Thanks to Mort Bryer, we are able to offer you all this charming bit of Memorabilia which he caught on his TV set in Connecticut, and which his son, Peter, was able to transmit to us. In it all the ex-muggs can catch a heretofore unknown (to us, at least) glimpse of what the old office on 46th Street looked like back in 1943.
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Following are some of the tidbits we have culled from various muggs over the past few days:
Mark Adams now writing for Screen International in London… Deborah Young just finished her fourth stint as director of the Taormina Film Festival in southern Italy. She’s also still writing reviews for The Hollywood Reporter… Sandy Campomanes has shifted to a job with a new mag, Interior Design… John Dempsey ankled Variety about two years ago after umpteen years on the sheet, but we have no info where to locate him now… Todd McCarthy is now writing for the Indie Wire website, a film industry and filmmaker resource for independent and documentary film news, film festivals and awards. He’s no longer connected to Variety… David Stratton was recently a member of the Grand Jury at the Karlovy Vary film festival. “It was good to relax with an undemanding program in summer weather plus lots of delicious Czech food,” he writes us. David may be coming through Madrid at the end of August.
Ted Clark still living in his idyllic village on the French Riviera. He writes us that his only activity, other than keeping the village bistros in profit, is on the committee of an association that a few years back established a medicalised bi-lingual retirement home for the numerous foreigners who live in the south of France and for local French oldies who fancy an international atmosphere…
Jim Robbins checked in and said he’s no longer with “Fed”, whatever company that was… Liz Guider has been editor of The Hollywood Reporter for three years, and sez it’s been “interesting, fun, challenging, exhausting, and humbling”. She attended Cannes last May, and caught glimpses of some of the former muggs… Liz writes that Jack Loftus retired from Nielsen about three years ago, but no one seems to know his present whereabouts… Jay Blickstein touched base with us; he is now managing editor of Broadcasting & Cable… Pat Watkins is moving house next month, but plans to remain in Birchington, the charming English seaside village where she lived so many years with Roger.
We were pleased to received an e-mail from former Rome office scribe, Mark Thomas,who filed from 1987 through June 1990, when he left Variety to join UNICEF in Ethiopia.
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Longtime Variety Berlin stringer Ron Holloway passed away in a Berlin hospital on Dec. 16 after a seven-year bout with cancer. His wife, actress Dorothea Moritz, was by his side to the end. He was 76.
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by Jack Kindred
Early in 1970, I received the go-ahead from Variety‘s editor, Abel Green, to become the paper’s stringer in Hamburg. During one of my trips to Paris to check out the turf scene at the local racetrack, I decided to look up Gene Moskowitz, the Variety correspodent in Paris. Hearing that I was living in Hamburg, he suggested I look up Ronald Holloway, a fellow film buff whom he had met at the Cannes festival. I did, and that was the beginning of a friendship that lasted for 39 years and eventually changed my life.
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