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.

Jennifer Pendleton

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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Besa cranks out another tome

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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Gullible’s Travels, or Hyho, Hyho, it’s off to cannes we go

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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