Film The Long Breakup: In The Long Breakup (2020, 85 min), New York-based Ukrainian-American filmmaker, Katya Soldak, tells the story of her family and friends as they endure the fall of the Soviet Union and Ukraine’s ongoing struggle to truly separate from Russia.
Linkto trailer:
https://vimeo.com/444910146
The movie can be seen at: https://vimeo.com/450906822.
The Long Breakupwebsite: https://www.thelongbreakupfilm.com

Synopsis:
The Long Breakup is a feature length documentary about Ukraine’s struggle to escape Russia’s embrace, leave its Soviet past behind and become a truly independent nation. Ukrainian-American journalist Katya Soldak, of Forbes Magazine, now living in New York City, tells the story of her home country as it exits the USSR, works through two revolutions, and endures a war with Russia—all through the eyes of her family and friends in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city just 18 miles from the Russian border.

The Long Breakup takes viewers on an intimate journey that illustrates how big geopolitical changes affect people on a personal level, and explores what happens when democracy slips away and a nation must fight for the right to choose its future. The film offers insight into what it’s like for an immigrant to watch her country go through crises from afar; but, most importantly, it’s a personal tale about life in the young, former Soviet country, whose struggle forms the backdrop of so many lives.

The Long Breakup was filmed over the course of a decade, and features an original soundtrack, as well as music from Ukrainian and Soviet artists. The film is intended for global audiences with general interests, as well as for those interested
The Long Breakup website:
https://www.thelongbreakupfilm.com/

Other ongoing projects posted on Forbes.com: (https://www.forbes.com/sites/katyasoldak) To commemorate 30 years since the Soviet Union ceased to exist, Katya is having a series of conversations with people who experienced life during the unique transitionfrom socialism to capitalism. These entrepreneurs, cultural figures and business people lived and worked in countries of the former Soviet bloc during those unique times when the Cold War ended and the Iron Curtain was lifted.

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Thought for the Day…

In the noisy

confusion

of life

keep peace

in your soul

Dear Friends and Members,

Happy Valentine’s Day…We Love You. (Luke’s Lobster Special)

Last week we mentioned a movie on the Ukraine and Russia and that Katya Soldak agreed to let us see the movie, here is our interview with Katya.

Katya Soldak. Katya is the director of the documentary,

“The Long Breakup”>
 

will share thoughts: Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Douglas, Jane Goodall, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Shakira, Ringo, Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, Malala Yousafzai, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Midori, HRH Princess Haya, Daniel Barenboim, Paulo Coelho, UN Secretary- General Guterres, Interfaith Leaders, President Biden, Governor Houchul, Mayor Adams …

D.   After 2 minute moment of Silence we will have a Peace Day Party Worldwide, like this ELO performance https://youtu.be/wh3i3vWgPyk

4.     Event/Broadcast Format, Times Square, NY, Salvation Army Theater NY. 9/21/22

A.   12 noon Moment of Silence, Create Peace Sign, Hold Flags, Entertainment, Hugg A Planets, Concert, rent all Billboards in Times Square for 12 Noon, place Peace Sign on 1 Times Square/Ball Drop. Celebrity Concert Salvation Army TBD. Please take 4.46 minutes to watch our PEACE SIZZLE REEL https://youtu.be/_HJ7SmOjBNM

5.     Worldwide Budget: $16 Million starting ASAP to October 2022, Available Upon Request 

CONCEPT – Good News Corporation, nonprofit – Headquartered in New York with Full Time Office. Additional offices in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa. Partners with many corporations/organizations/countries/philanthropists. 193 countries of the UN who agreed to the International Day of Peace – Peace Day and we will work with 193 Good Will Peace Ambassadors from each country.

BUDGET:  Our total budget is approx. $16 Million TBD available upon request. However, in essence the more money raised, the more we can do to help create a more powerful ACTIONABLE Peace Day and broadcast it.

LOCATIONS/VENUES: Great Lawn in Central Park 9/10/11, Times Square 9/21, to the borders of war zones, to the streets of violence, to creating water wells in Afghanistan and feeding children.   

