Hollywood Weekly Magazine September 2016

SEPTEMBER 2016

JIMMY D ROBINSON

JIMMY D ROBINSON SONGWRITER POET ULLS A FLOCK OF SEAG PHOTO: GEORGE ANDREWS

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KAT KRAMER MAKING A DIFFERENCE PAUL FEGEN “WORLD’S GREATEST MIND-READING

MAGICIAN”

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PUBLISHER/EDITOR IN CHIEF Prather Jackson

A LETTER FROM

THE EDITOR

In this, our September edition, we are honored to showcase Mr. Jimmy D. Robinson. As described more fully in his interview with Hollywood Weekly: “In an extremely competitive and oftentimes over-aloof business, laden with slick wheelers and shady dealers, Jimmy D Robinson continues to rise to the top of his game as one of the greatest names in the art world, due to his friendly and highlyrecommended service and his total honesty in the business.

VICE PRESIDENT Bernice Harris Michael D. Coxson OPERATIONS Erskine D. McSwain (1991-2000) MANAGING EDITOR Prather Jackson

PRATHER JACKSON

“I have been an avid art lover and collector most of my adult life.

Throughout the years, I’ve met many art dealers and brokers, but none has compared to the superb client care I have experienced while working with Jimmy D. Robinson. His expertise, honesty and friendly red carpet service have brought me back to him time and time again, for all of my buying and selling needs. Jimmy D. Robinson has earned his spot on my speed dial. You will quickly admire him and his phenomenal work as well.” -- Sandra G. - Attorney, Miami.

Additionally, we also take a look at the comedic brilliance of Kaliph Hassan. Being funny comes natural to him. When Kaliph was younger, he created an incredible impersonation of Eddie Murphy based upon Murphy’s dazzling performance in “Trading Places.”

Toni Morrison once said everything she writes comes from love.

Every novel she’s published is a story steeped in love. Comedian/ Impersonator/Writer Kaliph Hassan is also motivated by love. Making people happy has been a love of his since he was a young boy performing for relatives at family gatherings.

In addition, we are pleased to introduce Chicago native and columnist, Darwin Heard. Mr. Heard always has an interesting view of the world.

And finally, most people come to Hollywood to make money or to make a name for themselves, but Kat Kramer came to Hollywood to make a difference. Kat is Hollywood royalty, but she’s no princess. A tireless advocate and promoter of important social causes, she may be the closest thing Hollywood’s got to a revolutionary. Kat Kramer wants to change the world, and like her famous father – legendary producer and director Stanley Kramer – she’s doing it through the medium of film.

Enjoy,

Prather Jackon Prather Jackson

PUBLISHER

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PHARRELL WILLIAMS

CELEBRATES THE LAUNCH OF THE ‘YOOBI X I AM OTHER’ BACK-TO-SCHOOL COLLECTION IN L.A.

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PAUL FEGEN

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“WORLD’S GREATEST MIND-READING MAGICIAN”

“HEAT”

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MICHAEL MANN, AL PACINO AND ROBERT DE NIRO TOGETHER

“STREET” 16 JENNIFER LOPEZ’S BOYFRIEND, BEAU “CASPER” SMART TEAMS UP WITH MARK RYAN

KALIPH HASSAN

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COMEDIAN, IMPERSONATOR, WRITER KALIPH HASSAN

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IMA IS MADE UP OF 100 YEARS OF CREATIVE EXPERIENCE WHO TOGETHER FORM THE MOST UNIQUE CONTENT AROUND

KAT KRAMER

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A LOT OF MY FATHER’S FILMS HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD

CHERYL BOONE ISAACS

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RE-ELECTED ACADEMY PRESIDENT

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POET, SONGWRITERPRODUCER JIMMY D ROBINSON CURATES NEW CHILLOUT LOUNGE CD STARRING A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS

PHOTO: GEORGE ANDREWS

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A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS

BY COOKIE ROSENBAUM

One thing about Grammy hopeful Jimmy D Robinson is that you can always expect the unexpected. Poet, songwriter, producer, artist Jimmy D Robinson is about to drop an arsenal of tracks from his latest collaboration with the legendary Grammy winning A Flock of Seagulls.

Robinson has been crafting an amazing collection of new chillout lounge songs, which feature his prolific poetry and the intricate weaving of talents between A Flock of Seagulls and internationally-adored producers Josh Harris and FC Nond. It is with meticulous curation that Robinson sets every lavish production ablaze within the creative hub at Mind Juice Records. Very generous in his leadership as executive producer and lyricist, Robinson allows his enlisted musical comrades plenty of multidimensional space where their thoughts and ideas freely collide and coexist. The end result of this experimental chillout lounge creative process is truly mind and soul sustenance.

How did Jimmy D Robinson arrive at this level of curation and musicianship? The answer is he has stayed true to his artistic visions with prodigious integrity. He was worked with countless singers and musicians throughout the years, turning his published poems into living musical masterpieces. Among them, he is most proud of his musical work thus far with Melba Moore and Carol Jiani. Both ladies have recorded a plethora of Robinson’s poetic songs for his club dance label. In fact, Robinson is releasing two brand new dance poetry music projects with diva Jiani – “Heaven Earth Man” featuring a remarkable production from Mauro Mozart and the awe-inspiring belter “I Got This Feeling” produced by Moto Blanco following later this year.

