BROKEN HEARTS CLUB - THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE IS…?

Originally a short film written in  2006  by writer/Director Angelo Bell, “Broken Hearts Club” is now a feature film in post-production.  A work-in-progress cut of the feature has been submitted to the Toronto Interntational Film Festival. The short film has just been submitted to USA IndieFest.

THE STORY: Genre: Comedy, romance, drama - In Treatment meets Love Actually.  Logline: Terrence, an apathetic clinical psychiatrist must treat a group of melodramatic, broken-hearted patients to get the job of a lifetime and save his marriage. SYNOPSIS: What does a clinical psychiatrist do when his clinically insane patients are replaced with the  clinically heart-broken?

Dr. Terrence N. Thiebold is a former All-American UCLA linebacker and now the leading clinical psychiatrist on the West Coast. He’s a stoic and regimented gentleman; apathetic to a fault but hugely successful in treating the criminally insane. However, Terrence’s very ordered and unemotional lifestyle is about to take a dramatic turn.

When Terrence’s flighty self-serving colleague, DR. KNOWLES, embarks on a journey, Terrence becomes the reluctant therapist  for twelve melodramatic emotionally distraught individuals in the midst of tumultuous break-ups. Terrence handles his new responsibilities like any uptight, anal-retentive advanced degreed professional — he runs for the hills!

Terrence’s new career-obsessed, lonely and hopeless clients take through the gamut of emotional frustrations ultimately putting his marriage in jeopardy. Matters become even more complicated when Terrence is offered a job at a prestigious Beverly Hills mental health clinic contingent on his successful results with his new patients.

Will Terrence toss pragmatic bookish methodologies away in favor of learning to counsel from the heart? Or will he succumb to his own inner demons and the ugly truth behind his obsessive rebellion against the vulnerability of love and emotions?

For more details visit their site at: http://www.brokenheartsclubfilm.com and to help spread the word: Simply click on this link to send an email to: ptraffic@tiffg.ca - and add this message: “I was wondering if you were going to screen ‘Broken Hearts Club’ at this year’s festival. Please advise on the screening dates and times.

Relay For Life - Santa Monica - Sat Jul 26 9am – Sun Jul 27 9am

One day. One night. One community. Your Relay For Life® is about celebration, remembrance, and hope.  By participating, you honor cancer survivors, pay tribute to the lives we’ve lost to the disease, and raise money to help fight it all right here in your community. You won’t want to miss one moment of this life- and community-affirming event!

Relay For Life®, the American Cancer Society’s signature event, is a fun-filled overnight experience designed to bring together those who have been touched by cancer. At Relay, people from within the community gather to celebrate survivors, remember those lost to cancer, and to fight back against this disease. Relay participants help raise money and awareness to support the American Cancer Society in its lifesaving mission to eliminate cancer as a major health issue. During Relay For Life ® events, teams of people gather at schools, fairgrounds, or parks and take turns walking or running laps. The events are held overnight to represent the fact that cancer never sleeps. Through the survivors’ lap and the luminaria ceremony, we honor the people who have faced cancer first hand, and we remember those who have been lost to this disease.

But, Relay isn’t about taking laps — it’s about coming together in the fight against cancer. It’s a time to remember those lost to this disease and celebrate those who have survived. It’s a place where people connect with others, share the cancer experience, and find comfort and solace. And it’s an opportunity to build hope for a future where cancer no longer threatens the lives of the people we love.

As volunteers and donors, your efforts support research, education, advocacy, and services that allow the American Cancer Society to offer help and hope to people across the country when they need it most. By joining together at Relay, we celebrate life, friendship, and an opportunity to work to defeat cancer for future generations.

