Mobridge: John G. Bosch, 81, of Mobridge passed away Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, at St. Alexius Hospital in Bismarck, N.D.
The James River Water Development District Board of Directors meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the district's office at 215 S.W. Fourth St.
Funding request from U.S. Geological Survey for operation and maintenance of three gaging stations on the James River near Stratford, Redfield and Yankton.
Funding request from conservation districts for tree planting efforts within the water development district.
January 11, 1988|DEBORAH CAULFIELD | Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press
Actor Ian McKellan is giving all of the revenue from the London run of his hit one-man show, "Acting Shakespeare," to a treatment center for victims of the deadly disease AIDS. The Tony award-winning actor has raised $250,000 in less than three weeks from box office receipts, collections in the theater lobby, program sales, a brochure and a bar with champagne donated by Marks and Spencer department store. The show's run was extended until Jan. 30 and McKellan said in an interview that he hopes to reach his target of $540,000 by the close. The center McKellan supports is the London Lighthouse, set up in August, 1986, with a $1,260 interest-free loan from the John Paul Getty Trust, established by the American philanthropist.
Forget "Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law" and "Hooperman." Steven Bochco is worried about producing his first TV show.
Never mind his illustrious, Emmy-studded past. The veteran writer-producer's newest creation, ABC's "Doogie Howser, M.D."--a quirky half-hour about a child prodigy who zipped over the academic hurdles to become a physician at age 16--is the first new show of the 10-series deal Bochco struck with ABC in November, 1987.
"The stakes are higher, I guess, on the first one--you want it to be a credible effort, because there are a lot of people who will be watching," Bochco said at his airy new production headquarters--informally dubbed the "Bochco Building"--on the 20th Century Fox lot. The show debuts Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. and then will be seen Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m.
In an era when multiple-series deals with networks have fallen out of vogue, Bochco believes the success or failure of his first few series could affect the future of such deals for other producers.
"I would hope that, in the course of the next few years, ABC is going to look as though they were very smart," Bochco said. "If we don't do well, I guess I don't look so smart."
In 1987, Bochco turned down an offer from CBS to become president of its TV entertainment division and chose instead to accept ABC's offer of a six-year, seven-series deal with three more non-exclusive commitments over a flexible period of several years. At the time, Bochco's attorney said ABC paid Bochco in the ballpark of $10 million.
A few months later, Bochco announced that he would produce the 10 ABC series at Fox--for whom he already was making "L.A. Law"--and that Fox would get worldwide distribution rights to the shows.
If ABC doesn't like a Bochco series, he can sell it elsewhere, and Bochco can also take a series to another network first--but such a decision would result in substantial penalties for whichever party breaks the agreement.
"I like that aspect of the deal, because it keeps everybody on their toes," Bochco said. "Quite honestly, I don't see that happening. We were in easy accord on this first one. We're both a little nervous about the second one, just because it's an odd, different sort of hour."
Bochco, grinning widely, refuses any further details about his second ABC series, except to say: "Well, I don't know how odd it is, but it's complicated, and I'm not sure it's feasible, and nobody's ever done anything quite like it, so we both had anxieties about it for different reasons."
Anxiety doesn't seem to be leaving Bochco much the worse for wear these days, however. Although the "Bochco Building" is still so brand-new it has entrances and exits that don't lead anywhere, it seems more like a resort hotel than an office complex: "I wanted it to feel like a home, not like every building on every studio lot I've ever worked on, a warren of little hallways," Bochco said with a shudder.
And even with new-show jitters, Bochco seems as happy as a housecat here. Even though it's a new project, "Doogie Howser" remains all in the family, sort of: Scott Goldstein, producer of "L.A. Law" from 1986 to 1989, has moved over to produce "Doogie" this season; David Kelley, taking over from Bochco as "L.A. Law" executive producer, co-created "Doogie" and will serve as a creative consultant, as will Rick Wallace, now co-executive producer of "L.A. Law." Actor James B. Sikking, who portrays Doogie's father, is a "Hill Street Blues" veteran.
Bochco said his idea to develop a series about a child prodigy existed long before the deal with ABC. Bochco's father was a child prodigy who went on to become a concert violinist. An animated version of a 50-year-old photograph of Bochco's father playing the violin is part of the Steven Bochco Productions logo, which will appear at the end of each "Doogie Howser" episode.
"When I was growing up, he was just my dad," Bochco said. "He was 43 when I was born, so by the time I was a young child, my dad was 50 years old. Prodigy didn't mean anything to me. All I knew was I had a dad who was a violinist--that's what he did professionally.
