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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Robert ( Bob ) Chandler, former Variety radio and tv reporter and one of the creator’s of “60 Minutes”, the CBS “newsmagazine”, died on Thursday (Dec. 11), at his home, in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 80 years old and died of heart failure, according to his son, Doug.
Chandler worked for Variety in the late 50’s, early 60’s and was hired by MGM, as a p.r. director, for its tv division. In 1963, he joined CBS and helped create “60 Minutes”, which is still on the air, after more then 40 years.
Chandler was born in Brooklyn, served in the U.S.Army and is survived by his wife and two sons.
John Madden, longtime administrative assistant to legendary Variety editor-in-chief Abel Green and a legit theatre reporter for the Weekly, died Sept. 10 at Memorial Regional South Hospital in Hollywood, Florida.
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We were saddened to learn that long-time Miami-based Variety stringer, Jack Zink, recently passed away. Variety ran the following obit on August 18:
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Longtime Chicago bureau chief Morry Roth passed away on June 11 in Chicago of lymphoma. He was 82. According to the Variety obit, Roth originated the term “happy talk” to describe the breezy news format made popular by Chicago’s Channel 7, and was one of the first reporters to seriously cover cable TV.
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