By DON GROVES
Variety alumni David Stratton (Strat) has been remembered as a great educator, one of the last of the old guard of film critics and a passionate supporter of Australian cinema.
Sydney, Aug. 16, 2025
The following obit was sent to us by former Oz bureau chief Don Groves:
Beloved Variety alumnus, film critic, writer and educator David Stratton died on August 14 in a hospital near his home in the Blue Mountains, aged 85.
Madrid, Dec. 23
Simesite was saddened to leam that former mugg Frank Segers passed away in his home in Tucson, AZ on December 17.
(more…)The dean of Hollywood trade newspaper reporters on the labor beat for decades, David Robb, 74, died Dec. 8 of inoperable brain cancer at his Los Angeles home. He was a mugg who worked at Daily Variety for a decade starting in 1982 covering labor unions, legal (especially labor law) and employment matters.