"But he was also a guy who was a gifted portrait painter, self-taught, a wonderful architect, self-taught, a wonderful designer and master-builder, a voracious reader. That is my enduring memory of my dad, with a book in his hands. He audited medical school when he was a 20-year-old kid, because he had a bunch of friends who were medical students."
Bochco's interest was solidified by a magazine article on such children. "I thought, what if a kid's prodigious ability, through a certain set of circumstances, were focused almost obsessively on medicine?"
WASHINGTON — From a British schoolteacher who lost his life savings to a Beverly Hills millionaire who fears he may lose his home, claims are rolling in for the millions forfeited by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
Gerald Bolton, a Briton living in Qatar, says he had about $100,000 in a savings account at BCCI's home branch in Luxembourg.
"This humble petitioner . . . pleads with the court to enable me to retrieve the money I have deposited," Bolton wrote. "This is my entire life savings from my work teaching English to Arab students here in the Middle East."
Bolton and other individuals, banks and private companies hope to persuade a federal judge to grant them a share of the BCCI money.
BCCI agreed to turn over $550 million in U.S. assets when it pleaded guilty in January to a federal racketeering charge. The bank's international operation was taken over last July by liquidators after an audit uncovered widespread fraud.
Under the plea agreement, about half of the money would be put in a contingency fund to shore up financially troubled U.S. banks that BCCI now admits it illegally controlled. The rest would go into a worldwide fund to compensate depositors and other investors caught up in BCCI's demise.
But first, federal law on forfeiture of racketeering proceeds allows people to claim a legal interest in the money.
U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green, who approved the plea agreement, must decide if these individuals and companies may recover their money now or whether they must get in line with all the other worldwide claimants--who are seeking nearly $30 billion against assets of $2 billion.
S.A. Reza Shekarchian of Beverly Hills, said BCCI holds a net $1.2 million of his money and a lien on his family residence and business property.
"The Shekarchians are one of the innocent victims whose economic security has been greatly distressed and afflicted by the fraud and mismanagement of BCCI," his court papers said.
Shekarchian said he deposited the money with BCCI in London to secure a line of credit at the Los Angeles branch for real estate and business investments.
One claim was a class-action suit filed in California on behalf of all BCCI individual depositors. Their lawyer, William Lerach, said that would be about 1 million people with claims "certainly in excess of $5 billion."
Some of those making claims said they were victims of mistakes or bad timing around the time of the July 5, 1991, international takeover of BCCI.
The World Bank said it sent $1.65 million to the government of Pakistan as a loan to modernize its telecommunications system. Unfortunately, the money was sent to a BCCI Overseas branch at Security Pacific International Bank in New York on July 15--10 days after the takeover. The money has been frozen ever since.
"Those racketeering crimes (admitted by BCCI) were completely unrelated to the Pakistan development loan" and the money should be released, the World Bank's claim said.
The Congregation of the Holy Ghost, a Roman Catholic missionary group based in Bethel, Pa., said it was sending $10,000 to the Middle East to buy auto parts for missionaries in Africa. But its bank transferred the money to a BCCI branch at the Bank of New York on July 17--and now it can't get it back, according to the claim.
"It was just incredible bad timing" that the money was sent through BCCI after the takeover, Father Donald McEachin, the group's treasurer, said in an interview. "I feel bad for our guys, who are out not only the money but the essential car parts."
"We're a very small operation. We don't know anything about international banking," McEachin said. "BCCI to us is just another bank."
The New York office of Britain's Barclays Bank said it accidentally made a duplicate payment of $470,441 to a BCCI branch at Security Pacific International Bank in New York on July 3, two days before the takeover.
Then, Barclays mistakenly sent another $14,448 to a BCCI account in New York in August, when the money was intended to go to another bank, its claim said.
Meanwhile, Security Pacific International--which was required to turn over the money it held in BCCI Overseas accounts--filed papers intended to preserve its rights if it is sued by the depositors to those accounts.
The situation is "unpleasant but unavoidable," said Security Pacific's attorney, Franklin Bloomer. "What we've been looking for is protection from multiple liability."
The Central Bank of Paraguay said it is worried it may lose $640,000 deposited in a BCCI Overseas-Paraguay account in Miami.
The BCCI-Paraguay branch was not involved in any criminal activity and should not have to turn over its money, said the Central Bank, which complained about the whole U.S. forfeiture procedure.
"The very countries whose regulations for years failed to police adequately the BCCI empire are now being allowed to preside over its remains," the Central Bank said. "Other countries around the world are also simply trying to protect their citizens."