The chillout lounge foray with A Flock of Seagulls, Josh Harris and FC Nond is quite monumental; it is at once, unpredictable and refreshing. There are many bands of yesteryear that fade into obscurity and there are those special groups that are ingrained in our minds forever. The Grammy winning A Flock of Seagulls is a British new wave group whose name remains

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“The reality that I am working with ‘A Flock of Seagulls’ is quite surreal at times,” says Robinson. “I have to pinch myself when I hear Mike singing my words to such colorful melodies and fantastic production. Mike is a musical genius.

It is an extraordinary experience putting this whole project together with such a renowned band and infusing the art with the persuasive and meticulous production of Josh Harris and the captivating sounds of FC Nond. We expect the lead single release “Ageless Prince” to take Ibiza and the U.S. market by storm sometime this coming fall.”

On “Living in Time” Scores delivered his distinctive vocals with ardent melodies, reminiscent of his synth-pop past into modern day. The forthcoming chillout lounge CD is a new departure for Scores, but he is completely absorbed and dedicated to this unique artistic process.

“Once we start messing around with one of Jimmy’s poems, we manage to work everyone’s talented personalities into a jigsaw puzzle,” says Score from his home in Cocoa Beach, FL. “The finished song really makes a picture of all of us in this collaboration. The music has a great lift with a relaxed feel…it’s quite beautiful!”

synonymous with the ‘80s, all around the world. How can we ever forget the group founder and front man Mike Scores’ haunting vocals and lyrics on the legendary song “I Ran” as well as the music video featuring him playing a keyboard, donning his enigmatic punk hairstyle? Score’s look later evolved into a “seagull” inspired water-fountain front swoosh hairdo, which spawned a new generation of copycats. This look, the songs, and the punk-pop movement dominated MTV. A Flock of Seagulls were the darlings of that era.

Thirty-something years later, go to any ‘80s night event and you will hear the song “I Ran.” Mike Scores divides his year between Liverpool, England and Cocoa Beach, Florida as he continues taking the current Seagulls band lineup out on the road – touring all over the globe.

To mark the approaching 35th Anniversary of A Flock of Seagulls, Jimmy D Robinson is teaming up with Mike Scores to produce and create a modern chillout lounge album titled “Living in Time.” Utilizing abstract and lyrical poetry from all of Robinson’s works, A Flock of Seagulls sets the words to music, creating mesmerizing melodies while collaborating on leading-edge production with producers Josh Harris and FC Nond.

Jimmy D Robinson is quick to point out that the lead single “Ageless Prince” will be remixed for club play in the UK and the U.S. “We will take it in a new direction for serious dance music lovers and promote it out to DJs and clubs. It’s very exciting.”

While finishing up the upcoming “Living in Time” album, A Flock of Seagulls will be touring this summer with a dozen dates in South America and shows all across Europe and America. The recent Brexit does not seem to rattle Mike Scores. He believes that when the dust settles “everything will be okay.” He tenderly stated “It doesn’t mean England is leaving Europe. People still want England and England still wants to be part of Europe.

England has been on its own before and when the dust settles all will be well.”

Scores continues, “Our fan base is huge and it is always so much fun to play for them. We are excited to give them some great new music. Fans will love our new collaborations and future work, while celebrating the 35 years of A Flock of Seagulls with ‘Living in Time!’”

There is little doubt that Jimmy D Robinson’s “Living in Time” project starring A Flock of Seagulls will be a very strong outing in this new musical medium. New and long-standing audiences will fall in love, to and with, this dazzling chillout lounge CD, which is due out end of 2016.

So, put this CD on your holiday wish list now.

JIMMY D WAS WORKED WITH COUNTLESS SINGERS AND MUSICIANS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, TURNING HIS PUBLISHED POEMS INTO LIVING MUSICAL MASTERPIECES. AMONG THEM, HE IS MOST PROUD OF HIS MUSICAL WORK THUS FAR WITH MELBA MOORE AND CAROL JIANI. 6 HOLLYWOOD WEEKLY

“AGELESS PRINCE” single release is expected to take IBIZA and US market by storm

“LIVING IN TIME.” Jimmy D Robinson teaming up with A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS to Produce a Modern Chillout album

PHOTO: GEORGE ANDREWS

Dance Poetry CD with Disco Diva CAROL JIANI “HEAVEN EARTH MAN“ Featuring remarkable Production with Mauro Mozart, Josh Harris

BY STORM SOMETIME THIS COMING FALL

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avid Eugene Andrews has a heart for people. At age 17 he organized a food drive to feed the homeless in his hometown. At age 20, following the fall of Saigon, he worked at a Vietnamese refugee camp, setting up English as a Second Language classes across Washington state. The next year, while attending college in Oregon, he co-chaired an International Affairs Symposium on the Middle East and the Oil Crisis.

Andrews, who recently completed his J.D., has edited and published numerous international economic forecasts for Fortune 500 companies. He now writes entertainment articles, serving as Editorial Director for EZ Way Magazine, a new magazine out of Hollywood. His articles have appeared in the Washington Times, Rockthiz magazine, and on WTV Networks.

Religion and Beauty , Rebellion and Power, her fiancé A Story of Love and War man receives a slave from

Based on True Events:

A Turkish noblewo Available Christmas 2016

Based on True Events A Turkish noblewoman receives a slave from her fiancé A Story of Rebellion and Power

By David Eugene Andrews

David Eugene Andrews Author, Editor, and Storyteller He holds degrees in International Affairs and International Economics. He has studied Chinese and German, loves languages, and likes to travel.

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David Eugene Andrews also completed his first novel, The English Slave. This first work of historical fiction series tells the true story of how Captain John Smith—sorely wounded while fighting for the Holy Roman Empire in Eastern Europe—was sold into slavery. It reveals the true identity of the Turkish noblewoman who received John as gift from her betrothed.

