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Happy Friday! Another clip from the Insight episode “A Box for Mr Lipton”- Pattye as Ellen Lipton- absolutely adorable… #patriciamattick #pattyemattick #insight #1972tv #Aboxformrlipton #adorable #youtube

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Insight was basically Twilight Zone for Catholics. It was one of the few things worth waking up on Sunday morning to watch, this and Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified and Painless Sunday School.

And it's got an official YouTube channel.

I'm gonna have to stop myself from binging this puppy.

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Ghosts of Hollywood

Marilyn Monroe The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard is said to be the current residence of several ghosts of popular film stars. Marilyn Monroe, the glamorous and funny star of such pictures as Some Like It Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was a frequent guest of the Roosevelt at the height of her popularity. And although she died in her Brentwood home, her image has been seen on several occasions in a full-length mirror that once hung in her poolside suite. The mirror has been relocated to the hotel's lower level by the elevators.

Montgomery Clift Another respected star who died before his time, Montgomery Clift, was a four-time Oscar nominated actor who is best known for his roles in A Place in the Sun, From Here to Eternity and Judgment at Nuremberg. His ghost has also been seen at the Roosevelt. According to some of the hotel's staff, Clift's spirit haunts room number 928. Clift stayed in that suite in 1953, pacing back and forth, memorizing his lines for From Here to Eternity. Loud, unexplained noises have been heard coming from the empty suite, and its phone is occasionally found mysteriously off the hook.

Perhaps it's fitting that the Hollywood Roosevelt should be the stirring place of celebrity ghosts since it was the site of the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. In fact, the Blossom Ballroom, where the ceremony was held, has an unexplained cold spot - a circular area measuring 30 inches in diameter that remains about 10 degrees colder than the rest of the room.

Harry Houdini Houdini is best known as a magician and escape artist, of course, but at the height of his fame he was also drawn to Hollywood, where he made a handful of silent films from 1919 to 1923. With such titles as The Man from Beyond and Haldane of the Secret Service (which he also directed), the films were not regarded well enough to give him much of a Hollywood career. Houdini's interest in the occult was well known, and although he earned a reputation as a masterful debunker of séances, he earnestly sought contact with those who have passed on to the other side. Shortly before his death, Houdini made a pact with his wife Bess that if he could, he would return and make contact with her from the other side. Perhaps he truly has attempted to return. Some claim to have seen the ghost of the great Houdini walking around in the home he owned on Laurel Canyon Blvd. in the Hollywood Hills. Film historians Laurie Jacobson and Marc Wanamaker, in their book Hollywood Haunted, dispute this story, saying that "Houdini most likely never even set foot in the Laurel Canyon mansion he is said to haunt."

Clifton Webb Clifton Webb was a very popular star of the 1940s and '50s, earning two Oscar nominations for his roles in Laura and The Razor's Edge. He may be best known for his portrayal of Mr. Belvedere in a series of films. It's not too often that a ghost haunts the place in which the person is buried, but this seems to be the case for Webb. His ghost has been seen at the Abbey of the Psalms, Hollywood Memorial Cemetery, where his body is interred. But it seems to be a restless spirit, as his ghost has also been encountered at his old home on Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills.

Thelma Todd Thelma Todd was a hot young star in the 1930s. She was featured in a number of hit comedies with the likes of The Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and Buster Keaton. But that all ended in 1935 when Todd was found dead in her car, which was parked above the café she owned on the Pacific Coast Highway. Strangely, her death was ruled an accidental suicide, but many suspected murder and a coverup by powerful Hollywood figures. The building that once housed the café is now owed by Paulist Productions, and employees have reportedly witnessed the starlet's ghost descending the stairs.

Thomas Ince Ince is considered one of the visionary pioneers of American movies. He was one of the most respected directors of the silent era, best known, perhaps, for his westerns starring William S. Hart. He partnered with other early Hollywood giants such as D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett, and founded Culver Studios, which later became MGM. Ironically, Ince's death overshadowed his film legacy. He died aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924, and although the official record shows the cause of death as heart failure, the hot rumor is that he was shot by Hearst in a fit a jealousy over Hearst's wife, Marion Davies. Ince's ghost - as well as several other ghostly figures - have been seen in the lot that was once Culver Studios. Film crew members have seen the specter of a man matching Ince's description on several occasions; in one instance, when the workers tried to speak to the spirit, it turned and disappeared through a wall.

Ozzie Nelson Ghosts and hauntings are the last thing that come to mind when you think of the perpetually cheerful Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. The couple, with their real-life sons Ricky and David, were stars of the long-running sitcom "Ozzie and Harriet," noted for its good-natured, gentle humor. Yet poor Ozzie doesn't seem to be as contented in the afterlife. Family members, it is said, have seen Ozzie's ghost in the family's old Hollywood home, and it always appears to be in a somber mood. Perhaps he's unhappy about how another Ozzy and his family have gained notoriety on TV.