More Peace on Earth will occur and our sponsors/patrons/benefactors for sure will be recognized for it. A Moment for Silence at 12 noon will occur on September 21, then after a World Peace Day Party.

BROADCAST AND PRESS:  4 Press Events Live to the World, with a massive press and advertising campaign for the entire project.. 

7 Hour or 3 ½ Hour Live WORLD Announcement Broadcast on September 10 or rain date September 11 Central Park and 3 Hours in Times Square/Worldwide feeds on September 21. In addition to the Live Broadcasts there will be 7 One Hour Broadcasts or 7 Half Hour Broadcasts, plus many shorter segments.  There will be a show featuring each continent. Events occur daylight family hours and pre-recorded rolls in from the world  

Good News Corporation (GNC), est. 2002, as a nonprofit, invites you to be part of our UN declared International Day of Peace WORLDWIDE CEASE FIRE CELEBRATION, with a Peace Focus on Our Children and Water. You can share your messages about your Social Responsibility, request donations for nonprofits you support on the screens with the Worldwide Broadcast/Podcast, Social Networks, Print and more from the revered GREAT LAWN IN CENTRAL PARK, 70,000 attendance for a celebrity concert event (Participants Below) with the creation of the world’s largest Human Peace Sign, billions worldwide viewing on September 10^th with rain date on the 11^th and in TIMES SQUARE, NY Worldwide Broadcast on September 21, 2022 (UN International Day of Peace, 193 Countries Unanimously Approved, 12 Noon Moment of Silence/Cease Fire and the 1 Times Square Ball Dropping and or Symbolic Occurrence, i.e. Peace Sign).

Additionally, there will be broadcast feeds from other worldwide events, especially from areas in danger, to see the Cease Fire Peace Day Truce or a potential killer turning in their gun. A Special Peace Lights Display in Jerusalem, Israel for all the religions (similar to our 911 Lights) and all the world’s people/animals/plants who live in Peace, is being discussed. 

·       Participants to date in our Peace Day Activities have been over 100 corporations, organizations, dignitaries and celebrities, UN Peace Messengers who shared Peace messages. We will ask these people to perform and or speak, i.e. Leonardo DiCaprio, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Michael Douglas, Dr. Jane Goodall, Shakira, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Dr. Mahmet Oz, Dr. Deepak Chopra, World Peace Orchestra, Pope Francis, NY State Governor Huchul, Mayor Adams, City Council Brewer, Broadway Show Annie, David Lynch Foundation, Harlem Globetrotters, UNESCO, NYC Schools. As well as new talent who care about Children, Water & Peace TBD i.e., Matt Damon, Jay Z, Oprah, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens in Dubai, Alla Pugacheva Russia/Ukraine, BTS South/North Korea, Salvation Army, UNICEF, UN Human Security, Religions for Peace International, Global Security Institute, Colleges, High, Middle, Elementary Schools, Water Wells in Afganistan and more. McKinsey & Co. states that there are 1.6 Billion people who are aware of Peace Day.    

Background on Good News Corporation: Paul Sladkus, who will oversee this event, as he has for 20 years is a former CBS and PBS Channel 13 TV Executive having worked on over 150 Network TV Shows including: All in the Family, Sonny and Cher, Carol Burnett, AFT Salutes James Cagney and Orson Wells/Frank Sinatra Performing, Love of Life on CBS and The Nature and Brain Series on PBS. After 14 years at the networks Paul founded Milestone Broadcast Corporation, MBC, in 1985 where the Chinese helped to inspire the multicultural marketing and advertising, and broadcasting company, with clients: Citibank, Delta Airlines, IBM, Sprint, US Postal Service, Western Union, Leading AD Agencies. MBC represented most the multicultural media in America and was credited by the NY Times and other media for breaking the Asian Market in America with their research with St. John’s University. MBC know the owners of the media worldwide and had been able to create major “first time ever” campaigns into the African, Asian, European, Hispanic/Latin and Middle Eastern American Communities. These relationship open doors worldwide.

