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The Vietnam Odyssey of Oliver Stone

The soldier trained his rifle at the ground in front of the feet of the unarmed Vietnamese villager and fired away, yelling "Dance. Dance. Dance." The old man hopped from one foot to the other.

"I wanted to kill him," recalled Oliver Stone. "I hated him. I crossed over into being a monster."

The above incident is depicted in "Platoon," written and directed by Stone, a Vietnam veteran. It and the other events shown actually happened, according to Stone. He's not proud of it. But he owns up to it. "Platoon" is Oliver Stone's atonement. Moreover, it's our atonement, too. "Platoon" is the first Hollywood movie to take the redemptive power of cinema and focus it on the Vietnam War.

If you think Vietnam was John Wayne in "The Green Berets," Robert DeNiro in "The Deer Hunter" or Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now," think again. "Platoon" is about the bugs and rain and the jungle and the pain. It's about the unseen enemy, rice paddy stashes and gun caches in thatched-hut villages. It's about boredom, fear, friendship, rage, loyalty, humor and choices - right and wrong. Like the phrase from the comic strip Pogo, "We have met the enemy and they is us," that's what "Platoon" is all about.

Why is "Platoon" drawing critical raves, Oscar talk and large numbers at the box office? Why is it being called the most important movie about Vietnam, or perhaps the most important war movie ever made? Why, 20 years after the war's escalation, are we seeing images of a Vietnam movie on the cover of Time magazine and in the media across the nation?

Oliver Stone has a few theories. The Academy-award-winning writer ("Midnight Express") and acclaimed writer-director ("Salvador") says it took 20 years for the nation to heal its wounds, for historic perspective to settle in and allow Americans to understand Vietnam and welcome home its legacy - the Vietnam Vet. It took the Vietnam monument in Washington, D.C., and, yes, Bruce Springsteen's misunderstood "Born in the U.S." ("Got in a little hometown jam/So they put a rifle in my hand/Send me off to a foreign land/Go and kill the yellow man.") It was an educational process, Stone told a recent gathering of the media in New York.

"We thought the war was over, when in fact it was just beginning," Stone recalled of his return after 15 months with the 25th Infantry Division near the Cambodian border. Stone, wounded twice, was awarded the Bronze Star for combat gallantry and a Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster. He was later transferred to the First Cavalry Division. Of his return home, he says, "There was total indifference. The war happened at 7:15 each night on the news."

Stone, 40, is a bear of a man with a boyish face. He's a very forceful individual who speaks in bursts of words which tumble forth. At the same time, the writer in him is ever observant. He seems impatient, as if he can't wait to get back to the word processor.

Ten days after his return in November 1968, Stone found himself in prison, arrested on a marijuana charge. Adjusting to civilian life for him and some 2 million other Vietnam servicemen would not be easy. But Stone managed to tough it out. What was his salvation? The cinema. Stone studied screenwriting and directing with Martin Scorsese at New York University Film School, receiving a BFA in 1971.

A Canadian firm bought a screenplay, "Seizure," and allowed him to direct the low-budget film. In 1976, Stone moved to Hollywood. Two years later, he won an Academy Award for his screenplay, "Midnight Express," which also brought him the Writers Guild of America Award. Stone also directed another low budget film, "The Hand," and co-authored the script for "Conan the Barbarian" and wrote the screenplay for "Scarface."

It was 10 years ago, during America's Bicentennial, that Stone wrote the script for "Platoon." He says every studio in Hollywood turned it down, telling him nobody wanted to see a movie about the Vietnam War. "It was considered too gruesome, too realistic."

"Platoon" is a Vietnam movie from the grunt's point of view. We see the war through the eyes of Charlie Sheen, who plays Chris, a young recruit (based on Stone), and hear it through his words in letters he writes to his grandmother back home.

The movie depicts a night watch in the jungle turned into an ambush by the North Vietnamese Army, contrasts the boozers (those who drank beer and alcohol off-duty) and the heads (those who used marijuana and other drugs back at base camp), shows a My Lai type scourging of a village by American soldiers and the conflict between a gung-ho, out-to-kill lifer Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger), and a mild-mannered eager-to-get-o ut-alive Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe). The movie does not paint a glorious picture of the American presence in Vietnam.

" 'Apocalypse Now' was about everyday life in Vietnam. It was more Joseph Conrad mythology," said Stone. " 'The Deer Hunter' was more about Pennsylvania and Meryl Streep than Vietnam."

