1970

This month I'm playing catchup with material that's come in over the last year but hasn't made a column yet for one reason or another.

Jim Ruxin writes: "I just finished editing a film called After The Rain, which will premiere as a featured event at the Seattle Film Festival next month. I spent seven weeks in Capetown last year, helping shoot the interracial drama, which we finished here in L.A. just last week. Foreign sales begin at Cannes in May; domestic shopping begins in Seatde. The film is set mostly in 1986, when apartheid was beginning to unravel. And it's a very uncompromising look at three lives. It has been called "a hard to sell picture" so it must be good. As befits anyone between assignments, I am writing.

"Janis is still working part-time at Paramount Pictures, as an attorney in legal affairs. She has been luckily spared from most of the time-pressures and screaming egos so common in the business, and has enough time for the low-tech, highpatience-required jobs of chauffeur and social coordinator for our kids, as well as shrink to our kids' friends' moms who have too much time on their hands.

"Work and kids dominate our lives, but we miss our friends from our past lives, and that means many from Dartmouth. We'd love to hear from them if they are ever in L.A."

I caught up with another WDCR alum earlier in the year. Bill Moyes e-mails that: "Linda and I have three children now, all of whom will go to Dartmouth, of course: Jonathan, age 12; Ryan, age 6; and Kelsey, age 4.

"Terry Robinson '69 and I are still partners in business. We sold 22 radio stations at the top of the market about one year ago and I, after running the Research Group for 19 years, left two years ago to join Terry in starting two new firms, Moyes Research Associates (hired a high-priced marketing firm to come up with that name, of course) and Music-Tec. Music-Tec does interactive testing of radio station's music libraries...pretty neat stuff. In all, we serve about ISO radio stations all over America. Life is good."

I should mention, since Bill is too modest, that he and Terry built the Research Group into the country's premiere radio research firm, strongly influencing the radio formats you hear in many cities today.

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