Ex-mugg to run Irish Film Board
Bord Scannán na hÉireann, otherwise the Irish Film Board, has tapped former Variety London staffer Simon Perry as chief exec. Simo, scrammed the London office to get into the British film biz, became a producer and wound up as head of British Screen, an outfit that part-financed ambitious European flicks.
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MORRIE GELMAN, having just watched the baseball World Series, succumbed to a little nostalgia about an unlikely band of sporting brothers.
ONCE WHEN I WAS INTERVIEWING producer Dan Curtis he made me take a vow. He was then executive producer-director of Herman Wouk‘s War and Remembrance, the 18-hour 1988 miniseries for ABC. It was a credit he wasn’t likely to mumble.
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Germany’s leading press agency chronicles our saga
MUGGS, MOGULS AND BIGWIGS
HIT BIG APPLE FOR BOFFO BASH
By Jack Kindred, Deutsche Press Agentur
New York – Sticks Nix Hick Pics, an eye-catching Variety banner headline over a story about how small-town audiences in the Depression era shunned movies set in rural locales is one of the most famous headlines in U.S. journalistic history.
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Seen as Talmadic reference for show biz
AMONG THE COGNOSCENTI, VARIETY RULED THE ARGOT
By Jack Zink, Theater Writer, Florida Sun-Sentinal
October 9 2005 – Variety, the entertainment trade journal known as the Bible of Show Business, turns 100 on Dec. 16.
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Not for the first time, folks, Sime’s sheet was news!
THE FIRST MEDIA COVERAGE of the old Variety reunion was published in the New York Times on Aug. 15 in a three-column article written by Lia Miller, which included a photo of Sime, one of Syd and one of the front page of the first issue of weekly Variety.
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