The characters in "Platoon" are based on real people who existed in three different combat units in Vietnam. The characters and events are composites, but based on reality, Stone said. "My hypothesis was: 'What would happen if the three were in the same Platoon?' "

I asked Stone how accurate the scenes were depicting drug use in Vietnam. Many Vietnam soldiers were introduced to drugs in Vietnam and returned with drug habits. "Not in the field," said Stone. "A lot of us did it in the base camp - mostly marijuana, some heroin."

The tone of "Platoon" is not one of condemnation, but rather understanding - a knowledge that the roots of war are in all of us. Stone called war "one of the greatest highs. There's an adrenaline that flows. Life freezes down to a minute."

As you might expect, the violence in "Platoon" is graphic. But it is not gratuitous. "TV violence is obscene," said Stone of small-screen images of crashing cars, shootouts and fistfights where the participants seem to always mend by next week's episode. "It ignores reality, the real pain, shock and loss. It (violence) has to be done explicitly. Otherwise, you'll deceive the public."

Stone found a willing backer for "Platoon" in England. John Daly and Derek Gibson, owners of Hemdale Film Corp. arranged financing and brought in producer Arnold Kopelson. "Platoon" was brought in for $6 million, a low figure in today's Hollywood where a $15-million budget is average. Orion Pictures is distributing the movie.

Hemdale had produced Stone's "Salvador." Other noteworthy Hemdale movies include "The Falcon and the Snowman," "At Close Range," "River's Edge," "The Terminator" and "Hoosiers." They'll team again with Stone for his upcoming "Tom Mix and Pancho Villa.'

"Platoon" was described "as the flipside of 'Top Gun.' "

" 'Top Gun' was totally irresponsible, really," said Daly. "My friend's son, 12, saw 'Top Gun' and wanted to sign up. I said, 'Wait to sign-up until he sees 'Platoon.' "

To heighten authenticity, Stone and the producers brought the cast to the Philippines prior to shooting for two weeks of "basic training." Sheen, Berenger, Dafoe and the rest were given a shovel, told to dig their home, taken on hikes and climbs, given night guard duty and handed Army rations. Capt. Dale Dye, a retired Marine officer and Vietnam veteran, was in charge.

Dye, who has a consulting firm, Warriors Inc., which advises film-makers on military accuracy, contacted Stone, telling him, "You understand that this is as significant for the Vietnam veteran as anything is going to be. Let's do it right."

Dye was a sergeant in Vietnam where he was wounded in action three times during 31 major combat operations including the battle for Hue City and Khe Sanh during the Tet Offensive in 1968. Later, as a master sergeant he was active in the evacuation of Saigon and Phom Penh.

" 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Deer Hunter' are war films," said Dye, "but have nothing to do with Vietnam. They are allegorical in nature, but don't reflect the agony and ecstasy of young men who went to fight in that very difficult war."

Dye now has no illusions about war: "I went into it with grand delusions of flashing sabers and lovely ladies on my arm. When I got down to the mud and the blood, I found that to be hollow."

Stone was similarly gung-ho. A son of a stockbroker who met his wife in Paris during World War II, Stone attended the Hill School, Pottstown, before entertaining Yale University. He studied there for one year. In 1965, he got a job with the Free Pacific Institute, teaching Vietnamese-Chinese students in the Cholon district of Saigon. Then, he got a job on an American merchant ship. Two years later, at 21, he was back in Vietnam.

Has "Platoon" helped Stone put Vietnam behind him? Yes, he says. "I was totally warped and twisted by Vietnam. I got rid of all my demons."

-Paul Willistein, “The Vietnam Odyssey of Oliver Stone,” The Morning Call, Feb 1 1987 [x]

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In Memoriam 2018

Happy New Year everyone. It’s time to remember the well known icons of entertainment that we lost in 2018.

