The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
Hitched, Hatched, Hired
Inside the industry’s celebrations and news
Weddings
Homeland actress Mickey O’Hagan married Randall Rothenberg, a former New York Times columnist and media reporter and current executive chair of global trade association IAB, on Oct. 1 at the Century Association in Manhattan.
Births
Lauren Roseman Schwartz, senior vp late night and specials communications at NBC, and Michael Schwartz, director of product strategy at Moody’s Corp., welcomed Jesse Elliott Schwartz on Sept. 19. Screenwriter Elyse Hollander and John Zaozirny, a producer and head of management company Bellevue Productions, welcomed Lily Katherine Zaozirny on Aug. 30 at Cedars-Sinai.
Congrats
Krista Smith was promoted to head of publishing at Netflix on Nov. 7.
Jessica Sibley was tapped as CEO of Time magazine, effective Nov. 21.
Former Universal and StudioCanal exec Isabelle Stewart was named head of original content for Formula 1 on Nov. 9.
Lulu Wang, Patrick Gaspard and Shripriya Mahesh were added to the Sundance Institute board of trustees Nov. 10.
Nasim Cambron
was hired as executive vp worldwide publicity at Lionsgate on Nov. 7.
Keren Shahar was promoted to CEO of Keshet International, effective Jan. 1.
Deaths
Leslie Phillips, the British actor who was in Carry On movies, Out of Africa and Empire of the Sun and voiced the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter films, died Nov. 7 in London. He was 98.
Kevin Conroy, the prolific voice actor who defined Batman for generations starting with Batman: The Animated Series, died Nov. 10 of cancer in New York. He was 66.
Fred Hickman, who anchored sports shows for CNN, the YES Network and ESPN, died Nov. 9 of cancer in Kissimmee, Florida. He was 66.
Gallagher, the watermelon-smashing comic, died Nov. 11 in Palm Springs. He was 76.
John Aniston, the father of Jennifer Aniston who portrayed the ruthless Victor Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives, died Nov. 11. He was 89.
Budd Friedman, who founded the original Improv in New York in 1963 and gave early career breaks to Jay Leno, Bette Midler and Richard Pryor, died Nov. 12 in Los Angeles. He was 90.