by Jack Kindred

Early in 1970, I received the go-ahead from Variety‘s editor, Abel Green, to become the paper’s stringer in Hamburg. During one of my trips to Paris to check out the turf scene at the local racetrack, I decided to look up Gene Moskowitz, the Variety correspodent in Paris. Hearing that I was living in Hamburg, he suggested I look up Ronald Holloway, a fellow film buff whom he had met at the Cannes festival. I did, and that was the beginning of a friendship that lasted for 39 years and eventually changed my life.
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by MIKE MALAK

WILL TUSHER’S sig was tush a nom de plume that no doubt tickled Will, a veteran of the Hollywood Reporter where sigs were unknown. Tusher had a ribald sense of humor so the double entendre, clearly, was not lost on him.
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by MORRIE GELMAN

Along with Marie Silverman, I sat opposite Army Archerd in an out-of-the-way office space in the L.A. office of Variety for several years in the late 1980s. I watched him at work every day. Given a sort of Rorschach test seeking a word association with Army, I’d immediately say, “Reporter!” The exclamation point really should be an extraordinary point. From 10 to 6 most weekdays I watched Army report ceaselessly, indefatigably.
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