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In Memoriam list for our NBC Page class. Requiescat In Pace. 

L-R, T-B [tap image to enlarge]:
Mark Steven Traub 1958-2022 age 64
Stephen W. Weinheimer 1954-2013 age 59
Ramon M. Plaza, Jr. 1953-2018 age 65
Gregory P. Pavlis 1958-2000 age 42
Louis Padilla Jr. 1956-1995 age 38
James Edward Ellis 1957-2014 age 56
Kenneth F. Delahanty 1947-2020 age 73
Nancy Beresford Henze 1954-2019 age 65
Neal J. Bamonti 1957-1988 age 30
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1980 Convention Season. 

July and August 1980: two great NBC Page assignments, working at the conventions. In Detroit, it was the Reagan & GHW Bush coronation. But in Manhattan Square Garden, President Jimmy Carter & Senator Ted Kennedy ripped the Democratic party apart. [tap to enlarge]
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Letterman Before The Beginning. 

13Jun1980: David Letterman starts dress rehearsals for his morning show w/Rich Hall, Valri Bromfield, Wil Shriner, Edie McClurg, etc. Final airdate: 24Oct1980. (Late Night then ran from 01Feb1982 to 25Jun1993, when Jay Leno knifed Dave in the back.) [tap to enlarge]
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NYC Page SNL Invitations, 1979/80. 

SNL 4th & 5th end-of-season parties - NYC Page invitations:
(Left) 26May1979: Edie Baskin hand tint.
(Right) 24May1980: Buck Henry. [tap to enlarge]
In the Promenade Cafe at Rockefeller Center (outdoor skating rink in winter).
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SNL Promo Card, 1975. 

11Oct1975: Saturday Night Live, a topical comedy sketch show featuring Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman, made its debut on NBC.

Promo card text: "NBC Saturday Night-Live. This is a big one! Don't miss the exciting premiere of a new series that's a whole new dimension for TV! It's live from New York spotlighting the comedy and music stars of today - and tomorrow! Tonight's host: George Carlin. A comedy film by Albert Brooks. Jim Henson and the Muppets. Special musical guests Janis Ian, Billy Preston. Plus two brilliant new comedy finds: Billy Crystal, Andy Kaufman. Next week: Paul Simon, host, with special guest star Art Garfunkel! 11:30 PM" [tap to enlarge]
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Smelly Balls. 

I live in Mesa, the third-most populous city in Arizona, and the 36th-most populous city in the U.S. Its history dates back at least 2,000 years to the arrival of the Hohokam people, whose name means "All Used Up" or "The Departed Ones." They built the original canal system, which was the largest and most sophisticated in the prehistoric New World. Some canals were up to 90 feet wide and 10 feet deep at their head gates, extending as far as 16 miles across the desert. By 1100 A.D., water could be delivered to an area covering more than 170 square miles, transforming the Sonoran Desert into an agricultural oasis. By 1450, the Hohokam had constructed hundreds of miles of canals, many of which are still in use.

The temperature on this beautiful sunny Friday reached 78°F. The Missus and I sat on a lakeside bench just 50 feet from our front patio and greedily sniffed lungfuls of the heavenly aroma wafting from the yellow puffball flowers on a Sweet Acacia tree.

I call 'em "smelly balls."

From 30 June 2023 to 30 July 2023, this area had 31 straight days of 110°F or greater, including 17 days of 115°F or greater, and 3 days at 119°F (48.33°C: July 19, 20 & 25).

Singer Buck Owens, member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, was educated in Mesa schools. Ernesto Miranda, whose conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona (thus creating the Miranda warning), is buried in the City of Mesa Cemetery.

13% of Mesa's 509,000 people are Mormons.

In 2017, the Pew Research Center determined that Mesa was the most conservative city in the U.S.

During a recent election, I promised to hold my breath until Mesa turned blue.

But I had to suspend that campaign until a later date. 😉
 
Script Competition Laurels. 

BookTok Experiment 😉 ~~ Amazon Bibliography: amazon.com/author/acb
[Tap any image to enlarge it. Links to background info on the books included below.]
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843x7602003Jul: Azért is . . ! [Despite everything . . !] (short animation script included in the facebookworm book) first appeared in Newtopia Magazine and was later selected (2004Feb) as one of the 68 Notable Online Short Stories of 2003 (from over 600 nominations) in the storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction. ➡️It was also announced as an eighth finalist (top 206, from over 1,200 entries) in the FilmMakers Magazine American Gem Short Screenplay Competition (2007Sep).

655x8801998Oct: Francis Ford Coppola calls The Fall In Budapest "quality stuff." This feature screenplay (included in the 9TimeZones.com book) was one of five finalists in SCRNWRiT's First Draft Contest. Fifty original scripts from the 1,486 members of SCRNWRiT had advanced to the quarterfinals in early October. ➡️It was subsequently named as a Quarterfinalist in the 8th Annual Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition (2001Nov). ➡️A year later, it was announced as one of the top 100 scripts in AFP's competition (2002Dec).

485x1812004Nov: Eleven Thousand Virgins: Hildegard von Bingen's Last Chants was announced as a Semifinalist in the 11th Annual Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition.

500x2892020Sep: Vlad the Impaler: Son of Dracul was announced as a semi-finalist (feature-length) in this Screenwriters Network (British) contest.

811x2512004Feb: Merlinsky: The Sorcerer's Apprentice was announced as one of 124 Quarter-Finalists (out of 2,186 entries) in the First Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest (2003), judged by Francis Ford Coppola.

485x2042001Nov: Merlinsky: The Sorcerer's Apprentice was earlier named as a Quarterfinalist in the 8th Annual Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition.

500x5002020Jun: Côte d'Azur was announced as a semi-finalist (feature-length) in this Screenwriters Network (British) contest.

540x6542024Mar: And the eBooks are still popular, after 4+ years!
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