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About Town<br />
Mileposts<br />
<strong>The</strong> Adventures of<br />
Tom Sawyer, died<br />
Jan. 31 in England.<br />
She was 90.<br />
2<br />
Ezra Swerdlow, the<br />
producer and production<br />
manager who<br />
worked on <strong>The</strong> King of<br />
Comedy, Zombieland<br />
and five Woody Allen<br />
films, died Jan. 23 in<br />
Boston of pancreatic<br />
cancer. He was 64.<br />
Weddings<br />
Jeffrey Kopp, supervising<br />
producer for<br />
<strong>The</strong> Late Late Show<br />
With James Corden,<br />
married Pamela<br />
Gibson on Dec. 23 in<br />
Kenilworth, Illinois.<br />
<strong>The</strong> couple first<br />
met while attending<br />
New Trier<br />
East High School<br />
in 1977 and found<br />
each other again<br />
while cheering for<br />
the Cubs in the<br />
2016 World Series.<br />
Births<br />
Yale Chasin, an agent<br />
in UTA’s Independent<br />
Film Group, and wife<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pargac family<br />
Hitched, Hatched, Hired<br />
Inside the industry’s celebrations and news<br />
Marissa Berman<br />
welcomed daughter<br />
Tovah Juliette Chasin<br />
on Jan. 6 at Cedars-<br />
Sinai Medical Center<br />
in Los Angeles.<br />
Farhana Pargac, head<br />
of strategy for UTA<br />
marketing, and husband<br />
Brian Pargac,<br />
co-executive producer<br />
on Bravo’s Flipping<br />
Out, welcomed son<br />
James August Pargac<br />
on Dec. 13 at Cedars.<br />
Congrats<br />
Tammy Golihew was<br />
named director of<br />
publicity at Amazon<br />
Studios on Feb. 5.<br />
Bunim/Murray<br />
Productions promoted<br />
Julie Pizzi<br />
to president of<br />
entertainment<br />
and development;<br />
Farnaz Farjam<br />
Chazan to senior vp<br />
entertainment and<br />
development; Sasha<br />
Alpert to executive vp<br />
entertainment and<br />
To submit, send email to hhh@thr.com<br />
development; Megan<br />
Sleeper to senior<br />
vp casting; and Ben<br />
Salter to senior<br />
vp development; and<br />
named Russell Jay<br />
vp entertainment and<br />
development Feb. 1.<br />
Nick Pepper will<br />
head Legendary TV<br />
when his contract<br />
with <strong>The</strong> Mark Gordon<br />
Co. ends May 31.<br />
1982-<strong>2018</strong><br />
Mark Salling<br />
1<br />
<strong>The</strong> Glee actor, 35, facing<br />
years in jail for child pornography,<br />
hanged himself Jan. 30<br />
T<br />
he death of Glee star Mark<br />
Salling — which came ahead<br />
of a March 7 sentencing<br />
date for pleading guilty Sept. 29 to<br />
keeping a vast trove of child pornography<br />
— will go down as one of<br />
the darkest downfalls in <strong>Hollywood</strong><br />
history. Salling, who for six seasons<br />
played the bully turned glee club<br />
member Puck on the Fox show, was<br />
expected to get between four and<br />
seven years for his crimes, discovered<br />
after a December 2015 raid on<br />
3<br />
Deaths<br />
John Mahoney,<br />
who played Kelsey<br />
Grammer and<br />
David Hyde Pierce’s<br />
irascible father on<br />
Frasier, died Feb. 4 in<br />
Chicago. He was 77.<br />
Louis Zorich, the<br />
husband of Olympia<br />
Dukakis who<br />
played Paul Reiser’s<br />
dad on Mad About<br />
1 Kopp<br />
and Gibson<br />
2 Tovah<br />
Juliette<br />
3 Swerdlow<br />
You, died Jan. 30 in<br />
New York. He was 93.<br />
Cyrus Yavneh,<br />
a producer on 24,<br />
Supernatural and<br />
It’s Pat: <strong>The</strong> Movie,<br />
died Jan. 25 of lung<br />
cancer in Santa<br />
Monica. He was 76.<br />
Ann Gillis, the former<br />
child star who starred<br />
in David O. Selznick’s<br />
his Sunland home recovered more<br />
than 50,000 digital photos and<br />
videos depicting child rape, some<br />
of the victims as young as 3. Salling<br />
also was to to pay $50,000 in<br />
restitution to any victim who came<br />
forward. (Now a lawsuit might be<br />
required to get a piece of Salling’s<br />
$1.91 million estate.) <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
questions as to why the actor was<br />
left unattended — especially after<br />
he had attempted suicide Aug. 22,<br />
Jeff Hunter, the<br />
agent who discovered<br />
and then repped<br />
Morgan Freeman<br />
for more than four<br />
decades, died Jan. 27 in<br />
New York. He was 91.<br />
Jay Curtis, who<br />
produced promo campaigns<br />
and managed<br />
CBS’ brand for more<br />
than 20 years, died<br />
Jan. 25 in San Diego of<br />
ALS. He was 67.<br />
Marge Rowland,<br />
a longtime accountant<br />
at Paramount<br />
and Warner Bros.,<br />
died Jan. 8 in Laguna<br />
Woods, California,<br />
of a heart attack. She<br />
was 68.<br />
cutting his wrists, according to<br />
TMZ, before being discovered by a<br />
roommate and rushed to a hospital.<br />
L.A.-based criminal attorney Mike<br />
Cavalluzzi, however, says “the court<br />
doesn’t have an affirmative duty” to<br />
safeguard a defendant from himself.<br />
Family members reported Salling<br />
missing the morning of Jan. 30 after<br />
they hadn’t heard from him since<br />
11:30 p.m. the previous day. Six<br />
hours later, after spotting his 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Infiniti M35 parked on a roadside,<br />
police found his body hanging from<br />
a tree in Big Tujunga Creek, a<br />
remote riverbed in the San Gabriel<br />
Mountains. — SETH ABRAMOVITCH<br />
← Salling died of “asphyxia by hanging,<br />
suicide,” the L.A. coroner said Feb. 1.<br />
KOPP: ANGELA GARBOT PHOTOGRAPHY. CHASIN: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. SWERDLOW: COURTESY OF ICM PARTNERS. PARGAC: ANGELICA MARIE PHOTOGRAPHY. SALLING: C. FLANIGAN/GETTY IMAGES.<br />
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER<br />
36<br />
FEBRUARY 7, <strong>2018</strong>
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