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The

4 Horsemen of the Apoca;lypse

Mr. Rebagliati’s Revenge

The Ghosts of Chinatown

Ambassador’s of Empire

A Pacific Rim Story

The rise of modern-day China and Asian discrimination inVancouver as seen through the eyes of the first Chinese Canadian businesswoman to be invited back to China to help jumpstart their economy in 1980 after the Cultural Revolution

Faye Leung is brought up in Victoria and Vancouver’s Chinatown during the 1930s, the age of discrimination. Her parents are both teachers and pillars of the community and she is brought up learning the Chinese way first and then the Caucasian. She is looked up to by her peers because she is the school teacher’s daughter. For this reason she must always act in the best way possible. She becomes the leader amongst her group.

Her father is an important man. He is the head of the Kuomintang Party in Vancouver (Nationalist). Twice he is elected to represent all Overseas Chinese in Canada and to attend their big rally in China. He is well respected. Faye is the closest thing to Chinese royalty in the community. What is going on in China during the war is of great interest to Overseas Chinese. All have relatives in China and send money back to help them. They hear of the atrocities committed by the Japanese. After the war, there is a civil war between the Nationalist and Communist Parties and the Communist Party wins. The National party retreats to the island of Taiwan. The Communist Party is worse than the Japanese and kill land owners, educators and business owners. Many who go back are sent to hard labor camps and are never seen again.

Back in Vancouver after the war, the Chinese are granted citizenship because many fought in the war against the Japanese. They can now apply to become Canadian citizens and even move out of Chinatown if they can afford it but most cannot. Chinese are still discriminated against in the work place and cannot earn a decent wage for another twenty years.

Faye wants to help her people live a better life and she does what she can with her parents helping others apply for citizenship. Love blossoms when her future husband comes to town Chun Kwong Leung, from China by way of San Francisco. He is a scholar, teacher, playwright and he looks like the movie star Robert Taylor. After a brief courtship, she tells her parents they want to marry and all hell breaks loose. They are told they would be breaking Chinese beliefs that people with similar last names can’t marry, hers is Leong and his Leung. They go against her parent’s wishes and marry anyway and decide to work together to help their people live a better life.

Dean (he adopts a Caucasian name) goes into insurance and Faye goes into real estate. They open a small office on Pender Street in the heart of Chinatown and become very popular. Faye becomes the first lady developer in Vancouver and builds housing projects all over town under $100,000 for the little guy. She starts the first branch office of a trust company in her office so the Chinese can get a better interest on their money. They travel to Hong Kong and establish the first relationship with an overseas bank and a Canadian trust company. While in Hong Kong, Faye realizes many businessmen want to immigrate to Vancouver but cannot because of Canada’s restrictive immigration policies against Asians. Back home, she talks Canada’s Minister of Immigration into creating a white paper to allow Asian Immigrants to come to Canada if they have money and can prove they will not be a burden. The first wave of Hong Kong immigrants arrives in Vancouver in 1967 and the flood gates open resulting in Canada becoming a multicultural nation in ten years.

While Vancouver is fast becoming an international destination and everyone is making money from real estate, China is gripped in the vise of the Cultural Revolution. Dean tells stories of running from the Japanese during the war and they hear of atrocities committed by the Red Guards. It is too dangerous though to travel to China. Faye continues to develop housing projects which she sells to newly arrived immigrants setting herself up as a one woman greeting committee when they arrive. She develops Chinatown as well and her people all love her for it. They raise a family and they too become pillars of the community working hand in hand with the Caucasian establishment during the seventies. In 1980, she is well known around the Pacific Rim and becomes the first Chinese Canadian businesswoman to be invited back to China after the Cultural Revolution to help jumpstart their economy. During the eighties she makes many trips back and forth trying to create a bridge between her two countries. In 1979, she barely escapes Tiananmen Square, flying to safety in Hong Kong.

Back home in 1990, she is offered the biggest real estate deal of her career selling the premier of British Columbia’s massive theme park called Fantasy Gardens. She finds a billionaire buyer in Manila but the deal is wrought with complications as the premier wants to be involved and become as rich as her billionaire friend. It ends in the Premier being found guilty of conflict of Interest and he is forced to resign but not until after Faye is beat up badly by the premier’s lawyers in court and in the media. The deal goes through but Faye loses everything including her beloved husband.