In 1998, Paul created www.goodnewsbroadcast.com one of the first video steaming companies, now with over 6,000 shows and sharing Good News every day. In 2002, Paul Founded Good News Corporation, GNC, a nonprofit humanitarian organization helping other nonprofit to create more Good News, the Peace Day activities are part of GNC with their annual www.peacedayparty.org and focus on water with www.worldwaterday.TV, as their associate helped create the UN World Water Day with a Pete Seeger Caring Mission of “Water Not Weapons.”

Please take 4.46 minutes to watch our PEACE SIZZLE and view. www.peacedayparty.org. Also go to https://youtu.be/dC9PuCEmfn0 to see what Good News did in 2021 for Peace Day Party Water & Peace. 

Incorporated and integral to the Special Peace Shows to date

are educational Peace Video pieces from founders:

§ Peter Yarrow/Operation Respect/Child Bullying

§ David Lynch Foundation/Children’s Meditation

§ Media for Humanity/Child

§ SeniorNet/Communication Digital Divide

§ Pratt Institute/Peace

§ Meera Gandhi/Giving Back Foundation

§ Fathering Forum/Better Parenting

§ Actors Temple/Jewish Children

§ ASMA/Muslim Children

§ St. Francis Food Pantries & Shelters/Feeding Families/Faith Hope Consolo

§ WE The World/Peace Communications/Desmond Tutu Video

§ Universal Peace/Peace Museum

§ Peace Parrots/Children Animals

§ WWRF/Water and Children

§ Hugg-a-Planets/Peace Toys

§ Clearwater NYC/Children and Peace

§ Vigil for International Peace and Ecology/Peace Event

§ Kalarhythems/Children

§ Better World/Wayne Dyer

§ Achilles Kids/Challenged Children

§ Cancer Care/Helping Kids

§ Beacon Paint/Guide Dogs/Schools

§ Captain Planet/Educating Children/Captain Planet was at the show

§ Temple Grandin/Autism Today/ Autism/Asperger

§ National Meningitis Association/Infectious Disease

§ Intrepid Sea

§ Air and Space Museum/Educating Children

§ Montauk Playhouse/Educating Children

§ Quinnipiac University/Medical School

§ Apollo Theater/Children’s Programs

§ Peace One Day/Paul McCartney/Ringo Starr

§ UN Foundation/ Peacekeepers

§ Harlem Globetrotters/“ABCs of Bullying Prevention”

§ St. Damien Hospital in Haiti/Saving Children

§ Why Do I Exist/ Rwandan Genocide Orphans

§ Nigil Barker

§ Dr. Mamet Oz

§ Dr. Daniel Amen

§ Joey Reynolds/Mother Teresa note

§ Tirlok Malik/India

§ Andrew Kaen/Planet Heart

§ UN Foundation/Peacekeepers

§ Arts Olympus/Tarumi Violinist Reilly Amera/Poem for Syrian Children

§ Rotary International

§ Ronald McDonald House

§ IHeartMedia

§ Brooklyn Nets

§ Clare Diab, American Yoga Academy

§ Copacabana

§ peaceday tv

§ Steve Madden

§ Shack Shack

§ Juniors

§ Lush Cosmetics

§ 39 Steps

§ Peace Prayer Society Deborah Muldow

§ Urban Zen

§ Borough President of Manhattan and Brooklyn

· UNESCO

· Hugo Boss

· 1800 FLOWERS

§ Annie/Broadway Show

· World Peace Orchestra/134 International Musicians/50 countries/Sinatra Choir/Kevin Spacey

§ Susan Lucci

§ Orange is the New Black Cast

§ Montel Williams

§ Deepak Chopra

§ Tommy Tune

§ Rita Cosby

§ Tomaczek Bednarek

§ Scott Noppe-Brandon

§ Tony Lo Bianco

§ Rosanna Scotto

§ Jonny Orsini

§ Phylicia Rashād/Marjorie DeLewis

§ Kathleen Turner

§ Lacey Dunn

§ Peace Thoughts and More Peace Statements from Paul McCartney

§ Ringo Starr

§ Michael Douglas

§ Dr. Jane Goodall

§ Marianne Williamson

§ Ed Asner

§ Diane Ladd

§ Michelle Phillips

§ Edward James Olmos

§ Lou Ferrigno

§ Jerry Rubin

§ Wangari Maathai

§ Olympian Marilyn King

§ Additionally, South spokespeople Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda

