Word is that director David Kellogg has exited bicoastal/international Propaganda Films and joined 8Media, the bicoastal shop formed by Propaganda founder/former chairman Steve Golin…. Bicoastal Cohn+Company is now representing directors Olivier Venturini, Martin Bell and Mark Raymon Bennett; they join a roster that includes Paul Goldman and Paul Cade….Director Rupert Wainwright, formerly repped for spots via now defunct Pavlov Productions, has signed with Santa Monica-based Windmill Lane Productions. Wainwright is well versed in commercials and longform; he directed last year’s box office hit, Stigmata….Director P.E. Goldman, who helms spots via Aussie house 8 Commercials, has joined Ritts/Hayden, Los Angeles, for stateside spot representation….Dublin Productions, Hollywood, has added director Walter Pawluk….Film industry veteran Jack Lechner has joined bicoastal/international @radical.media to head its motion picture division. Lechner comes over from Miramax Films, where he was executive VP, production and development.…Director Glenn Miller has signed with Life of Riley, Pacific Palisades, Calif., for exclusive commercial representation. The deal formalizes a working relationship he’s had with the company as a freelancer since ’98….Bicoastal Coppos Films and executive producer Bill Reilly have parted ways….Denise Minter has been promoted to VP of production at Palo Alto, Calif.-based animation/visual effects studio Pacific Data Images (PDI). She will oversee production for PDI’s feature animation and its commercial and feature effects divisions. Minter previously served as senior producer for PDI’s commercial division….Noreen Szeluga is the new executive producer at Chicago-based Big Deahl Productions; she was formerly executive producer at Peter Elliott Productions, Chicago….Meanwhile, former Big Deahl executive producer Alan Sadler told SHOOT he is weighing his options, and plans to remain in production, possibly in the broadband arena….Citing the pressures of running a production company, veteran director Eric Young is closing his 12-year-old Minneapolis-based shop, Young & Company. While he decides his next course, Young will be available to work through Voodoo Films, Minneapolis….Editor Bill Marmor, formerly of Crew Cuts West, Santa Monica, has joined TrailHead, Santa Monica….Longstanding, New York-based Sutcliffe Music & Sound Design has relaunched itself as Wax Music & Sound Design and formed an alliance with Multi Video Group, the New York-headquartered parent to several production/post-related businesses….Smythe & Company, New York, has signed composer Tony Prendatt….Ivan Bernstein, best known for his tenure at The Post Group during the ’80s, died last month of AIDS at his home in Miami. He was 45. From ’83 to ’88, Bernstein oversaw operations at The Post Group, Hollywood. In ’88, he helped the company launch its Orlando, Fla. facility at Walt Disney World. (The Post Group has since pulled out of that Fla. operation.) Bernstein is survived by his parents and a sister….
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