In his historical novel series THE ENGLISH SLAVE, author David Eugene Andrews verifies the truth of the personal memoirs of Captain John Smith.

He solves a 400 year-old mystery, the true identity of the young Turkish noblewoman who received Captain Smith as a slave.

Thoroughly researched from diaries, memoirs, and other firsthand accounts, THE ENGLISH SLAVE tells how the powerful Grand Vizier bought a slave at an Ottoman town on the Danube and sent him to his betrothed in Constantinople. Aisha, the sister of Sultan Mehmet III and young widow of the previous Grand Vizier, lives at a magnificent palace overlooking the Hippodrome. She receives Smith, along with a letter.

Her fiancé claims he personally conquered the officer of the Holy Roman Empire on the battlefield. Her new slave is from the Kingdom of Bohemia and very rich.

Aisha can ransom the slave back to his family, keeping the monies for herself.

The beautiful noblewoman knows Italian and learns Captain Smith does, too. When she tells him how her betrothed conquered him, her new slave vehemently protests, for no one has ever defeated him in single combat. Furthermore, he is not from Bohemia but from England. And his fine clothes? He earned them by his own efforts.

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Fantastic Fig’s brand of walk-around psychic magic is a fascinating combination of magic tricks, mind reading and dancing. His magical entertainment has fascinated kids and adults alike and has never missed to enliven the guests at corporate and private functions where he has performed, with or without his cat, Newton.

When you, your family, or friends have a party or event, call Fig and he will amaze and dazzle everyone with incredible strolling close-up playing card magic at any reasonable fee decided by you. Or, if someone invites you to a party or event where you would otherwise bring a gift, let Fig (with or without his cat Newton, at your option) and his magic be your special gift.

Whether you are planning a small intimate gathering or a large audience private party or corporate event, Fantastic Fig can tailor a show to amaze and dazzle your guests!

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“HEAT” MICHAEL MANN, AL PACINO AND ROBERT DE NIRO TOGETHER

HEAT Written and Directed by Michael Mann

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he Academy celebrates Michael Mann’s 1995 classic, “Heat,” on the big screen on Wednesday, September 7, at 7:00 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills with a new 4K DCP restoration. Following the screening, Oscar® winners Pacino and De Niro, four-time Oscar nominee Mann and other cast and crew will reunite in a conversation moderated by Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan.

September 7, at 7:00 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills Samuel Goldwyn Theater 8949 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90212

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The crew of a fierce, professional thief (De Niro) and an obsessively driven LAPD detective (Pacino) are locked in deadly opposition as they vector towards each other.

Taking inspiration from his friend, Chicago Detective Charlie Adamson – who killed Neil McCauley in a shoot-out in 1963 – Mann built a twilight vision of Los Angeles. With its range of complex characters, epic scale action and dazzling use of the city, “Heat” is as incendiary as it was 20 years ago.

Produced by Michael Mann and Art Linson Executive Producers Arnon Milchan and Pieter Jan Brugge Director of Photography Dante Spinotti Production Designer Neil Spisak Film Editors Dov Hoenig, Pasquale Buba, William Goldenberg and Tom Rolf Music by Elliot Goldenthal Costume Designer Deborah L. Scott Sound by Lee Orloff, Andy Nelson, Chris Jenkins and Doug Hemphill Casting by Bonnie Timmermann Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, William Fichtner, Natalie Portman, Tom Noonan, Kevin Gage, Hank Azaria, Susan Traylor, Kim Staunton and Jon Voight Running time: 172 minutes Format: “Heat” will be presented in a new 4K DCP, restored by Stefan Sonnenfeld (Company 3) and Michael Mann.

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Beverly Hills, CA – Jennifer Lopez’s boyfriend, Beau “Casper” Smart teams up with Mark Ryan of the Starz hit series Black Sails and Michael Bay’s mega hit franchise Transformers, star in the newest high octane action MMA movie – Street – which sold out online at Walmart.com in it’s first three days and passed Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool, to take the #1 position on the best seller list for new releases.

JOANNA KRUPA STREET CO/ producer, Model

The movie features MMA icon Frank Trigg, and current Bellator fighters Matt Mitrione, LightHeavyweight-Champion Emanuel Newton, former welterweight title challenger Jay Hieron and UFC The Ultimate Fighter, Uriah Hall.

Polish American model, actress and animal rights activist.

She is best known for her appearances on the reality television shows Dancing with the Stars, Top Model and The Real Housewives of Miami.

Street also takes a bite out of the WWE throwing former champion John Hennigan in the mix, known as Johnny Nitro and James Morrison to wrestling fans.

Street contains some of the best MMA underground fight scenes since Brad Pitt and Edward Norton teamed up in Fight Club. Street explores the dark underworld of crime and fight club as Street, played by Smart, is forced to fight to pay back a debt and save his family from A Russian Mob Boss, Uri, played by Mark Ryan.

“STREET”

Arnold Chon, one of the top fight choreographers in Hollywood as well as a trainer of real MMA fighters, is the man behind the action and the man who brings the fights to life. Arnold Chon has worked with Martial Arts legends including Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Jean Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White and Chuck Norris. Even more prevalent to the film, Chon has trained MMA fighters to a championship level in his spare time, both in Bellator and the UFC. Because of his real world experience with MMA he is regarded as the most knowledgeable coordinator in on-screen MMA fights in Hollywood.