Ray Thomas - musician (The Moody Blues) (1941 - 1/4/2018)

Jerry Van Dyke - actor (1931 - 1/5/2018)

France Gall - singer (1947- 1/7/2018)

Donnelly Rhodes - actor (1937 - 1/8/2018)

Terence Marsh - production designer (1931 - 1/9/2018)

Eddie Clarke - musician (Motorhead) (1950 - 1/10/2018)

Jean Porter - actress (1922 - 1/13/2018)

Edwin Hawkins - gospel singer (1943 - 1/15/2018)

Dolores O’Riordan - singer, musician (The Cranberries) (1971 - 1/15/2018)

Bradford Dillman - actor (1930 - 1/16/2018)

Dorothy Malone - actress (1924 - 1/19/2018)

Jim Rodford - musician (The Zombies, The Kinks, Argent) (1945 - 1/20/2018)

Connie Sawyer - actress (1912 - 1/21/2018)

Hugh Masekela - musician (1939 - 1/23/2018)

Dennis Edwards - singer (The Temptations) (1943 - 2/1/2018)

John Mahoney - actor (1940 - 2/4/2018)

Kenneth Haigh - actor (1929 - 2/4/2018)

Reg E. Cathy - actor (1958 - 2/9/2018)

John Gavin - actor (1931 - 2/9/2018)

Jóhann Jóhannsson - film composer (1969 - 2/9/2018)

Vic Damone - singer, actor (1928 - 2/11/2018)

Jan Maxwell - actress (1956 - 2/11/2018)

Idrissa Ouédraogo - director (1954 - 2/18/2018)

Nanette Fabray - singer, actress (1920 - 2/21/2018)

Lewis Gilbert - director (1920 - 2/23/2018)

Bud Luckey - animator, director, actor (1934 - 2/24/2018)

David Ogden Stiers - actor (1942 - 3/3/2018)

Hubert de Givenchy - fashion designer (1927 - 3/9/2018)

Ken Dodd - actor, comedian, singer (1927 - 3/11/2018)

Stephen Hawking - scientist, personality (1942 - 3/14/2018)

Delores Taylor - actress (1932 - 3/23/2018)

Stéphane Audran - actress (1932 - 3/27/2018)

Steven Bochco - producer (1943 - 4/1/2018)

Susan Anspach - actress (1942 - 4/2/2018)

Isao Takahata - director, animator, screenwriter, producer (1936 - 4/5/2018)

Chuck McCann - actor, comedian (1934 - 4/8/2018)

Milos Forman - director (1932 - 4/13/2018)

R. Lee Ermey - actor (1944 - 4/15/2018)

Harry Anderson - actor, magician (1952 - 4/16/2018)

Verne Troyer - actor (1969 - 4/21/2018)

Michael Anderson - director (1920 - 4/25/2018)

Charles Neville - musician (The Neville Brothers) (1938 - 4/26/2018)

Lester James Peries - director (1919 - 4/29/2018)

Robert Mandan - actor (1932 - 4/29/2018)

Ermanno Olmi - director (1931 - 5/5/2018)

Anne V. Coates - editor (1925 - 5/8/2018)

Margot Kidder - actress (1948 - 5/13/2018)

Tom Wolfe - author, journalist, personality (1930 - 5/14/2018)

Joseph Campanella - actor (1924 - 5/16/2018)

Patricia Morison - actress (1915 - 5/20/2018)

Clint Walker - actor (1927 - 5/21/2018)

Philip Roth - author (1933 - 5/22/2018)

Jerry Maren - actor (1920 - 5/24/2018)

Kate Spade - fashion designer (1962 - 6/5/2018)

Anthony Bourdain - chef, personality (1956 - 6/8/2018)

Eunice Gayson - actress (1928 - 6/8/2018)

Danny Kirwan - musician (Fleetwood Mac) (1950 - 6/8/2018)

Jon Hiseman - musician (Colosseum, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers) (1944 - 6/12/2018)

Matt “Guitar” Murphy - musician (The Blues Brothers) (1929 - 6/15/2018)

XXXTentacion - rapper (1998 - 6/18/2018)

Vinnie Paul - musician (Pantera, Damageplan) (1964 - 6/22/2018)

Harlan Ellison - author (1934 - 6/28/2018)

Steve Ditko - comic book writer/artist (1927 - 6/29/2018)

Gillian Lynne - dancer, choreographer (1926 - 7/1/2018)

Robby Muller - cinematographer (1940 - 7/4/2018)

Claude Lanzmann - director (1925 - 7/5/2018)

Tab Hunter - actor, singer (1931 - 7/8/2018)

Roger Perry - actor (1933 - 7/12/2018)

Yvonne Blake - costume designer (1940 - 7/17/2018)

Mary Carlisle - actress (1914 - 8/1/2018)

Winston Ntshona - playwright, actor (1941 - 8/2/2018)

Moshe Mizrahi - director (1931 - 8/3/2018)

Charlotte Rae - actress (1926 - 8/5/2018)

Aretha Franklin - singer (1942 - 8/16/2018)