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IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL FAYE LEUNG THE HAT LADY SINGS

This is a story of the empowerment and dedication of a Chinese couple who supported the Chinese community living in Canada to grow amid the racist environment and succeed. The book mainly focuses on Faye (or the Hat Lady), a pioneer businesswoman who had a crucial role in women’s and ethnic minorities’ development since she resisted prejudice and fought for Asians’ rights. She also helped Asians find a good position in business in Canadian society, thus enhancing their lifestyles. The couple’s achievements delivered the Chinese the benefits that new generations of Chinese Canadians currently appreciate, changing their fate forever.

It could easily be adapted for a TV Series: Network, Cable, Limited Run / Mini-Series, or Streaming.

DRAW OF STORY

The story of a powerful, wise, and dedicated woman to her community instantly draws our attention, especially because she fights for the Chinese’s rights at a time Canadian people were absolutely racist against immigrants.

HOOK

The hook is about the struggle of Chinese immigrants for a dignified life at a time when they suffered constant discrimination in Canadian society and were excluded from the possibility of good jobs and fair wages. The story goes far beyond Faye/Dean lives and tells the brutal story of Chinese immigration.

UNIQUE ABOUT STORY

The story of this Chinese couple and their struggle for the Chinese community’s rights in Canada has not been widely explored, so it is an original story still to be discovered.

CHARACTERS STAND OUT

The characters are robust and well-developed, both protagonists and the antagonist are historical figures who have gained visibility in the media because of an important fact that was widely reported in the tabloids. And as the story is told by Faye herself, the content is quite precise, and the development of the characters turns out to be much more profound and assertive.

RARE GEM

The book itself is not a rare gem because it is just an interview that was arranged into this biography, but Faye’s life story is indeed a rare gem.

PUT THE BOOK DOWN

The story is undoubtedly awe-inspiring, but as it is an interview in which a reporter asks questions that Faye answers, sometimes those answers sound a little repetitive. However, the book is still very engaging.

WHY CONSIDER

All the elements for a work with the potential to attract a large audience are there. We have a strong, powerful, empowered, fearless main character with a feminist mindset at a time when women had no voice. We also have Faye’s husband, who also represents the strength of the Chinese immigrant. They had a massive power of transformation because they were visionary and mentally open to the new. The book has a significant theme, which is that of racism against Asians, which is a subject still little explored by the media. Many films portray racism against Black people, such as Green Book and Hidden Figures, but still little is reported on the discrimination and prejudice suffered by Asian immigrants, here represented by the Chinese community.

So portraying critical themes, the book has as its primary topics Canada’s prejudice against Chinese immigrants and the issue of women who were still deprived of many things at that time. But Faye has never been intimidated by this “social demand” of keeping Chinese immigrants or women in their designated places, and she has managed not only to become a successful Business Woman, but also helped Canada tight international relations with Asia, helping highly in politics and business, and assisted the Chinese community to thrive and have their rights as well.

It is a story of inspiration and overcoming, which has a controversial part of how Faye brought down Premier Vander Zalm because of a deal with a Taiwan billionaire. Still, even being controversial, this part brings more conflict to the plot, making the narrative most attractive.

SPECIAL EFFECTS

THE STORY DOES NOT RELY ON SPECIAL EFFECTS AWARDS

Because of the narrative’s importance, the story’s dramatic weight, and a large amount of content this book contains, it has excellent potential to earn awards.

FAN BASE

Yes, because the narrative is a tribute to a powerful woman who was a feminist ahead of her time, and it could also attract a large audience of Asian people who might see Faye as an inspiration.

TALEFLICK REVIEW, L.A., 2023

The4Horsemenof

oftheApocalypse

The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

A senior MI5 operative (Tom Cruise) is thinking about a career change. He isn’t sure if his life has made any difference, so he is taking a three-month leave from the firm to pursue publishing luxury travel magazines in six locales in Southern Europe. In Lisbon, his first stop, he is given a journal by the matriarch of Portugal’s most prominent private banking dynasty. Then, he is chased out of Lisbon by unknown assailants. He begins to read the journal to try and find out who is chasing him and discovers it is the story of modern-day Portugal and how four men saved Portugal from destruction during WWII; Prime Minister Salazar (Leonardo Di Caprio) and the three brothers who run the largest private banking dynasty (Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damen).

