Gerald Lee Gronau, 61, passed away July 2, 2007, after battling prostate cancer.

Gerry was retired from his long career as a newspaper editor which included The Herald Examiner and Daily Variety. For the past several years Gerry and his wife, Cathy, managed a storage facility in Simi Valley.
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It grieved us to hear that former Managing Editor of Weekly Variety, Frank Meyer, passed away last Monday (Jan. 29) at the Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital due to fluid in his lungs and blood clots. He had been hospitalized since shortly before Syd Silverman’s birthday party on Jan. 13th.
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by PETER BESAS

We were grieved to learn of the death of Variety’s former Toronto-based bureau chief for Canada, Sid Adilman, last Saturday (Oct. 14).
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by PETER BESAS

Sadly we must add yet another obit to this webpage. It is for one of the longest-remaining Variety troopers, Norma Nannini, who passed away in New York on August 10th after a long illness. Norma had just turned 70.
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by PETER BESAS

Lyle Stuart, born as Lionel Simon in Manhattan, probably the oldest surviving ex-mugg, died in Englewood, N.J. on June 24th, aged 83. Stuart served a stint on the old Variety in 1946 as a cub reporter. After leaving the company he published a book called “God Wears a Bowtie” a thinly-veiled novel which uses its author’s experiences on the paper as the armature for a first-person assault on Abel Green’s venality. At the time the book came out, it supposedly was read “under the desks” on West 46th Street.
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