§ Ambassador John Ashe’s Wife

§ Anilla Cherian

§ Prime Minister of Fiji

§ Frank Bainimarama

§ H. E. Ambassador Francis Lorenzo

§ Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin

§ Erin Brady/Miss USA

§ David Paich

§ Naomi Campbell

§ Yvonne Chaka Chaka… and Zindzi Mandela/Josina Machel who accepted an award for their father Nelson Mandela whose Power of Words are in the show. We also share Peaceful words from Martin Luther King, Jr. (I Had a Dream Speech)

· Albert Maysles and Mahatma Gandhi

· We share a poem by Dorothy Law Nolte

· Children Learn What They Live

§ Sarabeth

§ KIND Snacks

§ Laura Norman Wellness

§ Orpheus Luxury Cruise

§ Pope Francis Message

§ United States Institute of Peace & NY City Schools TBD

With respect,

Paul Sladkus,

Founder,

www.goodnewsplanet.TV,

www.peacedayparty.org,

www.peaceday2022.org,

www.9-21.org,

www.worldpeace2022.org,

www.pausetheworld.org

212 6471212, cell. 917 687 1790

LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: ALL WE ARE IS WHAT WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER. ZEAL

For more information contact:

Paul Sladkus 212 647 1212

New York, NY, Montauk, NY

PS – SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FRIENDS AND MEMBERS: Looking for a vacation rental, SHORT TERM, in Montauk, NY. Call Paul.

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Paul McCartney Talks New Album, Beatles Breakup on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’
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Paul McCartney discussed his new album, the Lennon/McCartney partnership, the Beatles’ breakup and his Covid-19 “rockdown” during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning.

As correspondent Seth Doane noted at the onset of the conversation, while people in quarantine were learning how to bake bread, McCartney was recording McCartney III.

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“The other thing people have been doing has been cleaning out their closets. So that’s a bit what [McCartney III] was,” McCartney said. “I just started cleaning out my cupboards. Like, ‘What about that song last year that I started but never got to finish. ‘Let’s have a look at that, let’s finish this.”

McCartney — who performs all the instruments on his latest LP, like the namesake McCartney albums before it — said of working on a completely solo album, “It’s not like working with the band, because I know what I want to hear, and I don’t even have to tell anyone,” McCartney said. “I just said, ‘Let’s do some drums.’ I’ll sit on the drums and I’ll think, ‘OK, I wanted doo doo doo…’ So, it’s all in my head.”

McCartney added, “One of the songs on the new album, it’s called ‘Kiss of Venus,’ and I wrote it one summer’s day and I got the beginning of it… I thought, ‘I’ll record it, I’ll finish it someday.’ But then I said to myself, ‘No! What have you got? You haven’t got anything on. Sit here and finish that bloody song.’”

The singer was also reluctant to record with anyone else, other than a few engineers at his home studio, due to the ongoing pandemic. “I don’t want to give [Covid-19] to anyone, and I don’t want to get it,” McCartney said. “When people sort of say, ‘Wearing masks is infringing on my civil liberties,’ I say, ‘No. That is stupid.’”

McCartney also talked at length about his songwriting partnership with John Lennon and, over 50 years after the Beatles breakup, whether the band would have ever reunited.

“[Lennon] was showing no signs of slowing up. You know, he was still making great music,” McCartney said of Lennon at the time of his 1980 murder. “The question is: Would we have ever got back together again? I don’t know. We don’t know.”

When asked what he does when he’s driving in a car and a Beatles song comes on the radio, McCartney responded, “Turn it up. Turn it up and sing along with it. It always brings me back to the session.”
go to CBS SUNDAY MORNING WEBSITE
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sunday-morning-full-episode-12-20-2020/

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