Dave Robb, who spent more than four decades on the Hollywood labor beat for The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and, most recently, Deadline, has died. He was 74.
Robb died peacefully Friday night at his Los Angeles home after being diagnosed in late October with inoperable cancer of the brain stem, Deadline reported. (Deadline, like THR and Variety, are owned by Penske Media Group.)
He spent most of his last year covering the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
A dogged investigative journalist in his day, the gruff yet genial Robb started at THR as an editorial assistant in 1979, the first of his five stints with the paper. On Facebook, former editor Alex Ben Block wrote that he hired him twice and “rarely gave Dave an assignment. Usually he came to me with stories out of the blue that were amazing, brilliant and breaking news.
“I just want to add what a true original he was,...
Robb died peacefully Friday night at his Los Angeles home after being diagnosed in late October with inoperable cancer of the brain stem, Deadline reported. (Deadline, like THR and Variety, are owned by Penske Media Group.)
He spent most of his last year covering the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
A dogged investigative journalist in his day, the gruff yet genial Robb started at THR as an editorial assistant in 1979, the first of his five stints with the paper. On Facebook, former editor Alex Ben Block wrote that he hired him twice and “rarely gave Dave an assignment. Usually he came to me with stories out of the blue that were amazing, brilliant and breaking news.
“I just want to add what a true original he was,...
- 12/9/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor Jason George was a few years into his career when he secured his first starring role in a movie. It was the early 2000s, and he’d been cast as a co-lead in a mountain climbing flick called The Climb. He was excited for the prospect of a break until he walked into a trailer one day and saw a white man “wearing my wardrobe, my helmet, my climbing harness, and they’re putting makeup on him to make him look like me.”
George, who is Black, was stunned.
George, who is Black, was stunned.
- 7/28/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The onscreen exploits of stuntwomen, and their off-screen battles for fair and equal treatment, is explored in Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, a new documentary from director April Wright for Shout! Studios that debuts September 22 on digital platforms.
Narrated by Fast & Furious franchise star Michelle Rodriquez and based on Mollie Gregory’s 2015 best-seller, the film chronicles the lives of women who perform the stunts in some of Hollywood’s biggest action sequences — from the early days of silent movies to today’s blockbusters. The producers are Stephanie Austin, Michael Gruskoff and Marion Rosenberg.
“These unheralded heroines are the generations of stuntwomen who risked their lives in front of the camera, while behind it they fought for equal rights with male stunt performers, battled sexism and harassment, sustained life-threatening injuries and returned to the fray after each battle,” the producing team said in a joint statement.
Ben Mankiewicz, film historian...
Narrated by Fast & Furious franchise star Michelle Rodriquez and based on Mollie Gregory’s 2015 best-seller, the film chronicles the lives of women who perform the stunts in some of Hollywood’s biggest action sequences — from the early days of silent movies to today’s blockbusters. The producers are Stephanie Austin, Michael Gruskoff and Marion Rosenberg.
“These unheralded heroines are the generations of stuntwomen who risked their lives in front of the camera, while behind it they fought for equal rights with male stunt performers, battled sexism and harassment, sustained life-threatening injuries and returned to the fray after each battle,” the producing team said in a joint statement.
Ben Mankiewicz, film historian...
- 8/3/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Keshet Studios is prepping The Stuntwoman, a limited series based on the book of the same name by Julie Ann Johnson and Deadline’s David Robb. The project, about Johnson, a pioneer for women stunt performers and one of Hollywood’s first whistle-blowers, hails from Israeli writer-producer Guy Nattiv and his actress-producer wife Jaime Ray Newman who won the Live Action Short Film Oscar earlier this year for Skin, directed and co-written by Nattiv.
Nattiv is writing and set to direct The Stuntwoman limited series, which tells the true story of Johnson who in the ‘70’s became one of the first female stunt coordinators in Hollywood. Johnson battled Hollywood’s ‘glass ceiling’; she took on the stunt community’s ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ and she fought the most powerful and vindictive man in the television industry –Aaron Spelling. It wasn’t David vs Goliath; it was David vs three Goliaths.
Nattiv and Newman executive produce the project,...
Nattiv is writing and set to direct The Stuntwoman limited series, which tells the true story of Johnson who in the ‘70’s became one of the first female stunt coordinators in Hollywood. Johnson battled Hollywood’s ‘glass ceiling’; she took on the stunt community’s ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ and she fought the most powerful and vindictive man in the television industry –Aaron Spelling. It wasn’t David vs Goliath; it was David vs three Goliaths.
Nattiv and Newman executive produce the project,...
- 1/9/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Nancy Lieberman attending the 2010 Hollywood Stuntwomen's Awards luncheon.Photo copyright by Koi Sojer / PR Photos. Natascha Hopkins attending the 2010 Hollywood Stuntwomen's Awards luncheon.Photo copyright by Koi Sojer / PR Photos. Camille Winbush, Nancy Lieberman, Pam Grier and Lindsay Wagner attending the 2010 Hollywood Stuntwomen's Awards luncheon.Photo copyright by Koi Sojer / PR Photos. Julie Ann Johnson and Lee Meriwether attending the 2010 Hollywood Stuntwomen's Awards luncheon.Photo copyright by Koi Sojer / PR Photos. Mechelle Epps attending the 2010 Hollywood Stuntwomen's Awards luncheon.Photo copyright by Koi Sojer / PR Photos. 10/17/2010 - Tanika Ray - 2010 Hollywood Stuntwomen's Awards Luncheon - Skirball Cultural Center - Los Angeles, CA, USA © Koi Sojer / PR...
- 10/20/2010
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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