George Reeves From 1953 to 1957, George Reeves was TV's Superman. Reeves had been around Hollywood for a while, playing bit parts in such films as Gone with the Wind and dozens of B-movies, but it was "The Adventures of Superman" on TV that brought him fame. Reeves died of a gunshot at his home in 1959. The official cause of death was suicide, but that conclusion has been hotly disputed, with some believing that Reeves was murdered. Whether it was suicide or murder, Reeves ghost has been seen in his Beverly Hills home. A couple claims to have seen the ghost of Reeves - decked out in his Superman costume - materialize in the bedroom where he died, after which it slowly faded away. Others believe that Reeves succumbed to the "Superman curse," in which those associated with the fictional character over the years allegedly have met with disaster or death. But is there really a curse? 

More Celebrity Ghosts

Rudolph Valentino - This silent film heartthrob has been seen in the bedroom and stables of his old Hollywood home. Jean Harlow - The spirit of this blonde bombshell is said to haunt the bedroom of her home on North Palm Drive, where her husband allegedly used to beat her. Mary Pickford - This legend of the silent era - actress, writer and producer - was co-founder of United Artists with her husband Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. Comic Buddy Rogers, who lived in the house Pickford once owned, saw her ghost appear in a white ruffled dress. Grace Kelly - Princess Stephanie of Monaco believes that the ghost of her mother, Grace Kelly, helped her write a song from the spirit world.

Celebrities Who Have Seen Ghosts

Nicholas Cage - This Oscar-winning actor (Leaving Las Vegas) refused to stay in uncle Francis Ford Coppola's home after seeing a ghost in the attic. (Cage was also cast as Superman in director Tim Burton's film project, which was never made.) Keanu Reeves - The star of The Matrix films and Devil's Advocate was just a kid in New Jersey when he saw a ghost that took the form of a white double-breasted suit come into his room one night. He wasn't imagining it; his nanny saw the phantom, too. Neve Campbell - She's been in more than her share of paranormal-themed movies (The Craft, Scream), but she's had real-life encounters as well. A woman was murdered in the house she now lives in, and friends have seen her ghost walking around. Matthew McConaughey - This popular actor (Contact) says he freaked out the first time he saw the ghost of an old woman, whom he calls "Madame Blue," floating around his house. Tim Robbins - Robbins, who was nominated for an Oscar in Mystic River, didn't see ghosts, but strongly felt their presence when he moved into an apartment in 1984. Following his instinct, he moved out the next day. Hugh Grant - British romantic comedy lead Hugh Grant (Love Actually) says he and friends have heard the wailing and screaming of some tormented spirit in his Los Angeles home. He even speculates it might be the ghost of a former resident - Bette Davis. Dan Aykroyd - The Ghostbusters star (and Oscar-nominated for Driving Miss Daisy) has long had a fascination with the paranormal. He believes his home, once owned by Cass Elliot of The Mamas and The Papas, is haunted. "A ghost certainly haunts my house," he said. "It once even crawled into bed with me. The ghost also turns on the Stairmaster and moves jewelry across the dresser. I'm sure it's Mama Cass because you get the feeling it's a big ghost." Sting - Rock star Sting (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and his wife Trudie have seen ghosts in their home. "I was absolutely terrified," he said. "I now believe those things are out there, but I have no explanation for them." Jean Claude Van Damme - The Belgian action star (Timecop), also known as "Muscles from Brussels," swears he saw a ghost in his bathroom mirror while he was brushing his teeth. Richard Dreyfuss - He won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl, but at one time had a cocaine problem. Visions of a ghost, he said, helped him kick the habit. "I had a car crash in the late 1970s," Dreyfuss said, "when I was really screwed up, and I started seeing these ghostly visions of a little girl every night. I couldn't shake this image. Every day it became clearer and I didn't know who the hell she was. Then I realized that kid was either the child I didn't kill the night I smashed up my car, or it was the daughter that I didn't have yet. I immediately sobered up." Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman - This Hollywood couple was forced to flee their "dream home" in Sneden's Landing, N.Y. when it became all too apparent that it was haunted. They still are reluctant to talk about their frightening encounters. Belinda Carlisle - This pop singer and founding member of The Go-Gos, who appeared in Swing Shift and She's Having a Baby, says she saw a "misty shape" hovering over her as she lay in bed one night. She also says that when she was 17, while nodding off to sleep in a chair in her parents' home, she levitated and had an out-of-body experience. Elke Sommers - This German-born actress, who appeared in the 1966 film The Oscar, claims to have seen the ghost of a middle-aged man in a white shirt in her home in North Beverly Hills. Guests in her home have also seen the specter. So much paranormal activity was reported in the house that the American Society for Psychical Research was brought in, and which verified the unexplained events. The severely haunted house was bought and sold more than 17 times since Sommers vacated it, and many have reported ghostly phenomena. Paul McCartney - Ex-Beatle and Oscar-nominated songwriter ("Live and Let Die") says that he, George Harrison and Ringo Starr sensed the playful spirit of John Lennon when they were recording Lennon's song, "Free As A Bird" in 1995. "There were a lot of strange goings-on in the studio - noises that shouldn't have been there and equipment doing all manner of weird things. There was just an overall feeling that John was around."