Street is produced by Lyle Howry of Wedding Day, starring David Koechner (You Can’t Have It), Armand Assante (American Gangster), NFL star Rob Gronkowski(https://pro-labs.imdb. com/name/nm4069812/) and Joanna Krupa (Planet of the Apes (2001), Dancing with the Stars, Poland’s Next Top Model) and has been in the Martial Arts and MMA world as a known Producer for two decades.

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Jennifer Lopez’s Beau “Casper” Proves to be Smart Enough To Help Indie Film Rival

Major Studio Film Deadpool in Newest MMA Film in Walmart Online In First Three Days!

LYLE HOWRY Film Producer.

Founder and CEO of Skinfly Entertainment has been associated with the entertainment industry for more than 30 years.

“This film will be applauded by MMA enthusiasts while at the same time appealing to those who enjoy a good love story blended with action, and of course those who are inspired by come-from-behind underdog movies like Rocky, Warrior, Southpaw and other films of that genre. I am thrilled that fans will have the opportunity to purchase this movie at Walmart,” added Producer Lyle Howry from Skinfly Entertainment. Streetthemovie.net

12 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AREAS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR 2016 OSCARS® Online submissions for similar devices or claims of innovation are now open through Tuesday, August 30, 2016, 5 PM (PT). Here is a list of investigations that have been launched for the 2016 Oscars®: http://www.oscars. org/news/12scientific-andtechnical-areasunder-investigation2016-oscars For assistance, please contact Brooke Boles in the Membership and Awards Office at (310) 247-3000 x1129 or scitech@oscars.org.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 12 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2016 Oscars®.

These investigations are made public so individuals and companies with devices or claims of innovation within these areas will have the opportunity to submit achievements for review.

The committee also will continue its investigation of rig-based solvers for tracking and animating deforming objects from image sequences, which it tabled in 2015.

Claims of prior art or similar technology must be submitted online at www.oscars.org/awards/scitech/ apply.html. For further information, contact the Awards Office at (310) 247-3000, ext. 1129, or via e-mail at scitech@oscars.org.

After thorough investigations are conducted in each of the technology categories, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to the Academy’s Board of Governors, which will make the final awards decisions.

The 2016 Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will be held on Saturday, February 11, 2017.

The 89th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT ADDITIONAL ENTRIES IS TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, AT 5 P.M. PT. THE ACADEMY’S SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARDS COMMITTEE HAS STARTED INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE FOLLOWING AREAS: • High-resolution digital motion picture cameras with sensors sized Super 35 or larger • Recent advancements in motion control software • Recent advancements in wireless microphone technology • Computer-printed, seamless scenic backdrops • Camera flange depth measurement devices • Shading programming languages for production rendering • Ray-tracing production renderers supporting physically-based shading and light transport • Real-time, vector-based drawing tools for sketching and markup in film production • Fast-reset bullet hit kits for live-action production • On-set, real-time, principal camera tracking technology • Electrodeless plasma arc lamps for motion picture lighting • Reconfigurable, rideable, life-size animatronic horses

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start caring about all of what God has created and do the right thing in all life’s situations. Let’s be fearless, powerful, persistent and consistent about the restoration of doing the right thing and not the wrong thing. Don’t let the hype fool you because there are many people out there that just want to see you on a detour to nowhere or maybe just to the lost and found area. Have you ever heard of “Misery Loves Company?“ because it really loves to keep you in it’s company and hopes you retire there when it’s all said and done. Misery will tell you to your face when the “Stuff hits the fan“ I want you to be here with me because we like your company.

You see it make us here in Misery Land happy to keep you in our presence. A good friend of mine sister use to say “People don’t wish you well the wish you hell“ so is it really true. My friends sister is no longer among the living but it’s something to ask DARWIN HEARD yourself every time your dealing with others. Is this individual

by Darwin Doc Heard out for my best interest? Start looking closer Greetings to all of my Star’s, Celebrities and at who you surround yourself with and are WHO CAN GET IT RIGHT VIP’S. It’s been a while since I’ve reach out to they their for the right reasons. Just because you but now I’m back to give you more of what

BY DARWIN HEARD they have money and material things doesn’t you been looking for, a way to seek vision into mean they are your best interest. Some JULY 17, 2016@ BETTER the why and how of things. The question I ask is: people will see you in a great relationship KNOWN DOC HEARD What happen to doing the right thing and Why with an amazing individual and they will does the wrong seem to now be in style? Yes, trick you out of that great relationship in to People Doc Heard is keeping it on the real. I have seen and heard a bad relationship just to keep you among misery. Stay focused on it in real life where some men come up to girls and say things like what is right and evaluate your choices in life to make sure you are “Bitch I won’t to hit it“ and the girl says “ Boy you crazy“ when she doing the right thing and not the wrong thing because you may should be saying “that’s disrespectful and don’t talk to me like that. never return. The last time I saw you was headed in the wrong On the same token a man approach a woman and say “Hello you direction and some how you was lost and never found. are a very beautiful woman“ and says to him with some serious I have spent most of my life trying to stay focused on doing the attitude “Excuse Me“ so did that seem to be an inappropriate right thing by the strength of Gods teachings in the church. I approach or was it just too much like right? consider myself as an expert on doing the right. I mentioned years None the less it’s time for us all to reevaluate our selves because ago when I first was featured in the Hollywood Weekly Magazine somethings gone wrong and there a needs for some major in Dec of 2009 that I was born with a physical Disabilty. I had to rehabilitation with some masterful revisions. We have lost our figure out why my peers were teasing me about how I walked when morals and they have been hidden by some of our peers, associates, I was a young child and it took years of study for me to determine friends and family. Not many of us stand up for what is right we that they were exploiting my Disabilty to cover up there Disabilty. just stand back away and watch is all go bad. Yes, Doc Heard is Look at him “haha haha“ not me but yet it is me that hides behind challenging the world and himself to stand up for what right and others to cover my weaknesses. I will say it again “Stand Up for bring it back into style because it’s seem to have gone out of style. what is right because you will feel a great sense of satisfaction for Wake up people and smell the wrongness in today’s world. We doing the right and bringing it back into existence. Don’t get me have fallen and can’t get up and some of us don’t even know it has wrong people there are many people that practice doing the right happen. It’s time for us to have some self pride to realize that doing so let’s join them as fearless as misery love company let’s take a the right is real and should be set at the top of the mountain. Let’s page from that book and move in towards doing the right thing.

