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    Director Peter Care, formerly of bicoastal/international Satellite, has joined bicoastal Bob Industries….Los Angeles-based Palomar Pictures has teamed with IFILM, also in Los Angeles, to create Palomar Showcase, a co-branded, IFILM-hosted Web site featuring Palomar-provided short films, music videos, commercials and original interactive content….The board of U.K.-based Quantel has successfully completed a management buyout from former owner Carlton Communications, also headquartered in the U.K. The purchase price was $76.7 million. The Quantel management team consists of executive chairman Richard Taylor; research director Paul Kellar, operations director Dale Fry, marketing director Nigel Turner, commercial director Chris Whiteley, sales director Martin Mulligan and finance director Ian Cooper. A designer and manufacturer of digital image processing and manipulation products for video and film, Quantel has a product line that includes Henry, Infinity, the Paintbox family and Editbox FX….The identity of the fourth fatality in the tragic helicopter crash on June 22 that claimed the life of director Paul Giraud (SHOOT, 7/7/00) has been confirmed. It was copter pilot Christopher Guichon, 42, of Merritt, B.C. As earlier reported, also killed in the accident were first assistant camerman Mikael Glattes and grip Ivan Weber…..Director Molly O’Brien has come aboard bicoastal WildLife Management….Editor Len Smalheiser, formerly of New York-based Cabana, is joining Boomtown, New York….Chicago-based post house Swell Pictures has added editor Joe Otting who comes over after three years at BBDO Chicago where he was a producer/editor….Massimo Martinotti of Miami Beach-based Mia Films, has been named president of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers’ Florida chapter….

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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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