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"Yoga Prayer" Paulist Productions. 1 Disc in very good condition As many as half of Americas estimated 15 million yoga practitioners come from a Christian background. On Yoga Prayer: An Embodied Christian Spiritual Practice, Catholic priest and yoga instructor Thomas Ryan shows viewers that Christians can use yoga to experience their own faith more deeply and express it holistically. Ryan seamlessly harmonizes prayers like Psalm 84, the Peace Prayer of Saint Francis, and the Beatitudes with vitalizing yoga postures to create a uniquely powerful spiritual practice. If you have never experienced the physicality of prayer, Ryan promises, a fresh experience awaits you. Produced by Paulist Productions. 1 DVD 91 minutes https://item.mercari.com/gl/m80169856705/ #wellnessjames #Entrepreneurs #Jamesthehealthycoffeeguy my Passions CBDa from CTFO wellnessjames.myctfo.com and Ganoderma Enriched products from Gano Excel us.ganoexcel.com/lockettshp http://jameslockettrepairs.blogspot.com (at Mesa, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQ-x5GD6ct/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Apparently Ian is going to be in the new adaptation of Little Women. 

Teen Wolf’s Ian Bohen has come aboard Little Women, joining Sarah Davenport, Lea Thompson and Lucas Grabeel in the Clare Niederpruem-directed modern adaption based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel. Niederpruem, who is making her directorial debut, wrote the screenplay along with Kristi Shimek. Paulist Productions’ Chris Donahue and Marybeth Sprows are producing the indie alongside Main Dog Productions’ Maclain Nelson and Stephen Shimek. The film will be released in 2018 to coincide with the book’s 150th anniversary publishing date. Bohen, who will play Freddy Bhaer in Little Women, will next be seen Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, and Soldado, the sequel to 2015’s Sicario. He’s repped by Joseph Le Talent Agency and Zero Gravity Management.

Ooh, I didn’t see that movie with Jeremy Renner!

Listen, I am that person who will watch EVERY VERSION of Little Women ever and love it, but at this point it’s time to mix it up, doncha think? 

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Critical Production Portfolio

I’m Emma and I’m the one who had the pleasure to edit Detached.

As a team we knew the making of this project was going to be intense, especially in the post production process as the film needed to be interesting, pleasing to look at but also generate questions in the viewer’s mind.

For how the story had been written it was pretty linear and clear to us, as a team, how it would flow and end; I wanted to make it more interesting and, as the editor, I had to convey confusion and disorientation, both of which required a lot of research and study.

The pace of the cuts was extremely important as my aim was to make the viewer feel disorientated and lost in the void scenes and awkward when it came to interactions with the everyday world of our main character Finn. I worked very closely with the director of photography, carefully planning the shots having a crystal-clear view of how I wanted the edit to be. My aim was to create such a situation where the viewer forgets the edit and is just glued to the screen, I wanted to make the audience uncomfortable because there is the right amount of stuff going on in the picture, together with sound and acting. Achieving such a goal lead me to a long process of trial and error that I examine in the video below.

Editing does more than just connect scenes and shots. It helps to create pacing as well as the mood I previously mentioned, of the awkwardness of human interaction and the feeling of being lost in the unknown. A common way to throw the audience off is by editing the scenes in such a way that the viewer doesn’t know what is happening, I wanted to create the opposite, to make the viewer perfectly aware of what is going on on screen and, in a way, to leave an open ending to convey the emotion of disappointment; so that the audience would follow all the clues and our characters’ journeys but will be left wondering: what happens now? What if it was all in my head?

 Something else that fully does influence someone’s mind is the colour of the picture they’re watching. Color grading the film was another challenging process I went through, again, to emphasise those emotions I wanted to showcase. We have the happy and worriless scene at the beginning to explain the tranquillity of Finn’s mind, that’s where I used colours like blue and brown, that luckily for me where in frame since the scene is set by the beach, with dreamy shades and an overall bright look. I used warm colours for the bedroom scenes to portray it as his safe spot, warming and relaxing. Whilst for the external world, being the office, I chose to give it an overall cold look boosting the greys, blues and greens.

Before and after masking out some people in the background. From Detached,   2020 

When creating the void we took inspiration from the brilliant production design of Stranger Things and Under the Skin, but when colouring those sequences, things became interesting. Having an overall black base I had to match the background of the footage with the blackness of the screen, to make it look deeper and extradimensional; that alone was a major challenge, but what really was my tip of the iceberg was masking. Masking is a technique in post that allows you to apply effects to a specific area of the clip, like adding elements, cutting them out of the picture or changing the colour of such elements. Such a technique is already complex to do in pictures, where your only worry is to make the mask seamless for that specific light and settings, when it comes to video editing though it becomes much more complicated because the lighting might change, or something as simple as matching the colours can be good for one frame, but completely off for the next. I had to resort to masking in certain shots of the beach scene to get rid of people in the background but the void was far more interesting and time consuming, with one of the shots having as many as 14 different masks on top of each other, all tracking the movements of such things I wanted to get rid of, like tape marks – for the actors’ positions – on the floor.

