THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 33 AUGUST 21, 2019
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Inside the industry’s celebrations and newsWeddings
Dwayne Johnson
married music pro-
ducer Lauren Hashian
in Hawaii on Aug. 18.
The couple began
dating in 2007 and
have two daughters.ICM Partners liter-
ary agent Andrew
Murphy married
Tiffany Mui at
Zorvino Vineyards
in New Hampshire
on June 29. The
couple will honey-
moon in Indonesia.Births
Alex Hedlund, a
principal at pro-
duction banner Eat
the Cat, and wife
Sophia Hedlund, an
executive at Netflix,
welcomed daughter
Akira Khazee
Hedlund on July 27
at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in
Los Angeles.Congrats
Alexis Martin
Woodall was tapped
president of Ryan
Murphy Productions
on Aug. 16.Eric Green was
upped to president
of BWR and Sunny
Jenkins was named
chief growth officer
Aug. 14.Mass Media tapped
Stephanie Ceccarelli
to launch its enter-
tainment division
Aug. 15.Participant Media
promoted Jeannine
Ta n g to general
counsel Aug. 14.Jack Whitaker, an
erudite CBS and
ABC sportscaster
for more than a
half-century, died
Aug. 18 in Devon,
Pennsylvania. He
was 95.Piero Tosi, the Italian
costume designer
who was the first of
his craft to receive
an honorary Oscar,
died Aug. 10 in Rome.
He was 92.Samuel Gelfman, who
produced Caged Heat
for Roger Corman,
died Aug. 15 in Los
Angeles. He was 88.Patricia Louisianna
Knop, who wrote
9½ Weeks with late
husband Zalman
King died Aug. 7 in
Santa Monica. She
was 78.Birgit Nutter, wife
of Game of Thrones
director David
Nutter, died July 24
in Santa Monica of
pancreatic cancer.
She was 56.1 Tiffany
Mui and
Andrew
Murphy
2 Akira
Khazee
Hedlund
3 Edward
Lewis231Power Dining
Stacey Snider sat for
breakfast at Milo & Olive.
... Lionel Richie was at the
lobby bar at the 1 Hotel
West Hollywood. ... Reese
Witherspoon lunched at
Summer of Ludo and Gilles
at Montage Beverly Hills.
... Mark Canton was at
Catch L.A. ... Steve Martin
checked out Porta Via
Beverly Hills for breakfast.
... Chris Harrison cel-
ebrated Sarah Hyland and Bachelorette
alum Wells Adams’ engagement at Angler.
... John Burnham sat with Liz Glotzer and
Laura Gordon at Mr Chow. ... Over in New
York , Justin Theroux, Julianne Moore
and Sarah Jessica Parker were at Pastis.
majority of the country Thomas
Middleditch is the dorky guy in
the Verizon ads. “Not everybody
has HBO,” he tells THR. “But
everybody watches [sports] and
sees me during the commercials.”
The 37-year-old actor-comic
admits it’s “a little weird” being
famous for peddling a 4G LTE
network but says he’s learned to
accept it. “As long as it’s not, ‘Hey,
it’s the Verizon guy, now hold still
while I punch you in the face,’
I’m OK with it,” he says. As for
saying goodbye to Silicon Valley,
he describes it as a bittersweet
career moment (he’s already
claimed a memento, a Piper vs.
Hooli foosball table). “It’s nice
that it’s not a situation where
the show is being canceled. The
story is coming to an end. That’s
a very fortunate thing in the land
of television.”
RichieSniderSethiAyala and ShynSarah Shyn, a talent
manager at 3 Arts
Entertainment,
married Gabriel
David Ayala, co-
owner of Enovative
Group, on June 22
at The Hollywood
Roosevelt. They hon-
eymooned in Rome,
Sorrento and Paris.Simran Sethi was
tapped executive vp
development and
content strategy at
ABC Entertainment
on Aug. 13.Deaths
Edward Lewis, who
defied the Hollywood
Blacklist to employ
Dalton Trumbo on
Spartacus and shared
an Oscar nomina-
tion with his wife,
Mildred Lewis, for
producing Costa-
Gavras’ Missing,
died July 27 in Los
Angeles. He was 99.Richard Williams, the
three-time Oscar-
winning animator
known for his work
on Who Framed Roger
Rabbit, died Aug. 16
in Bristol, England.
He was 86.