With Halloween right around the corner, we’ve taken the liberty of using our collective celebrity-and-Halloween-costume-loving minds to scour the internet’s vast array of celeb-themed costumes — knowing full well that there are people out there who’ll buy anything — to unearth this list of 20 Celebrity Halloween Costumes We Can’t Believe Exist. From the hilariously non-topical to the “There’s a factory actually making these in 2011?” (that’s an adjective), here are 20 celeb-themed costumes we just couldn’t imagine anyone buying. Unironically, at least. As for ironically, well, we might have a 20-person celebrity group costume on our hands… All costumes are pulled from actual, active Halloween costume websites: 20. Jay Leno Team Coco, meet Team Excellent Costume-o. 19. Coolio You’ll be spending all your night living in a Halloween Paradise (of people being like, “Great Coolio costume!”) 18. Carrot Top “I’m pretending to be that comedian everyone actively dislikes,...
- 10/12/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
Richard Beckman, the former top sales executive for Conde Nast, on Tuesday was named CEO of e5 Global Media, a newly formed company whose assets include The Hollywood Reporter, AdweekMedia (which includes Adweek, Mediaweek and Brandweek) and Billboard.
Beckman resigned the same day from his current position as president of the Fairchild Fashion Group, Conde Nast's fashion B2B unit. A Conde Nast rep said she expects a replacement to be named soon.
Before moving to Fairchild in March, Beckman was president of the Conde Nast Media Group and chief marketing officer for Conde Nast Publications, where he shepherded high-profile, multiplatform advertising programs Fashion Rocks and Movies Rock.
In his 24-year career at the company, he also served as vp/publisher of Vogue, GQ and Conde Nast Traveler.
E5 acquired the brands from Nielsen Business Media on Dec. 31. The company was formed by Pluribus Capital Management and Guggenheim Partners. It's chaired by Jimmy Finkelstein,...
Beckman resigned the same day from his current position as president of the Fairchild Fashion Group, Conde Nast's fashion B2B unit. A Conde Nast rep said she expects a replacement to be named soon.
Before moving to Fairchild in March, Beckman was president of the Conde Nast Media Group and chief marketing officer for Conde Nast Publications, where he shepherded high-profile, multiplatform advertising programs Fashion Rocks and Movies Rock.
In his 24-year career at the company, he also served as vp/publisher of Vogue, GQ and Conde Nast Traveler.
E5 acquired the brands from Nielsen Business Media on Dec. 31. The company was formed by Pluribus Capital Management and Guggenheim Partners. It's chaired by Jimmy Finkelstein,...
- 1/12/2010
- by By Lucia Moses, Mediaweek
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Letter from THR's editor and publisher
e5 Global Media, a new company formed jointly by private equity partner Pluribus Capital Management and financial services firm Guggenheim Partners, is acquiring The Hollywood Reporter and seven of its sister publications from the Nielsen Co.
Management of the acquired brands and their staff members will begin to transition immediately. The acquisition, which is subject to normal terms and conditions, is scheduled to close by Dec. 31.
In addition to The Hollywood Reporter, the brands included in the sale by Nielsen Business Media are: Billboard, Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, Back Stage, Film Journal and the Clio Awards. e5 Global Media will also acquire the Film Expo business, which includes the ShoWest, ShowEast, Cinema Expo Intl. and CineAsia trade shows.
Pluribus was founded earlier this year by James Finkelstein, George Green and Matthew Doull to focus on acquiring and managing media properties with growth potential, particularly those...
e5 Global Media, a new company formed jointly by private equity partner Pluribus Capital Management and financial services firm Guggenheim Partners, is acquiring The Hollywood Reporter and seven of its sister publications from the Nielsen Co.
Management of the acquired brands and their staff members will begin to transition immediately. The acquisition, which is subject to normal terms and conditions, is scheduled to close by Dec. 31.
In addition to The Hollywood Reporter, the brands included in the sale by Nielsen Business Media are: Billboard, Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, Back Stage, Film Journal and the Clio Awards. e5 Global Media will also acquire the Film Expo business, which includes the ShoWest, ShowEast, Cinema Expo Intl. and CineAsia trade shows.
Pluribus was founded earlier this year by James Finkelstein, George Green and Matthew Doull to focus on acquiring and managing media properties with growth potential, particularly those...
- 12/10/2009
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
e5 Global Media LLC, a new company formed jointly by private equity partner Pluribus Capital Management and financial services firm Guggenheim Partners, is acquiring Back Stage, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and five of its sister publications from The Nielsen Company.Management of the acquired brands and their staff members will begin to transition immediately. The acquisition, which is subject to normal terms and conditions, is scheduled to close by Dec. 31.In addition to Back Stage, the other brands included in the sale by Nielsen Business Media are: The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, The Clio Awards, and Film Journal. e5 Global Media will also acquire the Film Expo business, which includes the ShoWest, ShowEast, Cinema Expo International and CineAsia trade shows.Pluribus Capital was founded in 2009 by James Finkelstein, George Green and Matthew Doull to focus on acquiring and managing industry leading media properties with high growth potential, particularly...
- 12/10/2009
- backstage.com
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