The story has a double narrative or meta-narrative, and just as you think you are going to discover the key to a puzzle, it switches to the other narrative, leaving you hanging on a cliff. The two narratives are essential for another reason besides breaking up the action. The first narrative is a photo travelogue through Portugal and Spain. If the four horsemen had not succeeded, Portugal and Spain would be much different today than what you see in the pictures.

It has an extensive cast of A-list actors, reminiscent of the sixties movie, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World, who all appear in cameos throughout.

To read the first sixty pages, please click on the PDF file on our website http://www.warfleetpress.com. The rest of the story is available by request for directors, producers, production companies and investors. There is a ten percent finder’s fee if anyone can put us in touch with the following Tom Hanks (producer), Paul Greengrass (Director), Leo di Caprio (Salazar), Brad Pitt (Ricardo Esporito Santo), George Clooney (Jose Esporito Santo), and Matt Damon (Manuel Esporito Santo).

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A partial treatment is available in this online library.

Cast & Characters

Movies of the sixties like It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World and Around The World In Eighty Days, had just about every actor of the day playing themselves in a cameo role. While they won’t be playing themselves, I see the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as the same. It is a salute to action heroes past and present as well as it tells a story that has never been told on screen.

Lisbon during WWII is full of spies, counter-spies, double agents, refugees both rich and poor, wheeler dealers trying to make a buck off the war, European royalty and military officers from both sides all trying to get off the continent to safety one step ahead of the German army.

When Hitler invades France and marches into Paris, everyone flees south and across the Spanish border into Portugal, eventually winding up in Lisbon. If they have money, they can book a boat to America, South America or Palestine or even fly to New York. Those who donn’t have money have to get it any way they can from others in Lisbon.

Photo Caption: 1940 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor with Ricardo Espirito-Santos and his wife in their villa in Caiscais, Portugal. The part of Wallis Simpson is written for Angelina Jolie. The Duke of Windsor is written for Pierce Brosnan. The part of Ricardo E-S is written for Brad Pitt.

One Beautiful Summer

Arthur Delamont tells a reporter at the airport as he departs on his tenth tour of England and Europe in 1968 with his boy’s band that this may be his last trip. He is thinking of quitting the organization when he returns. He is upset because of a lack of support for the arts in Vancouver and Canada. City Council only gave him $1000 towards his trip, which barely pays for one boy’s airfare, not 39. He says he will let him know upon his return.

During the summer, places, events and people remind him of past trips, and he begins to remember through flashbacks. The whole band story unfolds through flashbacks. It gets to the point that his memories become so real that they start to invade the present, and he sees old boys sitting in the audience at his concerts, and they begin to talk to him. The past boys all have the same message, which they tell him in the end. You’ve done too much good. Don’t quit!

It works really well and is about 2 hours long. I wrote it for Tom Hanks as a 76-year-old Mr. D. I take Mr. D a little out of character as he never talked about the past to anyone. On this trip, he tells one of the younger boys about some of his past travels.

Overall, the message is that you must remember the past to know where to go in the future. It is a story about coming of age, the end of life, and our youth’s education.

It is called One Beautiful Summer. To be filmed entirely in Great Britain. Big Budget: 400 investors needed @$1 million each.

One Beautiful Summer – Taleflick Review

One Beautiful Summer starring Tom Hanks

Description: Christopher Best chrisbestbyjove@yahoo.ca 1397662711867

BIOGRAPHICAL EPIC FAMILY MEMOIR

1920s & ’30s,1940s & ’50s,1960s & ’70s

Christopher Best Logline

Arthur Delamont is a trailblazer in the education of youth through music. Between 1934 and 1974 he makes 14 trips to England and Europe with his boy’s band; some three, four or five months long. They have an agent and are for hire playing the vaudeville circuit, concerts, carnivals and regattas.

Genre

Biographical,Epic,Family,Memoir

Short Summary

His boys beat England’s best adult Collier bands in contests because there are no youth bands. They play like pros although they are only between the ages of 12 and 18. In 1939, they are in England when war is declared and are chased back across the Atlantic by a U-boat. The stuff of legends!

Many boys go back to England after 1939 and pay the supreme sacrifice. Back home, his boys go on to become the who’s who of the Canadian musical establishment playing in orchestras, symphonies and often bands of their own, even Duke Ellington’s. 200 championship awards over a fifty-year period.

