Former Rome bureau mugg, Mark Thomas, resurfaces
We were pleased to received an e-mail from former Rome office scribe, Mark Thomas,who filed from 1987 through June 1990, when he left Variety to join UNICEF in Ethiopia.
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Ron Holloway
Longtime Variety Berlin stringer Ron Holloway passed away in a Berlin hospital on Dec. 16 after a seven-year bout with cancer. His wife, actress Dorothea Moritz, was by his side to the end. He was 76.
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Remembering Ron
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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Remembering Daily Variety’s Will Tusher
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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Just for Army Archerd
Excerpts from the Variety reporters’ hit columns
by ARMY ARCHERD
Jan. 9, 1959 | View PDF
GOOD MORNING: Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher were very much in L.A. last night, champagne-toasting each other at Chasen’s, when the Mirror-News headlined she was a patient at Menninger’s clinic in Topeka. Miss T’s comment on the false yarn: “THIS I’m not going to take sitting down. Watch out!”
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