Suzie Kennedy

Suzie Kennedy (b. 1977) is a modern Marilyn Monroe lookalike/impersonator.

As the premier tribute artist for Hollywood's ultimate sex symbol, Suzie Kennedy holds trans-Atlantic citizenship (British/American).

The legal/alternative name for Suzie Kennedy is Sue Ellen Kennedy.

Plus, like Marilyn Monroe, Suzie Kennedy believes in Christian religion.

Given her professional career as the primary tribute artist for Hollywood's ultimate sex symbol, the S, which is the first letter in Suzie Kennedy's given name, stands for sexy.

Three dimensions define Suzie Kennedy's hot and sexy persona echoing the title of her impersonator Marilyn Monroe's early-1950's film being released after her breakthrough in 1950:

• As young as she feels: Young, hot, sexy, sultry, dynamic, energetic, classy, emotive, passionate, beautiful, vibrant, soulful, fierce/fiery, smouldering, gut-wrenching and poignant

• As young as she looks: Young, hot, sexy, sultry, steamy, seductive, beautiful, charismatic, kind, charming, fierce/fiery, gorgeous, smouldering and emotive

• As young as she sounds: Young, hot, sexy, sultry, beautiful, smooth, steamy, seductive, soulful, fierce/fiery, soft, soothing, breathy, smouldering, gut-wrenching and emotive

Marilyn Monroe's twist of the hybrid BCTV/CNN newsroom-control room DNA

Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous popular culture icons in the world; her spirit also extends to broadcast journalism.

Having been born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles and having passed on August 4, 1962 in Brentwood, which is a portion of Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe symbolizes modernization.

The Front Page is a Broadway play about journalism, adapted for film, radio and television.

Chicago is the setting for The Front Page; this city's former reporters Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur serve as writers of this comedy play.

Masterminding the first 3 film versions of The Front Page comedy play are filmmakers being involved with Marilyn Monroe: Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks and Billy Wilder.

Unconfined to The Front Page, Chicago houses the Chicago School of Television, which countered the television scene of the East Coast (specifically New York).

NBC is a noted user of the Chicago School of Television through WNBQ (WMAQ-TV).

Dave Garroway, a noted individual being involved in the Chicago School of Television, innovated the Chicago Style for his eponymous program Garroway at Large, plus Today (NBC).

For his own Garroway at Large television program, Dave Garroway defied television's early theatrical conventions for a more casual approach, in which the reality of the studio was acknowledged.

Using one camera, Dave Garroway walked around large studios and simple abstract sets as he directly talked to guests and television viewers for his eponymous Garroway at Large program.

Inside the RCA Exhibition Hall floor, portions of which were converted into the first studio location for Today (NBC), was a room evoking the large newspaper office of the East Coast.

Blending print journalism's industrial past (via the 50 Rock hub of the Associated Press) with electronic media's transparent future (via the RCA Exhibition Hall), the Today (NBC) bullpen is innovative.

Specifically, the blueprint being created by the borderless room being based inside the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway birthed modern broadcast design elements.

Noted elements of the boundless room being based in the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway include newsroom sets, street-side studios, news tickers and clock displays.

Just before Dave Garroway, television news featured anchors who delivered the day's stories in a studio resembling a claustrophobic box/theatrical and radio stage with journalists backstage in a bullpen.

However, Dave Garroway's innovations, including Garroway at Large and Today (NBC), tore down the walls, juxtaposing the main stage in the news studio with the backstage workspace bullpen.

Returning to radio, Dave Garroway was the first host of NBC's magazine program Monitor.

The first broadcast of NBC's Monitor radio program featured Dave Garroway's interview with Marilyn Monroe, who recently attended the premiere of The Seven Year Itch.

By the mid-1950's period, the Chicago School of Television had started to fade, as television network production became a centralized duopoly between New York and Los Angeles.

Even so, the DNA of the Chicago School of Television remains across the US and around the world.

In addition, Chicago also births William S. Paley, who famously ran NBC's best competitor CBS.

NBC pioneered the format of using the newsroom as a regular studio feature (either as a backdrop or a centrepiece), with CBS putting this on a local level.