Brian Murray - actor (1937 - 8/20/2018)

Barbara Harris - actress (1935 - 8/21/2018)

Robin Leach - personality (1941 - 8/24/2018)

Neil Simon - playwright, screenwriter (1927 - 8/26/2018)

Paul Taylor - dancer, choreographer (1930 - 8/29/2018)

Carole Shelley - actress (1939 - 8/31/2018)

Jacqueline Pearce - actress (1943 - 9/3/2018)

Bill Daily - actor (1927 - 9/4/2018)

Christopher Lawford - actor (1955 - 9/4/2018)

Liz Fraser - actress (1930 - 9/6/2018)

Burt Reynolds - actor (1936 - 9/6/2018)

Mac Miller - rapper (1992 - 9/6/2018)

Peter Donat - actor (1928 - 9/10/2018)

Fenella Fielding - actress (1927 - 9/11/2018)

Marin Mazzie - actress, singer (1960 - 9/13/2018)

Dudley Sutton - actor (1933 - 9/15/2018)

Arthur Mitchell - dancer, choreographer (1934 - 9/19/2018)

Denis Norden - comedy writer (1922 - 9/19/2018)

Al Matthews - actor (1942 - 9/22/2018)

Otis Rush - musician (1934 - 9/29/2018)

Charles Aznavour - singer, actor (1924 - 10/1/2018)

Geoff Emerick - recording engineer (1945 - 10/2/2018)

Will Vinton - animator (1947 - 10/4/2018)

Audrey Wells - screenwriter, director, producer (1960 - 10/4/2018)

Montserrat Caballe - opera singer (1933 - 10/6/2018)

Scott Wilson - actor (1942 - 10/6/2018)

Peggy McCay - actress (1927 - 10/7/2018)

Arnold Kopelson - producer (1935 - 10/8/2018)

James Karen - actor (1923 - 10/23/2018)

Ntozake Shange - playwright, poet (1948 - 10/27/2018)

Raymond Chow - producer (1927 - 10/2/2018)

Roy Hargrove - musician (1969 - 11/2/2018)

Sondra Locke - actress (1944 - 11/3/2018)

Francis Lai - film composer (1932 - 11/7/2018)

Douglas Rain - actor (1928 - 11/11/2018)

Stan Lee - comic book writer, editor, actor (1922 - 11/12/2018)

Katherine MacGregor - actress (1925 - 11/13/2018)

John Bluthal - actor (1929 - 11/15/2018)

Roy Clark - country singer (1933 - 11/15/2018)

William Goldman - novelist, playwright, screenwriter (1931 - 11/16/2018)

Bernardo Bertolucci - director, screenwriter (1941 - 11/26/2018)

Stephen Hillenburg - cartoonist, animator (1961 - 11/26/2018)

Ken Berry - actor (1933 - 12/1/2018)

Philip Bosco - actor (1930 - 12/3/2018)

Pete Shelley - singer (Buzzcocks) (1955 - 12/6/2018)

Nancy Wilson - singer (1937 - 12/13/2018)

Penny Marshall - actress, director (1943 - 12/17/2018)

Donald Moffat - actor (1930 - 12/20/2018)

Amos Oz - novelist (1939 - 12/28/2018)

June Whitfield - actress (1925 - 12/28/2018)

Ringo Lam - director (1955 - 12/29/2018)

Don Lusk - animator (1913 - 12/30/2018)

Mrinal Sen - director (1923 - 12/30/2018)

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Salamo "The Ballet Dancer" Arouch

Salamo Arouch (1923 –2009) was a Jewish Greek boxer who became the Middleweight Champion of Greece in 1938 and the All-Balkans Middleweight Champion a year later. However, what was set to be a glittering career was cut short when in 1943, he and his family were transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in present day Poland after Nazi Germany invaded Greece.

While there, he was forced to box two or three times a week for the entertainment of the Nazi officers with the losers being shot or sent to the gas chambers. Arouch fought around 208 times, winning all but two, both of which were fought while he recovered from dysentery and both ending in draws.

Top Picture – Arouch (centre) on the set of Triumph of the Spirit, the 1989 film of his life, with Willem Dafoe, left, and producer Arnold Kopelson. (Source: theguardian.com).

Bottom Picture – Arouch in 1990 in a boxing gym in Bat Yam, Israel. (Source: nytimes.com).

