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Theater Camp

Movies watched in 2024

Theater Camp (2023, USA)

Directors: Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman

Writers: Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman & Ben Platt (based on the short film by the same team)

Mini-review:

Wow, I didn't expect to love this so much. I basically watched it because I love the cast and I needed some lighthearted entertainment, but it really was much more than that. For starters, it's just so, so funny. All the jokes are clever and perfectly delivered, and they keep coming and coming, which is seriously impressive. I guess its sense of humor won't suit everybody's taste, but I completely connected with it, and I can't remember the last movie that made me laugh this much. And every single member of the cast is pitch-perfect, from the adults to the kids. You can tell just how much passion they have for the world of theatre and musicals. Speaking of musicals, there are quite a few stunning musical numbers and songs, which is particularly remarkable when you take into account this is not a big-budget movie, by any means. So yeah, Theater Camp was a very pleasant surprise, and I want to watch more. I would give anything for a sequel or some sort of TV adaptation. Don't be surprised if it ends up in my yearly top 10.

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Theater Camp

Theater Camp    [trailer]

The eccentric staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York must band together with the beloved founder's bro-y son to keep the camp afloat.

I'm not enough of a theatre geek to fully enjoy the feature-length version of this mockumentary. For me the short this is apparently based on would probably be the better choice.

But even I can appreciate the enthusiasm and effort the creative team put into this film in order to make it on what I suspect was a very small budget.

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Theater Camp, Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman (2023)

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Network Branding 1988-1990 The Best of Original Cartoons

TV Heaven and HA! TV Comedy Network

Fred/Alan, Inc. New York

For a quick minute in the late 1980s, Nickelodeon's ad sales group could not sell Nick-at-Nite advertising ("no one wants black and white reruns!"), so they decided they'd promote themselves as a comedy network.

So, my Fred/Alan partner Alan Goodman and I brought our original idea of TV oldies to a broken down UHF channel in St.Cloud, Minnesota, and renamed Channel 47 "TV Heaven." We got more publicity in three weeks than Nick-at-Nite got three years. Nick-at-Nite parent MTV Networks threatened to fire us from all their networks and we had to resign TV Heaven.

But not before we made some awesome station identifications with our indie animation friends.

In 1990, MTV Networks revived the idea of an all comedy network in a panic after HBO launched the Comedy Channel. Fred/Alan convinced MTVN to brand theirs as HA! The TV Comedy Network, and we went to work.

(Neither The Comedy Channel or HA! succeeded and they merged, Fred/Alan named the venture "Comedy Central" and the rest is comedy television history.)

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Creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert

Producer: Tom Pomposello Logo design: Noel Frankel ..... TV Heaven station identifications 1988

Production companies: International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; Fred Mogubgub, NY. . . . . . HA! network identifications 1990 Production companies: Lou Brooks & Jerry Lieberman, NY; Charlex, NY; International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; (Colossal) Pictures, SF; Marc Karzen, NY.

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Pages 256-259 “The Best of Original Cartoons-Produced by Fred Seibert”

#7 The FredFilms Professional Library (Amazon)

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List of previous Studios of Project 21 Dancers

For the dancers with multiple studios, I have clarified that in brackets.

*have graduated

Above the Barre Dance Company -> P21

Bella Puskar (-> The Space)

Academy of Ballet Arts -> P21

Jadyn Dumond (->?)

Allegro Performing Arts Academy

Grace Wilson (->?)

Artistic Motion -> P21

Esme Chou (The Company -> Club -> Artistic Motion -> P21 -> WDP)

Avanti Dance -> P21

Hadley Schulz (-> Mather)

Avis Dance -> P21

Kalea Hidalgo (-> Yorba Linda -> The Space)

Capistrano Dance Academy -> P21

Richie Granese

Center Stage Dance Academy -> P21

Kelly Sweeney (-> Stopped Competing)*

Chavarria Institute of the Arts -> P21

Isabella Kouznetsova (-> WDP)

Diana Kouznetsova (-> WDP)

Club Dance Studio -> P21

Elsie Check (-> Club Dance)

Brooklyn Cooley (-> Club Dance)

Daylyn Lucky (-> Club Dance)

Kelsey Millar (-> Club Dance -> Studio of Arizona)*

Addison Moffett*

Cami Ritzler (-> Club Dance)

Dance Connection 2 -> P21

Davyd Williams*

DanceLova Dance Academy -> P21

Makeila Bartlett

Madison Ng (-> N10)

Dance Precision -> P21

Dyllan Blackburn (-> Mather)

Jordyn Blackburn*

Kaelyn Choe (-> Dance Precision)

Abbey Choi*

Gwen Choi*

Nina Choi*

Isabella Dimopolous (-> Innovative Dance Studios)

Malia Gardner (->?)

