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Hospitality businessman Stephen Cloobeck launches California governor bid

Cloobeck, 63, said he once believed he’d become a doctor, maybe a heart surgeon. But he changed his mind his senior year of college at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, he said, and came back to California after graduation. He took accounting classes at Cal State Northridge and night courses in business at UCLA. He began working for companies in the shopping center development industry and ultimately started his own business. -- Los Angeles Daily News

Hospitality businessman Stephen Cloobeck launches California governor bid

Cloobeck, 63, said he once believed he’d become a doctor, maybe a heart surgeon. But he changed his mind his senior year of college at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, he said, and came back to California after graduation. He took accounting classes at Cal State Northridge and night courses in business at UCLA. He began working for companies in the shopping center development industry and ultimately started his own business. -- Redlands Daily Facts

10 Things You Possibly Didn’t Know About Doug Emhoff

Born in New York and raised in New Jersey and California, Emhoff earned his B.A. from California State University, Northridge, and his J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. From 2017 to 2020, Emhoff was a partner at the firm DLA Piper, where he was based out of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. According to an official bio, Emhoff “is a highly experienced litigator and strategic advisor” who represented “large domestic and international corporations and some of today’s highest profile individuals and influencers in complex business, real estate, and intellectual property litigation disputes.” -- Vogue Magazine

Teri Garr, Star of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79

Born in Ohio, she moved to Los Angeles, graduated North Hollywood High School, and attended Cal State Northridge before moving to New York to study acting. Starting out as a go-go dancer, she can be seen shimmying behind the performers in filmed rock concert “The T.A.M.I. Show” and in six Elvis Presley features, most choreographed by her mentor David Winters. During the 1960s, she had bit parts on sitcoms including “That Girl,” “Batman” and “The Andy Griffith Show.” -- Variety

Teri Garr, Comic Actress in Offbeat Roles, Is Dead at 79

At her mother’s insistence, she briefly attended California State University, Northridge, in Los Angeles. But when she began to earn serious money from television commercials, she left college. She was already appearing in film, mostly in uncredited dancing roles; by the end of 1964 she had been in four Elvis Presley movies, including “Fun in Acapulco” and “Viva Las Vegas.” -- The New York Times

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