Sign up today to become a part of the Relay For Life® effort in your community, and you too can fight back against cancer.  Sat Jul 26 9am – Sun Jul 27 9am, Venue: 1715 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA.  Contact: http://www.relayforlife.org/relay/ 

L.A.’s Largest Mixer X Joins Chambers Of Commerce with Professionals Helping Businesses Build Relationships

LARGEST MIXER BUSINESS EXPO- THOUSANDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PEOPLE TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN ECONOMY AT 10th ANNUAL BUSINESS MIXER/EXPO

Keep LA Running!! TRACK LEGEND MARY DECKER SLANEY NAMED SPOKESPERSON FOR 15TH ANNUAL KEEP LA RUNNING CHARITY 5K RUN/WALK, 10 K RUN

Mary Decker Slaney, America’s greatest middle distance ever, will be the honorary spokesperson and starter of the 15th annual Keep LA Running Charity 5K Run / Walk, 10K Run, Kids Dash, Coastal Bike Ride, and

Mayor’s Mile, Sunday, July 13, at Dockweiler Beach in Playa del Rey.   Mary will also run the 5K at the event.

The only athlete ever to hold every American record from 800 meters to 10,000 meters, Mary Decker Slaney continues to own the U.S. women’s records in the 1500 (3:57.12, set in 1983), mile (4:16.71 in 1985) and 3000 (8:25.83 in 1985.).

Mary’s greatest international achievement came at the 1983 inaugural World Championships in Helsinki, where she won the 1500 and 3000 meters — a feat that would become known as the “Decker Double” and that helped earn her the title of Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year for 1983. A year earlier, she set world records in the mile (4:18.08), 2000m (5:32.7), 3000m indoors (8:47.3), 5000m (15:08.26) and 10,000m (31:35.3, in her first race at that distance), and won the AAU Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the country.

“Little Mary Decker” surprised the world in her 1973 international debut, when she won the 800 meters at a US-Soviet Union meet in Minsk as a pigtailed, 89-pound (40 kg) fourteen-year-old girl.  She became one of the most famous track and field competitors of her era, dominated by runners from Eastern European communist countries.  Over her career, Decker Slaney set 36 national records and 17 official and unofficial world records at various distances.

Clearly one of the greatest female runners in track history, Mary also was one of the unluckiest. She suffered many injuries, had to go through more than 20 surgeries, and never won an Olympic medal. She was favored to win the gold in the 3000 meters at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but collided with a young, inexperienced barefoot runner from South Africa, Zola Budd, who cut her off. Mary fell on the infield, injured her hip and could not resume the race, won by Romania’s Maricica Puica. (Mary was carried off the track by Richard Slaney, a British discus thrower who later became her husband. They live in Eugene and have one daughter, Ashley Lynn, 22.)

Mary came back with a vengeance in 1985. She started the season with        a world best at the Sunkist Invitational indoor meet, then went 14-0 against Budd, Puica & Co. on the European circuit.

For track fans there will never be another one like her – a runner with Jim Ryun’s talent and Steve Prefontaine’s heart.

Decker Slaney joins other track luminaries who have served as spokespersons for Keep LA Running – Carl Lewis, Billy Mills, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Steve Scott, Johnny Gray, Louie Zamperini.

Keep LA. Running, which has grown into one of the most popular distance running events in Southern California, has raised over $800,000 for its beneficiary charities. Keep LA Running is a very special event, benefiting children with cancer, premature born babies and other worthy causes. The event was initiated in 1994 by then SEIU Local 660 L.A. County/Special Districts Employees Emergency Disaster Relief Fund to provide a safety net for L.A. County employees. The Emergency Relief Fund is a 501 (c) (3) not for profit organization (EIN 95-4842244). As the event has grown in profile, popularity and funds generated, it has added new charities - the Pediatric Oncology Service, Women’s and Children’s Hospital of LAC + USC Medical Center; the Harbor UCLA Medical Center Neonatal Ward, and the American Cancer Society.

Keep L.A. Running races are open to everyone, from the serious runner to the first-time participant.  Runners, walkers and bike riders can register online at www.keeplarunning.com   Competitors  can also register by mail to: Keep L.A. Running, c/o Prime Time, PO Box 1009, Twin Peaks, CA 92391 by July 7. For registration information call race director Mike Ward at Village Runner, (310) 546-1888 or the race hotline at (626) 463-0483.