Selena Hamilton (The Dance Spot -> Dance Precision -> P21)

Brooklyn Jara (-> Dance Precision)

Brooklyn Ladia

Melia Mariano*

Sara Najm (->Chavarria Institute of the Arts)

Alexis Ramirez (->?)*

Zoe Rossi (-> Dance Connection 2?)

Ava Sinchinalchi (->OCPAA)*

Brooklyn Stafford

Kimberly Tobias (->?)*

Reggie Valdez (-> Launch Brea Space)

Lauren Wallingford*

Dellos Dance -> P21

Brooklyn Jones (Dellos -> P21 -> Dellos)

Chloe Jones (Dellos -> P21 -> Dellos)

Isabella Rivera (-> K2)

Fusion Studios -> P21

Aura Dela Cruz

Haus of Royals -> P21

Kaitlyn Ortega (->Mather)

Maddie Ortega (->Mather)

Impact Dance Center

Shane Higa (Stopped Competing)

Juliana's School of Dance -> P21

Katie Couch (-> WDP -> P21)

Kami Couch (-> WDP -> P21)

Kenzie Couch (-> WDP -> P21)

Just Plain Dancin' -> P21

Danie Riveroy (-> OCPAA)

K2 Studios -> P21

Zeke Lindsey (OCPAA -> K2 -> P21)

Leilani Lawlor

KBM Talent -> P21

Ava Woinarowicz (-> DKCBA -> P21 -> Stopped Competing)

Mather Dance Company -> P21

Taytem Bisono (Adage -> Mather -> P21 ->?)

Bella Machado (P21 -> OCPAA)

Jillian Mahan (OCPAA -> Mather -> P21 ->?)

Haley Messick*

Madelyn Nasu (OCPAA -> Mather -> P21)

McCoy Rigby Conservatory of the Arts-> P21

Regan Gerena

Move Dance Academy -> P21

Gracyn French (On Pointe Dance Studio -> Move -> P21)

Murrieta Dance Project -> P21

Jaidyn Dumond (->?)

N10 -> P21

Kira Lieberman (Pacific -> N10 -> P21)

Notion Dance -> P21

Sienna Carlston*

OCPAA -> P21

Raven Alanes (->Studio Fusion)

Olivia Armstrong

Aleena Aoun (-> WDP)*

Mackenzie Auger (-> WDP)*

Madi Beerer (Talent Factory -> OCPAA -> P21)

Lexie Cavanaugh (-> Chavarria Institute)*

CeCe Chung

Sammi Chung

Jamieson Deacy (Stopped Competing)

Kendyl Fay (-> High School Dance)

Nyla McCarthy (-> Mather)

Audrina Mossembecker (->?)

Avery Olsen (-> OCPAA)

Chloe Solinger (-> CHs Dance Company)

Haley Stoico (Stopped Competing)

Laci Stoico (-> The Space)

Sara Von Rotz

Charlotte Watters (-> RockStar)

Leighton Werner

Rylee Young (Stopped Competing)

Onstage Dance Centre -> P21

Liliana Barajas (Elite Artist Dance Company -> Ostage Dance Centre -> P21)

Pave School of the Arts -> P21

Delaney Anbarden

Elliana Anbarden

Mady Kim

Elle O'Donnell*

Avery Reyes

Pacific Dance -> P21

Kai Armitage (->?)

Jenna Koblin (Stopped Competing)

Brielle Lieberman

Brooklyn Lieberman

Katie Nguyen (->?)