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NEW YORK | Arnold Kopelson, 'Platoon' producer, dies at 83

NEW YORK | Arnold Kopelson, ‘Platoon’ producer, dies at 83

NEW YORK — Arnold Kopelson, a versatile film producer whose credits ranged from the raunchy teen smash “Porky’s” to the Holocaust drama “Triumph of the Spirit” to the Oscar-winning “Platoon,” died Monday. He was 83.

Family spokesman Jeff Sanderson told The Associated Press that Kopelson died of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He is survived by his wife and business…

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’Platoon’ producer Arnold Kopelson dies at 83

’Platoon’ producer Arnold Kopelson dies at 83 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J ’Platoon’ producer Arnold Kopelson dies at 83

NEW YORK — Arnold Kopelson, a versatile film producer whose credits ranged from the raunchy teen smash “Porky’s” to the Holocaust drama “Triumph of the Spirit” to the Oscar-winning “Platoon,” died Monday. He was 83.

Family spokesman Jeff Sanderson told The Associated Press that Kopelson died of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He is survived by his wife and business partner, Anne Kopelson, and by three children.

On Twitter, fellow director William Friedkin mourned his passing, and Joan Collins posted a picture of her with Kopelson and called him “a great friend, a brilliant producer and a fabulous dinner companion.”

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A New York City native and graduate of New York Law School, Kopelson broke into show business as an entertainment and banking attorney and began producing films in the late 1970s. A notable and very profitable project was “Porky’s,” the low-budget and lowbrow comedy made in Canada after Hollywood shunned it that went on to make more than $100 million.

Kopelson would eventually aim higher. Director-screenwriter Oliver Stone had tried for years to get financing for “Platoon,” the Vietnam War drama based on his own time in the military. A 1984 deal with producer Dino De Laurentiis fell through and led to legal action.

Kopelson stepped in, and Stone was able to make “Platoon” after a tumultuous production in the Philippines in early 1986, during the time the country’s longtime president, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was being forced out of power.

“Platoon,” which starred Willem Defoe and Tom Berenger, came out in December 1986 and has been cited as the first major feature film about Vietnam directed by a veteran of the war. The film was a box office success and won four Academy Awards, including one for Kopelson for best picture.

Kopelson went on to produce other films, including the cult favourite “Seven”; “Triumph of the Spirit,” which starred Defoe as a boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz; “The Fugitive,” a best picture nominee in 1994; and “A Perfect Murder.”

In recent years, Kopelson served on the CBS board of directors and was in the news this past summer when a video he shot of media mogul Sumner Redstone became part of a lawsuit involving CBS and whether the 95-year-old Redstone was still able to make decisions.

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The Jews Who Control the Media and Porn Industry

This is a body of work listing the Jewish leadership of major media and porn corporations and outlets.

^ Media

Viacom

Owns BET, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, Logo TV, Comedy Central, Palladia, Spike, and Epix

Majority shareholder — Sumner Redstone

Chairman Emeritus, former CEO — Sumner Redstone

President, CEO and Chairman —-Philippe Dauman

Vice-chairwoman — Shari Redstone

Viacom Music & Entertainment Group President — Doug Herzog

Doug Herzog oversees MTV, VH1, Logo TV, Comedy Central, Palladia, Spike, and Epix

CBS

President — Leslie Moonves

Vice-Chairwoman — Shari Redstone

Chairman Emeritus — Sumner Redstone

Former Chairwoman — Nina Tassler

Former owner — Sumner Redstone

Director — David R. Andelman

Director — William S. Cohen

Director — Leonard Goldberg

Director — Arnold Kopelson

Director — Doug Morris

CBS News

Chairman — Jeff Fager

CNN Worldwide

President — Jeff Zucker

Variety

Executive Editor — Steve Gaydos

Co-Editor-in-Chief — Peter Bart

Vox

Editor-in-Cheif — Ezra Klein

Rebel Media

Owner — Ezra Levant

News Corp

News Corp  owns The Times, The Sun, Dow Jones & Company, The Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins, Fox Entertainment Group (owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio and the Fox Broadcasting Company)

Exec Co-Chairman former CEO — Rupert Murdoch

21st Century Fox Exec Co-Chairman former CEO — Rupert Murdoch

Fox Entertainment Group — Rupert Murdoch

News Corp Exec Chairman — Rupert Murdoch

Fox News

Owner — Rupert Murdoch

Fox Filmed Entertainment

Chairman and CEO — Thomas Rothman

The New York Post

Owner — Rupert Murdoch

Wall Street Journal

Owner — Rupert Murdoch

Atlantic Media

Parent company of The Atlantic

Chairman/Owner — David G. Bradley (Jewish spouse: Katherine Brittain)

David G. Bradley is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

The Atlantic

Editor-in-Chief — Jeffrey Goldberg

Senior Editor — Yoni Appelbaum

Associate Editor — Matt Ford

Washington Post

CEO and Chairman — Donald E. Graham

Executive Editor — Martin Baron

Columnist — Dana Milbank

Journalist — David Weigel

Syndicated Columnist — Richard Cohen

Advance Publications

Founder — Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr.

