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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After many years of research, Peter has finally managed to get out his new book about Madrid’s oldtime inns. The new tome is monickered “A History and Anecdotes of the Inns of Old Madrid“, and is now on sale in major outsets in Spain, including major bookshops and department stores.
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On December 31, Hy Hollinger ended a 36-year trade journalism career, perhaps the longest and most influential in modern-day show biz.
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By MICHAEL SILVERMAN
(Great Grandson of Variety founder Sime Silverman, Michael Silverman is the former publisher of Daily Variety.)
Hy Hollinger has to be just about the most durable, productive and respected entertainment trade reporter of the past two centuries (he’s spanned both). My best information is that he toiled at Variety from the mid-’50s into the ’60s as a 20-something scribe, and then was recruited into the Hollywood studio publicity machine for the better part of two decades.
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By ROBERT MEYERS
(A founding member and first chairman of the American Film Market, Bobby Meyers is a veteran of Village Roadshow Pictures, Orion Pictures Int’l. and Odyssey Entertainment. At the time described below, he was president of foreign sales for Lorimar Pictures International. He is currently a consultant to film buyers in Australia, Greece, Singapore, Turkey and Japan and a board member of the International Film & Television Alliance, the AFM’s parent organization.)
I am happy that (Simesite) is doing this article on Hy. He was perhaps the greatest supporter of the independent companies for many years. He certainly gave important coverage to all of my activities at Lorimar and our events at the company’s La Costa facility (located in Southern California), whichin fact lead to the creation of the AFM.
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