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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By MICHAEL GOLDMAN

(One of the foreign sellers who attended that seminal La Costa meeting, Michael Goldman became the American Film Market’s first V.P. of Finance and eventually its president and chairman. He remains active in the organization on its Finance and Market Advisory Committee.)

Hy Hollinger certainly has been involved with and interested in the Hollywood-based International film sellers going back to the origins of our American Film Market and its Umbrella Organization the American Film Marketing Association now renamed IFTA, the Independent Film and Television Alliance
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By ROBERT MARICH

(Robert Marich lives in the NYC suburbs with wife and Variety ex-alumnus Marie Silverman Marich. He is author of “Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook” in its second edition with SIU Press. From 1989 to 1997, he worked in various editorial capacities at the Hollywood Reporter, including business editor and international editor.)

When Hy Hollinger joined The Hollywood Reporter in 1992, I was international editor and remember his arrival well.
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By DON GROVES

(Former bureau chief of Variety‘s Sydney office, Don Groves spent several years in the publication’s London office covering the international film business. He resides in Sydney.)

I met Hyho soon after I joined Variety in 1981, succeeding the esteemed Miha (Mike Harris) as Sydney bureau chief, and quickly came to regard him as a friend, valued colleague and mentor.
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