Charmain — Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr.

President — Donald Newhouse

Owns 31% of Dicosvery Communications

Owns 13% of Charter Communications

Also owns the following companies

Alabama Media Group which is the parent company to the following

al.com

gulflive.com

The Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama)[10]

Press-Register (Mobile, Alabama)

The Huntsville Times (Huntsville, Alabama)

The Mississippi Press (Pascagoula, Mississippi)

NOLA Media Group

NOLA.com

The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana)

MardiGras.com

The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)

MassLive.com

MLive Media Group which is the parent company to the following

MLive.com

The Ann Arbor News (print edition Thursdays & Sundays) [11]

Kalamazoo Gazette

Bay City Times

Flint Journal

Grand Rapids Press

Jackson Citizen Patriot

Muskegon Chronicle

Saginaw News

Advance Central Services Michigan

NJ Advance Media which is the parent company to the following

NJ.com

The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)

The Times (Trenton, New Jersey)

The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, New Jersey)

NJN Publishing

South Jersey Media Group

The South Jersey Times

The Hunterdon Democrat (Flemington, New Jersey)

Gloucester County Times (Woodbury, New Jersey)

The News of Cumberland County (Bridgeton, New Jersey)

Today's Sunbeam (Salem, New Jersey)

The Warren Reporter (Hackettstown, New Jersey)

The Reporter (Somerset County, New Jersey)

Independent Press (New Providence, New Jersey)

Suburban News (Clark, New Jersey)

Cranford Chronicle (Cranford, New Jersey)

Lehigh Valley Media Group which is the parent company to the following

lehighvalleylive.com

The Express-Times (Easton, Pennsylvania)

Penn Jersey Advance Central Services

SILive.com

Staten Island Advance (Staten Island, New York)

Syracuse Media Group which is the parent company to the following

syracuse.com

newyorkupstate.com

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)

Advance Central Services Syracuse

Advance Ohio (New name for Northeast Ohio Media Group as of January 26, 2016) which is the parent company to the following

cleveland.com

The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)

Sun Newspapers - weekly newspapers for the Greater Cleveland area

The Plain Dealer Publishing Company

Oregonian Media Group which is the parent company to the following

OregonLive.com

The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)

The Hillsboro Argus (Hillsboro, Oregon)

Advance Central Services Oregon

PA Media Group which is the parent company to the following

The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)

PennLive.com

Advance Central Services Pennsylvania

Business journals and periodical

Main article: American City Business Journals

Sports Business Journal

Sports Business Daily

NASCAR Illustrated

Street & Smiths sports annuals

Hemmings Motor News

Hemmings Muscle Machines

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car

Hemmings Classic Car

The Sporting News

Inside Lacrosse

Portfolio.com

Magazines

Condé Nast which is the parent company of the following

Allure

Architectural Digest

Bon Appetit

Brides

House & Garden

Condé Nast Traveler

Easy Living

Glamour

Golf Digest

Golf World

GQ

Lucky

The New Yorker

Condé Nast Portfolio (defunct; Portfolio.com continues as part of Advance's American City Business Journals)

Self

Tatler

Teen Vogue

Vanity Fair

Vogue

W

Wired

The World of Interiors

Condé Nast Digital which is the parent company of the following

style.com

thescene.com

Flip.com

men.style.com

Brides.com

epicurious.com

concierge.com

nutritiondata.com

stylefinder.com

arstechnica.com

webmonkey.com

Wired News

pitchfork.com

Including the websites of all Condé Nast's publications

BBC

Director—News and Current Affair, J ames Harding

BBC Television

Director — Danny Cohen

STX Entertainment

President and COO of the Motion Picture Group — Oren Aviv

Chairman of the Motion Picture Group division — Adam Fogelson

General Counsel & Executive VP, Corporate Strategy — Noah Fogelson

The Chernin Group

Chairman and CEO — Peter Chernin

Main asset is Chernin Entertainment, Pandora, Fullscreen, Tumblr, Barstool Sports, Crunchyroll, and Flipboard.

