Carlos Amezcua, co-anchor of the "KTLA Morning News," is an award-winning broadcast journalist. With a broadcasting career spanning over 25 years, Carlos has covered news around the world as a network correspondent for CBS and as an anchor/reporter in such major markets as New York, San Diego and Denver. He has also appeared on the "CBS Evening News" with Walter Cronkite, "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw, CNN and HBO's "America Undercover." Carlos has been the recipient of numerous awards including six Emmys for his journalistic efforts covering such stories as the devastating Northridge Earthquake, the Malibu Fires, the McDonald's Massacre in San Diego and one Emmy for "Outstanding Journalistic Enterprise" covering Mexican politics.

Carlos Amezcua created and produced the critically acclaimed "Comedy Compadres," the first all-Latino stand up comedy program in Los Angeles that aired on KTLA.

Carlos is active in the community, serving on various charity boards and professional organizations. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, surfing, skiing, watching hockey games and spending as much time as he can with his family. Carlos, his wife Mary and their five children make their home in the Los Angeles area.

His ancestors came to the New world from Spain in the late 1500s and a century or so later settled in the San Diego area. He first became acquainted with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 12 when his step-grandmother, a less-active member of the Church, signed him up with an LDS-sponsored Boy Scout troop. He and his brother both became Eagle Scouts and formed friendships with LDS boys. One of these friendships led him to attend BYU. He was baptized there and served a mission. Upon returning, he studied broadcasting at BYU and later did an internship at KTVX Channel 4 in Salt Lake City.

He has a gold record! He fulfilled one of his life long dreams when he got the chance to work with one of the greatest rock bands of all time, "Chicago". The trumpet player Lee Loughnane asked him to write Spanish lyrics for "Let it Snow" and Longhnane sang the song in Spanish. It is the only Spanish track on Chicago 26 "The Christmas Album."

Duane Andersen currently teaches painting at Brigham Young University. He has directed several other film projects. His first film, "Old Woman," was based on a Russian short story and it featured at the International Cinema at BYU in 1999. More recently, he completed "Shooting People," a 15-minute piece about photographers' dilemma in extreme violent settings such as war.

Klay Anderson is a 27-year audio veteran with "hands-on" experience as both a "user" and a supplier. For years, he has been a noted professional audio engineer and additionally he has been a consultant who designs, sells and installs professional audio systems. His firm, Klay Anderson Audio, provides, full-service, pro-audio sales and service throughout the world. The nine member, multi-million dollar company represents all the major, professional manufacturers of digital and analog sound equipment and supplies.

Klay Anderson Audio enthusiastically offers the full spectrum of audio services including consulting, professional audio equipment sales, installation and maintenance. Service areas include broadcast and recording facilities, auditoriums and concert halls, sound reinforcement, acoustical treatments, audio rentals and operators. The hallmark of the firm far exceeds specification of equipment. It is a penchant for excellence. Guiding this desire for quality are two axioms: "Good Sound Is The Absence Of Bad Sound" and "Anything that is not quite right is wrong!"

Susan is currently the drama teacher at Provo High School. She has been teaching theatre or debate for fifteen years. She also has done some professional acting; her agent is Patti Miner with Lasting Impressions Talent Agency. She has appeared in television ("It's a Miracle"), commercials, and industrial films. She and her husband, Keith of 28 years, have five children and two grandchildren. She tries to participate in community acting when her schedule allows.

Jan began making films in 1984 after returning from Egypt where she had conducted fieldwork as an anthropologist. Early in her college days she had been a photographer and had exhibited in several galleries in Utah and California. Cinematography added the element of sustained storytelling to the visuals of photography. Since that time she has made twelve films and videos each of which she wrote, directed, photographed and edited. Most of her films are of the experimental genre, including the documentaries and narratives. Jan's films have screened at film festivals around the country and in Europe, South America and Asia. Jan has had films broadcast on the Learning Channel, the Sundance Channel and several Community Access stations. For the past five years she has taught filmmaking (16mm) and film history at the University of Utah.

"Where did you get that voice"? From Jenny Jones to Naomi Judd, Ben Stein, Boyz II Men, Leann Rimes, Hillary Duff and Ahmet Zappa, it seems everyone who hears David wonders the same thing - How can a young kid living in Utah learn to sing like that?? He has been called "The Soul man from Utah," the "Soul Midget King," "Mini Motown Monster" and a singing prodigy, and this is just the beginning.

