ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS
On September 7th, HMP hosted the latest in a long series of Coffee With events - this one featured JEFF WALD, former news director at KTLA-TV for 19 years and news director at KCOP-TV for 7 years. Jeff's career in news spans 38 years, he's received 13 Emmys. He told many stories about the important news events and people in LA since the 1970's. The discussion was entitled BREAKING NEWS, "BROKEN NEWS" - Journalism or Artificial Intelligence? and was hosted and produced by former PPB President CHUCK STREET.
On Saturday, June 22nd, we saluted
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT - HOW IT BEGAN! Produced by CHUCK STREET and hosted by JOHN E. GOLDHAMMER, former
Paramount TV exec in charge of ET creation. The room was filled with former and current ET staff and included
video appearance from VIN DI BONA, ANDY FRIENDLY, JOHN TESH, ROBB WELLER, RON HENDREN, STEVE HERSEN, and
a special message from former president of Paramount Studios, MICHAEL EISNER.
We had an enormous turnout for the Game Show Diamond Jubilee Brunch on August 20th. Celebrities on hand were BOB EUBANKS,
GLENN SCARPELLI, MARC SUMMERS, and ANNIE WOOD. Hosted by MICHAEL BURGER with announcer RANDY WEST, video included
a tribute to ART ALISI, the history of game shows, and appearances on tape by PETER MARSHALL, PAT SAJAK and VANNA
WHITE and the late ALEX TREBEK. Photos will be available soon - check back here.
HMP's CELEBRITY SHOWCASE on YouTube features segments from our past luncheons. You can enjoy tributes to LILY TOMLIN,
WINK MARTINDALE, CARL REINER, RICH LITTLE, MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, JOHNNY MATHIS, JACK JONES and lots of others by going to
YouTube.com.
A new honoree is featured every month so check back frequently.
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about HMP. You can do that by clicking on this link:
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