Has a major stake in CA Media.

Owns 49% of Endemol a television production company of India.

Comcast

Co-Fonder — Julian Brodsky

Co-Fonder — Ralph Roberts

CEO and Chairman — Brian L. Roberts

Exec VP — Stephen B. Burke

Chief Diversity Officer & Senior Exec VP — David L. Cohen

Director — Jeffrey A. Honickman

NBCUniversal

Parent company is Comcast

Is the Parent company of Universal theme parks

CEO — Stephen B. Burke

CEO and President — Mark Hoffman

Chairman — Robert Greenblatt

Vice Chairman — Ronald Meyer

Former Chairman — Jeff Gaspin

NBCUniversal News Group

Chairman — Andrew Lack

NBC

CEO — Stephen B. Burke

Chairman — Robert Greenblatt

Former Chairman — Jeff Gaspin

Former CEO — Jew Zucker (now President of CNN)

CNBC

CEO and President — Mark Hoffman

MSNBC

Chairman — Andrew Lack

Focus Features

CEO — James Schamus

Universal Studios

Parent company is Comcast

Chairman — Jeff Shells

CFO — Rowan Conn

Chairman — Adam Fogelson

Universal Theme Parks

Parent company is NBCUniversal

Locations in Orlando, Hollywood, Singapore, and Japan Universal Theme Parks are opening in Beijing, Moscow, and South Korea

Walt Disney

President and CEO — Robert Iger

Walt Disney Studios President — Alan Bergman

Director — Sheryl Sandberg (also COO of Facebook)

Ex-CEO and current board member — Michael Eisner

Walt Disney Studios

President — Alan Bergman

Chairman — Alan F. Horn

Disney Media Networks

Co-Chairman — Ben Sherwood

Co-Chaiman — John Skipper

Disney–ABC Television Group

President — Ben Sherwood

ABC News

Owned by Walt Disney

President —James Goldston

Former President — Ben Sherwood

ESPN

Walt Disney owns 80% and Hearst Corporation owns 20% of ESPN

President — John Skipper

A+E Networks

Owned 50/50 by Disney–ABC Television Group and Hearst Corporation

Chairman — Abbe Raven

CEO — Nancy Dubuc

History Channel

Parent company is A+E Networks

Propagate Content

Back by A+E Networks

Co-CEO and Chairman — Ben Silverman

Hearst Corporation

CEO —  Steve Swartz

Hearst TV’s President — Jordan Wertlieb

Hearst Magazine’s President — David Carey

Hearst Newspapers’ President — Mark E. Aldam

DreamWorks

Co-Chairman and CEO — Stacy Snider

Co-Chairman — David Geffen

Warner Brothers

Chairman and CEO — Barry M. Meyer

President and COO — Alan F. Horn

President of Production — Jeff Robinov

Chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment — Martin Shafer

President of Television Group — Bruce Rosenblum

President of Television Production — Peter Rot

President of Warner Independent Pictures — Polly Cohen

Paramount Pictures

CEO and Chairman — Brad Grey

Co-founder — Jesse L. Lasky

Co-founder — Adolph Zukor

Co-President — John Lesher

Co-President — Nick Meyer

MGM

Chairman and CEO — Harry Sloan

Sony Picture

Chairman and CEO — Michael Lynton

Regency Pictures

Chairman — Arnon Milchan

USA Network

Senior VP of Public Affairs — Toby Graff

CW

President of Entertainment — Dawn Ostroff

Showtime

Chairman and CEO — Matthew C. Blank

President — Robert Greenblatt

Chicago Tribune

Owner — Sam Zell

The New York Times

Majority shareholders — Ochs-Sulzberger family

Daily News

Owner — Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman

U.S. News & World Report

Owner — Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman

RCA

Founder — David Sarnoff (and NBC founder)

Warner Music Group

CEO — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Tribune Company

President and CEO — Eddy W. Hartenstein

Miramax

Co-founder — Harvey Weinstein

Co-founder — Bob Weinstein

Drudge Report

Owner — Matt Drudge

^ THE PORN INDUSTRY

BLACKED, TUSHY, and VIXEN

Creator of BLACKED — Greg Lansky

Chief Creative Officer — Greg Lansky (French Jew)

Screw

Publisher and Pornographer — Al Goldstein

Playboy

Owner — Hugh Hefner

AVN Media Network, Inc.

