MORRIE GELMAN, having just watched the baseball World Series, succumbed to a little nostalgia about an unlikely band of sporting brothers.
ONCE WHEN I WAS INTERVIEWING producer Dan Curtis he made me take a vow. He was then executive producer-director of Herman Wouk‘s War and Remembrance, the 18-hour 1988 miniseries for ABC. It was a credit he wasn’t likely to mumble.
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Seen as Talmadic reference for show biz
AMONG THE COGNOSCENTI, VARIETY RULED THE ARGOT
By Jack Zink, Theater Writer, Florida Sun-Sentinal
October 9 2005 – Variety, the entertainment trade journal known as the Bible of Show Business, turns 100 on Dec. 16.
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Frank Meyer tells us via email: “Mikki and I drove about an hour and a half north of us in New York State yesterday (Sept 10) to the late Jane Barton’s memorial service at her Windy Hill Tree Farm north of Schoharie.
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Academy Trade Paper Collection Named for A. D. Murphy
Highly placed among Variety’s legendary figures, A.D.Murphy (Murf.) was the sheet’s best ever numbers guy. Now he’s been officially recognised by Hollywood for his years of calling the game at the daily.
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/// Word in from Doug Galloway who just visited with Joe X. Price, his longtime friend, former Variety mugg and confidante of Jim Harwood .
Joe underwent life threatening colon cancer surgery July 11 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He’s recovering, albeit slowly. Says Doug: “He asked me to tell the Sime’s site gang that it won’t be long before he’s back at his typewriter. I took him to lunch today . . . “