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More than 550 amusement manufacture leaders gathered successful Los Angeles connected Sunday (Oct. 19) for Creative Community for Peace’s (CCFP) seventh yearly Ambassadors of Peace gala to beforehand dialog and unity done the arts. The lawsuit was held astatine the Beverly Park residence of Haim Saban, president and CEO of Saban Capital Group.
This year’s honorees were Bruce Resnikoff, president/CEO of Universal Music Enterprises; Jonathan Strauss, CEO of Create Music Group; David Kohan, showrunner and enforcement shaper of Will & Grace and Mid-Century Modern; his wife, Blair Kohan, spouse and committee subordinate astatine United Talent Agency; and histrion Jerry O’Connell.
The lawsuit featured a show by John Mellencamp, who said, “I don’t similar to telephone it antisemitism. It’s excessively polite a connection for what it truly is. Hatred is what it truly is. And I whitethorn conscionable beryllium a feline with a guitar and sing immoderate songs, but I committedness this to the Jewish people: I volition stay a staunch state to you guys arsenic agelong arsenic I’m connected this earth. And to the Jewish haters, I accidental f—k you.”
“In bid to marque a difference, sometimes we request to get retired of our comfortableness zone, and that’s what I’m doing tonight,” Resnikoff said. “In the Jewish community, particularly during an epidemic of undeniable and wide antisemitism, we volition ever request much voices, and peculiarly successful the euphony industry. CCFP brings caring radical unneurotic to assistance amplify our voices, and I’m arrogant to bash my portion tonight.”
Strauss added, “Great companies and large cultures are not built successful an echo chamber. Disagreement doesn’t mean division; it means engagement. And there’s thing worse than apathy.”
CCFP president and co-founder David Renzer opened the lawsuit and said, “We person to propulsion back. We person to educate. We judge successful coexistence. We judge successful the powerfulness of euphony and arts and civilization to assistance physique bridges and that it should not beryllium unopen down.”
Ari Ingel, CCFP enforcement director, added, “Jewish pridefulness means knowing wherever we travel from and taking power of wherever we are going. It means speaking Hebrew with joy, wearing your Magen David successful the open, loving Israel, not with unsighted nationalism, but with eyes wide open, with commitment, with critique and care.”
Among those paying tribute to this year’s honorees were Ringo Starr, Def Leppard, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, Rebecca Romijn, Howie Mandel, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Greg Berlanti, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.
Artists and amusement leaders successful attendance included Gene Simmons of KISS; Berry Gordy, laminitis of Motown Records; Gary Barber, co-founder Spyglass Media Group; Suzanne de Passe, co-chairwoman of de Passe Jones Entertainment Group; Jody Gerson, CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group; Jacqueline Saturn, president of Virgin Music; Michael Rotenberg, laminitis and spouse astatine 3 Arts Entertainment; David Zedeck, planetary co-head of Music astatine UTA; Jacob Fenton, UTA partner; Larry Rudolph, laminitis and CEO of 724 Entertainment; and Phylicia Fant, planetary caput of euphony manufacture & civilization collaborations astatine Amazon Music.
Previous Ambassador of Peace honorees see Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr., Grammy-winning songwriter Diane Warren, reggae prima Ziggy Marley, euphony mogul Scooter Braun, president & CEO of Sony Music Latin America Afo ...
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