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Form 99-

CITY OF

RESOLUTION

TONY CURTIS

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis continues to support many veterans projects; and

WHEREAS; Tony Curtis enlisted at age 17, served in the United Stated Navy aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) a submarine tender; and

WHEREAS, On September 2, 1945, he witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay; and

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis has been awarded the coveted submariner SILVER DOLPHIN for his service; and

WHEREAS, has received the Lone Sailor Award; and

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis is the spokesman for the WWII Submarine Veterans History Project; and

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis is a supporter of the US Navy Memorial Foundation; and

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis was the Grand Marshall of 2009's Veterans Day Parade in ; and

WHEREAS, While Tony Curtis is not Italian, he is very proud of his Hungarian/Jewish heritage. Curtis has founded the Emanuel Foundation for restoration and preservation of , to include 1300 cemeteries in Hungary. Curtis has been a major supporter of restoring the Largest in European and assisted with designing the weeping tree sculpture in the courtyard. Curtis has appeared in tourism commercials for his ancestral homeland Hungary; and

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis is recognized as a painter of fine art. His works are displayed around the world in many museums and galleries including the Metropolitan Museum in ; and

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis has entertained the world bringing great recognition to the Films of . Playing light comedy, to adventures and psychological dramas. Curtis wanted to do movies that had social significance and proved his talent with a broad range of roles such as Spartacus, Trapeze and Boston Strangler, and

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis has said making the movie HOUDINI was the most fun he had making any movie and continues a love and respect for magicians and the Art of Magic; and

WHEREAS, Tony Curtis has received many awards for his humanitarian work, he and his wife founded the Shiloh Horse Rescue ranch in Nevada. They rescue abused, unwanted and neglected horses. Rehabilitate them and adopt them out; and

WHEREAS, it's been said that the closest thing America has to royalty are genuine movie stars and TONY CURTIS is a perfect example of that ROYALTY.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that by the adoption of this resolution the Los Angeles City Council hereby recognizes and congratulates Tony Curtis as a Hollywood Legend.

January 29, 2010

PRESENTED BY: -L~""'·;,__£__:-:--c'::_-----­ COUNCILMEMBER ERIC GARCETTI

SECONDED BY: ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS

ADOPTED JAN 2 7 2010 LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCil

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CITY OF LOS ANGELES

RESOLUTION

ROY ORBISON Posthumously

WHEREAS, Morris, has received a star on the World Famous on Friday, January 29, 2010; and

WHEREAS, Born Roy Kelton Orbison on April 23, 1936 in Vernon, Texas, Roy Orbison transformed the landscape of American popular music and culture via his profoundly influential recordings, iconic persona, and deeply felt performances. As a young singer- in the , Orbison became one of the founding fathers of the emerging American art form, Rock & Roll, and, over the course of a career spanning more than four decades, created an enduring catalog of songs- "," "In Dreams," "Oh, ," "Crying" and countless others, distilling love's yearnings and heartbreaks into the essence of his other worldly four-octave voice, effortlessly gliding from glottal growls of desire to the long lonesome sorrow and spiritual triumphs of his celestial falsetto; and

WHEREAS, Roy's mother, Nadine, was a nurse and his father, Orbie Lee, a factory worker who gave him his first guitar. The first proper song Roy learned to play was the 1939 standard, "You Are My Sunshine," penned by former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis. By 1944, Roy had written his first song, "A Vow of Love," in front of his grandmother's house in Vernon, where Roy landed his own radio show on local KVI/IIC in 1945 after winning a contest. In 1946, the already peripatetic Orbison moved with his family to the West oil town of Wink, where, at the age of 13, he formed his first band, "The Wink Westerners." Roy Orbison graduated from Wink High School in June 1954 and, before long the Wink Westerners were becoming regulars on local television and radio programs performing a protean rock & roll repertoire which included "That's All Right, Mama," "Rock Around The Clock," and "Ooby Dooby," a song written by Wade Lee Moore and , two friends of Roy's from his abbreviated term at North Texas State College in Denton; and

WHEREAS, The band became "The Teen Kings" to reflect an increasing in rock & roll and were given a weekly local Saturday TV show in Odessa, Texas, on KOSA-TV, which was part of the national CBS network. Among the guests on Roy's Texas TV program were and , who gave Orbison the phone number of Sun Records owner, Sam Phillips, in Memphis. Though he initially passed on "The Teen Kings," Phillips signed Roy Orbison to Sun Records after hearing Roy and the Kings' version of the Clover's "Trying To Get To You" c/w "Ooby Dooby," a single they'd recorded at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. Roy Orbison and the Teen Kings re-recorded "Ooby Dooby" for Sun Records on March 27, 1956, the single peaked at #59 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart in June 1956 and Roy Orbison achieved his first commercial success; and

WHEREAS, Roy Orbison and the Teen Kings toured with a number of country and rockabilly stars including Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Warren Smith, Sonny Burgess, Faron Young, Johnny Horton, Jerry Lee Lewis and others. In December 1956, Orbison began concentrating on his songwriting, scoring his first smash when "Claudette," a song inspired by his first wife who he'd written on the top of a shoebox, became a hit for as the b-side of "All I Have To Do Is Dream" in March 1958. Roy Orbison would leave Sun Records that same year. During this period, Roy Orbison songs were recorded by Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ricky Nelson among other top artist of the era; and

WHEREAS, Following a brief stint at RCA, Roy Orbison signed with the newly emerging independent label in mid- 1959. While his second single for Monument, "Uptown. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, crossed over to #14 on the Billboard Black Singles chart, and rocked up to #1 on the UK Charts; and

WHEREAS, After that came an unbroken four-year string of Top 40 hits- "Crying," "Candy Man," "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream}," "Working for the Man," "Leah," "In Dreams," "Pretty Paper," ," "Mean Woman Blues, "It's Over" - during which Roy Orbison became America's top-selling recording artist and one of the world's most celebrated entertainers; and

WHEREAS, In May 1963, Roy Orbison accepted an invitation to tour England on a bill with ; and toured Australia with the Beach Boys in 1964 and with the Rolling Stones 1965.