I think that we aimed high with this film, but most importantly we worked hard on making it happen, and effort always pays off. I am more than satisfied with the final product and what it gave me as I was forcing myself to work hours and hours just to make the transitions and cuts as seamless as I could and the colours right for whatever scene I was editing. Making this film made me learn a lot in terms of conveying emotions and bringing to the screen what I think is my first of many films that pushed my boundaries to achieve something that, in the end, makes me proud of being a filmmaker.      

Sources

Aldridge Flores Jose-Luis, 2020, ‘Detached’, Still Pictures

Anderson J., 2019, ‘Detached’, Movie Poster

Bellantoni P., 2005, ‘If it’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die’, Focal Press (Elsevier)

Berry Sean, February 12, 2019, ‘You need to know these 4 video masking Techniques’, Videomaker, https://www.videomaker.com/news/you-need-to-know-these-4-video-masking-techniques/ 

Criswell L., July 29 2015, ‘Colour In Storytelling: The Cinema Cartography’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXgFcNUWqX0&t=886s  

Duffer Matt, Duffer  Ross, 2016 - present, ‘Stranger Things’, Netflix         

Glazer J., 2014, ‘Under the Skin’, BFI, Film4

Jankiewicz Patrick A , 2009, ‘Just When You Thought It Was Safe: A Jaws Companion’, BearManor Media

Prince D., November 7 2019, ‘Joe Alves: Designing Jaws’, Titan Books Limited  

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Models Of The Eucharist, Paperback

Models Of The Eucharist, Paperback

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Today, May 22, is the 40th anniversary of Paulist Fr. Frank Desiderio's priestly ordination in 1982.

Fr. Franks speaks about his vocation story, ministry and more in this oral history.

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Los Angeles Vocal Group Voxfire Re-Invents Medieval Music On Their Latest Release "Fontis"

Take songs from the Middle Ages and present them using the heavenly voices of three female singers plus a pair of musical-genre-crossing instrumentalists and you have the group Voxfire and their new modern-meets-medieval-mashup recording, FONTIS, on Orenda Records.

FONTIS represents a novel collaboration that stretches back ten centuries to reimagine words and music from the chapels, churches, courts and countrysides of Spain and France in the Middle Ages, by spotlighting today’s technologies and instrumentation.  The result is a timeless trip allowing listeners to enjoy the essence of passionate music from nearly a millennium ago transposed into a relatable contemporary musical setting.

The members of Voxfire are founding-vocalists Samela Aird Beasom, Christen Herman and Susan Judy, plus instrumentalists and arrangers Nick DePinna and Ross Garren.  On FONTIS, each of the vocalists sings lead or solo on a pair of tunes, but also sings in unison or harmony on other pieces, as well as supplying a dash of instrumental support here and there (there is one instrumental track).  DePinna performs on trombone, ukelele, piano, synthesizer, percussion, live effects processing and more.  Garren plays piano, harmonica, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, accordion and other instruments.  The group is joined by special guests Hitomi Oba on saxophones and flute, Jens Kuross on drums, Noah Meites on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Mark Beasom on percussion.  FONTIS was produced by Grammy®-Award-winning Peter Rutenberg.

“We’re not musicologists,” explains Susan Judy, “but we do all have a love for what is usually described as ‘early music,’ and all three of us singers have studied and researched early music and performed it in a variety of groups and contexts.  We really enjoy presenting music that most people do not commonly or ever get to hear.  ‘Once a good song, always a good song’ – as the saying goes – and we feel it is worth revisiting some of the greatest songs that originated hundreds and hundreds of years ago.”

The 13 tunes of FONTIS are sung in several medieval dialects that were spoken in Spain and France in the 12th-to-14th-centuries – Latin, Galician-Portuguese, Provencal-Occitan, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), and Arabic.  The songs include church chants, secular troubadour tunes, music pilgrims might sing on religious treks, and romantic compositions – some with known, but more often, with anonymous writers.  Lyric translations and details about each piece are available at the Voxfire website.  But the appeal to modern listeners is much more direct and comes from the incredible beauty of the voices of three women soaring together and separately in a manner that evokes the passion, fervor, drama and deep-rooted feelings that the composers and singers imbued into the music in the distant past.  Backed with modern sophisticated instrumentation, the music is elevated to a new level and becomes more universal in its appeal as elements of jazz, folk, classical, pop-rock, new age and avant-garde are heard.

More information on Voxfire is available at their website (voxfire.band) and their record company’s site (orendarecords.com).  Their FONTIS CD and digital download tracks from that recording are available at online sales sites such as CDBaby, Amazon, iTunes, eMusic and many others.  The music also can be heard (and Voxfire can be followed) at many major streaming platforms such as Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Google Play and more.

Founded as a soprano trio, Voxfire has performed extensively in concerts and festivals throughout the United States. The trio was initially inspired by the meaningful words and transcendent melodies of the 12th-century abbess and composer Hildegard von Bingen.  Their earliest appearances presented music by von Bingen, Machaut and other medieval composers, later broadening to include the Baroque Era, often using instrumental accompaniment of each period.  Two Voxfire recordings emerged from this repertoire – Songs to the Virgin and the live-performance collection Echoes.