Founder, Chairman of the Board, and President — Paul Fishbein

Senior Editor and creator of "Jewish Humor Goes to the Movies" — Irv Slifkin

Former Editor-In-Chief of AVN Novelty Business Magazine — Anthony Lovett

Vivid Entertainment

Founder/Co-Chairman — Steven Hirsch (aka "The Porn King")

Co-Owner/Co-Chairman — Bill Asher

VP of Production — Marci Hirsch

Lucas Entertainment

Founder/CEO — Michael Lucas

WICKED Pictures

Founder — Steve Orenstein

Studio stopped production October 2010 when actor contracted HIV.

Wicked’s website was taken over by Manwin in December 2010.

Manwin (now MindGeek)

Founder/Former Owner — Fabian Thylmann

Seymore, Inc.

Founder/Owner — Adam Glasser (aka Seymore Butts)

LukeFord.com

"Drudge Report of Porn" — Luke Ford

Ultima DVD

Owner — Eric Jover

Doc Johnson (sex toy company)

Founder/CEO — Ron Braverman

COO — Chad Braverman

Cream Entertainment (defunct)

Founder/Owener and AVN Hall of Famer — John T. Bone

East Coast News and IVD (largest porn distributor worldwide)

Owner — Frank Koretsky

IEG (now defunct)

Pioneered the camgirl industry via Clublove.com, Founder/Owner — Seth Warshavsky

Phone Sex

Former "High Society" editor and phone sex pioneer/creator — Gloria Leonard

Bobby Hollander

He  was married to Gloria Leonard above.

Pioneers of the shot-on-video porn movie

XRCO Hall of Fame, Credited with the Creation of 70 Porn Films

World’s largest Porn Distributer

Reuben Sturman

Porn distributer and Reuben Sturman Associate

Herbert Feinberg (Mickey Fine)

Al Goldstein

Porn pioneer

Died of AIDS (http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/19/us/porn-pioneer-al-goldstein-dies/index.html)

Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance

Member of the board of directors, porn actress — Nina Hartley

1st Playgirl Centerford

Randy West

Traci Lords

(aka Nora Louise Kuzma) — claims to be Jewish

Jenna Jameson

Converted to Judaism

None as the "The Queen of Porn"

Ronald Jeremy Hyatt

Ranked by AVN at #1 in their “50 Top Porn Stars of All Time” list

Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Appearances in Adult Films”

Listed in over 2,000 films

Directed 285 films

Jamie Gillis

Jewish name — Jamey Ira Gurman

Bisexual porn actor/director.

AVN Hall of fame

Annie Sprinkle

Jewish name — Ellen F. Steinberg

Sex educator, prostitute, stripper, porn actress, and porn magazine editor

Appeared in 200 films.

AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame

Sex-positive feminism

Nina Hartley

Porn actress, porn director, sex educator, and and author

Won multiple AVN awards for being a skank.

Sex-positive feminism

Harry Reems

Jewish name — Herbert Streicher

Known for porn movie “Deep Throat” in 1972

140 films between 1971 and 1989

Arrested by FBI agents on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute obscenity across state lines and was convicted in April 1976

Jewish attorney Alan Dershowitz got the conviction overturned in April 1977

Jerry Butler

Jewish name — Paul Siederman

In 567 films from 1981 to 1993

Wesley Emerson

AVN Hall of Fame, Porn Director of 155 Films

Herschel Savage

Jewish name — Herschel Cohen

Known as the biggest porn stars from the “Gold Age of Porn”

Acted in “Debbie Does Dallas”

Naomi Russell

2007 AVN best new starlet

2007 Adam Film World Guide Award — Starlet of the Year

Abella Danger

2016 AVN Awards — Best New Starlet

2016 AVN Awards — Hottest Newcomer (Fan Award)

2016 XBIZ Awards — Best New Starlet

2016 XRCO Awards — New Starlet

Casey Calvert

Numerous AVN, XBIZ, and XRCO awards durning 2015 and 2016.

Joanna Angel

Numerous AVN, XBIZ, XRCO, and Nightmare awards from 2006 - 2016

James Deen

Numerous AVN, XBIZ, XRCO, and Nightmare awards from 2009 - 2016

Dana Dearmond

2016 AVN Hall of Fame

Arabelle Raphael

Jayden James

Daphne Rosen

Raquel Divine

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