Kelly Nguyen*

Loila Rhee

Dawson Walker*

Perception Dance Company -> P21

Berkeley Scifres

Brystin Scifres

Performing Arts Academy of Marin -> P21

Zuzu Duchon*

Premier Youth Dance Company

Allison Choi

Richter Dance Company -> P21

Dillon Barron

Peyton Barron (Richter -> Variant -> P21 -> The Space)

Rhythm Dance Center -> P21

Lexi Blanchard

South Coast Conservatory -> P21

Cali Cassidy (P21 -> OCSA Ballroom)

Studio 1 Dance Academy -> P21

Emma Rose Crawford (-> IAF Studios -> Southland Ballet Academy -> Amirian Ballet Academy)

Studio Fusion -> P21

Tiana Heaton (->?)

Studio X -> P21

Chloe Mirabal

Savanna Musman

Demi Ulloa

Aliya Yen

The Company -> P21

Stella Ebert

Winter Ebert (-> Company -> Mather)

Imogene Elias (-> Company)

The Dance Spot -> P21

Isabella Warfield (-> Mather)

The Difference Dance Company

JoJo Jessen (Premier Dance -> Difference -> P21)*

The Industry Dance Academy -> P21

Anya Inger (The Rage -> Art Code -> Industry Dance -> P21 -> Stopped Competing)

The Rage -> P21

Delilah Hewitt (->The Space)

The Royal Underground -> P21

Milan Furtado (Stopped Competing)

The Talent Factory -> P21

Brooke Masters (->?)

Perris Amento*

Vision Dance Company

Kaitlyn Yi (-> WDP)*

WSCA -> P21

Tatum Brady (-> Studio Fusion -> WDP)

Maya Loureiro (->OCSA focused)

Tyra Polke (->The Rock Center For Dance)

Honestly no clue:

Bella Garcia*

Brooklyn Vara (->Define Dance Space)

Faith Montoya

Haley Reeder

Isha Das*

Jacqueline David*

Janae Holster (-> Movement Studios)

Kalea Hidalgo (-> Yorba Linda -> The Space)

Katelin McDermott*

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Mauricio Dayub En Miami La Estrella Del Teatro Argentino Sorprende Con Sus Obras Más Aclamadas 11/8/23, 11/9/23, 11/11/23, 11/12/23

Mauricio Dayub En Miami La Estrella Del Teatro Argentino Sorprende Con Sus Obras Más Aclamadas Wednesday, 11/08/2023-11/12/2023, 07:30 pm-09:30 pm The Alan and Diane Lieberman Theater 18900 NE 25th Avenue, North Miami Beach, Florida, 33180 Website Cost: 50 MIAMI- El mítico Teatro Manuel Artime, de Miami; y The Alan & Diane Lieberman Theater at JCC, ubicado en North Miami Beach, son los lugares…

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In their new book, “Because It’s Just And Right: The Untold Back-Story of the US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem", Leonard Grunstein and Farley Weiss share the riveting political drama of how the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 was first promulgated by Senator Jon Kyl, negotiated and then passed, on a bipartisan basis, by an overwhelming majority of Congress. It also describes the arduous process for over two decades that led to its finally being implemented. The Bible, Jewish History, International and US Law, as well as legal precedents are brought to life in a way that is both enlightening and entertaining.

This book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the significance of this historic event and it's impact on US-Israel relations.

David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel from 2017-2021, also weighs in on the book, calling it “essential reading for a complete understanding of why Jerusalem is, and must always remain, the undivided, eternal capital of the Jewish State.”

Senator Joe Lieberman, one of the key players in enabling bipartisan support for the Act, noted: “In this book, Farley Weiss and Len Grunstein tell the dramatic story of how the United States Congress enacted legislation to move our Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in 1995, and how twenty-three years later in 2018, it was finally moved there because, as the book’s title says, it was “Just and Right.”

Other testimonials include those by Governor Mike Huckabee and Professor Alan Dershowitz. Senator John Kyl provided a Foreword for the book.

