Ron Weiner, a television director at WGN Chicago for 25 years and three-time Daytime Emmy-winning director for talkshow “Donahue,” died on March 18 in Baltimore, Md. He was 93.
Weiner directed shows including “Donahue,” “An Evening With B.B. King,” “Garfield Goose and Friends” and produced “Bozo’s Circus.” He was nominated for four Emmys and won three for “Donahue.”
Weiner’s began his career in television in 1956 when he landed a job as a prop man at the Chicago Tribune-owned WGN Television. He joined the technical staff and worked his way up to WGN staff director by 1960. Weiner then directed several programs in WGN’s schedule, from the sign-on routine to news, children’s programs, interview shows, and broadcasts of Cubs games and other sports events.
After the success of “Donahue,” Weiner worked on talk shows and pilot productions for Tribune Broadcasting. There, he directed “How to Be a No-Limit Person” with Wayne Dyer...
Weiner directed shows including “Donahue,” “An Evening With B.B. King,” “Garfield Goose and Friends” and produced “Bozo’s Circus.” He was nominated for four Emmys and won three for “Donahue.”
Weiner’s began his career in television in 1956 when he landed a job as a prop man at the Chicago Tribune-owned WGN Television. He joined the technical staff and worked his way up to WGN staff director by 1960. Weiner then directed several programs in WGN’s schedule, from the sign-on routine to news, children’s programs, interview shows, and broadcasts of Cubs games and other sports events.
After the success of “Donahue,” Weiner worked on talk shows and pilot productions for Tribune Broadcasting. There, he directed “How to Be a No-Limit Person” with Wayne Dyer...
- 4/12/2024
- by Lexi Carson
- Variety Film + TV
S.N.A.P. Films have unveiled their new development slate, including a film and true crime limited series about the first female mob boss Bessie Starkman.
The Canadian production company, founded by Sergio Navarretta and Alessandra Piccione, has also secured Dr. Bernie Siegel’s life rights with a view to working on a documentary and feature film about what they describe as “America’s most controversial doctor in the field of mind-body healing and patient empowerment” as well as optioning the rights to the book “Rocco Perri: The Story of Canada’s Most Notorious Bootlegger” by Antonio Nicaso, which they are also planning to adapt as a feature.
Piccione will write and produce while Navarretta will direct and produce.
They have been joined by Luna Zhang, who joins the company as a business development executive. Zhang will be based in L.A. but is taking meetings during Berlin EFM.
Distribution veterans Tony Cianciotta...
The Canadian production company, founded by Sergio Navarretta and Alessandra Piccione, has also secured Dr. Bernie Siegel’s life rights with a view to working on a documentary and feature film about what they describe as “America’s most controversial doctor in the field of mind-body healing and patient empowerment” as well as optioning the rights to the book “Rocco Perri: The Story of Canada’s Most Notorious Bootlegger” by Antonio Nicaso, which they are also planning to adapt as a feature.
Piccione will write and produce while Navarretta will direct and produce.
They have been joined by Luna Zhang, who joins the company as a business development executive. Zhang will be based in L.A. but is taking meetings during Berlin EFM.
Distribution veterans Tony Cianciotta...
- 2/21/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Ellen DeGeneres is ready to celebrate her greatest love of all today! While preparing for a new season of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the talk-show host couldn't help but mark her nine-year wedding anniversary to Portia de Rossi on social media. In her latest Instagram post, Ellen shared a photo from the couple's wedding day with a special message to her leading lady. "@PortiadeRossi and I got married 9 years ago today," she wrote to her followers. "Being her wife is the greatest thing I am." As fans may recall, the couple said "I Do" in front of 30 close friend and family members back on August 16, 2008. Motivational speaker Wayne Dyer led the ceremony as the...
- 8/16/2017
- E! Online
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(February 2011)
One of the delights of Oscar season is the opportunity to see the short films nominated for Academy Awards both in theaters and on iTunes. This is particularly true of the animated shorts, a uniformly strong bunch tackling sophisticated social and political themes in a range of stunning styles.
“Day & Night”
Directed/Written by: Teddy Newton
Probably most widely seen among the Academy Award-nominated animated shorts is Pixar’s “Day & Night,” which played in theaters with “Toy Story 3.” Ingeniously designed, it features two characters, Day and Night, whose bodies contain their respective times of day. Wordlessly, their actions — yawning, peeing, taking a deep breath — correspond with activity within their milieus — a cow’s moo, a waterfall, a breeze — in a perfect marriage of image and sound. The pair is competitive at first in tacit one-upmanship, not unlike “Spy vs. Spy,” but ultimately comes to appreciate...
(February 2011)
One of the delights of Oscar season is the opportunity to see the short films nominated for Academy Awards both in theaters and on iTunes. This is particularly true of the animated shorts, a uniformly strong bunch tackling sophisticated social and political themes in a range of stunning styles.
“Day & Night”
Directed/Written by: Teddy Newton
Probably most widely seen among the Academy Award-nominated animated shorts is Pixar’s “Day & Night,” which played in theaters with “Toy Story 3.” Ingeniously designed, it features two characters, Day and Night, whose bodies contain their respective times of day. Wordlessly, their actions — yawning, peeing, taking a deep breath — correspond with activity within their milieus — a cow’s moo, a waterfall, a breeze — in a perfect marriage of image and sound. The pair is competitive at first in tacit one-upmanship, not unlike “Spy vs. Spy,” but ultimately comes to appreciate...
- 2/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(February 2011)
One of the delights of Oscar season is the opportunity to see the short films nominated for Academy Awards both in theaters and on iTunes. This is particularly true of the animated shorts, a uniformly strong bunch tackling sophisticated social and political themes in a range of stunning styles.
“Day & Night”
Directed/Written by: Teddy Newton
Probably most widely seen among the Academy Award-nominated animated shorts is Pixar’s “Day & Night,” which played in theaters with “Toy Story 3.” Ingeniously designed, it features two characters, Day and Night, whose bodies contain their respective times of day. Wordlessly, their actions — yawning, peeing, taking a deep breath — correspond with activity within their milieus — a cow’s moo, a waterfall, a breeze — in a perfect marriage of image and sound. The pair is competitive at first in tacit one-upmanship, not unlike “Spy vs. Spy,” but ultimately comes to appreciate...
(February 2011)
One of the delights of Oscar season is the opportunity to see the short films nominated for Academy Awards both in theaters and on iTunes. This is particularly true of the animated shorts, a uniformly strong bunch tackling sophisticated social and political themes in a range of stunning styles.
“Day & Night”
Directed/Written by: Teddy Newton
Probably most widely seen among the Academy Award-nominated animated shorts is Pixar’s “Day & Night,” which played in theaters with “Toy Story 3.” Ingeniously designed, it features two characters, Day and Night, whose bodies contain their respective times of day. Wordlessly, their actions — yawning, peeing, taking a deep breath — correspond with activity within their milieus — a cow’s moo, a waterfall, a breeze — in a perfect marriage of image and sound. The pair is competitive at first in tacit one-upmanship, not unlike “Spy vs. Spy,” but ultimately comes to appreciate...
- 2/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
New York, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, January 28, 2010, a new and unique cinema experience will be offered to moviegoers nationwide - for the first time ever, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, best-selling author of more than 30 books and affectionately known as "the father of motivation" by fans, brings "Wishes Fulfilled," his newest motivational presentation, to theatres as a special Cinema Event.
- 1/11/2010
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