Mayor passes on meat and greet at FilmLA's fiesta.MAYOR Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. must be serious about his low-carb diet. He was spotted last week peeling the meat from his appetizers at a reception celebrating the new home of FilmLA Inc:, the city's non-profit on-location film permit agency. The agency formerly known as the Entertainment Industry Development Corporation was celebrating its name change, a move downtown and a renewed commitment to keeping film production in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . On hand were a number of industry heavyweights including Frank Kohler, chief financial and administrative officer at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Steve Dayan, business agent with Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor Local 399; Steve Caplan, executive vice president of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, and film producer Amy Lemisch, who heads the California Film Commission. John Connelly, the new president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent, including actors in radio and television, as well as radio and television announcers and newspersons, singers and recording artists (both royalty and a FilmLA board member, talked about AFTRA AFTRA American Federation of Television & Radio Artists relocating its headquarters to Los Angeles. "We thought it was important that we should be where our employers are," said Connolly, whose wife, Bronni Stein-Connolly works at the Hollywood Museum. |
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