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    Tracy Hauser is exiting her post as exec. producer at Sony Pictures Entertainments commercial division, Pavlov Productions, Culver City, Calif. She will be succeeded by Pavlovs head of production, Paul Kawasaki….Director Bill Scarlet has come aboard bicoastal OneSuch Films….Shadowrock Productions, Beverly Hills, Calif., has launched a satellite shop, Film Neutron, to serve as a home for up-and-coming commercial filmmakers….Director/animator Julia Tortolani has joined Wild Brain, San Francisco….Director/cameraman Chris Woods has signed with Atlas Adrenaline, Santa Monica….Director David Rosen has left Chicago-based Manarchy Films and is directing informally through New York-based TAG Pictures, according to TAG executive producer Jim Golden….Janusz Kaminski, DP on such films as Saving Private Ryan, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad and Schindlers List, is again available to direct commercials exclusively through Chelsea Pictures, New York. At press time, Kaminski was wrapping production on his feature directorial debut, Lost Souls, starring Winona Ryder, scheduled to be released in August by New Line Cinema. An Oscar winner for Schindlers List, Kaminski is no stranger to the advertising arena, having shot spots for directors Michael Bay and David Kellogg of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films….

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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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