At a young age, Lopez learned to play the guitar, which would change his future. At 18, Lopez signed to King Records. According to the 83-year-old’s biography, record producers wanted him to change his last name, but the Dallas native said he would not.
Lopez sang and worked among the greats. He was a headliner for The Beatles. He befriended Buddy Holly and attributed his success to Frank Sinatra - Martinez said his uncle was able to sign an exclusive eight-year contract with Sinatra’s Reprise Records.
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Another obit: The world is bereft of one less billionaire with the death of media mogul, Sumner Redstone, who died on Tuesday. He was 97.
Sumner Murray Rothstein was born in Boston on May 27, 1923, to Belle and Michael “Mickey” Rothstein. His father, a nightclub operator, later anglicized the German surname._____
Sumner graduated from Harvard and served in Army intelligence during World War II, helping to break the Japanese code. After the war, he graduated from Harvard Law School and worked for the federal government, first as a law secretary with the U.S. Court of Appeals, then as a special assistant to U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark. Meanwhile, his father’s National Amusements bought real estate in the Northeast and built numerous drive-in theaters. Sumner joined the business in 1954 and became CEO 13 years later.
As head of a theater chain, Redstone recognized the importance of content. In fact, he claimed to have coined the phrase “content is king,” often attributed to Bill Gates.
The media, especially the tabloid media, are talking about the Harris-Brown relationship of the mid-1990s and the questions of cronyism, which should be no surprise to readers of this blog.
There were plenty of surprises in store for the 50,000 revelers who flocked to Fisherman's Wharf to see flamboyant California Democrat Willie Brown sworn in as San Francisco's first black mayor.
But it wasn't the elaborate firework display, the 10,000 meals dished out to the homeless, nor the gushing congratulatory phone call from President Bill Clinton broadcast live over the public address system that piqued the Bay City's scribblers.
The press has expected the maverick politician to parade his attractive young girlfriend, Kamala Harris, an ambitious deputy district attorney 31 years Brown's junior and his 'constant companion' on the campaign trail.
To their puzzlement, he was instead joined on stage for the 1996 inauguration by his estranged wife Blanche, despite announcing years earlier that the two had amicably split.
We will see how Kamala handles this story now that it is getting all kinds of play.
Apparently Blanche, 84 now, laughed when DM reporters asked her about Kamala being picked as Biden's running mate.
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Another tell-all book about Donald Trump promises to tell more than we need to know about him.
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There weren't any "Bible burnings" in Portland other than a couple of them used for kindling.
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