With fall coming on I will be working on a general update of Edna's home site as Edna enters her seventh year on the web in November. Also a new Brief Glimpse planned for September and a one day special event for Edna's birthday in October. But Sea Gull still is the top item at the moment, as we move into the final stages of layout.
Also, this winter, work on the newly found films on Edna will begin, as will the restart of the biography of the Purviance's. So lots more in store.
We like to thank everyone too for helping make Edna's home site have the best summer ever, with record visits for each of the months of June, July and August.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Chaplin the Musical planned for England
November 21-24, 2007 - Guildford Bellairs Playhouse - England
"Chaplin, the American musical that stalled on its way to Broadway, but found award-winning success in a Miami staging, will resurface this fall in a university production in Charlie Chaplin's home turf: England.
A staging at the respected Guildford School of Acting, which has a lauded musical theatre program, will be the latest test of the biographical Music Hall-flavored show about the early life of the film comedian." - PlayBill News
More at Chaplin the Musical
"Chaplin, the American musical that stalled on its way to Broadway, but found award-winning success in a Miami staging, will resurface this fall in a university production in Charlie Chaplin's home turf: England.
A staging at the respected Guildford School of Acting, which has a lauded musical theatre program, will be the latest test of the biographical Music Hall-flavored show about the early life of the film comedian." - PlayBill News
More at Chaplin the Musical
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Roy Export Wins Case against Japanese DVD Company
In a Japanese court ruling two Tokyo DVD producers were found violating copyright for copying and selling cheap DVDs of Chaplin's films. more >
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Chaplin Violins: Forever - Charlie and Edna
Special Tribute to Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance by Chaplin's Violin. See their youtube page at this link.
Special Buster Keaton Broadcast on DCR
Definitive Cinematic Retrospective is planning a special Buster Keaton night this Thursday, August 30th, 2007.
Cohen Phillips states:
"Our retrospective for August 30th is going to be somewhat different but very unique. We'll be talking Buster Keaton featuring LIVE running commentary to the movies playing on TCM on August 30th starting at 8pm EST. Steamboat Bill Jr. is the first movie playing.
This is also our 25th program as well, so it'll be a very special night. If you haven't listened LIVE to the program in awhile,THIS IS THE ONE FOR YOU!!! Call in with your 2 cents. (646)-915-8877."
DCR shows are live, but past shows can be heard as podcast.
Link to DCR
Oct. 2007 - BlogTalkRadio has updated their website and changed their links. New DCR link.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
Not Going to Let this Kill Me, Grand View Owner says
"The beleaguered cemetery has more than one potential buyer, but nothing will change until the lawsuits against it are resolved, said Thomas Trimble — the administrator of the estate of Marsha Lee Howard, the cemetery’s former owner."
“Nothing is going to happen until the lawsuits pass. Nothing,” he said."
“The city is getting upset because the owners are not taking steps to do anything,” he said. “Well, the owners can’t do anything if they don’t have the financial means to do it.”
“I’m not going to let this kill me like it killed my sister,” Trimble said." - Glendale News
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During the city hall meeting this week, it was revealed Trimble was trying to have someone check the water situation at Grand View. But with no means to make money, it is hard to afford the needed work.
Update Oct. 1, 2007 - You can read more at this link from Glendale News (Up for 14 days starting Aug. 23) Link now only available on Glendale News (pay) Archive pages.
As for Grand View, no public news to report, as things are happening behind the scenes with the many lawsuits in place. The Glendale City site has not updated their Grand View page since late August. Cemetery has remained closed. You can learn more at this GV information site.
The last story on GV ran in the Glendale paper August 31, but not on the web, as usual. It says, the State had ordered the cemetery to be sold in the next three years. It ends the state investigation into the case, but the lawsuits will continue. When this will all be resolved, is anyones guess.
October 4, 2007 - GV NEWS
March 27, 2008 - Update - Check my link section under LABELS for the latest Grand View information.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Brand New Legal Problems at Grand View
Owner has his say
August 23th
Owner of GV like to sell, but can't do anything
New Legal Action
August 22, 2007
The current lawsuit could last "three to five years" - from the City Hall meeting
At the Glendale city council meeting Tuesday night, the members voted to "pursue abatement orders against Grand View."