LIFE HAS IT’S STUMBLING BLOCKS, HILLS AND MOUNTAIN LIKE OBSTACLES TO COMPLICATE THE DIRECTION IN WHICH WE CHOOSE TO TRAVEL. THOSE OBSTACLES ARE EITHER PLACE BEFORE US BY OTHERS OR OURSELVES TO KEEP US FROM REACHING OUR DESTINY. IT IS UP TO EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL TO DETERMINE HOW TO OVERCOME IT. DON’T LET LIFE’S OBSTACLES BLOCK YOUR ABILITY TO GET IT RIGHT BECAUSE GOD HAS PLACE HIS SOLVENT CLEARLY IN YOUR PATH SO YOU MAY BE THE WHO THAT CAN GET IT RIGHT.

If anybody is wondering why I am writing this column and you may think it’s about you but it about everybody and everything.

You see my eyes are open and I seen it too many times that some of us seem to idolize the wrong things while we should immunize the right things like in some of the lyrics in songs that demoralize women and celebrate the wrong doers but for some reason when a nice guy uses the slightest choice of words with similarity it’s taken quickly to offense with no bad intention rendered.

It’s time to make it plain while the time remains for Doc Heard to make the call for all to stand up and see who can get it right by doing the right thing and let it return into existence. I leave with what I call One of Darwin’s Creative Strategies Poems or writings titled: Who Can Get It Right.

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I AM OTHER’ Pharrell Williams and CEO and Co-Founder of Yoobi Ido Leffler

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Yoobi and i am OTHER (Pharrell’s creative collective) celebrated their new, limited edition back-to-school collection, available now at Target and Yoobi.com.

The new ‘Yoobi x i am OTHER’ back-to-school collection consists of more than 50 unique school supply essentials including inspirational and brightly colored designs that were shaped by kids themselves, encouraging them to embrace their individuality and “OTHERness.”

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Pharrell and Yoobi co-founder/CEO Ido Leffler celebrated with students from Los Angeles Unified School District, kids from the Boys & Girls Club and celebrity guests including Christina Milian and her daughter Violet, Mayte Garcia, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons (Modern Family), Trinitee Stokes (K.C. Undercover and Austin & Ally), Lilimar Hernandez (Bella and the Bulldogs), Peyton Meyer (Girl Meets World), Cole Sand (Minions), Jadon Sand (The Affair), and Carter Sand (Frozen). It was a super bright, colorful and fun event celebrating individuality and giving back to the community.

Yoobi is based on a bright yet simple idea: for every Yoobi item purchased, a Yoobi school supply item will be donated to a classroom in need, right here in the U.S. Yoobi believes that students all across the country should have access to the necessary tools to learn and be successful. With this year’s back-toschool partnership, Yoobi and i am OTHER hope to continue to reach students with the materials they need to succeed, while inspiring kids to embrace what makes them unique and different. Since their launch in 2014, Yoobi has impacted over 1.5 million kids across the U.S. and it doesn’t stop there!

Christina Milian and Mychal Bella (L) and Volet Madison Nash (R) Christina Milian spinning the Yoobi “give back” wheel in which Yoobi donated classroom items to a school in need in her name!

Actor Peyton Meyer. All of the girls got really excited when Peyton Meyer showed up to the event, yelling and screaming and taking photos with him.

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ost people come to Hollywood to make money or to make a name for themselves, but Kat Kramer came to Hollywood to make a difference. Kat is Hollywood royalty, but she’s no princess.

A tireless advocate and promoter of important social causes, she may be the closest thing Hollywood’s got to a revolutionary. Kat Kramer wants to change the world, and like her famous father – legendary producer and director Stanley Kramer – she’d doing it through the medium of film.

In 2009, she launched Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World, an invitation-only series of screenings of socially relevant films. Her vision was to bring filmmakers, celebrities, activists and members of the media together in one room, and then help spread consciousness about those issues to as many people outside that room as possible.

Lily Tomlin has called her “the James Brown of activism.

She works harder than anyone I know.”

“She’s tackling so much,” Cher marveled at one of Kat’s screenings.

“I’m certain Kat’s father would be very proud of her,” said Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning songwriter and composer.

“AS AN INDEPENDENT FILM SUPPORTER AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST, MY AIM IS TO CARRY ON MY FATHER’S LEGACY... A LOT OF MY FATHER’S FILMS HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD”

“I support Kat in trying to change the world, just as her father’s films did,” said actor and activist Ed Begley, Jr. Actor Billy Bob Thornton is also a big admirer. “Look,” he said, “anytime you can do anything that furthers this society in this day and time is a great thing. They’re a great family and they’re always involved in trying to better our society, and you can’t beat that. Not everybody’s doing that, and also, they do it selflessly. That’s a really important thing.”

According to the old Hal David and Burt Bacharach song, “What the world needs now is love, sweet love.” The only thing Kat would add to that is that the world also needs more respect and understanding.

