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2013, The Year in Review - p2

when they rushed Oscar winning visual effects
veteran, Rhythm & Hues, off the stage during their
acceptance speech, while playing the theme from
Jaws to prevent anyone from hearing what they
had to say about the state of the industry!
It is no coincidence; we are told by iMoogi.TV's
CEO Tracy Renee, that iMoogi was born this same
year. “We have close es to the CGI and
entertainment industries already, through our
other business dealings, and recognized quickly
the problem and vacuum created by such
devasta ng abuse of an en re industry. This exact
situa on is the fire from which iMoogi was
hatched,” she confided in us. Thank goodness
2013 also was the year a company like IMOOGI TV
was launched, to be an alterna ve to CGI ar sts
looking to be respected and adequately
compensated for the amazing work they do. “CGI
ar sts do not need someone telling them how to
be crea ve, they just need fair distribu on with a
true means to mone ze their channels and grow
their fan-bases. That, is iMoogi.TV,” Tracy
concluded.

8. The Boston Redsocks win the
World Series.
Who could forget The Boston Redsocks, having
won their first world series in 95 years!
Congratula ons to the players, they worked hard
for it.

7. The Cleveland House of Horrors
2013 saw three women set free from a house of
horrors in Cleveland Ohio thanks to next door
neighbor, Charles Ramsey. They had been trapped
in this house for at least a decade.
Other neighbors reported calling the police
mul ple mes over the years due to seeing so
many strange things. Reports of women naked
with dog collars crawling through the dirt and a
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lady banging on the windows with a baby calling for
help all went without follow up by local law
enforcement for years.

6. Famous Deaths in 2013
Like the years before it, 2013 had its own list of
notable deaths, however due to space limita ons
we will only share a few here:
Nelson Mandella: South Africa's first black
president and an enduring icon of the struggle
against racial oppression, died in 2013, Mr.
Mandela spent 27 years in prison a er being
convicted of treason by the white minority
government, only to forge a peaceful end to white
rule by nego a ng with his captors a er his release
in 1990. He led the African Na onal Congress, a
long- me banned libera on movement, to a
resounding electoral victory in 1994, the first fully
democra c elec on in the country's history.
James Gandolfini, 51, beefy, balding actor who
personified the Mafia for millions as New Jersey
family patriarch Tony Soprano in HBO's acclaimed
series, "The Sopranos." He won three Emmy
Awards for his performance. He also had dozens of
film roles, including CIA Director Leon Pane a in
last year's "Zero Dark Thirty." Heart a ack, June 19.
Paul Walker, 40, star of the Fast & Furious streetracing movie series. Car accident, Nov. 30.
Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson in season three of
the Fox television show "Glee" died of a drug
overdose, July 13.
Lou Reed, 71, hugely influen al songwriter and
guitarist who helped shape nearly 50 years of rock
music. With the Velvet Underground in the late
1960s, Reed fused street-level urgency with
elements of European avant-garde music. As a solo
ar st from the 1970s into the 2010s, he was as
unpredictable as he was influen al. Cause not
given, Oct. 27.