In concerts Voxfire also has explored 20th-century repertoire, with performances of virtuosic pieces, such as Steve Reich’s Tehillim, as well as compositions written specifically for them.  Eventually Voxfire expanded their focus to include non-western instruments and world music.  In a Maria Rosa Menocal-inspired exploration of the Arab-Andalusian era, Voxfire collaborated with the Kan Zaman ensemble to do a series of concerts featuring songs from 14th-century Spain highlighted with Middle Eastern instruments including oud, Turkish clarinet and hand-drums.

“We have an affection for the 14th-century songs from that concert series,” says Susan Judy, “because the songs came from an interesting era, a time of relative religious tolerance, a mixing of cultures and a flourishing of the arts. They also lend themselves to improvisation, because so much of what they actually sounded like is shrouded in mystery and up to the modern performer to interpret, and we thought the music would make a good recording.”  “We also felt we had to take the next step in our evolution as a group which was to make the music even more enjoyable for today’s audiences by using modern instrumentation and increasing the level of improvisation,” adds Samela Beasom.

“In 2015,” says Christen Herman, “we began working with two excellent musicians -- Ross Garren and Nick DePinna – who were versatile in a wide variety of styles, which was just what we needed.  I always loved these ancient tunes in their original forms, and I was excited to see what would happen when we put them into the hands and minds of Nick and Ross.  Nobody had ever done this before.  Turns out what they created totally blew my mind!  As we began collaborating, they expanded our arrangements and shattered the boundaries of what was possible for us.  The culmination of this was an explosion of ideas, a new sound and a new album, FONTIS.”

Ross Garren continues, “This project allowed Nick and me to stretch in all sorts of unexpected directions.  With a primary focus on ‘reinvention’ and only a handful of constraints, we went wherever our instincts took us.  This has to be the most eclectic concept record I’ve ever been a part of and I’m thrilled with what we’ve created!”  Samela Beasom laughs and adds, “Yes, and you can’t just listen to the first 30 seconds, because you never know what’s going to happen – each track is a seven-course meal!”

The five members of Voxfire each bring a wealth of musical background and exemplary prior performances to the group.  In fact, the singers had often performed with one another in pre-Voxfire settings.

Samela Aird Beasom began her career as a soloist in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, touring extensively throughout the United States and Japan with the Roger Wagner Chorale. She has since been featured with numerous other Los Angeles-based ensembles, including I Cantori, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, and L.A. Opera, for whom she has performed in over 100 productions.  Beasom has been a featured soloist at the Carmel Bach, Santa Cruz Baroque, Corona del Mar Baroque, and Ojai Festivals, and was one of the founding members and primary soloists of Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra.  Her extensive studio work includes sessions for composers Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, and John Williams. 

Christen Herman has appeared as a soloist with numerous ensembles including I Cantori, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Paulist Boy Choristers, Los Angeles Cambridge Singers, Millennium Consort, and Artists’ Vocal Ensemble.  She was featured in Long Beach Opera’s production of Charpentier’s The Imaginary Invalid, and in I Cantori’s production of Hildegard von Bingen’s chant-drama Ordo Virtutum in the lead role of The Soul. Recently, she performed with Tonality, a new vocal group dedicated to promoting social justice. Festival and series appearances include the Ojai, Santa Cruz Baroque, and Los Angeles Bach Festivals; Music at St. Matthew’s; Music at Armand Hammer Museum; and the Colly Soleri Series at Arcosanti.  In addition to film score solo and ensemble singing, she has performed and recorded premieres of works by Steve Reich and Joan La Barbara. 

Susan Judy has appeared as soloist at a variety of festivals and series including the Ojai, E. Nakamichi, Santa Cruz Baroque, and San Luis Obispo Mozart Festivals; Berkeley Festival and Exhibitions; the famed Monday Evening Concerts at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Skirball Center and Diljian Chamber Music Series.  She has debuted a number of new works, including west coast premieres by Steve Reich, John Adams, and Otto Luening, and as a soloist with the California E.A.R. Unit.  She performed for many years with Los Angeles-based ensembles Musica Pacifica, I Cantori, and Musica Angelica as a soloist, and as a principal in staged productions of medieval and Baroque works.  More recently, she sang with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Millennium Consort, the Los Angeles Chamber Singers & Cappella, and American Bach Soloists.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Nick DePinna studied music composition at UCLA and completed his M.A. there.  He counts James W. Newton, Paul Chihara, David Lefkowitz, and Kenny Burrell among several important mentors.  DePinna’s compositions and arrangements are performed with regularity by professional ensembles and universities across the country.  His independent film and commercial scores are frequently heard on HBO, NatGeo WILD, Fox Sports, VH-1, and CMT.  In addition, his orchestrations and music productions air on the Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Lifetime, and ABC.  A versatile trombonist, Nick has performed and/or recorded with many top artists including Brian Setzer, Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wilson, Jon Jang, John Daversa, Long Beach Opera, Pasadena Pops, Moses Sumney, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kenny Loggins, Dream Theater, and M83.