And while films probably can’t make us love one another, Kat believes they can certainly help us to respect and understand one another better.

One day recently, after shooting a public service announcement at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, Kat sat down over a bowl of soup and a salad at a nearby restaurant to discuss her own work and her father’s legacy as “the conscience of Hollywood,” whose films explored such controversial issues as racism, genocide, animal rights and nuclear holocaust.

“As an independent film supporter and social activist, my aim is to carry on my father’s legacy,” Kat said. “A lot of my father’s films have changed the world. The most important thing is that film can change lives – it can make people think and take action. Change can take a long time, but if one person changes their thinking or tells somebody else to examine their prejudices, that’s making a change. And my father’s movies get you to do that.”

“I was certainly influenced by my father, and all of his movies had issues,” she said, barely sipping at her soup.

“And the filmmakers and movies that I’m interested in follow the same pattern. My father would be tackling these issues if he were alive today. That’s why this screening series is so much in his spirit. And that’s why Sunset Gower is the perfect place to do it. I’ve been

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offered other locations, but I want to keep a consistent place that has a theme to it and ties into my dad’s legacy.”

The first film she screened to launch Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World was “Yentl,” which was then celebrating the 25th anniversary of its release. The film, which was directed, produced, co-written and starred Barbra Streisand, was a ground-breaking film that opened doors in Hollywood for generations of women writers, producers and directors to come. And appropriately enough, Kat screened it at the Stanley Kramer Theater on the Sunset Gower lot, where her father had shot 15 of his films, including “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner,” “The Caine Mutiny,” “The Wild One,” “Member of the Wedding” and “Death of a Salesman,” when it was still the old Columbia Pictures backlot.

“I chose ‘Yentl’ because it’s one of my favorite films,” she says, her soup getting colder and colder by the minute. “I chose it because it was not only a film that my father use to love – we had a strong father-daughter bond over it – but also because Barbra Steisand is such a force of nature who was ahead of her time as a filmmaker, actress and singer – everything was a first in that film. And the film itself is so relevant about women’s issues.”

But Kat’s genius was in pairing the story of a young girl in 19th Century Poland who had to battle sexism just to get an education, with the plight of the women and girls today in the Congo, who are being raped and murdered by the hundreds of thousands as part of that country’s seemingly endless civil war.

As one blogger who attended the screening wrote: “Using ‘Yentl’ to help raise awareness of the terrible abuses of women in the Congo was brilliant!”

Another blogger agreed: “I never would have thought of ‘Yentl’ in the context of the problems facing Congolese women…If these are the kinds of issues that Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World is bringing attention to, count me in! I love movies, and I love people who recognize the power of films to change things for the better.”

The second film screened in Kat’s series was “The Cove,” the chilling animal rights documentary about the almost ritualistic killing of dolphins in Japan.

“The Cove,” of course, was not the first animal rights film ever made. That distinction may belong to Stanley Kramer’s 1971 film “Bless the Beasts and The Children,” which tells the story of a group of misfits who set out to stop the slaughter of a herd of buffalo.

“The people behind ‘The Cove’ told me that ‘Bless the Beasts and The Children’ changed their lives,” Kat says.

Speakers at the screening – which was held during Women’s History Month – included Marilyn Bergman, who was part of the songwriting team that penned the Oscar nominated songs and score for “Yentl,” and who talked about the film and Streisand’s battle against the glass

Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge came to Kat’s screening of “The Cove” with a City Council proclamation declaring it “The Cove Day” in Los Angeles. And immediately after the screening, the filmmakers headed out to a Japanese restaurant called The Hump, and put in place a sting operation that a few days later led to the restaurant being closed for illegally selling whale meat.

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The timing for Kat’s screening couldn’t have been better: It was held just two days before the March 2, 2010, deadline for the return of Oscar ballots, and may very well have helped “The Cove” win the Oscar for Best Documentary.

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ceiling to get it made; Bonnie Abaunza, vice president of Participant Media and former director of artists for Amnesty International; and actress Emmanuelle Chriqui, perhaps best known for her roles in “Don’t Mess With the Zohan” and HBO’s “Entourage,” who is also a celebrity spokesperson for Enough – the project to end genocide and crimes against humanity – and its Raise Hope for Congo campaign.

“I had so many Academy members at the screening,” Kat recalls, “and afterwards, several of them told me that it convinced them to vote for it.”

“If it wasn’t for Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World,” the film’s director, Louie Psihoyos, told Kat, “there’s a good chance we wouldn’t have won the Academy Award.”

Her soup has gone cold now and Kat begins picking at her salad. “It’s not my intention to screen these movies just so they can win Academy Awards,” she says, “but if a film wins one or gets international recognition, it just brings the issues to light more. So really, the films are tools to spread the awareness to the public.”

“My screenings are invitation only,” Kat says. “I don’t invite the public or charge admission. They are think tank-salons. They’re really for the media, activists and celebrities. And let’s face it; celebrities draw the media’s attention to the issues.”

Networking with celebrities is second nature to Kat – she’s been doing it since the day she was born. Her godmother was Katharine Hepburn, after whom Kat is named. And when she was born, Hepburn sent her a christening dress, and a note that said: “For dear little Katharine, you’ll be forever telling them to spell it with an ‘A.’ Love Aunt Kat.” Today, Kat is the West Coast Representative of the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

A singer with a three-octave range – Kat recorded a song with famed musician, the late Billy Preston, on an album of Mick Jagger solo songs she covered – and an actress whose credits include “Little Fockers” and Henry Jaglom’s “Going Shopping,” Kat is also a gifted journalist and producer with a web-series and a one-woman show in the works.

