The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
Hitched, Hatched, Hired
Inside the industry’s celebrations and news
Weddings
Film and TV publicist Taylor Vowell married Verizon executive producer Chase
Levi on May 20 at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, followed by a honeymoon in Italy. Births
Antonia Gray, senior vp publicity for eOne and Sierra/Affinity, and husband Andrew Tovstein welcomed
Theodore “Teddy” Gray Tovstein on March 5.
Julie Rapaport, head of movies creative and strategy at Amazon and MGM Studios, and writer Greg Levine welcomed Otis Rapaport Levine on April 11 at CedarsSinai Medical Center. Congrats
NBC Sports group chairman Pete Bevacqua departed June 8 to become Notre Dame athletic director in 2024.
Strategist-producer Roger Mancusi was tapped as the new membership consultant at Metrograph on June 8.
Former Sundance Institute director of documentary films and artists programs Carrie Lozano joined ITVS as president and CEO on June 7.
Melissa Morkus was appointed senior vp physical production for FilmNation Entertainment on June 1.
ABC News tapped Brooke Brower as executive producer of This Week With George Stephanopoulos and named Kendall Heath, who served as interim EP of This Week, as executive producer of politics.
Veteran entertainment attorney Hillary Bibicoff joined Pierce Law Group on June 1.
Elan Closs Stephens was named acting chair of the BBC, effective June 27.
Tomorrow Studios upped Alissa Bachner to executive vp development and named Josh Bratman head of features June 5.
Sofía Vergara’s Latin
World Entertainment promoted Tatiana Castro to vp content and partnerships June 2.
Tim Griffin was tapped as executive director of the Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry, effective June 20. Deaths
Hossein Khosrow Vaziri, the Iranianborn wrestler known as “The Iron Sheik” who built a career as one of the most despised ring villains of his era, died June 7 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 81.
Pat Cooper, the brash stand-up whose anger real and imagined fueled a long career in comedy, died June 6 in Las Vegas. He was 93.
Paul Eckstein, who produced Hoodlum and co-created the Epix/MGM+ drama
Godfather of Harlem, died June 6 in Jamaica. He was 59.
Noreen Nash, a 1940s and ’50s starlet who appeared in The Southerner, Giant and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, died June 6 in Beverly Hills. She was 99.
Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial Italian media mogul and prime minister, died June 12 of leukemia in Milan. He was 86.
Bob Rice, who teamed with Journey to release a groundbreaking rock music video game and represented composers like Steve Ouimette, Sascha Dikiciyan and Inon Zur, died June 7 in Santa Clara, California. He was 79.
Peter Meyer, who represented Tom Hanks, James Caan and William Shatner as a William Morris talent agent before spending the past 30 years leading his own management firm, died May 14 in Los Angeles. He was 68.