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Tony Awards Nominations 2023: The Complete List

Img Source: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/05/02/multimedia/02tony-noms-list2-pvkl/02tony-noms-list2-pvkl-jumbo.jpg The nominations for the 76th Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Lea Michele, the current star of “Funny Girl” on Broadway, and Myles Frost, who won a 2022 Tony Award for his portrayal of Michael Jackson in the Broadway musical “MJ,” announced the nominations. Some categories were read live on CBS at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, and others were unveiled through a livestream on the Tony Awards YouTube page. A total of 38 shows were vying for Tonys this year. To be eligible, a Broadway show must have opened between April 29, 2022, and April 27, 2023. This year’s awards ceremony is slated for Sunday, June 11. “Some Like It Hot,” a Broadway musical version of the Billy Wilder film, picked up the most nominations of any show, with 13 in all. The musicals “& Juliet,” “New York, New York,” and “Shucked” each followed with nine nominations. Here is the complete list of nominees for the 2023 Tony Awards:

Best New Play

- “Ain’t No Mo’” - “Between Riverside and Crazy” - “Cost of Living” - “Fat Ham” - “Leopoldstadt”

Best New Musical

- “& Juliet” - “Kimberly Akimbo” - “New York, New York” - “Shucked” - “Some Like It Hot”

Best Play Revival

- “The Piano Lesson” - “A Doll’s House” - “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” - “Topdog/Underdog”

Best Musical Revival

- “Into the Woods” - “Camelot” - “Parade” - “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

Best Leading Actor in a Play

- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, “Topdog/Underdog” - Corey Hawkins, “Topdog/Underdog” - Sean Hayes, “Good Night, Oscar” - Stephen McKinley Henderson, “Between Riverside and Crazy” - Wendell Pierce, “Death of a Salesman”

Best Leading Actress in a Play

- Jessica Chastain, “A Doll’s House” - Jodie Comer, “Prima Facie” - Jessica Hecht, “Summer, 1976” - Audra McDonald, “Ohio State Murders”

Best Leading Actress in a Musical

- Annaleigh Ashford, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” - Sara Bareilles, “Into the Woods” - Victoria Clark, “Kimberly Akimbo” - Lorna Courtney, “& Juliet” - Micaela Diamond, “Parade”

Best Leading Actor in a Musical

- Christian Borle, “Some Like It Hot” - J. Harrison Ghee, “Some Like It Hot” - Josh Groban, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” - Brian D’Arcy James, “Into the Woods” - Ben Platt, “Parade” - Colton Ryan, “New York, New York”

Best Featured Actor in a Play

- Jordan E. Cooper, “Ain’t No Mo’” - Samuel L. Jackson, “The Piano Lesson” - Arian Moayed, “A Doll’s House” - Brandon Uranowitz, “Leopold

Best Choreography Steven

- Hoggett, “New York, New York” - Molly Smith, “Camelot” - Sergio Trujillo, “& Juliet” - Casey Nicholaw, “Some Like It Hot” - Rob Ashford, “Shucked”

Best Direction of a Play Kenny Leon, “Ain’t No Mo’”

Christopher Ashley, “Leopoldstadt” Daniel Fish, “Death of a Salesman” Gregory Mosher, “Topdog/Underdog” Best Direction of a Musical Diane Paulus, “& Juliet” Michael Mayer, “New York, New York” Jerry Zaks, “Some Like It Hot” Scott Ellis, “Kimberly Akimbo” Marc Bruni, “Shucked”

Best Scenic Design of a Play Tony Cisek, “The Lifespan of a Fact”

Miriam Buether, “Leopoldstadt” Andrew Lieberman, “Between Riverside and Crazy” Mimi Lien, “Ain’t No Mo’”

Best Scenic Design of a Musical David Rockwell, “Some Like It Hot”

David Korins, “& Juliet” Derek McLane, “Shucked” David Gallo, “Kimberly Akimbo”

Best Costume Design of a Play

Linda Cho, “The Lifespan of a Fact” Catherine Zuber, “Leopoldstadt” Toni-Leslie James, “Between Riverside and Crazy” Dede M. Ayite, “Ain’t No Mo’”

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Gregg Barnes, “Some Like It Hot” Emily Rebholz, “& Juliet” William Ivey Long, “New York, New York” Paloma Young, “Shucked” Best Lighting Design of a Play Jane Cox, “Leopoldstadt” Alan C. Edwards, “Ain’t No Mo’” Japhy Weideman, “The Lifespan of a Fact” Jennifer Schriever, “Topdog/Underdog”

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Howell Binkley, “Some Like It Hot” Natasha Katz, “& Juliet” Bradley King, “Kimberly Akimbo” Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, “New York, New York”

Best Sound Design of a Play

Dan Moses Schreier, “Leopoldstadt” Steve Canyon Kennedy, “Between Riverside and Crazy” Jane Shaw, “Ain’t No Mo’” Fitz Patton, “The Lifespan of a Fact”