The third screening in Kat’s series was held Jan. 20, 2011 at Sunset Gower Studios, which this year is celebrating its 100th anniversary. This time the subject was the biggest land animal on the planet – and the screening drew one of the biggest stars on the planet – Cher.

The film, titled “Elephants and Man: A Litany of Tragedy,” exposed the heartbreaking suffering that elephants endure when held captive in zoos and circuses. But it was the celebrities in attendance who captured the media’s attention, and they in turn spread the word around the world: Newspapers, magazines, TV news and the hundreds of Internet websites all carried photos of Cher, Lily Tomlin, Tippi Hedren, Chris Gallucci, Paula Poundstone, Ed Begley Jr., Billy Bob Thornton, George Chakiris, Ken Davitian, Stella Stevens and other celebrities who came to lend their support.

“My screenings get a lot of coverage because of the star power that comes to them,” Kat says. “There were only 125 people in the room, but it got international attention.”

And “that room,” appropriately enough, was the chapel on the Sunset Gower lot – a former sound stage where her father scored nearly all the films he shot there.

The next documentary Kat will screen in her series is, once again, about an extremely timely subject. Titled “Teach Your Children Well,” it explores the bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths and the recent rash of suicides that this particularly cruel form of harassment has spawned.

SHE MAY BE THE CLOSEST THING HOLLYWOOD’S GOT TO A REVOLUTIONARY. “It’s such an unfortunate, sad and critical issue,” said Lily Tomlin, the film’s narrator. “There are so many ways now to bully and harass kids, with texting and the Internet, they can’t even escape it when they get home.”

“LGBT students are two-to-three times more likely to be bullied than straight kids,” said performer Coco Peru, who appears in the film. “Nine out of ten report that they have been bullied or harassed.”

Kat’s mother, Karen Sharpe-Kramer, couldn’t be prouder that Kat is following in her father’s footsteps.

“She wouldn’t be a Kramer if she didn’t embrace social issues. We would have kicked her out of the house,” Karen says with a big laugh.

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to make independent films before it was fashionable to do so. He vowed – he pledged – to use film as a real weapon against discrimination, hatred, prejudice and excessive power. The films he made often dealt with uncomfortable and serious subjects. And he did it without exploitation or political paranoia. The most controversial topics of his day were addressed in films like ‘The Defiant Ones,’ which tackled racism; ‘On the Beach,’ which warned of nuclear holocaust. ‘Inherit the Wind’ examined the teachings of evolution; ‘Judgment at Nuremberg,’ was a condemnation of genocide, and ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ was a daring study of interracial romance.”

Accepting the award, Al Gore said that Stanley Kramer “brought powerful social issues to the screen that touched our sense of moral responsibility.”

Stanley’s impact on Hollywood cannot be exaggerated, which may explain why he was the first person to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation, said that Stanley Kramer “was behind some of the most amazingly socially conscientious pictures ever made by Hollywood. When you just read Stanley Kramer’s credits, you look at those credits and say, ‘That had to be six, seven, eight filmmakers that made this amazing contribution to American cinema and to social reality.’ But in fact it all came from one heart and one soul and one incredibly talented visionary. And that’s one of my favorite filmmakers of all time – Stanley Kramer.” leading lady in “The Disorderly Orderly”. She made her film debut, ironically enough, in Stanley Kramer’s 1952 drama “The Sniper,” although they never met on the set.

When they finally met in 1964; they were married two years later. From then on, Karen assisted Stanley on all of his films, and helped cast many of them. And since his death in 2001, she has devoted herself to keeping his legacy alive. She’s produced a TV remake of “High Noon” and is working on bringing several other adaptations of his films to the stage and screen. In 2002, she established the Stanley Kramer Award, which is given annually by the Producers Guild of America to films that “illuminate provocative social issues.”

“My mom changes the world every day just by being who she is,” Kat says.

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Today, with an African American in the White House, it’s hard to imagine that when Barack Obama was born in 1961, his parents couldn’t have gotten married in 16 states, where marriages between blacks and whites were still illegal. It was still illegal in 1967 – the year that “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” which featured an interracial love affair – was released. And that same year, the Supreme Court finally ruled that laws banning interracial marriages were unconstitutional.

Stanley Kramer’s ground-breaking exploration of race in America – from “The Defiant Ones”, “Home Of The Brave”, “Pressure Point” to “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner,” had a profound effect on the attitudes of millions of Americans.

Kat comes from a whole family of social activist, but it is her younger sister Jennifer, she says, “who inspires me the most, and is the true artist of the family.”

And all the while that Stanley Kramer was turning out masterpieces that spoke to the American conscience, The industry was battling one of the worst scourges in American history – the Hollywood blacklist.

Her dad changed the world, too. Harrison Ford explained how at the 2007 Producers Guild Awards, when Karen asked him to present the Stanley Kramer Award to Al Gore for “An Inconvenient Truth.”

The blacklist began in 1947, when hundreds of actors, writers and directors who’d been deemed “unpatriotic” were banned from working in the movie industry, including some of the best writers in Hollywood.

“In an era of filmmaking defined by escapism,” Ford said, “Stanley Kramer made his mark, his reputation, taking on tough social issues. A fiercely autonomous producer and director, he had broken through the Hollywood blacklist

The blacklist was in full swing in 1957 when Stanley Kramer hired Harold Jacob Smith and blacklisted writer Nathan E. Douglas to co-author the script for “The Defiant Ones,” which told the story of two convicts – one black

and one white – who must rely on one another to escape from a Southern chain gang. It was Stanley Kramer who officially broke the blacklist by hiring these two writers, when blacklisted writers were only being paid pittance.