Theft From BCCI Foiled by a Missing New Moon : Scandal: Manager in Sri Lanka took $10 million. But a bank in Oman didn't close for holiday on schedule.
Ex-President of Peru Denies Links to BCCI : Banking: Alan Garcia is accused of depositing state funds for payoffs.
5 Countries Freeze Drug Kingpin's $60 Million : Cocaine: Secret funds of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha are uncovered--the biggest strike yet in the war against traffickers.
What's The Frequency, Gen X? : These guys don't look or sound like many talk-radio hosts, but that's the point. Tavis Smily (just turned 30) and Ruben Navarrette (he's 27) are trying to connect with listeners their age--on the issues. - latimes
What's The Frequency, Gen X? : These guys don't look or sound like many talk-radio hosts, but that's the point. Tavis Smily (just turned 30) and Ruben Navarrette (he's 27) are trying to connect with listeners their age--on the issues.
The topic under discussion was the deteriorating quality of a university education, but Jim, a student at UCLA, was calling to complain about something else. It was unfair, he said, that he was unable to get into UC Berkeley with a 3.5 grade-point average when a Latino friend got in with a 3.0.
"I'll tell you what," Jim said. "I would have had a lot better chance if we didn't have these stupid quotas for these minorities who haven't done as well as I have in high school, who haven't put in the time and the guts. . . . It's a fact that they have affirmative-action advantages. It's ridiculous."
The co-hosts at KMPC-AM (710) weren't buying it. "You call it ridiculous," said Tavis Smiley, "but do you understand why institutions are mandated and challenged to enlist students of color at these campuses? Do you understand that at all?"
His colleague, Ruben Navarrette, jumped in: "One of the reasons it's important to do that, Jim, is because we're trying to produce leaders of the future. And if you've studied anything at UCLA about demographic changes, you know that there are now many more people in Los Angeles who are Latino, and if you're producing leadership for the next century, doesn't it make sense to try to produce a leadership class that looks like America?"
A typical talk-radio exchange? Not exactly. It was a serious discussion, it was a topic that pertained to young people, and the hosts were members of minority groups.
The idea alone sounds like the premise for a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, one that might feature callers debating the merits of a Nine Inch Nails concert, analyzing the most recent episode of "Melrose Place" or discussing the optimum places to meet members of the opposite sex.
But Ruben Navarrette, 27, and Tavis Smiley, who turned 30 in September, are catering to no one's stereotypes--not about Generation X, not about minorities, not about talk radio. As the hosts of "Twentysomething Talk," heard on KMPC weeknights from 9 to midnight and Sundays 7-10 p.m., they are men with a mission.
"We're trying to do three things that have never been done before: We're trying to bring in people of color, we're trying to bring in younger people, and we're trying to bring them into a thoughtful kind of medium," Smiley said. "I think we have the most difficult challenges facing us of any talk show in the city."
He's right. Talk radio, in Southern California as throughout the country, is chiefly the province of middle-aged white hosts who cater to an older audience, increasingly by emphasizing entertainment and sensation over serious discussion of the major issues of the day. It's not that younger listeners are disregarded, but rather that they are thought to be more interested in spending their radio time with music stations.
But Capital Cities Communications already had a traditional talk station in venerable KABC-AM (790) when it bought KMPC last May. So the company decided to go after a different crowd. Smiley and Navarrette were a perfect pairing for what it had in mind.
"We thought it would be an interesting, novel thing to have a black and a Hispanic discussing all the issues--not just generational issues, but what's going on in the community," said George Green, general manager of KABC and KMPC.
The three-pronged challenge is one that the young hosts are more than willing to tackle--and for which they are more than qualified. No self-absorbed slackers they.
By 26, Navarrette had written a book chronicling his experiences as a Mexican American at Harvard. Within the next five to 10 years, he plans to run for Congress in the San Joaquin Valley, the area where he grew up.
Smiley, a former aide to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, was already running for office, on the Los Angeles City Council, when he was 26. He finished third in a field of 15. Since then, he has had several radio commentary jobs and still has a daily syndicated 60-second commentary, "The Smiley Report," on radio stations across the country. He also is considering another run for public office.
"We want to get young people thinking and talking," Smiley says of their goal with the radio show. "I think too often we go through life in our younger stages not thinking that social or political issues are going to impact us.
"If you're 22 or 28, you're not interested necessarily in this health-care debate--until you realize you're going to be the ones paying for it. . . . We need to be concerned about that, and we need to be talking about it, for our own sake. And beyond that, we have older Americans eavesdropping on our conversations every night, maybe even participating. I think it's important that older Americans hear what we have to say."
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