Ross Garren – best-known as a pianist, harmonicist, and composer – received his B.M. from USC where he was named Outstanding Graduate in Composition.  He is a member of the duos Garren & Cohan and the Sheriffs of Schroedingham, and has his own solo project, Taggart.  Named a Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Fellow, Ross has also been awarded three ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Awards.  He has arranged for B.B. King, Haim, and Lyle Workman, and has performed on numerous recordings with artists such as Kesha, Ben Folds, Lupe Fiasco, Jim Keltner, Benmont Tench, and for composers Marco Beltrami, Alf Clausen and Mark Mancina.  Ross has served on faculty at the Musician’s Institute and as an expert guide on David Barrett’s Bluesharmonica.com. Ross’s film score work includes CMT’s series Sun Records, and Love and Crashing on Netflix.

“Expanding the group to five members was the perfect move for us,” says Samela Beasom.  “Especially entering the realm of improvisation was new and exciting.  Because Ross and Nick have a lot of jazz improv in their souls and seldom play a solo exactly the same way twice, the way in which we prepared and rehearsed for the recording was fresh and challenging. On some of the tunes we tracked parts separately, but on others we all laid it down live in the main studio.”

“Finding working scores for this music is easier than it used to be,” Susan Judy explains. With today’s internet breadth and access, transcriptions can be found now that everyone used to have to dig up in dusty corners of university libraries.  Over the years, we’ve done a lot of transcriptions and transpositions ourselves from updated ancient chant notations, for example – but we’ve left instrumentation up to the players, who generally must create their own accompaniments based on their own research. 

“Regarding the instrumentation,” Nick DePinna muses, "Ross and I are both performers and producers/arrangers, so naturally, we each play a LOT of different instruments.  It was really fun to go through our studios together to pick out the most mismatched and goofball combinations of instruments to use on these arrangements of very old and very beautiful songs.  One of my favorite moments is on "Tu Secreto" where Ross had the idea for me to pick up a pair of plastic toy trombones to create some really zany sounding parts sliding around all over the place."

The FONTIS album begins with the title track and its lyrics are a riddle-like text describing a ruler’s strong leadership flowing from a source of wisdom that must be tended with care.  “Vella e Mina” and “Sen Calar” are ancient Christian praise songs honoring the “Holy Mary.”  “Ondas” is a lament sung as if by a mournful maiden asking the sea if her loved one will ever return.  A noble lady with a broken heart and wounded pride rebukes her faithless lover in “A Chantar.”  “Laudemus I,” “Polorum” and “Rosa das Rosas” were all sung by travelers making pilgrimages to shrines of the Virgin Mary, often using the simple techniques of call-and-response and round singing.  “Esta Montana” chronicles a heartbroken woman sitting on a mountainside growing more and more desperate, despondent and, at last, sorrowfully resigned.  “Laudemus II” revisits the melody of the original vocal version in a new and mysterious telling and serves as the only instrumental tune on the recording.  “Ya Viene” tells the sad tale of a group of slaves being led away with the procession going by one slave girl’s home where her mother wails in agony.  “Tu Secreto” (originally in Arabic, and also translated into the Judeo-Spanish language of its time) has its message sung by a group of courtesans saying: “Don’t divulge your secret because the enemy is watching you.”  The album ends with the timeless story of “Por Deus” in which a young girl pleads with her parents to allow her to go to town with her girlfriends in hopes that she will be chosen by the man of her affection and will live happily ever after.

“The title FONTIS means ‘source’ in Latin,” according to Christen Herman.  “It also means ‘water source’ or ‘fountain,’ and we all loved that metaphor for the music on this recording.  For us the meaning of FONTIS as an album title is that it represents the source of the ancient words and melodies now pouring forth in a new way into a new era.”

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New Post has been published on Christian Worldview Institute

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SCANDALS! & OTHER CHURCH PROBLEMS - Issues Facing the 7 Churches of Revelation (Apocalypse #24)

John the Seer addresses Seven Churches of Asia Minor in the Book of Revelation. He shows his familiarity with each community in addressing various strengths, and challenges each church faces. These include:

Problems from outside of the Church; such as: Roman Persecutions Issues with the Jewish Community (but not with all Jews) Issues within the Christian Community (but not with all Christians)

In speaking to these Churches, “John” is addressing the Universal Church then, and throughout all time.

Watch as Fr. Bill addresses these messages and how they might apply to the Church of today.

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Little Women

Little Women Little Women

  Drame   2018-09-28

Directed by:  Clare Niederpruem Starring:  Sarah Davenport, Melanie Stone, Allie Jennings, Taylor Ashley Murphy, Lucas Grabeel, Ian Bohen, Lea Thompson, Bart Johnson, Adam Johnson, Michael Flynn, Joel Michaely, Stuart Edge, Elise Jones, Reese Oliveira



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Ghosts of Hollywood

Even after death, some Hollywood celebrities can’t stop putting in appearances

Marilyn Monroe

The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard is said to be the current residence of several ghosts of popular film stars. Marilyn Monroe, the glamorous and funny star of such pictures as Some Like It Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was a frequent guest of the Roosevelt at the height of her popularity. And although she died in her Brentwood home, her image has been seen on several occasions in a full-length mirror that once hung in her poolside suite. The mirror has been relocated to the hotel’s lower level by the elevators.

