Gary Auerbach has been tapped as exec veep of development and programming for Wilshire Studios, formerly known as Comcast Entertainment Studios. He will report to Steve Dolcemaschio, prexy of the…
Reality shingle Go Go Luckey has made key promotions within its senior management team to accommodate the departure of co-founder and partner Gary Auerbach to Wilshire Studios. Go Go Luckey…
Ask Jane Fonda about getting her hands and feet immortalized in concrete at the Chinese Theater and the thesp says, "I'm very excited; I was hoping this would happen before I died."
George Jones, the "King of Broken Hearts" whose honky-tonk balladry defined the highest level of emotion-wracked country singing, died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He…
Stuart Kleinman, who served as VP at ICM and headed Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures, died April 22 in New York of a heart attack. He was 57. Kleinman was an enthusiastic film lover who attended NYU film…
Throaty-voiced thrush Shamshad Begum, one of Bollywood's earliest singers, died on April 23 in Mumbai, India. She was 94 and had been ailing for some time. Before Lata Mangeshkar put her stamp on…
Allan Arbus, who ran a photography business with his wife Diane Arbus before becoming an actor who starred in “MASH,” died April 19 in Los Angeles. He was 95. His daughter Amy (pictured above)…
Folk singer Richie Havens, perhaps best known for his marathon opening set at Woodstock, died on Monday in New Jersey after suffering a heart attack in his home. He was 72. A Brooklyn native, Havens…
Reality shingle Good Clean Fun has hired Matthew Wrablik as veep of development. Wrablik's background in unscripted includes posts at Mark Burnett Prods., Merv Griffin Entertainment and ITV Studios…
In the latest of a series of announcements marking its preparations to launch a new cable-news outlet in 2013, Al Jazeera America has hired Andrea Stone and Tony Karon as senior online executive…