"The growing burden on the city to maintain Grand View Memorial Park while it sits shuttered during a long-running legal battle drew a virtual war cry from the City Council on Tuesday night when it tabled a proposed $400,000 city maintenance plan in favor of moving to invoke public nuisance orders against the property.
Faced with the realization that the maintenance plan might be the beginning of a very expensive endeavor, the City Council unanimously approved a motion directing the City Attorney’s Office to pursue public nuisance abatement orders against the cemetery." - Glendale News
This new legal action holds up the planned maintenances and any opening of the cemetery to the public.
You can read more at this Glendale News link (up for 14 days starting Aug. 22) and at Lisa's blog.
UPDATE - WATCH MEETING ON VIDEO: If you wish to watch the meeting held Tuesday, August 21, 2007, check this link to the video archive of City of Glendale. (In this five hour video, Grand View starts about 2 hours into the video.) It's a long discussion, that boils down to cost (who really pays) and all parties afraid to be sued, if someone gets hurt on the property.
It was said in passing the current lawsuit could last three to five years. Next schedule court case hearing is September 11, 2007.
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Grand View is the cemetery Edna is located. more>
August 23th
Owner of GV like to sell, but can't do anything
New Legal Action
August 22, 2007
The current lawsuit could last "three to five years" - from the City Hall meeting
At the Glendale city council meeting Tuesday night, the members voted to "pursue abatement orders against Grand View."
"The growing burden on the city to maintain Grand View Memorial Park while it sits shuttered during a long-running legal battle drew a virtual war cry from the City Council on Tuesday night when it tabled a proposed $400,000 city maintenance plan in favor of moving to invoke public nuisance orders against the property.
Faced with the realization that the maintenance plan might be the beginning of a very expensive endeavor, the City Council unanimously approved a motion directing the City Attorney’s Office to pursue public nuisance abatement orders against the cemetery." - Glendale News
This new legal action holds up the planned maintenances and any opening of the cemetery to the public.
You can read more at this Glendale News link (up for 14 days starting Aug. 22) and at Lisa's blog.
UPDATE - WATCH MEETING ON VIDEO: If you wish to watch the meeting held Tuesday, August 21, 2007, check this link to the video archive of City of Glendale. (In this five hour video, Grand View starts about 2 hours into the video.) It's a long discussion, that boils down to cost (who really pays) and all parties afraid to be sued, if someone gets hurt on the property.
It was said in passing the current lawsuit could last three to five years. Next schedule court case hearing is September 11, 2007.
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Grand View is the cemetery Edna is located. more>
Monday, August 20, 2007
REMEMBER CHARLIE - World Premiere Ballet
October 27 & 28, 2007
Palm Springs - Annenberg Theater
Palm Springs - Annenberg Theater
Tickets are available NOW!
(Charles Chaplin TM copyright by Bubbles Inc.)
(Charles Chaplin TM copyright by Bubbles Inc.)
Stolen Moments is back with August 07 show
August 20, 2007 - Donna Hill is back with her latest show 'Valentino the Unforgotten' - more>
Note: The Stolen Moments blog had some server issues this last week, so if you checked in and found the page missing, it was only a server problem, and has pretty much been fixed now. Also for Mac users, Donna's show is on iTunes. Just go to iTunes and look-up Stolen Moments.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Cinecon 43 Film Schedule Up
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Grand View - Resident(s) will do it for FREE
UPDATE: August 20th - Glendale City Hall will talk about Grand View at the August 21, 2007 town hall meeting. It will cover the maintenances for Grand View. This link is a PDF about the meeting.
August 18th, 2007 - If the city won't do it, we'll do it for free is the cry after being tried of the slowness of things happening at Grand View:
"People with loved ones at Grand View Memorial Park are willing to do for free right now what the city of Glendale has failed to do with $107,800 in two months.
That was the message Laguna Beach resident Lenore Devlin brought Tuesday to the City Council, as at least one city councilman lamented the city’s inaction at the cemetery.
Devlin’s plan: to mobilize people in Glendale, her own community and Los Angeles County agencies to open the cemetery.
“We’ll all bring water,” she said. “We’ll bring our rakes. We’ll cut. We’ll do whatever is necessary to keep it clean.”
