The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
Hitched, Hatched, Hired
Inside the industry’s celebrations and news
Weddings Dempsey Marks,
a public relations professional, married Jonathon Buckley, a Tasmanian actor and host, in Rockport, Massachusetts, on Aug. 23, followed by a celebration in Los Angeles on April 20.
Births
Jennifer Sims, director of publicity at imPRint, and Sam Resnik, director at Echo Design Group, welcomed Scarlett Blake Resnik on
Dec. 26 in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Congrats
Former Hallmark Media CEO Wonya Lucas joined Comcast’s board of directors April 15.
Jeff Boone was tapped as vp scripted development for Fremantle on
April 19.
Jane Wiseman was appointed head of U.S. television for Sister on April 10.
Skydance Sports named Nancy Cotton executive vp television, Danette Trosclair executive vp production and Sandino Moya-Smith senior vp feature films April 10.
Chris Brearton joined the Russo brothers’ AGBO company as partner April 15.
Paramount Advertising promoted
Ryan Briganti to head of sports April 16.
Nirokhi Raychaudhuri was named senior vp feature film at New Regency on April 11.
Donald Franklin was tapped as CEO of creative agency Crown + Conquer on April 10.
Deaths Eleanor Coppola,
the matriarch of a Hollywood dynasty who won an Emmy for directing
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, died April 12 in Rutherford, California. She was 87.
Dan Goozee, the Walt Disney Imagineering artist and creator of posters for James Bond movies, died April 7 in West Hills. He was 80.
Meg Bennett, who did double duty as an actress and writer on The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and Santa Barbara, died April 11 of cancer. She was 75.
Barbara O. Jones, the L.A. Rebellion alum who starred in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, died April 16 in Dayton, Ohio. She was 82.
Dickey Betts, guitarist and Allman Brothers Band cofounder, died April 18 in Osprey, Florida. He was 80.
Jane Nefeldt, a WGA West executive for 35 years, April 16 in Hermosa Beach. She was 71.