Setting England and Europe

Based on a True Story

Yes

Plot – Premise

Internal Journey/Rebirth

Plot – Other Elements

Coming of Age,Meaningful Message,Philosophical Questions

Mature Audience Themes

Main Character Details

Name: Arthur Delamont played by Tom Hanks

The Ghosts of

Bumbelthorpe

of Chinatown

This movie shines a light on Chinatown and the DTE and is written for Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp and Sandra Oh as Faye Leung. The producer is Ron Howard and the studio Disney. The theme of the movie is “Don’t take anything for granted because it can all disappear in a blink of an eye.”

The premise for the movie is Faye Leung finds herself on Pender Street in front of the newly opened Chinatown Storytelling Centre. She sees visions of people she used to know going into the various businesses and they see her but say nothing. Unknowingly, she has stumbled into a parallel dimension called Ghost World. It is only for ghosts. The Office has sent down a good wizard (Meryl Streep) to rally the ghosts of Chinatown for an attack on City Hall to get the City to give Chinatown heritage status so it won’t disappear. The Mayor wants to sell off the buildings to developers.

Ghost World is everywhere and Chinatown Station Vancouver (as it is called) is very popular. Ghosts take ghost tours from all over the world to come and visit what Chinatown used to be like in the past. It has four venues to choose from the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties when it was the most popular. It also has nine clouds. The number of clouds a station has indicates how important it is to Ghost World.

Faye and Dean (her husband), the good wizard and the Chinatown Lions (a group of Faye and Dean’s old friends including the yo-yo champion of the world) descend on City Hall. Mayor Da Vinci (the best Mayor Vancouver ever had IMO) inadvertently summons a dark wizard (Johnny Depp) when he asks where are the ghosts of City Hall when you need them? They all turn out to be friends of Faye’s (City Councilors) who she worked with in the past and they all go over to her side. The Mayor concedes but not until telling them he cannot grant heritage status. They must go to Victoria to see the Premier. The same thing ensues in Victoria where they are confronted by the ghosts of the Legislature Grace McCarthy, Bill Vander Zalm, Mike Harcourt, Glen Clark and WAC Bennett who again, Faye knows. After Grace and Mike get zapped for telling an untruth, Premier Horgan tells them they must go to Ottawa to see the PM.

In the meantime, the Mayor and the dark wizard hatch a plot to attack Chinatown in retaliation for their attack on City Hall. They all return from Victoria and discover the devastation and don’t know what to do. Her friends tell her to remember what she said in her book, how she survived the Vander Zalm Days. Look for the larger pattern and grab on to it. Don’t just bang your head on the wall so they realize the larger plan is Ottawa and head for Parliament.

In Ottawa, Faye mistakenly zaps the PM’s Father. All fear the worst. Surely the PM will never grant them heritage status now but they’re in for a surprise, Faye knows Justin too. Justin tells them he will grant Chinatown National Heritage status and they all return to Vancouver.

While they were in Ottawa, the dark wizard locks the Mayor and his councillors in a dungeon below City Hall, I know, there is no dungeon, he remodels it because he decides the Mayor isn’t corrupt enough. He is going to take over his racket of selling houses to the highest bidder and

make Vancouver just like London, England where houses sell for ten million and up. He also has another trick up his sleeve. He gathers a group of developers together and tells them to bid on all of Vancouver’s heritage sites, he’s selling them all off and the City is keeping the land and going to earn big rents from the proceeds. The developers are all greedy and delighted. Because it will take too long to tear them all down, he and his henchmen decide to zap them all.

A big fight ensues above the skies of Vancouver as the good wizard and the dark wizard battle for control of all the heritage sites including the newly listed Chinatown. The dark wizard wins and heads back to City Hall to gloat. At City Hall, his henchmen tell him they have captured Faye and the Chinatown Lions and put them in the dungeon with the Mayor. The dark wizard goes down to see. Faye concedes he has indeed won. The good wizard arrives and she too concedes but not until asking the Mayor to tell the dark wizard what he really thinks of him. The Mayor is now so mad that he says, “I wish I had never called you. I wish you would all go away.” After a lot of smoke and several zaps, the smoke clears and the dark wizard and his henchmen have all disappeared.

