The California Courier

This is a video I created giving a brief historical overview of The California Courier

The California Courier is an English-language Armenian weekly newspaper published since 1958 in USA. The current publisher of the weekly is Harut Sassounian.

In 1958, two young men in Fresno -- George Mason (Elmassian) and Reese Cleghorn -- had the foresight to publish an English-language newspaper, so that those unfamiliar with their native tongue could stay in touch with community news.
Cleghorn went on to become Professor and Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Mason continued publishing the Courier with his popular weekly opinion column titled, "This and That" and wrote amusing Armenian wisecracks under the rubric "Uncle Hadji" and "Dear Dickran."
After moving to Los Angeles and becoming a prominent stock broker, Mason employed a succession of part-time editors and stringers. The most colorful personality to run the paper was a Japanese-American by the name of Seico Hanashiro, who worked at the Fresno post office during the day and published the Courier from his garage in his spare time. In the process, Seico knew more about the Armenian community than did most Armenians!
In 1983, Mason hired as full time editor of the Courier a young man by the name of Harut Sassounian, who subsequently became the publisher of the newspaper and moved it from Fresno to Glendale.

http://www.archive.org/details/TheCaliforniaCourier

Peter Falk

Dear Mr. Falk, you inspired us, you influenced us, you taught us. Thankfully you left a body of work that will continue to inspire and influence us. Thank you Mr Falk.

Sam Fuller screen test for The Godfather with Pacino

Sam Fuller's screen test for the role of Hyman Roth in The Godfather Part 2
I'm still trying to absorb this idea. I'd be curious to know who's idea it was, Coppola's or Fuller's? This I suppose is the only time Pacino and Fuller acted together. Hmm, maybe it was Pacino's idea.

Fuller_Pacino_Screentest from Heiko van der Scherm on Vimeo.