Montgomery Clift

Another respected star who died before his time, Montgomery Clift, was a four-time Oscar nominated actor who is best known for his roles in A Place in the Sun, From Here to Eternity and Judgment at Nuremberg. His ghost has also been seen at the Roosevelt. According to some of the hotel’s staff, Clift’s spirit haunts room number 928. Clift stayed in that suite in 1953, pacing back and forth, memorizing his lines for From Here to Eternity. Loud, unexplained noises have been heard coming from the empty suite, and its phone is occasionally found mysteriously off the hook.

Perhaps it’s fitting that the Hollywood Roosevelt should be the stirring place of celebrity ghosts since it was the site of the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. In fact, the Blossom Ballroom, where the ceremony was held, has an unexplained cold spot – a circular area measuring 30 inches in diameter that remains about 10 degrees colder than the rest of the room.

Harry Houdini

Houdini is best known as a magician and escape artist, of course, but at the height of his fame he was also drawn to Hollywood, where he made a handful of silent films from 1919 to 1923. With such titles as The Man from Beyond and Haldane of the Secret Service (which he also directed), the films were not regarded well enough to give him much of a Hollywood career. Houdini’s interest in the occult was well known, and although he earned a reputation as a masterful debunker of séances, he earnestly sought contact with those who have passed on to the other side. Shortly before his death, Houdini made a pact with his wife Bess that if he could, he would return and make contact with her from the other side. Perhaps he truly has attempted to return. Some claim to have seen the ghost of the great Houdini walking around in the home he owned on Laurel Canyon Blvd. in the Hollywood Hills. Film historians Laurie Jacobson and Marc Wanamaker, in their book Hollywood Haunted, dispute this story, saying that “Houdini most likely never even set foot in the Laurel Canyon mansion he is said to haunt.”

Clifton Webb

Clifton Webb was a very popular star of the 1940s and ’50s, earning two Oscar nominations for his roles in Laura and The Razor’s Edge. He may be best known for his portrayal of Mr. Belvedere in a series of films. It’s not too often that a ghost haunts the place in which the person is buried, but this seems to be the case for Webb. His ghost has been seen at the Abbey of the Psalms, Hollywood Memorial Cemetery, where his body is interred. But it seems to be a restless spirit, as his ghost has also been encountered at his old home on Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills.

Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd was a hot young star in the 1930s. She was featured in a number of hit comedies with the likes of The Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and Buster Keaton. But that all ended in 1935 when Todd was found dead in her car, which was parked above the café she owned on the Pacific Coast Highway. Strangely, her death was ruled an accidental suicide, but many suspected murder and a coverup by powerful Hollywood figures. The building that once housed the café is now owed by Paulist Productions, and employees have reportedly witnessed the starlet’s ghost descending the stairs.

Thomas Ince

Ince is considered one of the visionary pioneers of American movies. He was one of the most respected directors of the silent era, best known, perhaps, for his westerns starring William S. Hart. He partnered with other early Hollywood giants such as D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett, and founded Culver Studios, which later became MGM. Ironically, Ince’s death overshadowed his film legacy. He died aboard William Randolph Hearst’s yacht in 1924, and although the official record shows the cause of death as heart failure, the hot rumor is that he was shot by Hearst in a fit a jealousy over Hearst’s wife, Marion Davies. Ince’s ghost – as well as several other ghostly figures – have been seen in the lot that was once Culver Studios. Film crew members have seen the specter of a man matching Ince’s description on several occasions; in one instance, when the workers tried to speak to the spirit, it turned and disappeared through a wall.

Ozzie Nelson

Ghosts and hauntings are the last thing that come to mind when you think of the perpetually cheerful Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. The couple, with their real-life sons Ricky and David, were stars of the long-running sitcom “Ozzie and Harriet,” noted for its good-natured, gentle humor. Yet poor Ozzie doesn’t seem to be as contented in the afterlife. Family members, it is said, have seen Ozzie’s ghost in the family’s old Hollywood home, and it always appears to be in a somber mood. Perhaps he’s unhappy about how another Ozzy and his family have gained notoriety on TV.

George Reeves

From 1953 to 1957, George Reeves was TV’s Superman. Reeves had been around Hollywood for a while, playing bit parts in such films as Gone with the Wind and dozens of B-movies, but it was “The Adventures of Superman��� on TV that brought him fame. Reeves died of a gunshot at his home in 1959. The official cause of death was suicide, but that conclusion has been hotly disputed, with some believing that Reeves was murdered. Whether it was suicide or murder, Reeves ghost has been seen in his Beverly Hills home. A couple claims to have seen the ghost of Reeves – decked out in his Superman costume – materialize in the bedroom where he died, after which it slowly faded away. Others believe that Reeves succumbed to the “Superman curse,” in which those associated with the fictional character over the years allegedly have met with disaster or death. But is there really a curse? Read “The Truth About the Superman Curse” by Superman expert Brian McKernan.

