Paul Dunlap, a prolific film composer for three decades and a frequent collaborator of Sam Fuller, died March 11 in Palm Springs. He was 90.The classically trained Dunlap composed the soundtracks for more than 133 films and TV shows and worked on another 50 pictures and television episodes as a conductor, musical director, music supervisor and orchestrator, often composing incidental music as well.Dunlap worked with fiery writer-director Fuller on such films as "The Baron of Arizona" (1950), starring Vincent Price, "The Steel Helmet" (1951), "Park Row" (1952), "Shock Corridor" (1963) and "The Naked Kiss" (1964).He also wrote the soundtracks for six movies directed by Harold D. Schuster, including the Western "Jack Slade" (1953), and worked on numerous TV shows, including "Have Gun, Will Travel." He was admired for his Western scores and sci-fi sound effects.A native of Springfield, Ohio, Dunlap also worked...
- 3/25/2010
- Filmicafe
The rehabilitation of the Entertainment Industry Development Corp. enters the final stretch Monday when the Los Angeles City Council considers a new contract with the film-permitting agency. The routine bureaucracy belies the turmoil that engulfed the EIDC over the past 15 months, from police raids and indictments to political embarrassment and audits that went nowhere because there were no accounting records to scrutinize. "The first few months were absolute pandemonium -- nobody knew what happened," said former Los Angeles County chief administrative officer Keith Comrie, who was brought on as a special consultant to the EIDC executive committee. Some city and county politicians did not even know they were on the EIDC's board. Few knew the EIDC's outside auditors reported only to former EIDC president Cody Cluff, who is currently charged with 11 felonies for allegedly embezzling more than $150,000. One newly elected councilmember, former DreamWorks SKG corporate affairs executive Wendy Greuel, was familiar enough with the EIDC to immerse herself in its overhaul. That culminated Dec. 1 with a new governance structure, revised bylaws and a new board that excludes elected officials in order to avoid a conflict of interest. The City Attorney's office will update the council Monday on efforts to renegotiate the EIDC contract with heightened accountability. "We're going to make sure that from the city's perspective, we have checks and balances as well," Greuel said. "Many things adopted by the EIDC board will be in that contract, with maybe some finetuning." The EIDC must also renegotiate its contract with Los Angeles County and replace interim president Lindsley Parsons.
- 12/6/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The rehabilitation of the Entertainment Industry Development Corp. enters the final stretch Monday when the Los Angeles City Council considers a new contract with the film-permitting agency. The routine bureaucracy belies the turmoil that engulfed the EIDC over the past 15 months, from police raids and indictments to political embarrassment and audits that went nowhere because there were no accounting records to scrutinize. "The first few months were absolute pandemonium -- nobody knew what happened," said former Los Angeles County chief administrative officer Keith Comrie, who was brought on as a special consultant to the EIDC executive committee. Some city and county politicians did not even know they were on the EIDC's board. Few knew the EIDC's outside auditors reported only to former EIDC president Cody Cluff, who is currently charged with 11 felonies for allegedly embezzling more than $150,000. One newly elected councilmember, former DreamWorks SKG corporate affairs executive Wendy Greuel, was familiar enough with the EIDC to immerse herself in its overhaul. That culminated Dec. 1 with a new governance structure, revised bylaws and a new board that excludes elected officials in order to avoid a conflict of interest. The City Attorney's office will update the council Monday on efforts to renegotiate the EIDC contract with heightened accountability. "We're going to make sure that from the city's perspective, we have checks and balances as well," Greuel said. "Many things adopted by the EIDC board will be in that contract, with maybe some finetuning." The EIDC must also renegotiate its contract with Los Angeles County and replace interim president Lindsley Parsons.
- 12/6/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Barely a month into the job as interim head of the embattled Entertainment Industry Development Corp., Lindsley Parsons was put on notice last week that the Los Angeles City Council is taking steps to renegotiate its contract with the film-permitting agency -- a renegotiation the EIDC hadn't planned on dealing with for another five years. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel, a former DreamWorks executive, introduced the motion to reopen the EIDC contract last week to the unanimous support of her fellow councilmembers. The council's move comes as the EIDC's operations are under intense scrutiny, not only from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 5-month-old probe but also from an EIDC subcommittee consisting of Greuel, Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and the MPAA's Melissa Patack that was established to recommend changes to the structure of the EIDC's board of directors. In addition, the EIDC is the target of two separate financial and structural audits, one being conducted by City Controller Laura Chick's office, the other by the accounting firm KPMG. "I don't exactly know what changes (Greuel) had in mind, but I told her that it was going to be a two-way exchange and that I had things that I want to put on the table," Parsons said in an interview. "I think it can be a profitable discussion for both of us."...
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