By Peter Besas
It seems unreal that Rog is gone and that he is now the subject of my reminiscences on Simesite, the way Keith Keller and Jack Pitman were not so long ago. I spoke to Rog on the phone two weeks ago and well knew what was coming. Even so, the reality somehow always eclipses the expectation, no matter how much you prepare for it.
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by Peter Besas
After doing his military service, and following a stint working for Bernard Chevry’s MIP-TV organization, Roger joined Variety in London as a junior salesman. Upon the temporary retirement of Harold Myers as London honcho, Bob Hawkins, who had been bureau chief in Rome, took on the job as European manager in London (thereby making way for Hanka Werba to move from Madrid and take over the Rome operation.) When Hawkins took charge of the London office, Watt ankled the paper.
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In a 13th hour upset for the Simesite Oscar sweepstakes, it was learned today (Mar. 9) that former Athens stringer Samantha Stenzel, now based in Chicago, sent in her vote on March 3, but mistakenly sent it to an old e-mail address of Peter Besas, who never saw it. Sam also guessed eight of the categories correctly, and thus is a co-winner with the other three winners. Virginia Michie will be working on those plaques over the weekend, and we’ll be sending them out to the winners shortly. We definitely will add a few obscure categories for next year’s sweepstakes to prevent such ties in the future, and apologize for the brief hours of confusion.
Revised results:
8 – Meyer, Adams, Hollinger, Stenzel
7 – Silverman (Mike)
6 – Price, Watkins
5 – Besas, Torres, Segers, Marich
4 – Silverman (Mark)
2 – Michie, Bryer
Thanks to a suggestion made by Virginia and Larry Michie, we have done a switcheroo on the nature of the award to be given to the winner of the Simesite Oscar Sweepstakes.
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by PETER BESAS
It’s Oscar time once again, the third round on the Simesite. So all you film buffs, gamblers, hotshots, filmic psychologists, put on your thinking caps and send us your picks for what you think will be the winners of the Academy Awards for 2005.
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