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Bob Simon

Remembering Bob Simon

Thu, 02/12/2015 We're sad to hear that CBS News correspondent Bob Simon died in a car crash yesterday in Manhattan, NY. Simon was 73 years old. He began working at CBS News in 1967 and was soon offered a position in CBS' London Bureau. Simon reported on the conflicts in Northern Ireland, and later covered the Vietnam War from Saigon in 1971-72. He also covered the Yom Kippur War, the Portugal Colonial War, and Anwar Sadat's assassination. He moved to the State Department in 1981, served as a national...
Sanford Socolow

Remembering Sanford Socolow

 Tue, 02/03/2015 We're sad to learn that CBS News producer Sanford Socolow passed away on Saturday, January 31, 2015 in New York City at the age of 86. Socolow worked for the International News Service (INS) in the early 1950s as a Far East Correspondent and started his work at CBS in the mid-50s, writing for Ned Calmer for the morning news and for Walter Cronkite on Eyewitness . Socolow enjoyed a long association with Walter Cronkite, which culminated in Socolow serving as the final executive producer of CBS...
Tony Verna

Remembering Tony Verna

 Tue, 01/20/2015 We're sad to learn that director Tony Verna passed away from acute leukemia on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at the age of 81. Verna broke into the business in local television at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, where he worked on the local show Big Top and the original version of American Bandstand , then titled Bandstand . Verna is best known for his groundbreaking invention - the instant replay for sporting events - which he created in the wake of the Kennedy Assassination for the 1963 Army/Navy...
H. Wesley Kenney

Remembering H. Wesley Kenney

 Tue, 01/20/2015 We're sad to learn that director/producer H. Wesley Kenney passed away on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at the age of 89. Kenney trained at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and broke into television as a director at the DuMont Television Network in the early 1950s. He learned camera work on the early DuMont shows Morning Chapel , Life Is Worth Living (featuring Bishop Fulton Sheen), Magic Cottage and Funny Bunny (popular children's shows), Night Beat (Mike Wallace's breakthrough interview show...
Sid Smith

Remembering Sid Smith

 Thu, 01/15/2015 We're sad to learn that director Sid Smith passed away on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at the age of 93. Smith started out directing television commercials and soon became an AD on Eddie Condon's Floor Show and Your Hit Parade . He directed and/or produced The Jimmy Durante Show , Wide Wide World , and The Bell Telephone Hour , and enjoyed a seventeen-year association with Bob Hope, directing his television specials. Smith also directed several variety/award shows, including the Miss USA and Miss...
Brandon Stoddard

Remembering Brandon Stoddard

 Sun, 12/21/2014 We're sad to hear that Executive Brandon Stoddard passed away today, December 22, 2014, at age 77 after a long battle with cancer. Stoddard entered the workforce in the advertising industry, first at BBD&O and later at Grey Advertising. He soon transitioned to television, becoming the Director of Daytime Programming at ABC, where he scheduled the groundbreaking and award-winning ABC Afterschool Specials and the pop culture classic Schoolhouse Rock . He was appointed to Vice President of...
Joseph Sargent

Remembering Joseph Sargent

 Sun, 12/21/2014 We're sad to learn that director Joseph Sargent passed away this morning at the age of 89 in Malibu, California. Sargent directed episodes of Lassie , Gunsmoke , The Man From U.N.C.L.E . , and the now-classic "The Corbomite Maneuver” episode of Star Trek . He directed the films "The Taking of Pelham 123" and "Jaws: The Revenge," and worked with Hollywood screen legends James Cagney ( Terrible Joe Moran ) and Elizabeth Taylor ( There Must Be A Pony ). Sargent worked with Stanley Kubrick in the...
Arthur Gardner

Remembering Arthur Gardner

 Sat, 12/20/2014 We're sad to hear that producer Arthur Gardner passed away yesterday, December 19, 2014, at the age of 104. Gardner got his start in the entertainment industry working as an extra at Universal, landing a role in the acclaimed film "All Quiet On the Western Front." He worked at the Hal Roach Studio with the first Motion Picture Unit during World War II and later formed Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions with two friends he met through the Motion Picture Unit. He produced many classic TV series in...
Ann Marcus

Remembering Ann Marcus

 Wed, 12/03/2014 We're sad to hear that writer Ann Marcus passed away on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at the age of 93. Marcus began her career as a "copy girl" at The New York Daily News and later became a reporter/researcher at Life Magazine . She broke into television-writing on The Hathaways , Camp Runamuc k, and Please Don't Eat the Daisies , and soon tried her hand at soap opera-writing on Peyton Place , Love is a Many Splendored Thing , and Days of Our Lives . She co-created and co-executive produced (...
Stephen J. Cannell

Why We Love An Underdog: Stephen J. Cannell

 Fri, 11/21/2014 Stephen J. Cannell : writer, show creator ( The Rockford Files , The A-Team , 21 Jump Street , The Greatest American Hero ), and dyslexic. School was always rough for him, but that didn't stop him from a career as a scribe: And as for how his dyslexia affected his writing: "I always kind of viewed myself as a underdog because of my learning difficulties. I always viewed myself as somebody who had to try a little harder and go the extra mile to even be average because of my learning disability...