Only the Mayor could get rid of the dark wizard by recalling him but he didn’t know that. In a few minutes, the dungeon disappears and they are all left standing in the basement of City Hall. All the heritage buildings are restored and so is the damage done to Chinatown. The mayor is so happy he declares from now on Vancouver is going to be once again for the little guy. No rich and famous are allowed. He puts a cap on house prices at two hundred thousand and he puts a cap on one-bedroom apartment rentals at one thousand dollars. And he gets rid of all the parking meters. So Vancouver goes back to how it was in the fifties and sixties when people could leave their doors open and kids could walk home from school. The rich and famous stop coming because no way they will buy a house under two hundred thousand, how could they show off their wealth to their friends?

The message is don’t take anything for granted because it can all disappear tomorrow even if it has National Heritage status especially if your government works for special interest and not for the people. It is not only about heritage but our educational programs as well. The Grade 7 Band and Strings program was zapped in the Spring of 2022 by the Victoria School Board citing it was too elitist. Let’s hope they get zapped in the Fall elections.

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Big budget-high Teck movie: 400 investors needed @$1 million each chris@thebestlittlemoviehouseinvancouver.ca

“Chased by a ghost ship Arthur Delamont is determined to never let fate be his master. Twenty years after, he makes the band trip that never happened and returns triumphantly to England, the land of his birth, with his own band determined to keep the music of the Territorial Staff Band alive through generations of Vancouver’s youth.”

Ambassadors

Ambassadors ofEmpire

In the best tradition of Downton Abbey, this TV series focuses on General Gordon where generations of Vancouver’s youth become Ambassador’s of Empire.

After fate steals Arthur Delamont a Hereford born, Salvation Army trumpet player’s triumphal return to England as a member of the Territorial Staff Band of the Salavation Army in 1914, he travels to Vancouver where season 1 follows him and his new musical family up to the outbreak of the Second World War. He always tempts fate doing the impossible. He gathers together a bunch of neighbourhood boys who have never even seen a musical instrument let alone play one and declares his boy’s band will be better than any other youth band, even better than most adult bands. He has a lot to prove.

His first group of boys all come from the neighbourhood of Kitsilano. There is Gordy McCullough the quintessential man about town, the caustic and formidable Stu Ross and the likeable Ardie Steeves. Jack Read is kind and tolerant and Norrie Pearson is a champion cricket player. The funny and unpredictable is there in the likes of Mickey Crawford and Doug Cooper is another. Doug has an offbeat sense of humor. Jim Findlay’s father is a magistrate and Phoebe Findlay, Jim’s sister also wants to play flute. Mae Scott is the daughter of the head gardener at the McRae estate, Hycroft. Jim McCullock is smitten. Sisters Joan Agnew who has designs on the son of our hero and Lois are two more. Lois later becomes a singer in Irving Lozier’s dance orchestra. Pete Watt turns out to be a very good softball pitcher. Teddy Reiser, Pete Humphreys and Harold Atkinson become the new stars and personalities later in the decade as do many others.

The season follows their adventures as Arthur Delamont prepares his band to win the provincial, national and world junior band championships before truiumphantly returning to England with his band billed as The Most Famous Boys Band in the World, twenty years after the ill-fated voyage of the Empress of Ireland. He now has a date with destiny and returns three times with his boys that decade to England. They are always breaking new ground and doing the impossible, travelling in two Pullman cars across Canada and then by ocean liner to England in a depression when no one has any money. The trips are three and four months in duration and they are hired out to play like professionals on the vaudeville circuit even though their ages are between twelve and eighteen. Our hero, becomes a legend in Vancouver and in England beating the best, always tempting fate by going one step further than anyone else.

The end of season one finds Arthur Delamont and his boys in England on a bus at night speeding down a country road under the cover of barrage balloons, search lights and flack guns, as they have been told by the war department: GET OUT OF ENGLAND NOW! He makes some quick calculations and decides if they are chased back across the Atlantic by a U-boat, they will be safer on the Empress of Britain than on the Athenia which is the ship they came over on so they head for Southampton. After a few days at sea, news arrives that the Athenia was sunk by a U-boat. Arthur confesses to his wife that he should not have risked it all and come on this trip, both his band and his family. He vows to never risk it all again but he is a driven man. His boys have done it all but there is lots more to do as he is determined to never to let fate get the upper hand again. Always taking chances with a singleness of purpose, will he be able to outrun fate and if so, for how long? We don’t find out for a while.

