By FRANK MEYER
Morrie Gelman’s piece shook loose a memory of my own. It was the late ’60s and I was entertainment editor of the late Miami Beach Sun as well as a stringer for Variety. After taping an hour-plus interview with Leslie Bricusse, longtime collaborator with Tony Newley, we switched to playback and heard, as Syd would have said, “bupkes.”
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Show biz coverage part of her success story
Jane Barton, Variety’s Albany correspondent for 20 years covering the New York State capital and the state legislature, died April 1 at her longtime home at Windy Hill, Charleston in New York State’s Montgomery County. She was 86.
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He would rather have seen blood spilt
By MORRIE GELMAN
INTO THE LIFE OF EVERY REPORTER at least a few embarrassing moments must fall. Usually, for me, it’s falling prey to that time-honored boxing admonition of leading with my chin.
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By DON GROVES
Yes, as Besa reported here on Sime’s site I am ankling Variety : April 12 is my last day after a cumulative total of nearly 23 years with the paper: the last 12 in Oz, and before that five and a half years in London. In my first stint, succeeding Miha as the Sydney bureau chief, I logged five years. As Besa wrote, the powers-that-be have decided to shift the Asia-Pacific headquarters to Hong Kong. They said they can no longer afford to maintain the Sydney bureau after nearly 30 years.
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By BOB HAWKINS
The New Yorker (Nov. 29, ’04) tribute to the late Charles Schulz, the creator of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, reminded me of the long-ago time when I sort of “had dinner” with this genius.
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