Best Sound Design of a Musical

Peter Hylenski, “Some Like It Hot” Jonathan Deans, “& Juliet” Dan Moses Schreier, “Shucked” Kai Harada, “Kimberly Akimbo”

Best Orchestrations

Larry Blank, “Some Like It Hot” Bill Elliott and Greg Anthony Rassen, “Kimberly Akimbo” Tom Kitt, “& Juliet” Duncan Sheik, “New York, New York” Those are the complete nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards. Fans of theater will have to wait until June 11 to find out who wins in each category. The awards ceremony is always a memorable event, celebrating the best of the best in Broadway theater.

Conclusion

The 76th Tony Awards nominations have been announced, and it's a great year for theater fans. Some Like It Hot leads the pack with 13 nominations, while & Juliet, New York, New York, and Shucked are close behind with nine each. The awards ceremony is set for June 11, so there's plenty Read the full article

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NOIR CITY Annual #12 on sale at http://www.noircity.com/noircityware.html 2020's NOIR CITY Annual 12, the best of the best from the Film Noir Foundation's 2019 quarterly NOIR CITY e-magazines, is another home run—essays, interviews, profiles, tributes, and reviews of classic and modern noir films from today's top writers—among them Jake Hinkson, Ray Banks, Vince Keenan, Alan K. Rode, Steve Kronenberg, John Wranovics, Sharon Knolle D.A. Kolodenko, Lisa Lieberman, Ben Terrall, and Eddie Muller. Book layout and design by Michael Kronenberg. And, as with any purchase from the Film Noir Foundation, when you buy NOIR CITY Annual 12, you'll be helping fund the non-profit foundation's film restoration efforts. e-magazines.

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Filming Has Begun On Live Action/2D/CGI Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers Movie

Sometimes, some crimes go slippin' through the cracks. But these two gumshoes are pickin' up the slack! 

Today Director Akiva Schaffer posted in the Instagram of the 3 directors  Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, that filming has started on Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers Film 

The movie is aiming for a Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle/ Looney Tunes Back In Action /Tom And Jerry 2021 route than your typical Disney Live Action adaptation

It’s been years since the end of the RESCUE RANGERS, and CHIP AND DALE are currently living a life of mediocrity. Now Chip and Dale must renew their partnership to try and save a friend from a fate worst that death: video piracy.

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers is directed by Akiva Schaffer who previously directed Hulu’s Palm Springs  

Seth Rogan will cameo in the film, In the movie cartoons live among us in all their animated forms and let’s just say they might be a little overboard with the popularity of CGI

 The script is co-written by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, from a previous draft by Barry Schwartz. David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will serve as producers. The film will be a co-production between Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films based on the Disney Television Animation series by Tad Stones &  Alan Zaslove

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers Is Set To Release On Spring 2022

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Hospitality developer Alan Lieberman buys land in North Beach for $5.5M

Hospitality developer Alan Lieberman buys land in North Beach for $5.5M

Alan Lieberman and a rendering of what could be built on the North Beach land (Credit: Getty Images) A company tied to Miami Beach hotelier Alan Lieberman paid $5.5 million for a development site in North Beach. Records show MYPP Holdings LLC sold the 20,414-square-foot site at 6375 Indian Creek Drive, 6372 and 6382 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach to 6372 LLC. Lieberman owns the South Beach Group,…

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The Movie Channel, network identifications 1988 & 1981

Not all of the branding work Fred/Alan did was visible or famous, but we weren’t any less proud of it. The 1988 assignment to redesign The Movie Channel was one of those.

Fred started his career in May 1980 at The Movie Channel, then owned by Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company (aka WASEC, the precursor to MTV Networks and Viacom), more on that below. We both left in April 1983 to start Fred/Alan, and later that year Showtime acquired The Movie Channel (whew!). A few years later, new management imported from HBO decided to put muscle behind The Movie Channel. In the meantime, Showtime had become a major Fred/Alan client and our reputation in developing brands and trademarks got us the assignment.

The Eyes Have It As he would a couple years later with HA!, Noel Frankel, our creative director, would adapt his prodigious design skills to our “changing logo” perspective and created a logo that would zero in on the soul of all people, their eyes. It was a hard sell at first –what? no cool, zapping colors like you did at MTV?– but eventually the team came aboard. Noel had succeeded in creating one of our most compelling –if not most popular– logos.

