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- Tinseltown's famous parade of stars down Hollywood Boulevard, circling back along Sunset Boulevard, takes place yearly on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a tradition since 1928. That was the year Hollywood merchants transformed a one-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard into "Santa Claus Lane" as a marketing ploy. It worked and what was originally called the Santa Claus Lane Parade was born. The Parade was suspended from 1942 to 1944 out of respect for our troops fghting World War II but returned the first Christmas after war's end in 1945 to record attendance. Celebrities among its participants include Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid Duncan Renaldo, Ty Hardin, Clint Eastwood and the Rawhide cast (westerns were all the rage on TV and in movies in 1960), Soupy Sales, Ray Corrigan with the Corriganville truck and trailer and many more celebrities like Don DeFore, Bozo, and Pinky the Rollerskating Donkey
- This is a filmed version of the hit play about a con man preacher which performed to sold out houses in Long Beach, New York, and Hollywood. Filmed at the prestigious Stella Adler Theatre at Hollywood and Highland, just steps from where the Oscars are held, critics hailed Richard Rossi's "stellar performance as Gantry." In 1998, the play was done as a 1920's period piece and broadcast live on TV from Long Beach, CA. Richard Rossi went out on the edge in conceptualizing this version as a modern story happening today in a contemporary narrative. He wanted it held at the Stella Adler Theatre to honor Stella's contribution to acting in teaching Marlon Brando and others. This contemporary concept inspired Rossi's film version "Canaan Land," released in 2020.