2019-10-16 The Hollywood Reporter

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 40 OCTOBER 16, 2019

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Cy Sullivan Levy

Weddings
Danielle Giserman,
vp digital marketing
at Focus Features,
married Michael
Nicoll, founder of
augmented reality
agency Blnk Digital,
on Aug. 31 at Mystic
Seaport in Mystic,
Connecticut. The
couple honeymooned
in Mo’orea and
Bora Bora.

Alexis March, junior
talent publicist at
Anderson Group
Public Relations,
married Zack
Kurzbard on Sept. 7
at Leoness Cellars in
Temecula, California,
in front of 120 guests.
They couple honey-
mooned in Greece.

Walk ing D ea d actor
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
married former One
Tr e e H i l l star Hilarie
Burton on Oct. 5. The
couple began dat-
ing in 2009 and have
two children.

Births

Jonathan Levy, a

television literary

agent at UTA, and

wife Jamie Levy,

director of brand

partnerships at Daily

Harvest, welcomed

son Cy Sullivan Levy

on Sept. 17 at NYU

Langone Hospital.

Ness Saban, vp busi-

ness development

at Saban Films, and

wife Brynn Saban

welcomed son Odin

Haim Saban on

Sept. 21 in L.A.

Lee Goforth, a music

agent at CAA, and

wife Maria DeRuccio,

a brand consult-

ing executive at CAA,

welcomed son

Club, died Oct. 6 of

a heart attack in

Fresno, California.

She was 73.

Joe Rice, who spent

nearly three decades

with Abrams Artists

Agency, died unex-

pectedly Sept. 7 in

Laguna Beach. He

was 61.

Sam Bobrick, who

created Saved by the

Bell, died Oct. 11 in

Northridge after a

stroke. He was 87.

Scotty Bowers,

whose explicit

best-selling 2012

memoir, Full Service,

revealed a covert

realm of Golden Age

Hollywood sexuality,

died Oct. 13 in Los

Angeles. He was 96.

Jay Frank, senior

vp global stream-

ing marketing at

Universal Music

Group, died Oct. 13 of

cancer. He was 47.

Leonardo Alfonso

Goforth on Sept. 10

at NewYork-

Presbyterian/Weill

Cornell Medical

Center in New York.

Congrats

Ivana Lombardi was

named director of

independent films at

Netflix on Oct. 14.

Sarah North was

appointed head of

Shopify Studios on

Oct. 2.

1 Danielle

Giserman

and Michael

Nicoll

2 Leonardo

Alfonso

Goforth

3 Karen

Pendleton

2

3

1

‘He had a very special

bunch of qualities,’

says pal David Lynch

O

ne of the fan theo-

ries swirling around

the Breaking Bad

universe is that Robert

Forster’s character (Ed,

vacuum repairman) was

an extension of the star’s

role in Quentin Tarantino’s

1997 film Jackie Brown

(Max, bail bondsman). “It’s

not true, but I love that,”

says Breaking Bad creator

Vince Gilligan. “Jackie

Brown is my favorite

Tarantino movie. I love that

character. You just want to

have a beer with him. I wish

Robert had a dozen more

like that.” Actually, he did.

Although Jackie Brown

earned Forster — who

died Oct. 11, premiere day

for El Camino: A Breaking

Bad Movie — his lone

Oscar nom, he played lots

of guys who seemed like

swell drinking buddies.

“His face, his voice, his

manner, his presence — he

had a very special bunch

of qualities,” notes David

Lynch, who in the late

’80s nearly cast Forster

as Sheriff Truman in Tw i n

Peaks. “He had promised

a friend he would make

his movie, so we went to

Michael Ontkean. But then

25 years later, Ontkean

couldn’t do the Twin Peaks

movie, so I went back to

Robert to play his brother.

It was fate.” Gilligan saw

special qualities as well.

“He always came across

as the salt of the earth,”

he says. “He couldn’t hide

that onscreen.”

Robert

Forster

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Robert Forster, 78, died from

brain cancer on Oct. 11.

Hitched, Hatched, Hired

Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

Botnick

Alec Botnick was

named head of

animation at CBS TV

Studios on Oct. 11.

Deaths

Karen Pendleton, an

original Mouseketeer

on The Mickey Mouse