From Wayne Newton in the 50s and 60s, Michael Jackson and Donny Osmond in the 70s, Tevin Campbell in the 90s and Billy Gillman in 2000, only a handful of young male entertainers have been able to achieve National recognition. Now to add to this elite list of pre-teen young male singers is David Archuleta, whose natural "soulful" voice has captivated America through his performances on Jenny Jones and most recently as the junior singer grand prize winner of Star Search 2.

David Archuleta was born in Miami, Florida on December 28th 1990 and spent the first six years of his life in various cities in Florida. In February of 1997, David and his family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where he lives with his parents, his brother and 3 sisters and 2 cats. He comes from a musical family where his mother sings both Spanish and English pop music, and his dad is a jazz trumpet player. David began singing at the age of 6 when he memorized several songs from the Les Miserables 10th anniversary concert, complete with English and Cockney accents. He also enjoyed singing songs from the movie Evita and songs he learned while at the amusement park Lagoon in Utah like Natalie Cole's "Pink Cadillac". Although David enjoyed singing, he still didn't feel comfortable singing in front of people. He just couldn't believe people would really want to hear his voice.

When he was 10 he participated in the Utah Talent Competition and although VERY reluctant to go perform in public, and feeling extremely nervous, he went onstage and sang "I Will Always Love You" and received a standing ovation, winning the kid division and realizing that people really did like to hear his voice. Several months passed and a new show started on TV, American Idol. David loved to watch and rewatch the performances and learned dozens of songs from the show including the song, "And I am Telling You, I'm Not Going" which has become one of his favorite songs to perform.

Towards the end of the American Idol first season, a friend of the family called about a show Jenny Jones was doing to feature talented kids across America and thought David should audition for the show. A show producer called and listened to an a capella recording of David singing "And I Am Telling You", and was so impressed, she asked him to rush a video and CD to them. A few days later, David and his dad were on a plane to Chicago to be on the show. While there he met AJ Gil from American Idol and formed a friendship with him, and a week later while in LA, met with AJ who then introduced David to the rest of the American Idol finalists including Kelly, Justin, Tamyra, Christina, Nikki, RJ, Jim, Ryan, and Ejay, and asked him to perform for them. They were absolutely amazed with his singing, and within a few days David was being introduced to many TV and Record label producers and executives.

The last several months have included performing 3 times on Star Search, being seen on CBS' The Early Show and has been the beginning of an exciting journey for David and his family. He is now in negotiations to record some new material and will be releasing a new CD soon.

Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household in Ogden, Utah on September 2, 1929. His father was a dairy farmer. After a rough childhood that included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, dropping out of high school, getting married and divorced all before he was 19, he decided to leave Utah for California. A Californian employment office found him a printing press job at Universal Studios. Within a few years, he was an assistant film editor at various other studios. One of his pals while at MGM was a young messenger named Jack Nicholson. He moved up to being a full fledged editor on "The Loved One" (1965) and started editing the films of director Norman Jewison.

A highlight of his film editing career was winning an Oscar for the landmark "In the Heat of the Night" (1967). Itching to become a director, Jewison gave him a script he was too busy to work on called "The Landlord" (1970). It became Ashby's first film as a director. From there he delivered a series of well-acted, intelligent human scaled dramas that included "The Last Detail" (1973), "Shampoo" (1975), "Bound for Glory" (1976), "Coming Home" (1978) and "Being There" (1979). Great reviews and Oscar nominations became common on Ashby films.

Ashby was always a maverick and a contrary person and success proved difficult for Ashby to handle. He became unreliable due to his dependence on drugs and a reclusive lifestyle. He actually collapsed while making the Rolling Stone concert film "Let's Spend the Night Together" (1982) in Arizona. Although he recovered, he was never the same after that. He began taking too much time in post production on his films and actually had a couple of his later projects taken away from him to be edited by others. He tried to straighten himself out but in the 1980s he was considered by many to be unemployable. Just when he felt he was turning a corner in his life, he developed cancer that spread to his liver and colon. He died on December 27, 1988. Actor Sean Penn dedicated his first film as a director, "The Indian Runner" (1991) to Ashby and John Cassavetes, even though Penn was never directed by either one. Because he did not have a set visual style, many mistake this for no style at all. His career is not discussed as often as the careers of some of his contemporaries.

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