He paid more for their screenplay then anyone had ever paid in seventeen years. He fully credited them with their rightful names and against the system brought them on to the studio lot and hired them as actors in the movie. The film won the Oscar that year for best original screenplay.

Kramer re-hired Smith and Young in 1959 to co-author the script for “Inherit the Wind,” a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, in which high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violating a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of evolution in public schools. One of the finest courtroom dramas ever made, with its classic give-and-take of competing ideas on the nature and origins of man, the film is still relevant today as America continues to struggle with the issues of science, religion and freedom of thought.

In those days, the American Legion considered itself a clearinghouse for Americanism, and when the Legion learned that Kramer had hired yet another blacklisted writer, it issued a very un-American letter of condemnation. Famed playwright Moss Hart, who was then president of the Authors League of America, rose to Stanley’s defense, sending him a telegraph that stated: “The Authors League of America council, which has always unalterably opposed any form of blacklisting of writers, unanimously voted at a meeting today to commend and applaud you for your courageous stand in rejecting publicly the effort to interfere, on pseudopatriotic grounds, with the right of writers to work.”

Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger are widely credited with having broken the blacklist in 1960 – the same year that “Inherit the Wind” was released – when Douglas and Preminger hired blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo to pen “Spartacus” and “Exodus,” respectively. But it was Kramer’s courageous decision to hire Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas three years earlier to co-write “The Defiant Ones” that really broke the back of the blacklist.

“THAT HAD TO BE SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT FILMMAKERS THAT MADE THIS AMAZING CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN CINEMA AND TO SOCIAL REALITY.’ BUT IN FACT IT ALL CAME FROM ONE HEART AND ONE SOUL AND ONE INCREDIBLY TALENTED VISIONARY. AND THAT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILMMAKERS OF ALL TIME – STANLEY KRAMER.”STEVEN SPIELBERG

One time, she said, “We were in a restaurant in Hollywood and someone came up and said, ‘You’re sick, Kramer. You’re sick. Watch your back.’”

Another time, at a dinner party in Beverly Hills in the late-1960s, a drunken man seated across the table from the Kramers recognized Stanley and addressed him in a loud voice.

“Are you the Stanley Kramer who made that film, ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’?”

The room fell silent, as all eyes turned to the drunken guest, and then to Stanley.

“Well,” the drunk continued, “I didn’t like it.”

“That’s fine,” Stanley replied. “You’re entitled to your opinion.”

“No,” the drunk insisted. “You don’t understand. I really didn’t like it!”

Before things could get out of hand, the host came over, touched the man’s arm and calmed him down.

But the incident was proof – if any were needed – that Stanley had touched a nerve.

In 1962, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences presented Stanley with its most prestigious award – the Irving Thalberg Award, which is presented to “creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.”

So far Kat Kramer hasn’t recieved any threats, but there is no doubt, people out there won’t like what she’s doing either. She is contraversal she is defiant, and will strike out against injustice in society, and like her father before her is committed to making a difference.

All together, Stanley’s 35 films garnered a staggering 85 Oscar nominations. His most nominated film, “Judgment at Nuremberg,” will be screened later this year at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its release.

David Robb covered Hollywood’s unions at Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter for 20 years.

He has written articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of “Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies” (Prometheus Books, 2004). His next book, “The Gumshoe and the Shrink,” is a real life detective story set against the backdrop of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon election that will be published next year by Santa Monica Press.

Not everyone, of course, was happy with Stanley Kramer and his films.

“Our lives were threatened many times,” recalls his widow, Karen Kramer. “We got more hate mail than anybody.”

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CHERYL BOONE ISAACS

RE-ELECTED ACADEMY PRESIDENT PRESIDENT CHERYL BOONE ISAACS Ms. Boone Isaacs is a public relations executive and the former head of publicity at Paramount Pictures.

She also served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema. Ms. Boone Isaacs is a governor of the Public Relations Branch.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tuesday night (August 2) by the organization’s Board of Governors.

Also elected to officer positions by the Board: Jeffrey Kurland, First Vice President (chair, Awards and Events Committee) John Bailey, Vice President (chair, Preservation and History Committee) Kathleen Kennedy, Vice President (chair, Museum Committee) Nancy Utley, Vice President (chair, Education and Outreach Committee) Jim Gianopulos, Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee) David Rubin, Secretary (chair, Membership and Administration Committee)

Boone Isaacs is beginning her fourth term as president and her 24th year as a governor representing the Public Relations Branch. Bailey, Gianopulos, Kennedy and Kurland were re-elected to their posts. This will be the first officer stint for Rubin and Utley.

Boone Isaacs heads CBI Enterprises, Inc., where she consults on film marketing efforts. She is currently an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and serves as a trustee of the American Film Institute. In May she received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. She also received the 2016 Rosa Parks Humanitarian Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California. Over her career, Boone Isaacs has consulted on such films as “The Call,” “The Artist,” “The King’s Speech,” “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” “Spider-Man 2” and “Tupac: Resurrection.” Boone Isaacs previously served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema, where she oversaw numerous box office successes, including “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” and “Rush Hour.” Prior to joining New Line, she was executive vice president of worldwide publicity for Paramount Pictures, where she orchestrated publicity campaigns for the Best Picture winners “Forrest Gump” and “Braveheart.” Academy board members may serve up to three consecutive three-year terms, while officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive years in any one office.

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