Louis named Dennis Linde (pronounced LIN-dy) came to Nashville and was hired as staff writer by Beckham. Linde loved the creative environment he found working there. Linde said, "Bob Beckham's building at Combine was a rickety old two-story place, and Kris [Kristofferson] lived in an upstairs room next door. I just had never run into so many talented people". In 1970 Linde had a couple of hits, one by Roy Drusky and another by Roger Miller. Coincidentally, Linde met Beckham's daughter Pam— eventually the two fell in love and were married. The following year Linde wrote a song called "Burning Love". He had just bought a set of drums for his home studio and was learning to play them when the song came to him. He played all the parts himself and made a demo. The first singer to record it was Arthur Alexander on the Warner Brothers label in late 1971, but soon the song reached Elvis Presley who released his own version. This eclipsed Alexander's version quickly— Presley's making the top ten in both the U.S. and Europe and scarcely missed becoming No. 1 in the U.S.(1972). It was Presley's last major hit and the song's worldwide success greatly increased Combine's profitability; for example, the song was featured on the soundtracks of five motion pictures. Linde's stature as a songwriter was also increased, allowing him to do other projects, and make solo albums. Elvis recorded two more of Linde's compositions, "I got a Feelin' in my Body" and "For the Heart".
Later years.
Combine's success peaked in the early 1970s largely due to the Kristofferson and Linde hits so big that they became country standards. In 1996, Combine was sold to Swid, Bandier,and Koppleman (SBK Entertainment). In 1990, Beckham established HoriPro Music, a subsidiary of Taiyo Music, Japan's largest music publisher. He advanced to chairman of "HoriPro Entertainment Group" in 2001, and remained as president until he retired in 2006.


Kevin Beamish

Kevin Keith Beamish is an American record producer, sound engineer, songwriter and mixer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he became a naturalized American citizen at the age of 9.
Classically trained on woodwind instruments, he secured a recording deal for his band "The Weathervane" by the age of 16. Crystal Recording Studios hired him to be a studio assistant; short for make coffee, answer the phones and stand in the studio all day and night, learning and helping. His entrance into recording was while assisting on Cisco Kid by War, and offering a few lines to help them when they were stuck. Their songs were long, cascading jams and they were short on lyrics. Beamish added a few ideas, naively. Told quickly by a manager (after they used a few words he suggested), to never mention it again; when Beamish asked how he would be credited. This was a quick study on the publishing business and perils of the business.
During this time at Crystal, The Miracles were recording and he mixed his first number one, worldwide, #1 Record "Love Machine". It would catapult him into being one of the top recording engineers and producers for 30 years. "Love Machine" is a 1976 number-one single recorded by Motown group The Miracles, taken from their album "City of Angels". This single was one of two Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits recorded by The Miracles with Billy Griffin as lead vocalist; the other is 1973’s "Do It Baby". Griffin had replaced Miracles founder and lead singer Smokey Robinson as lead singer in 1972. The song features a growling sound by Miracles tenor Bobby Rogers.
Kevin Beamish produced and engineered REO Speedwagon’s No. 1 album "Hi Infidelity" and sang parts on the hit single "Keep on Loving You", with 15 million albums and four million singles sold worldwide. Beamish produced five of REO's catalog.
In 1982, Beamish produced and engineered/mixed Jefferson Starship's "Winds of Change" (1982), Saxon’s "Crusader" (1984) and Y&T's "Contagious" (1987).
He started producing heavier rock such as Keel, Leatherwolf, and into the 1990s with Contraband and Michael Schenker Group.
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Recorded at The Automatt, San Francsico
Mixed and mastered at Kendun Recorders, Burbank
℗ 1971, 1982 RCA Records
Produced and engineered for Kevin Beamish Productions, Inc.
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Label Code: LC 2484
Rights Society: GEMA
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side 1): RCA FL - 14 372 - A
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side 2): RCA FL - 14 372 - B
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Franco Bario

Franco E. Bario is an American television line producer.
Career.
Bario produced the NBC situation comedies "Saved by the Bell" from 1990 to 1993, ' from 1993 to 1995, and ' from 1993 to 1994. He also produced the 1992 television movie "", and the series "California Dreams" from 1992 to 1996. Bario next did the ABC comedy "Grace Under Fire" from 1996 to 1998, followed by the first season of Fox's "That '70s Show" from 1998 to 1999. He later produced "Living With Fran" for The WB from 2005 to 2006, and Lifetime's "Rita Rocks" from 2008 to 2009.