Longtime TV critic for Daily Variety, Tony Scott, died Tuesday (July 7) in Los Angeles after several years of declining health. He had suffered a fall in June, striking his head. He was 85.
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Frank Beermann, former sports and television columnist for Variety, died May 21 in New York. He was 85.

At weekly Variety in New York, he was one of the first trade writers to cover the fledgling cable industry and covered the Moscow and Sarajevo Olympics for his Sports Channels column. He wrote for the trade newspaper Film-TV Daily in the 1960s and for Variety from 1971 to 1989.

Born in Brooklyn, Beerman lived most of his life in a walk-up in Greenwich Village.

He is survived by a daughter, Jane Stephens and a son, Luke, an exec at Dubai’s Rotana Television.

by MORRIE GELMAN

This is a remembrance I didn’t anticipate. I hate to write it. Other memorial essays I’ve contributed to this space were of contemporaries,  people retired, gone after a lifetime of achievements. Jennifer Pendleton, who died Jan. 26 of cancer, was only 56.
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Former Variety staffer James Melanson passed away on February 5 at Calvary Hospital in Brooklyn, following a four-year bout with brain cancer. He was 62.
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By Doug Galloway

Joe X. Price, a longtime entertainment industry writer who served as a music reporter for Daily Variety back in the 1960s, died December 30 at his home in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) of complications due to lung cancer. He was 81.
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