Director Martin Canellakis has joined bicoastal/international hungry man. He comes over from bicoastal Coppos Films, where he had been represented first as part of the Marty+Brian directorial duo, and then as an individual helmer after he and Brian Aldrich each decided to go solo late last year (SHOOT, 12/3/99, p. 1). Aldrich continues to direct spots via Coppos Films….The directing team of Adam Cameron and Simon Cole, a.k.a. Joe Public, is staying put at bicoastal Headquarters, having recently finalized a new contract….Director Ra’uf Glasgow has joined Dublin Productions, Hollywood….Director/cameraman David Len, has signed with Marina del Rey, Calif.-based Metro Pictures…. Envision It, a Miami-based house recently formed by executive producer Alana Rothlein, has signed director Chi Chi Zhang for spot representation….Publicly traded, Burbank-headquartered Four Media Company (4MC), has acquired SVC Television, a London post/visual effects/design facility, for approximately $5.3 million….Executive producer Michael Pollock is exiting Version2 Editing (formerly Vito DeSario Editing), New York, to pursue a career as a convergence and broadband consultant. Pollock will be replaced by Linda Rafoss, former Ogilvy & Mather, New York, senior producer/partner….Tim Larson heads a newly formed group, DownStream LLC, which has just bought Portland-Ore.-based post house DownStream from direct response agency The Tyee Group, Portland. The deal comes shortly after Euro RSCG Worldwide’s acquisition of a majority stake in Tyee. Larson, who was VP of Downstream the past four years, will take over as the facility’s president and general manager….
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More