Remembering Army

By MIKE MALAK

army-archerd Army was one of the meekest, quietest staffers at the Daily. When he would take his copy into Tom, something he did personally unlike most other writers he would stand still, never sitting, while Tom read and edited his copy though the edits were more in the nature of paragraphing and transpositions. I never saw Tom get out a heavy pencil when he read Army’s work. Tom would nod to him and Army would take the copy back to deliver it to the City Desk which would send it for typesetting, in the latter days at the in-house Photographics Unit headed by Steve Smith formerly of California Offset Printing.
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Remembering Army

By FRANK SEGERS and HY HOLLINGER

Army Archerd, that assiduously private, gentle-natured Hollywood columnist, was at his death the most publicly-known Variety / Daily Variety figure since Abel Green, the Weekly’s legendarily gregarious former editor who commanded the show biz universe for decades from his front-window perch on West 46th Street.
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Army Archerd dies at 87

Variety columnist was with publication for 52 years

by TIMOTHY M. GRAY

Army Archerd, whose 52-year run as a Daily Variety columnist made him unique among showbiz reporters, died Tuesday in Los Angeles of a rare form of mesothelioma cancer, thought to be the result of his exposure to asbestos in the Navy during WWII. He was 87.
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Frank Beerman

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.