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09.06.2024 - 02:39 / deadline.com
Colleagues and friends gathered today at the Motion Picture & Television Fund to celebrate the life of venerable Deadline labor reporter David Robb who died in December at age 74.
There were many stories, “Dave-isms” and great impersonations of the gravelly-voiced journalist in speeches from people who had worked with him or spent countless Friday poker nights together.
Robb’s passion for poker was front and center at the event, put together by Robb’s widow Kelly Robb, where the round tables were decorated as poker tables. They also were adorned with books from David Robb’s personal library for attendees to take home. (The ones left, as well as the flower centerpieces are being donated to the MPTF.)
One of the “Dave-ism” coined at the Friday poker nights was literally called “The Dave,” which the gang called the nine in a deck of cards, with the hearts one called “The Dave of Love.”
The terminology found its way into popular culture via Aaron Sorkin, who used it on both The West Wing and Sports Night, as one of his longtime poker friends, Reese Thomas, noted.
“He was irreplaceable and we will miss him but his legacy will live on as the Dave of Love,” he said.
The event’s emcee, author and former journalist Bill Knoedelseder, as well as former Hollywood Reporter editor Alex Ben Block knew Robb both as a colleague and poker buddy.
“Dave was a fierce poker player but he had no peer as a reporter,” Knoedelseder said. “His brain was constantly afire, and he lived to find sh*t out. He was my idol.”
Ben Block reminisced how Robb was the only reporter he never had to assign a story to as he always had great pieces he dug up and executed himself.
He also pointed out that many take a job at the trades as a stepping stone to
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