Bicoastal Curious Pictures has added in-house rep Diana Mandelare who will focus on East Coast sales and national marketing and publicity initiatives. Mandelare was previously with NY-based design and animation studio Valins&Co. where she was director of strategy and new business for over two years. She has also worked on the independent side of sales representing visual effects companies, live action directors, and music and sound design. Mandelare will be based in Curious’ NY office and will work in conjunction with independent reps Mary Eiff and Michelle Stuart of Hello Tomorrow….Carolyn Hill, president of Carolyn’s Office in NY, announced the addition of freelance producer Amanda Rosenberg as an integrated sales agent. During the past eight years, Rosenberg has had the opportunity to work in a wide variety of companies and production environments including a number of advertising agencies. Within the ad world Rosenberg held a position for two years with The Kaplan Thaler Group and has freelanced as a producer for The Joey Company, Nickelodeon Creative Advertising and most recently with Ataboy Studios, a New York City based animation / graphics house. Carolyn’s Office represents Blind, Warren Kushner of K Films, Red Car New York, Rhythm + Hues, Jerry Simpson of SFI Productions, Th1ng and Th2ng. Rosenberg will assist Hill in procuring branded projects for the companies represented. Projects will include commercials, web content, and business to business solicited from advertising agencies and clients directly….
Stage and Film Actor Tony Roberts Dies At 85
Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies โ often as Allen's best friend โ has died. He was 85.
Roberts' death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter, Nicole Burley.
Roberts had a genial stage personality perfect for musical comedy and he originated roles in such diverse Broadway musicals as "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967); "Sugar" (1972), an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot," and "Victor/Victoria" (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film. He also was in the campy, roller-disco "Xanadu" in 2007 and "The Royal Family" in 2009.
"I've never been particularly lucky at card games. I've never hit a jackpot. But I have been extremely lucky in life," he write in his memoir, "Do You Know Me?" "Unlike many of my pals, who didn't know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school."
Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the 1966 Woody Allen comedy "Don't Drink the Water," repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" (1969), for which he also made the movie.
Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were "Annie Hall" (1977), "Stardust Memories" (1980), "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987).
"Roberts' confident onscreen presence โ not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane โ was the perfect foil for Allen's various neurotic characters, making them more funny and enjoyable to watch," The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.
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