Ron Gilbert Dies: TV & Film Producer And David Susskind’s Partner In Powerhouse Talent Associates Ltd Was 87

EXCLUSIVE: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science (AMPAS) will kick off the New Year celebrating emerging Israeli filmmakers and talent with a virtual film fest.

EXCLUSIVE: WGA West executive director David Young has acknowledged that he told WME partner Rick Rosen that he “should kick his ass” during a heated phone call in August, but denied that he ever threatened to “kill” him, as Rosen alleged in a declaration filed in federal court last month.

Robert Werden, a longtime film industry publicist who handled the Academy’s Oscars publicity for 18 years, has died. He was 94. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said he died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home but didn’t provide the date.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterGersh Agency principle David Gersh has voiced his support for CAA’s position on the role of talent managers in the agency’s larger fight with the Writers Guild of America.In a declaration filed Friday in federal court in Los Angeles, David Gersh asserts that WGA West executive director David Young told him that the guild would continue to ask talent managers to help find jobs for writers in order to keep the pressure on CAA and WME, the two largest agencies that

Dale Sheets, a television pioneer and a manager for some of the top names in music, died on Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure at age 91. His death was confirmed by longtime family friend and former business associate Rob Wilcox.

LOS ANGELES -- Actor David L. Lander, who played the character of Squiggy on the popular ABC comedy “Laverne & Shirley,” has died after a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis, his wife said.

Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the powerhouse independent production company Talent Associates, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said. He was 87.

EXCLUSIVE: The Gersh Agency is adding veteran talent agent Daisy Wu to its partner ranks. It is one of several promotions at the talent agency which is expanding its talent department with five assistants being upped to coordinators on both coasts.

David L. Lander, who played Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman for all eight seasons of the popular ABC sitcomLaverne & Shirley, has died.

David Lander, who was best known for playing Squiggy on the beloved sitcom Laverne & Shirley, has died at the age of 73. Lander died of multiple sclerosis, which he battled for the past 37 years.

Laverne & Shirley, has died aged 73.His death was confirmed to Variety by his family, who said the actor died on Friday night (December 4) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.Lander’s cause of death was due to complications related to multiple sclerosis, which he had been battling for 37 years.

Known to sitcom fans as one half of greaser duo Lenny and Squiggy on “Laverne & Shirley”, David L. Lander has passed away at age 73.

David Lander, who was best known for playing Squiggy on the beloved sitcom Laverne & Shirley, has died at the age of 73.

Janet W. Lee Actor David Lander, best known as Squiggy on the ABC sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” died Friday evening at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Variety has confirmed.

David Lander, the actor best known as “Squiggy” on the long-running Laverne & Shirley television show, has died. He was 73 and passed Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications related to multiple sclerosis, which he battled for 37 years.

Los Angeles Times, Sheehan had been battling cancer for years and passed awat on Tuesday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center from complications of a stroke he suffered last week.Coined the “Dean of Hollywood Entertainment Reporters,” Sheehan was a founding member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (now Critics Choice Association).Sheehan started his career and broke ground as the first entertainment interviewer and reviewer on Los Angeles television when he joined CBS in 1970.