Get out your lawn chairs! Returning for a second year, Santa Monica Pier's Front Porch Cinema will offer free films for the community every Friday for four weeks beginning September 27. This year marks the event's first collaboration with nonprofit arts organization Film Independent.Kicking off the series is the La premiere of SXSW hit and festival favorite rockabilly doc "Los Wild Ones." Filled with great music and large personalities from Rob Kennedy's La-based indie label Wild Records, the film follows Kennedy and the young Latino musicians he's signed as they face an uncertain future for the label. The Rhythm Shakers will perform live. Trailer below.On October 4, the Pier will screen George Roy Hill's Oscar-winning comedy caper "The Sting" (1973), starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman, for the film's 40th anniversary. The evening features a live ragtime pianist and card tables.October 11's film will be a family-friendly screening...
- 9/19/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
New York - C-Span founder Brian Lamb will step down from his CEO role to leave day-to-day management of the public affairs cable channel to Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, while remaining executive chairman, the New York Times reported. Effective April 1, the two executives, who have been at the company since the 1980s, will become the co-CEOs. Lamb will continue to host Sunday night interview program Q&A, the paper said. The news became official on Monday, 33 years to the day that C-Span launched, the Times said. C-Span launched by carrying the proceedings of
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- 3/19/2012
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brian Lamb, who helped found the public-affairs cable network C-span in 1978 and has been its CEO ever since, will step down at the end of the month, C-span said Sunday. Also read: Democrats Nix C-span Coverage of Health Care Debate Lamb, 70, will turn the operation over to two co-CEOs, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain. He will remain chairman of the board and take on the new title of executive chairman, C-span said. C-span said the leadership transition has been years in the making. Kennedy, 55, and Swain, 57, have been co-presidents...
- 3/19/2012
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Thirty-three years after C-span came into being, its creator and guiding light Brian Lamb is passing the baton for the remarkable nonprofit cable TV network to colleagues Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, the New York Times reports. The service will announce tomorrow that Kennedy and Swain will formally take over as co-chief executives on April 1. The transition has been planned for some time and Lamb, who becomes executive chairman, will continue to host his interview program Q&A that airs Sunday nights. Lamb was a reporter covering the communications industry when he started proposing the concept to operators of then-new cable systems across the U.S. Industry executive Robert Rosencrans presented Lamb a $25,000 check to get started. The Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network predates CNN and Espn as well as most other cable networks. C-span — which was set up to cover proceedings of the House of Representatives, and its offspring C-SPAN...
- 3/18/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
New York -- Brian Lamb, who helped found the public-affairs cable network C-span in 1978 and has been its CEO ever since, will step down at the end of the month, C-span said Sunday.
Lamb, 70, is handing the reins to two co-CEOs, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, C-span said. He will remain chairman of the board and take on the new title of executive chairman.
C-span said the leadership transition has been years in the making. Kennedy, 55, and Swain, 57, have been co-presidents of the company since 2006. Swain joined C-span in 1982, and Kennedy joined in 1987.
Washington-based C-span is a nonprofit created and funded by cable- and satellite-tv companies. It employs 275 people.
Lamb, 70, is handing the reins to two co-CEOs, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, C-span said. He will remain chairman of the board and take on the new title of executive chairman.
C-span said the leadership transition has been years in the making. Kennedy, 55, and Swain, 57, have been co-presidents of the company since 2006. Swain joined C-span in 1982, and Kennedy joined in 1987.
Washington-based C-span is a nonprofit created and funded by cable- and satellite-tv companies. It employs 275 people.
- 3/18/2012
- by AP
- Aol TV.
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