This TV series spans the entire 20thC and there are enough episodes for 10 seasons on PBS. It chronicles the story of one of Canada’s National treasures the Kitsilano Boy’s Band founded and led in 1928 by its tempermental maestro Arthur Delamont. To be filmed in Vancouver, across Canada and in Great Britain. Funds needed to write a pilot episode. $100,000. Contact: chris@the bestlittlemoviehouseinVancouver.com See: www.kitsband.ca

Mr. Rebagliati’s

Rebagliati’s Revenge

Mr. Rebagliati’s Revenge

In 1990, a much loved high school band teacher, Mr. Potter played by Tom Hanks is in a serious auto accident and falls into a coma for thirty years. When he awakes, he hasn’t changed a bit or aged so he decides he wants to go back to teaching band, but he finds the world has changed. There is no more support system in place to nurture music programs, no more District Music Supervisors to solve problems and organize city-wide events, and no team teaching only one band director per program, music programs are not controlled by music teachers anymore they are now controlled by admins with no musical experience and many don’t see the value of band in public schools, timetables are not set to accommodate band classes, band teachers are expected to teach other courses as well as band that are not their expertise; there are no bands playing in parks, no community bands where young people, if they are good enough, can travel and see the world, no clubs downtown bringing in touring live performers, almost no professional music scene or live music anywhere, no variety shows or music shows on television, no Ed Sullivan and no Johnny Carson and the Tonight Show Band. Thirty years ago, if a young person wanted to go into a career in music, there were endless possibilities; now, there are none. So what do young people do? They stare into their i-phones!

Potter decides to see if he can do something about it. He calls up several of his old buddies who are all retired now but were all much-loved career music teachers like himself. His idea is to form a jazz band and tour B.C. and try to instill a love of live music once again. He is met with little enthusiasm as they are all grumpy old men now who only want to complain about how bad things have gotten, except for one. Mr. Rebagliati, a drummer played by Robert de Niro sees something in Potter’s idea and motivates everyone back into action. His drive, determination, high energy and steady drumbeat are so contagious that they name the band in his honour, Mr. Rebagliati’s Revenge.

They find an old hippie bus with yellow and red paisley flowers all over it and set off on a bus tour of B.C. in the best spirit of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters to try to reinstall a love for live music in high schools and parks. Along the way, on the bus, each of them tells Potter how they managed to survive after the government cuts of ’92 and the highlights and the low points of their music programs from then to the present, 2022.

It ends back in Vancouver with a final concert at Magee High School which also becomes a protest in support of bands in public schools in the best spirit of the sixties student protest movements. Past students come to pay their respects and tell everyone what being in the band meant to them in their formative years. It ends with several high-profile former students joining everyone on stage, including Ben Heppner and Diana Krall.

I’m looking forward to getting back to working on both Timing is Everything and this one saluting the lives and work of B.C.s wonderful music educators past and present.

LOW BUDGET $100 Million. 100 investors needed.

chris@thebestlittlemoviehouseinvancouver.ca

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

This story follows the lives of a group of music nerds who meet at what could have been called the West Coast School of the Performing Arts in the sixties and seventies (UBC Music) because of all the talent that passes through its doors and sees them all go on to mentor generations of British Columbia’s youth.

Live music is everywhere in those days on TV variety shows all have their live orchestra and guest singers and musicians easily find work as guest artists. Late night shows all have big bands with Johnny Carson being the king. Afternoon talk shows like Merv Griffin do as well. Former vaudeville comedians and acts wind up with TV shows and they all have live orchestras and guest artists.

Live music found a home in the younger generation in the US. First, it is folk music with singers such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and Pete Seeger and others. Then, everyone starts forming a band. Most are one hit wonders breaking up soon after but they all go on to form new bands, it is contagious.

In B.C. band had just gotten on to the curriculum of public schools thanks to a small dedicated group of music educators around the province. Now, they are head-hunting for anyone musical former military bandsmen, professional musicians and young people to fill the position of band teacher in the high schools.

Universities get into the act. Anywhere that has a music program, seems to explode overnight as enrollment doubles and triples spurred on by the creativity going on all around. Many don’t finish their studies and are hired right away to fill the need for live music wherever there is a demand. Musicians are in demand and all are ready to fulfill their dreams.

LOW BUDGET $100 Million. 100 investors needed.