Ex mugg and film scribe Harlan Jacobson will again be winging to the Croisette in his yearly trek as film critic and founder of his and wife Susan’s “Talk Cinema” operation, which screens indie and foreign features for select audiences in cities such as New York, Chicago, Dallas, Scottsdale (Az.), Washington, D.C., Palo Alto (Calif.) and the Twin Cities.
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Please convey my condolences to Joya and Susan.
Being very young when I started at Variety, I had a lot to learn about publishing. Abie was always willing to give instruction or advice, and I learned more from him about production, then anyone else since. I am truly sad that he is gone, because there will never be anyone as willing to help or guide as Abie was.
Arlene Kadushin-Rosenstein
By FRANK SEGERS
(Or, can you get that damned quarter-page ad in the paper past deadline?)
Call me crazy if you wish – and many do, regularly – but it occurs that Variety publisher Syd Silverman never felt as comfortable or more at ease working with anyone at the old 46th St. office in Manhattan as he did with Abie Torres.
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By MORT BRYER
(former Advertising Manager of Variety)
I don’t recall Abie Torres every making an error, even while putting together some of those obese, nay, fat, 500 and 600 page issues.
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by PAUL ROSOVSKY
As a Variety newbie decades ago, I was lucky enough to come under Abie Torres’ generous wing (after he had come under Syd’s, Murray Rann’s and Jimmy Antinori’s) and learned more from him than I had learned in school. We toiled away on those gargantuan issues and got into our share of trouble in the off hours (the tale of the places the production manager of Screw got us into is another story).
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