Of all the council members, Bob Yousefian has been the most out-spoken in wanting to get something done:
"...the city is taking too long with the work.
“I was under the impression that staff was working on this because we allocated the funds,” Councilman Bob Yousefian said. “It’s been a month and nothing has happened. I just drove down there, looked at it, and I was horrified.”
“We have almost a million dollars’ worth of department heads out there and they can’t figure out a simple task, which is to go out there and put some water on those trees,” Yousefian said." - Glendale News
When watching the town hall meetings, it is easy to see who is the most interested, but also why the others aren't. It is a complicated problem. It is a private cemetery and not the cities problem, so doing what they think is right.
But this is not a building in a business park, but a historical cemetery that is part of the Glendale community. Little to no action the last year has created the current conditions and it is not going to just 'go away.'
I know on Edna's site we have visitors from around the world watching this develop since I started posting about it in November 2005. Some are quite shocked how a country that is support to be so rich and talks about being a 'can do country', treat their dead so disrespectfully and act like they can't do anything.
The insurance company with the 'afraid someone will get hurt and we get sued' is one problem, it is a private cemetery is another, and the on going lawsuits yet another. But the problem is not just going to disappear and their are people around the world 'watching' what is happening and residence wanting to see something happening.
The complete Glendale News story is up for 14 days from August 18th, 2007.
Glendale City website has some information on GV under HEADLINES.
August 18th, 2007 - If the city won't do it, we'll do it for free is the cry after being tried of the slowness of things happening at Grand View:
"People with loved ones at Grand View Memorial Park are willing to do for free right now what the city of Glendale has failed to do with $107,800 in two months.
That was the message Laguna Beach resident Lenore Devlin brought Tuesday to the City Council, as at least one city councilman lamented the city’s inaction at the cemetery.
Devlin’s plan: to mobilize people in Glendale, her own community and Los Angeles County agencies to open the cemetery.
“We’ll all bring water,” she said. “We’ll bring our rakes. We’ll cut. We’ll do whatever is necessary to keep it clean.”
Of all the council members, Bob Yousefian has been the most out-spoken in wanting to get something done:
"...the city is taking too long with the work.
“I was under the impression that staff was working on this because we allocated the funds,” Councilman Bob Yousefian said. “It’s been a month and nothing has happened. I just drove down there, looked at it, and I was horrified.”
“We have almost a million dollars’ worth of department heads out there and they can’t figure out a simple task, which is to go out there and put some water on those trees,” Yousefian said." - Glendale News
When watching the town hall meetings, it is easy to see who is the most interested, but also why the others aren't. It is a complicated problem. It is a private cemetery and not the cities problem, so doing what they think is right.
But this is not a building in a business park, but a historical cemetery that is part of the Glendale community. Little to no action the last year has created the current conditions and it is not going to just 'go away.'
I know on Edna's site we have visitors from around the world watching this develop since I started posting about it in November 2005. Some are quite shocked how a country that is support to be so rich and talks about being a 'can do country', treat their dead so disrespectfully and act like they can't do anything.
The insurance company with the 'afraid someone will get hurt and we get sued' is one problem, it is a private cemetery is another, and the on going lawsuits yet another. But the problem is not just going to disappear and their are people around the world 'watching' what is happening and residence wanting to see something happening.
The complete Glendale News story is up for 14 days from August 18th, 2007.
Glendale City website has some information on GV under HEADLINES.
Stolen Moments
Decided to create a new post for Stolen Moments. Donna Hill plans to have her new show up soon. She notes:
"...I was conducting interviews for the follow up Film Festival podcasts, Skype had an upgrade and it rendered my software to record phone calls useless.
The good news is, I've found a possible alternative recorder which I will be testing out this weekend, once Skype resolves their current issues. It's been a frustrating couple of months for me and I hope that I've not lost my listeners."
Stuff happens, so good to know she is working it out and should have a new podcast soon. We'll be listening...
"...I was conducting interviews for the follow up Film Festival podcasts, Skype had an upgrade and it rendered my software to record phone calls useless.
The good news is, I've found a possible alternative recorder which I will be testing out this weekend, once Skype resolves their current issues. It's been a frustrating couple of months for me and I hope that I've not lost my listeners."
Stuff happens, so good to know she is working it out and should have a new podcast soon. We'll be listening...
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