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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 36 FEBRUA RY 12, 2020

JONES: BRETT BUTTERSTEIN. SUN: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. REYNOLDS: KRISTIAN DOWLING/GETTY IMAGES. SAVISS: RENE ZADORI. WALLACH: COUR

TESY OF FOX. GIDDENS: COURTESY OF OWN. GORDON-LEVITT: ALBERT L. ORTEGA/GETTY IMAGES.

Weddings
Kristin Jones, head
of international
programming and
co-productions
at AMC, married
Comcast Ventures
investor Chris Hill at
a home in San Miguel
de Allende, Mexico,
on Feb. 1. The couple
honeymooned in
the Maldives.

Ramona Saviss,
THR senior editor
of events, married

David Moussighi,

founder and CEO

of United Life

Financial, on Jan. 8

at the Jonathan

Club in downtown

Los Angeles in front

of 280 guests. The

couple escaped (amid

awards season) for

a mini-moon in Los

Cabos, Mexico, and

will honeymoon in

Bora Bora.

Engagements

Facebook COO

Sheryl Sandberg got

engaged to ex-NBC

News producer To m

Bernthal on Feb. 1.

Births

Phillip Sun, partner

at WME, and Perri

Sun welcomed Quinn

Levi Sun on Dec. 21

at Cedars-Sinai

Medical Center in

Los Angeles.

Congrats

Bill Bost was upped to

president of Skydance

TV on Jan. 30.

Masami Yamamoto

was promoted to

president of business

operations at NBC

Entertainment on

Feb. 10.

Bad Robot’s Carlos W.

Williams was named

executive vp business

operations at Fox 21

TV Studios on Jan. 30.

Former Sony

Pictures Animation

vp Jenny Marchick

was named head

of feature develop-

ment at DreamWorks

Animation on Jan. 31.

Rian Johnson and

Ram Bergman’s

T-Street Studio added

Leopold Hughes and

Nikos Karamigios as

producers Feb. 3.

Allison Wallach was

hired as execu-

tive vp and head

of Fox Alternative

Entertainment on

Feb. 4.

Aubry Bracco was

hired as vp social

media and digital

marketing at Wise PR

on Feb. 5.

Siobhan Bachman

joined Michael

Eisner’s Tornante Co.

as head of develop-

ment Jan. 29.

Deaths

Orson Bean, the witty

panelist on To Te l l th e

Tr u t h who starred

on Broadway and on

Dr. Quinn, Medicine

Wom an, died Feb. 7

Wallach

Birthdays

1 Chris Hill

and Kristin

Jones

2 Quinn

Levi Sun

3 Gene

Reynolds

4 David

Moussighi

and Ramona

Saviss

2

3

1

when he was struck

by a car in Venice,

California. He was 91.

Robert Conrad, the

star of TV’s The Wild

Wild West, died Feb. 8

of heart failure in

Malibu. He was 84.

Gene Reynolds, the

director, producer

and writer behind

M*A*S*H and Lou

Grant, died Feb. 3 in

Burbank. He was 96.

Jane Milmore, who

wrote and produced

for Martin and The

Hughleys, died Feb. 4

in L.A. of pancreatic

cancer. She was 64.

Dyanne Thorne, who

starred in Ilsa: She

Wolf of th e SS, died

Jan. 28 of pancreatic

cancer in Las Vegas.

She was 83.

Douglas Knapp, a

camera operator and

cinematographer for

John Carpenter, died

Feb. 3 in Burbank of

pancreatic cancer. He

was 70.

Joy Sevilla, an enter-

tainment publicist,

died Jan. 29 in West

Hollywood. She

was 47.

Giddens

FEB. 12

Josh Brolin, 52

FEB. 13

Sophia Lillis, 18

FEB. 14

Danai Gurira, 42

Freddie Highmore, 28

Simon Pegg, 50

FEB. 15

Matt Duffer, 36

Ross Duffer, 36

FEB. 16

Elizabeth Olsen, 31

Jimmy Tatro, 28

FEB. 17

Michael Bay, 55

Joseph

Gordon-Levitt, 39 →

Jason Ritter, 40

FEB. 18

John Travolta, 66

Yoko O n o, 87

4

Jennifer Giddens

joined OWN as

head of marketing

Feb. 3.