WHEREAS, Orbison's private life was stalked by tragedy during the mid-to-late . In 1966, his wife Claudette, whom he married in 1957, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Two years later, on September 14, 1968, he suffered the loss of two of his three children. Though unable to write songs, Orbison maintained a positive outlook on life and continued to tour, finding solace in his music and the love and support of his fans; and

WHEREAS, In May 1969, Roy Orbison married Barbara Anne Marie Wilhonnen Jacobs. Together, the pair worked through the heartache, tragedy and loss of Orbison's life and began a healing process. would become Roy's Manager in 1985; and

WHEREAS, Roy's career entered a renaissance in the late , when Linda Ronstadt's recording of "Blue Bayou" sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, bringing Orbison his greatest commercial success to-date as a songwriter. Van Halen had an enonmous smash with their hard-rock rendition of "Oh Pretty Woman" while Don Mclean had a hit with a version of "Crying; and

e€~ Recyclable and made from recycled waste. @ WHEREAS, Orbison Finally won a Grammy in 1980 for "That Lovin' You Fee/in' Again," a duet with Emmy Lou Harris. His songs began appearing in films including "Wild Hearts" for Nicolas Roeg's "Insignificance,'' 's usage of "In Dreams,'' lip-synced into a hurricane by Dean Stockwell in his 1986 cult film "Blue Velvef' alerted a whole new generation to the mysterious power of Roy Orbison's music; and

WHEREAS, , who'd referenced Orbison and "Only the Lonely'' in his 1975 anthem, "Thunder Road," inducted Roy Orbison into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987. Shortly thereafter, Roy Orbison signed a new record contract, of his first in a decade, with Virgin Records, for whom he'd re-record "Crying" as a duet with k.d. lang for the soundtrack of the film, "Hiding Out.'' That record earned Roy Orbison a Grammy in 1988; and

WHEREAS, Roy Orbison, who'd always dreamed of his own television special, filmed "Black & White Nighf' one of his most emotionally powerful and historically important concerts, a year before his death. Conceived and produced by Barbara Orbison and , "Black & White Nighf' was a gathering of great artist who came to perform out of love for the songwriter and singer who had influenced them so tremendously. "Roy Orbison & Friends: A Black and White Night' was filmed in starkly beautiful black & white at the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles on September 30, 1987. The all-star lineup that night included T Bone Burnett, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, , Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Steven Soles, k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes, and Bonnie Raitt as well as Glen D. Hardin, who'd played for Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, on keyboards and mythic lead guitarist James Burton; and

WHEREAS, In the late 1988, Roy Orbison entered the studio with Lynne to record his final , "' with members of and the Heartbreakers and guest artists including , , , , T-Bone Burnett and others; and

WHEREAS, The album, posthumously released in February 1989, became the biggest selling album of his career, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200 and certified RIAA double platinum; and

WHEREAS, Roy Orbison performed his final concert in Highland Heights, Ohio in late 1988. He died of a heart attack on December 6, 1988 in Nashville; and

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that by the adoption of this resolution the Los Angeles City Council along with the Mayor hereby congratulates Roy Orbison (Posthumously) on his well deserved honor of receiving his star on the World Famous Hollywood Walk of Fame.

January 29, 2010 PRESENTED BY: 2_. c; 7(/

SECONDED BY:

MAYOR

ADOPTED JAN 2 7 2010 UIS ANGELES CllY COUNCIL Form 99

CITY OF LOS ANGELES

RESOLUTION

DANIEL KLEBAN Deputy City Attorney

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban has served the City of Los Angeles first as a police officer for LAPD from 1973 to 1994;

Whereas:· Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban went to law school at night while working full time as a police officer;

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban served the City of Los Angeles as a Deputy City Attorney prosecuting criminal cases from 1994 to his retirement date on January 2, 2010;

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban was a superb and effective trial deputy;

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban was a prosecutor his colleagues relied upon for excellent advice from search and seizure issues to trial strategy;

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban was always available to mentor new attorneys;

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban was a prosecutor highly respected by the bench and bar;

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban handled all cases in an ethical and fair manner;

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban often suggested creative ways to protect the people of Los Angeles, including suggestions for special units.

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban participated in and coordinated community building activities within the City Attorneys office including annual trips with his colleagues;

Whereas: Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban was not only a wonderful colleague, but a good friend with a sharp sense of humor who will be dearly missed.

NOW, THEREFORE Be it resolved that by the adoption of this resolution the City Council of the City of Los Angeles along with the Mayor does hereby commend and applaud Deputy City Attorney Daniel Kleban and warmly congratulate him and extend best wishes on his retirement.

January 5, 201 0 PRESENTED BY: z · ~ 1/.:._ COUNCILMEMBER ERIC GARCETII

ADOPTED SECONDED BY: --:A-:-L:-L-:=E:-cLE"'C"'T"'E::::D:-:Oo::F:;;:F;;-;IC""'IA:cL:-:S~-- JAN 2 7 Z010 LC ;',!WEltS CITY COUNCIL

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