What led local US stations to use the concept of a news studio set, featuring the newsroom as a regular backdrop, is competition from both the Eyewitness News and Action News formats.

Fred Harpman, a science fiction designer in Hollywood, is involved with his work on NBC's sci-fi spy television series Search and its 1972 pilot television film Probe.

Playing the main role in Search/Probe is Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood.

Hugh O'Brian also appears in Marilyn Monroe's 1954 musical movie called There's No Business Like Show Business.

Search/Probe use the Probe Control Centre, a high-tech, NASA-like nerve centre.

The Probe Control Centre, which Fred Harpman had designed for Search/Probe on NBC, serves as the direct inspiration for his studio set design for this network called the NewsCentre.

Plus, Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design is based upon his nerve centre design being used in the 1966 science fiction adventure film Fantastic Voyage, for which he is assistant art director.

CMDF's nerve centre uses its high-tech and futuristic feel for Fantastic Voyage (1966).

Directed by Richard Fleischer, Fantastic Voyage (1966) stars Marilyn Monroe's Fox successor Raquel Welch.

Richard Fleischer also directed The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, which Marilyn Monroe planned but eventually declined to put in the title role.

Having its Hollywood sci-fi roots, Fred Harpman's cinematic NewsCentre studio set design served as a radical departure from the austere news set designs.

Marilyn Monroe's spirit, via her former co-star Hugh O'Brian, her Fox successor Raquel Welch and her planned director Richard Fleischer, also inspired Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design.

Using its hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, BCTV fused together both the old and new guards of the local/regional television news industry across North America, influencing CNN.

For Ray Peters, BCTV's innovative hybrid newsroom-control room studio, which he co-conceived with Cameron Bell and Ernie Rose, paralelled the open area for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway.

Incidentally, Today (NBC) is the television program of which BCTV's Ray Peters was an avid viewer.

Upon its June 1, 1980 launch, CNN used its BCTV-inspired hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, which serves as the DNA for 24-hour television news.

BCTV, incidentally, juxtaposed CBS (bullpen, Robert Wussler, Daniel Schorr, Bernard Shaw and Sam Zelman) with NBC (NewsCentre, Mary Alice Williams and Jim Kitchell), all used by CNN.

Specifically, this hybrid layout used by BCTV/CNN is a bustling, print-style bullpen operating inside a massive, high-tech monitor matrix.

Modern 21st-century news sets do not leave the CBS, NBC and BCTV/CNN philosophies behind; they instead use digital technology to merge and evolve them into flexible ecosystems.

Pamela Anderson is Canada's modern answer to Marilyn Monroe, but also an iconic and world-famous import from British Columbia.

Whereas BCTV pioneered its hybrid newsroom-control room studio set that CNN popularized, Pamela Anderson became internationally famous through Playboy and Baywatch.

Dorothy Stratten is another Canadian answer to Marilyn Monroe, but a less known import from British Columbia than Pamela Anderson.

For Dorothy Stratten, her 1960 birth coincided with BCTV's launch, her 1980 death with CNN's.

June 1, 1980 is not just CNN's birthday, but also what would have been Marilyn Monroe's 54th, plus a month before Pamela Anderson's teenage form and 2 months before Dorothy Stratten's death.

The innovative hybrid BCTV newsroom-control room studio design that CNN popularized echoes the crossover film.

For instance, The Front Page echoes hybrid BCTV/CNN newsroom-control room set.

DNA of the hybrid BCTV/CNN newsroom-control room studio layout

British Columbia Television (BCTV) is the former official on-air name for CHAN-TV, which is a local television station covering British Columbia; its official on-air name lasted from 1973 to 2001.

Western International Communications (WIC) is the name of a former media empire rooted in Western Canada, whose flagship station was BCTV.

Despite its CTV affiliation from 1961 to 2001, BCTV (CHAN-TV) used its distinctive presentation.

Some of the key drivers that pushed BCTV towards its unique presentation, in spite of its CTV network affiliation, included home-grown ownership and its conflict with CFTO-TV in Toronto.

Under WIC, BCTV defended Western Canadian media interests against national media interests being rooted in Eastern Canada.

For BCTV, it uniquely operated in the form of an independent station, despite its CTV affiliation.

