Muggs

Liz Guider into Editor slot at The Reporter

by PETER BESAS

Longtime Variety scribe Elizabeth Guider has been appointed Editor of the Hollywood Reporter in LA. Liz started as a trade reporter, mostly covering TV, when she was living in Rome and filed copy for then bureau chief Hank Werba. She subsequently moved on to London, and a few years after Cahners bought out Variety moved to L.A. to work with Peter Bart. She had been a staffer for 18 years with Variety, working as News Editor and assistant to Bart, and, lately, as “editor-at-large” (the nebulous title Tom Pryor was given before walking the plank).
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Condolences to Joya and Susan

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

Remembering Abie

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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