The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
Hitched, Hatched, Hired
Inside the industry’s celebrations and news
Weddings Yesenia Martinez,
a CAA commercial endorsements agent, married Arash Taghavi, a cardiologist in Beverly Hills, on Oct. 28 at the Montage Los Cabos.
Births
Hillary Povar, chief creative officer and executive vp at Smithhouse Strategy, and husband Dirk Levinsohn welcomed Autumn Everly Levinsohn on Dec. 24 in Santa Monica.
Congrats
Michael Auerbach, Jeff Hynick, Kimberly Jaime, Ryan LeVine and Peter Sample were named partners of law firm Jackoway Austen on Feb. 1.
Dwayne Johnson was appointed to the board of directors of TKO, the public company that owns the WWE and UFC, on Jan. 23.
Emily Castel was tapped Feb. 1 as chief marketing officer of Colossal, a de-extinction company that is entering the entertainment space.
Silver Tribe Media, the management and production venture founded by former CAA agent Michael Klein, hired Jen Simons as chief content officer and Lagen Nash as chief revenue officer Jan. 29.
Laura Franco was named executive vp and general counsel for MSG Entertainment and Sphere Entertainment on Feb. 1.
John Matts was named COO of Hallmark Media on Jan. 25.
Tiffany Moore joined Done and Done Productions as head of production Jan. 22.
Vanessa Bendetti was appointed vp and head of motion picture and entertainment at Kodak on Jan. 24.
Deaths
Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in Rocky films and in such other projects as Predator, Happy Gilmore and The Mandalorian, died Feb. 1 in Los Angeles. He was 76.
Don Murray, who got an Oscar nomination for playing a rodeo cowboy in Bus Stop, died Feb. 2 in Goleta, California. He was 94.
Chita Rivera, who commanded the Broadway stage for more than a half-century, died Jan. 30 in New York. She was 91.
Mark Gustafson, the stop-motion specialist who won an Oscar for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, died Feb. 1. He was 63.
Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk band MC5, died Feb. 2 in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer. He was 75.