Our friends at Charlex had by then done several years of great productions for us at Nickelodeon, Myers’s Rum, and HA!, and we worked well with their emotional approach to video. Almost unique among “motion graphics” and visual effects companies, co-founder Alex Weil understood it wasn’t all about floating type. He instantly groked the eyes and worked creative magic with our team.

The Movie Channel 1981

The 1988 TMC project contrasted mightily with the first one we did for the channel back in the day. While we had already had a instinctual “yes!” about how to brand MTV, for a variety of reasons The Movie Channel initially escaped us. Though this project was started long before our MTV work, it wasn’t finished until the very last day of the year. And we didn’t know if we wanted them to be promos (with voiceover, like a short commercial) or just a tasty, fresh, appropriate visual. They turned out to be camels where they felt like “a horse created by committee.” But we were our own committee. 

We came up with “marketing propositions” (aka promises) the same as we did for MTV and eventually Nickelodeon, but the essence of the first all-movie cable channel just escaped us. We worked with one of our favorite producers, Jerry Lieberman in New York, for a friendly, fun hand drawn animation style, and great illustrators like Frank Olinsky and Susan Rivor, but... well, you can’t hit it out of the park every time.

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The Movie Channel 1988 Agency: Fred/Alan, Inc. New York  Executive creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert  Logo design & creative director: Noel Frankel  Producer & sound design: Tom Pomposello  Production company: Charlex, New York

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The Movie Channel 1981 Creative director: Fred Seibert   Illustration: Frank Olinksky, Susan Rivoir, and others Logo design: Alan Peckolick Producer: Alan Goodman Production company: Jerry Lieberman Productions, New York

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Best of Original Cartoons: HA! TV Comedy Network [1990-1991] 

Has anyone ever heard of HA!? Tough luck, it’s one of my favorite projects that my partner Alan Goodman and I developed back in the day. 


The short story is that MTV Networks (original home of MTV and Nickelodeon) got sideswiped by HBO starting The Comedy Channel, so they decided to fight back with their own. It was all hands on deck including Fred/Alan, our branding agency (more here). What to do about branding? I worked with the promotion group to develop their promises and spots, while back at the farm, we persuaded MTVN management to use a name –HA!– developed by their own staff, but somehow passed over. The Fred/Alan creative director, Noel Frankel, liked our approach of moving/changing/mutating trademarks and created a logo where the faces could morph constantly, right up our alley. 


As much fun as we had making advertising and promotion for the network, it was in the motion graphics and animation for the channel branding that made it one of our favorite, if now completely forgotten projects.

Alan and I had spent the past decade honing our point of view about how to identify a cable channel –like MTV, Nickelodeon, Lifetime, VH1– with increasing confidence. Along the way we’d created relationships with the world’s most innovative young filmmakers making short form, commercial animated films. In fact, I can say, with great pride, that we’d been responsible for helping some of them make their greatest early work that introduced them in a big way.

The late 80s and early 90s was also a period where technology was rapidly evolving, in particular how desktop computing and video were coming into their own as primary creative tools. Just take a look at the first 10 second spots at the top of this reel (only a smattering of the total number of films we produced for HA!) to see what I mean.

Ultimately, HA! was one of the last of these branding IDs that we made before closing the agency in 1992, and in my case, moving on to the cartoon business. But, truth be told, I don’t think I could have ever made the leap without my experience making almost 1000 of these 10-second network identifications, my personal film school. 

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HA! TV Comedy Network Network identity IDs Winter/Spring 1990

Logo design: Noel Frankel Production: Drew Takahashi/(Colossal) Pictures SF, Alex Weil/Charlex NY, Marv Newland/International Rocketship Vancouver BC, Lou Brooks/Jerry Lieberman Productions NYC, Marc Karzen

Produced by Albie Hecht, Howard Hoffman, Tom Pomposello, Chris Strand Executive producers: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert

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Disney Rings ‘Hunchback’ Bell: David Henry Hwang To Script Live Action Musical, Alan Menken/Stephen Schwartz Writing Music

Tony-winning M. Butterfly playwright David Henry Hwang has been set by Disney to write Hunchback, a live action adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz will write the music. Mandeville is producing along with Josh Gad. I had heard that Gad, a star of the Mandeville-produced blockbuster Beauty and the Beast, might play the lead character, but insiders at the studio said no casting is solid at this point.

