Veteran William Morris agent, Larry Auerbach, who ended his career helping USC students make connections with people in the film and TV industries, died Saturday. He was 95.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Auerbach spent 47 years as an agent at William Morris, where he started part-time in the mailroom. While there, he was known as “the man with the golden rolodex,” securing Elvis Presley’s first TV performance, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke and Sammy Davis, Jr.
He went on to represent Alan Alda, Bea Arthur and Aaron Spelling and helped create and package The Cosby Show, which he recalled in a 2003 interview with the Television Academy.
After he left the William Morris Agency, he was considering going into producing, but USC came calling, hoping to use his expertise to help students break into the entertainment industry.
“There was a little story in the paper that I was leaving William Morris,...
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Auerbach spent 47 years as an agent at William Morris, where he started part-time in the mailroom. While there, he was known as “the man with the golden rolodex,” securing Elvis Presley’s first TV performance, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke and Sammy Davis, Jr.
He went on to represent Alan Alda, Bea Arthur and Aaron Spelling and helped create and package The Cosby Show, which he recalled in a 2003 interview with the Television Academy.
After he left the William Morris Agency, he was considering going into producing, but USC came calling, hoping to use his expertise to help students break into the entertainment industry.
“There was a little story in the paper that I was leaving William Morris,...
- 11/24/2024
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spoiler Alert! This story contains plot points from Monday’s episode of NCIS.
NCIS on Monday paid its final respects to star David McCallum, who died September 25 at the age of 90.
A fan favorite, McCallum was the last remaining original cast member on NCIS, in which he played an eccentric but highly efficient investigator Donald “Ducky” Mallard for two decades.
As heavily teased in the promos, the episode dubbed “The Stories We Leave Behind” opened with Jimmy Palmer arriving at Ducky’s house to find his mentor — dressed in his monogrammed jammies — dead in his bed, with his sweet corgi looking forlorn in the foyer.
Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries
“Dying quietly in your sleep isn’t the worst way to go,” comments Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) back at the NCIS offices, after wrapping up a call with Scottish parliament...
NCIS on Monday paid its final respects to star David McCallum, who died September 25 at the age of 90.
A fan favorite, McCallum was the last remaining original cast member on NCIS, in which he played an eccentric but highly efficient investigator Donald “Ducky” Mallard for two decades.
As heavily teased in the promos, the episode dubbed “The Stories We Leave Behind” opened with Jimmy Palmer arriving at Ducky’s house to find his mentor — dressed in his monogrammed jammies — dead in his bed, with his sweet corgi looking forlorn in the foyer.
Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries
“Dying quietly in your sleep isn’t the worst way to go,” comments Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) back at the NCIS offices, after wrapping up a call with Scottish parliament...
- 2/20/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Although Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" did not make the shortlist of 15 films under consideration for the best documentary Oscar, it is among the nominees for the DGA's doc award, announced Friday.
"Waltz" will compete with Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains," in which survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash tell their story; Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's "The Judge and the General," a look back at the investigation into the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; Peter Gilbert & Stevie James' "At the Death House Door," an examination of the wrongful conviction of a Texas man executed for murder; and James Marsh's "Man on Wire," a study of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit.
All the nominees are first-time DGA nominees, with the exception of Gilbert (who won the DGA's doc award in 1998 for "Vietnam: Long Time Coming" and was...
"Waltz" will compete with Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains," in which survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash tell their story; Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's "The Judge and the General," a look back at the investigation into the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; Peter Gilbert & Stevie James' "At the Death House Door," an examination of the wrongful conviction of a Texas man executed for murder; and James Marsh's "Man on Wire," a study of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit.
All the nominees are first-time DGA nominees, with the exception of Gilbert (who won the DGA's doc award in 1998 for "Vietnam: Long Time Coming" and was...
- 1/9/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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