More Celebrity Ghosts

Jean Harlow – The spirit of this blonde bombshell is said to haunt the bedroom of her home on North Palm Drive, where her husband allegedly used to beat her.

Mary Pickford – This legend of the silent era – actress, writer and producer – was co-founder of United Artists with her husband Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. Comic Buddy Rogers, who lived in the house Pickford once owned, saw her ghost appear in a white ruffled dress.

Grace Kelly – Princess Stephanie of Monaco believes that the ghost of her mother, Grace Kelly, helped her write a song from the spirit world.

Celebrities Who Have Seen Ghosts

Nicholas Cage – This Oscar-winning actor (Leaving Las Vegas) refused to stay in uncle Francis Ford Coppola’s home after seeing a ghost in the attic. (Cage was also cast as Superman in director Tim Burton’s film project, which was never made.)

Keanu Reeves – The star of The Matrix films and Devil’s Advocate was just a kid in New Jersey when he saw a ghost that took the form of a white double-breasted suit come into his room one night. He wasn’t imagining it; his nanny saw the phantom, too.

Neve Campbell – She’s been in more than her share of paranormal-themed movies (The Craft, Scream), but she’s had real-life encounters as well. A woman was murdered in the house she now lives in, and friends have seen her ghost walking around.

Matthew McConaughey – This popular actor (Contact) says he freaked out the first time he saw the ghost of an old woman, whom he calls “Madame Blue,” floating around his house.

Tim Robbins – Robbins, who was nominated for an Oscar in Mystic River, didn’t see ghosts, but strongly felt their presence when he moved into an apartment in 1984. Following his instinct, he moved out the next day.

Hugh Grant – British romantic comedy lead Hugh Grant (Love Actually) says he and friends have heard the wailing and screaming of some tormented spirit in his Los Angeles home. He even speculates it might be the ghost of a former resident – Bette Davis.

Dan Aykroyd – The Ghostbusters star (and Oscar-nominated for Driving Miss Daisy) has long had a fascination with the paranormal. He believes his home, once owned by Cass Elliot of The Mamas and The Papas, is haunted. “A ghost certainly haunts my house,” he said. “It once even crawled into bed with me. The ghost also turns on the Stairmaster and moves jewelry across the dresser. I’m sure it’s Mama Cass because you get the feeling it’s a big ghost.”

Sting – Rock star Sting (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and his wife Trudie have seen ghosts in their home. “I was absolutely terrified,” he said. “I now believe those things are out there, but I have no explanation for them.”

Jean Claude Van Damme – The Belgian action star (Timecop), also known as “Muscles from Brussels,” swears he saw a ghost in his bathroom mirror while he was brushing his teeth.

Richard Dreyfuss – He won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl, but at one time had a cocaine problem. Visions of a ghost, he said, helped him kick the habit. “I had a car crash in the late 1970s,” Dreyfuss said, “when I was really screwed up, and I started seeing these ghostly visions of a little girl every night. I couldn’t shake this image. Every day it became clearer and I didn’t know who the hell she was. Then I realized that kid was either the child I didn’t kill the night I smashed up my car, or it was the daughter that I didn’t have yet. I immediately sobered up.”

Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman – This Hollywood couple was forced to flee their “dream home” in Sneden’s Landing, N.Y. when it became all too apparent that it was haunted. They still are reluctant to talk about their frightening encounters.

Belinda Carlisle – This pop singer and founding member of The Go-Gos, who appeared in Swing Shift and She’s Having a Baby, says she saw a “misty shape” hovering over her as she lay in bed one night. She also says that when she was 17, while nodding off to sleep in a chair in her parents’ home, she levitated and had an out-of-body experience.

Elke Sommers – This German-born actress, who appeared in the 1966 film The Oscar, claims to have seen the ghost of a middle-aged man in a white shirt in her home in North Beverly Hills. Guests in her home have also seen the specter. So much paranormal activity was reported in the house that the American Society for Psychical Research was brought in, and which verified the unexplained events. The severely haunted house was bought and sold more than 17 times since Sommers vacated it, and many have reported ghostly phenomena.

Paul McCartney – Ex-Beatle and Oscar-nominated songwriter (“Live and Let Die”) says that he, George Harrison and Ringo Starr sensed the playful spirit of John Lennon when they were recording Lennon’s song, “Free As A Bird” in 1995. “There were a lot of strange goings-on in the studio �� noises that shouldn’t have been there and equipment doing all manner of weird things. There was just an overall feeling that John was around.”

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Don't Miss "The Dating Project" - April 17 In Theaters Today Only!

Don’t Miss “The Dating Project” – April 17 In Theaters Today Only!

The Dating Project – Date Differently The way people find love has radically changed in an age of swiping left or right. The Dating Project follows five single people, as they search for meaningful relationships. Presented by Pure Flix and Paulist Productions, this is the perfect event for every single person! …