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    Word at press time was that Propaganda Films commercial division is NOT officially part of the proposed deal whereby USA Networks, under the aegis of Barry Diller, would acquire assets of Polygram Filmed Entertainmentaincluding specialty feature film distributor Gramercy Picturesafrom Seagram Cos. Universal Studios. If it comes to fruition, the transaction would also entail Universal selling its majority stake in another specialty distributor, October Films, to USA Networks. Reportedly, USA and Universal are close to reaching an agreement in principleA.Bicoastal Manifesto has signed a pair of directors: Geoff McGann, who comes over from A Band Apart Commercials, bicoastal and Minneapolis, and Jeff Mishler, who was formerly repped nationally by San Francisco-based Complete Pandemonium…..West Hollywood-based Peter Nydrle Productions has hired 20 year production veteran Tony Basile as executive producer; Basile comes over from West Hollywood and London-based Tony K., where he had most recently served as senior producer….Directors Ron Fricke and Hans Bjerno, and exec. producer Mike Brady have departed Atlas Pictures, Santa Monica, and are about to surface in their own ventureA. Shareholders of Autodesk (Nasdaq: ADSK) and Discreet Logic (Nasdaq: DSLGF) voted to approve the acquisition of Discreet Logic by Autodesk in special meetings held by both companies.The deal was expected to close at press time….Pinnacle Systems (Nasdaq:PCLE), has completed its acquisition of Truevision….

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    Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    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

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