FREEZE FRAME -- MARCH 2, 2015
At the Sundance Institute/Women in Film, Los Angeles “Women at Sundance” brunch in Park City, Utah (l. to r.): Pat Mitchell, CEO of the Paley Center and board chair, Sundance Institute; Keri Putnam, executive director, Sundance Institute; Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, currently starring in Netflix’s Grace and Frankie; and Cathy Schulman, president, WIF.
Host Michael Strahan (l.), Sue White and DirecTV CEO Mike White at DirecTV’s “Super Saturday Night” in Phoenix, held in conjunction with Super Bowl XLIX.
At the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail/Beaver Creek, Colo., (l. to r.) Dean Walker, senior vice president, production, Universal Sports Network; Tiger Shaw, president and CEO, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association; Picabo Street, two-time Olympic medalist and TV personality; Dennis Spencer, EVP, Lagardère Unlimited; and Rick Horrow, host of USN’s Beyond the Medals — the Business of Sport.
’s Black Tie Tailgate Gala (l. to r.): Justin Mathess and Kevin Blute, NBCUniversal; Cynthia Bailey of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta; Katie Green, Victoria Cianciulli and Shelly Leaf, Comcast Spotlight Philadelphia; and Peter Thomas of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
ening of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero at the International Animated Film Society in Burbank, Calif. (l. to r.): Sam Levine, co-creator/executive producer/supervising director; Lisa Salamone-Smith, SVP, production, Disney Television Animation; Jerry Beck, president, ASIFA; Jared Bush, co-creator/EP/writer; Jonathan Schneider, executive director, development, TVA; and Jay Francis, executive director, TVA original series creative affairs.
ng Lifetime’s Kosher Soul at a Shabbat dinner at Factor’s Deli in Los Angeles (l. to r.): Michael Hirschorn, executive producer; Kosher Soul stars Miriam Sternoff and O’Neal McKnight; and Eli Lehrer, SVP, unscripted programming at Lifetime.
(From l.) Abel Bazan Jr. of Comcast in Albuquerque, N.M.; Donna Baker, formerly of NPG Cable of Lake Havasu, Ariz.; and Duncan Harvey, formerly of Cox and DCA Cablevision of Scottsdale, Ariz., celebrate their induction into the Southwest Cable Communications Association’s Pioneer Hall of Fame.
t the Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music Awards in Miami (l. to r.): Keith Turner, president of sales and marketing, and Randy Falco, CEO ,Univision Communications; Ricky Martin, executive producer and judge of the upcoming series La Banda; and Alberto Ciurana, president of programming, Univision.
Gerald McRaney, star of Outdoor Channel’s RAM Outdoorsman and Netflix’s House of Cards, arrives on the red carpet for the Golden Moose Awards at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas.
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