Hitched, Hatched, Hired

Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

2022-01-26 -

Weddings

Lindsay Dale, assistant manager of corporate communications at UTA, married Matthew Honig, West Coast sales team lead at XpertHR, on Oct. 2 at Rancho Valencia Resort in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The couple honeymooned in Hawaii.

Births

Christina Malach, a senior development executive at Amazon, and Ben Jacobson, a manager at TFC Management, welcomed Maxwell Julian Jacobson on Nov. 29 at Cedars-Sinai in

Los Angeles.

Congrats

Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland promoted Alison Eakle to chief content officer and Chris DiIorio to chief marketing officer Jan. 20.

Warner Bros. communications veteran Scott Rowe launched PR firm SRowe2000 Media on Jan. 21.

Gill Austin was upped to vp and creative director of creative production at Adult Swim on Jan. 24.

Former Brillstein Entertainment rep Shawna Wexler joined the Sugar23 management team Jan. 19.

Former HBO exec Len Amato was named chief content officer of MasterClass on Jan. 18.

Lindsay Wagner was named UTA’s first chief diversity officer Jan. 18.

The Recording Academy hired Jennifer Jones as executive vp legal affairs Jan. 19 and John Loken as executive vp marketing Jan. 21.

Caroline Kusser

was named head of international co-productions for France’s Mediawan and Germany’s Leonine Studios on Jan. 20.

Disney+ exec Joe Earley was tapped as president of Hulu on Jan. 19.

Deaths

André Leon Talley, the influential fashion journalist and former editor-at-large of U.S. Vogue who also had stints at Women’s Wear Daily, W and The New York Times, died Jan. 18. He was 73.

Thierry Mugler, the avant-garde French fashion designer famed for his extravagant runway shows and for dressing the likes of Grace Jones, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Céline Dion and Kim Kardashian West, died Jan. 23 of natural causes in Vincennes, France. He was 73.

Mace Neufeld, the producer who backed all five movies based on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan CIA analyst, died Jan. 21 in Beverly Hills. He was 93.

Meat Loaf, the rock star behind the Bat Out of Hell albums who also acted in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fight Club, died

Jan. 20. He was 74.

Carol Speed, who appeared in the blaxploitation-era films The Mack, Black Samson and Abby, died Jan. 14 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was 76.