Allan Mayer, former managing director of Sitrick and Company, is becoming a Los Angeles-based partner at the Dart Group, whose New York founding partners are Leslee Dart, Robert Garlock, Amanda Lundberg, and Cynthia Swartz. The Dart Group is changing its name to 42West. As head of the firm's L.A. office Mayer will establish a new strategic communications division to service the needs of the entertainment industry. Also leaving Sitrick to join Mayer in the new division is Kelly Mullens. The prospect of working with Dart and her colleagues was "irresistible," Mayer said. Since opening its doors just two years ago, the Dart Group has burgeoned in size, now employing some 36 staffers in offices in New York and L.A. Its clients include producers Brian Grazer and Scott Rudin and many top directors. Mayer worked closely with Dart, Grazer and Howard doing crisis PR on A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code.
- 10/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Liza Burnett has been named executive vp at the Weinstein Co., Bob and Harvey Weinstein, to whom she'll report, announced Friday. Burnett, who spent the past six years at Dan Klores Communications, will be based in New York, where she will head domestic publicity, including oversight of all PR staff and the company's extensive film roster, for the Weinstein Co. and its genre label, Dimension Films. Burnett, who joins the company Sept. 12, steps into the position held by Amanda Lundberg at the Weinsteins' previous company, Miramax Films. Lundberg resigned from Miramax in May to partner with Leslee Dart, Cynthia Swartz and Robert Garlock in a new, New York-based publicity company (HR 5/4).
- 8/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood has a new PR combine. Publicity mavens Cynthia Swartz and Amanda Lundberg said Tuesday that they are leaving Miramax Films to partner with Leslee Dart at Dart's 6-month-old New York-based consulting PR firm. Currently called the Dart Group, it will be renamed. Robert Garlock, Dart's longtime colleague at PMK/HBH, also is joining the new PR venture as partner. While Swartz's and Lundberg's moves had been expected, Garlock called his PMK/HBH boss Pat Kingsley with the news Tuesday morning. Dart was fired by Kingsley in November after long-simmering differences over PMK/HBH's corporate direction. Dart will be chief executive officer of the new PR firm. Swartz and Lundberg will run its entertainment marketing unit, while Garlock will run the talent division. Swartz and Garlock will begin immediately at Dart's new offices at 90 Park Ave.; Lundberg is on maternity leave and will join the firm in the summer at the end of her Miramax contract.
Ethan Hawke's spokesman is furiously denying reports of romance with a young model, following suggestions the Training Day star was cheating on wife Uma Thurman with fellow actress Angelina Jolie. The actor and author is filming Taking Lives in Montreal, Canada, and newspapers speculated he was romancing sexy co-star Jolie, following publication of pictures apparently showing the pair kissing in the Tomb Raider star's trailer. But American tabloid The National Enquirer is insisting Ethan has been conducting a relationship with 22-year-old model Jen Perzow. However, Hawke's spokesman Robert Garlock insists Pulp Fiction beauty Thurman - who is also in Canada filming her latest effort Paycheck - is very much still Ethan's lady, and denies all reports of a split. He says, "They've been spending every weekend together, so the idea of another woman sounds ridiculous to me." When pressed for comment by the National Enquirer, Perzow simply said, "I have no comment."...
- 8/10/2003
- WENN
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