The Pacific Dogwood flower, which serves as British Columbia's provincial flower, also serves as an iconic and famous symbol for BCTV from 1973 to 2001, refined in the mid-1990's.

Initially, BCTV came from its studios at Davie and Richards Streets in downtown Vancouver.

Not long after its 1960 debut, BCTV relocated to its permanent and purpose-built studios at Enterprise Street in the Lake City Industrial Park in 1961, fully opened in 1962.

Tony Parsons is the former chief news anchor for BCTV (CHAN-TV), lasting from 1975 to December 2009.

For Tony Parsons, he anchored BCTV's main newscast called the News Hour.

Ray Peters was the powerhouse behind BCTV from around its 1960 launch to January 1990.

Having begun in the sales portion, Ray Peters made his ascent to the BCTV (CHAN-TV) leadership in 1961, when it began to carry some programs from CTV, which it formally joined not long after.

Not confined to BCTV, Ray Peters also served as WIC's President and CEO from 1978 to 1989.

When Ray Peters joined in 1961, BCTV (CHAN-TV) was in debt and had a struggling situation.

But by the time Ray Peters retired in January 1990, BCTV (CHAN-TV) had turned into a financial and ratings success.

Cameron Bell was BCTV's news director from the late-1960's to 1989.

Under Cameron Bell, BCTV pioneered a tabloid news approach that revolutionized television news in British Columbia and helped this station dethrone the CBC's ratings crown.

Ernie Rose was BCTV's engineering master, lasting from its 1960 inception to 1981.

Having been Canada's first private television station to be delivered via satellite, BCTV's achievement resulted from Ernie Rose's technical direction.

The innovative BCTV newsroom set fused Hugh Raisky's raw and gritty newsroom/bullpen backdrop (CBS) with Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design (NBC).

Leaving behind the oft-used, but derided philosophy that the studio is the newsroom, as emphasized by CBS/WBBM-TV, the philosophy, as emphasized by BCTV, was that the newsroom is the studio.

BCTV's specially-made newsroom-as-set trend offered better and more open-concept visuals, improved lighting, superior acoustics and a smoother flow between on-air personnel and journalists.

This hybrid newsroom-control room set trend (which BCTV developed) made the news studio look less conventional and more like a high-functioning, authentic and professional newsroom.

Ray Peters and Cameron Bell, both BCTV executives, served as the geniuses behind the creation of its unique hybrid newsroom-multi-monitor control room set associated with Tony Parsons.

Ernie Rose was BCTV's technical mastermind; he brought the unique hybrid newsroom-multi-monitor control room set associated with BCTV to life.

The BCTV Television Centre, which is a purpose-built TV building at Enterprise Street in the Lake City Industrial Park, houses its oft-imitated newsroom-multi-monitor control room set.

Having been launched in a Metal year, BCTV (CHAN-TV) is a force in the television industry.

This Metal element represents BCTV (CHAN-TV), not just in television's heavy and hardware-driven nature, but in its physical industrial park location that houses its newsroom-as-set trend.

Using its hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, BCTV fused together both the old and new guards of the local/regional television news industry across North America, influencing CNN.

For Ray Peters, BCTV's innovative hybrid newsroom-control room studio, which he co-conceived with Cameron Bell and Ernie Rose, paralelled the open area for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway.

Incidentally, Today (NBC) is the television program of which BCTV's Ray Peters was an avid viewer.

Upon its June 1, 1980 launch, CNN used its BCTV-inspired hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, which serves as the DNA for 24-hour television news.

BCTV, incidentally, juxtaposed CBS (bullpen, Robert Wussler, Daniel Schorr, Bernard Shaw and Sam Zelman) with NBC (NewsCentre, Mary Alice Williams and Jim Kitchell), all used by CNN.

Specifically, this hybrid layout used by BCTV/CNN is a bustling, print-style bullpen operating inside a massive, high-tech monitor matrix.

Modern 21st-century news sets do not leave the CBS, NBC and BCTV/CNN philosophies behind; they instead use digital technology to merge and evolve them into flexible ecosystems.

The names of the made-up crossover films, all echoing the innovative BCTV hybrid newsroom-control room studio design that CNN popularized, include The Front Page meets the Future.