Hwang’s other work includes the plays Chinglish, Yellow Face, Kung Fu, Golden Child, and The Dance and the Railroad, and Broadway musicals including the Elton John & Tim Rice collaboration Aida, the revival of Flower Drum Song and Disney’s animated Tarzan. M. Butterfly was revived on Broadway this season in a Julie Taymor-directed production. His collaboration with composer Jeanine Tesori, Soft Power, opened last May in Los Angeles. He is America’s most produced living opera librettist as well.

Three-time Oscar winner Schwartz’ credits include Wicked, Godspell and Pippin. Eight-time Oscar winner Menken’s credits include Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and the original score for the 1996 Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

he film will pull from the animated film and the Hugo novel but not the stage production that Schwartz and Menken collaborated on for the stage in Europe. David Hoberman, who runs Mandeville with Todd Lieberman, has been fixated on a live action Hunchback for over 30 years going back to when he was Disney film president. An early attempt led to the animated film and another was used for a limited TV series on ABC. Now it has come back around as a feature film, and while it is early and not on the Disney release calendar, Hunchback has some of the most storied players from the stage and musical realms.

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Reilly  Ace of Spies  -   ITV  -  September 5, 1983 - November 16, 1983

Drama (12 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly

Peter Egan as Major Charles Fothergill

Ian Charleson as R. H. Bruce Lockhart

Norman Rodway as Captain Mansfield Smith-Cumming

Tom Bell as Felix Dzerzhinsky

David Burke as Joseph Stalin

Kenneth Cranham as Vladimir Lenin

Leo McKern as Basil Zaharoff

Jeananne Crowley as Margaret Callaghan Reilly (wife number one)

Donald Morley as Stanley Baldwin

John Castle as Count Massino

Celia Gregory as Nadina "Nadia" Massino (wife number two)

Brian Protheroe as Shasha Grammaticoff

Joanne Whalley as Ulla Glass

Clive Merrison as Boris Savinkov

Laura Davenport as Nelly "Pepita" Burton (wife number three)

Joanne Pearce as Caryll Houselander

Michael Aldridge as Orlov

Victoria Harwood as Natalia

Anthony Higgins as Mikhail Trilisser

John Rhys-Davies as Tanyatos

Sebastian Shaw as Reverend Thomas

Bill Nighy as Goschen

David Ryall as Herr Glass

David Suchet as Inspector Tsientsin

Alex McCrindle as Captain MacDougal

Alfred Molina as Yakov Blumkin

Lindsay Duncan as The Plugger

Hugh Fraser as George Hill

Diana Hardcastle as Anna

Prentis Hancock as Boris Souvorin

Geoffrey Whitehead as Count Lubinsky

Aubrey Morris as Mendrovovich

Phil Smeeton as Chekist

Alan Downer as Berzin

Alan Bowerman as Lieberman

Sara Clee as Fanya "Fanny" Kaplan

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In their new book, “Because It’s Just And Right: The Untold Back-Story of the US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem", Leonard Grunstein and Farley Weiss share the riveting political drama of how the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 was first promulgated by Senator Jon Kyl, negotiated and then passed, on a bipartisan basis, by an overwhelming majority of Congress. It also describes the arduous process for over two decades that led to its finally being implemented. The Bible, Jewish History, International and US Law, as well as legal precedents are brought to life in a way that is both enlightening and entertaining.

This book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the significance of this historic event and it's impact on US-Israel relations.

David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel from 2017-2021, also weighs in on the book, calling it “essential reading for a complete understanding of why Jerusalem is, and must always remain, the undivided, eternal capital of the Jewish State.”

Senator Joe Lieberman, one of the key players in enabling bipartisan support for the Act, noted: “In this book, Farley Weiss and Len Grunstein tell the dramatic story of how the United States Congress enacted legislation to move our Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in 1995, and how twenty-three years later in 2018, it was finally moved there because, as the book’s title says, it was “Just and Right.”

Other testimonials include those by Governor Mike Huckabee and Professor Alan Dershowitz. Senator John Kyl provided a Foreword for the book. must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pneptbElGQY