Major sponsors of Keep L.A. Running include co-title sponsors, PacifiCare, Colonial Supplemental Insurance, Kaiser Permanente and American Income Life.  Other top supporters include Trustmark, The Law Offices of Fensten & Gelber, Union Bank of California, Trustmark, Delta Dental, Benefit Vision, United Way, Aflac, Gordon, Edelstein, Krepack, Grant, Felton of Goldstein, Allstate, and Lewis, Marenstein, Wicke and Sherwin. Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable are media partners of Keep L.A. Running. 

Contact: Don Franken (310) 535-9230; (310) 962-3297; trackla@pacbell.net

Mike Cavanaugh - The artist behind the lens and “Limbs of Wisdom” his Spring Arts Collective Gallery exhibition

My photographic journey began in earnest over a decade ago when I took a three week trip to Japan.  Having been a traveler ever since I was a baby I had finally reached a point photographically as an adult where I was fed up with how my photographs of places like the Grand Canyon, Belize, Australia, Tahiti, Hawaii, Mexico, and every other place I’d ever traveled too were not as good as the photographs I was seeing in travel magazine.  Even more so since I was photographing the same rocks I was seeing in the magazines.  So before leaving Los Angeles for Japan I bought myself a professional 35mm Canon EOS3 with a Tamron 28-200mm lens.  From that moment on I noticed a remarkable improvement in quality from the point and shoot 35mm camera’s I had been using. 
Sometime in 2004, after spending a few years using my Canon EOS3 35mm and still not completely satisfied with my image results, a light bulb went off inside my head and I decided it was time for me to start learning more about photography.  And luckily I didn’t have to go far. 
My photography education began with a color photography class at an adult annex of Santa Monica College.  After that one class I realized how much I not only love, but at times, am addicted to photography.  From a single college annex class I enrolled into the photography program and progressed through all the evening photo classes available (BW, color printing, commercial, portrait, flash, and photoshop).   And though my enrollment at SMC does not continue today my education within the photographic world does and I’m always seeking some new piece of information to aid me in becoming better and more creative. 
Today I’m a freelance photographer with over 190 publishing credits.  My subject matter is solely based upon my many interest and for this reason I do not concentrate or limit myself to any one area of photography.  My subject matter includes music, landscapes, travel, people, sports, still movie productions, and nudes.
My clients include All Access Magazine, Music Connection, Strutter Magazine, San Gabriel Press, Pasadena Star News, Whittier Daily News, the state of Alaska’s official tourist website (www.travelalaska.com), Arizona Office of Tourism, Faith and Form Magazine, Sfarzo guitar strings, Peerless Guitars, Mills Acoustic, and the feature film “Sin-Jin Smyth”. 
In addition to my growing client list my images have been exhibited in three Los Angeles gallery’s (”View of the Sound” - Kopeikin Gallery on Wilshire; “Fiddle” - LaFoto in Santa Monica; “What’s Her Name” - Santa Monica College photo gallery).  And in 2007 two of my images (”Malibu Pier at Midnight” and “Great White Shark feeding”) achieved finalist awards and were published in the 2007 Photographer’s Forum Magazine Annual.
Today my camera medium is as varied as my subject matter as I often choose to use a particular camera based on how I want the final print to look.  My primary camera is my digital Canon 20D.  However I also use:  35mm - Canon EOS3 and Canon AE1; medium format (6×6) - Hasselblad 500 c/m; large format - Shin Hao large format; and Polaroid Land 330. 
Current projects include: “Catholic symbols” - a photo project involving the 21 California missions; “Lines” - nature’s paintings; “Inspiration” - project encompassing both my landscape and catholic symbols photography; a currently unnamed artistic environmental nude project; and a currently unnamed long range Polaroid project.  

And in addition to my photography I am also writing a book entitled “A Childless Man’s Adventures in Parenting”.  Release date undetermined at this time.  To Veiw and read more visit his website at: www.mikecavanaughphotography.smugmug.com be sure to see his exhibition at: Spring Arts Collective Gallery, Spring Arts Tower - Mezzanine, 453 South Spring Street, (btwn 4th & 5th), Los Angeles, CA - 90013 on July 10th!!