IT’S A RARE THING when an employer recommends one of his star staffers to another company. But that’s what Fletcher Chicago’s Tom Fletcher did when Canon USA marketing exec Larry Thorpe asked him for suggestions.
Fletcher said Dave Pavlik was his man. Thorpe agreed and Pavlik was hired as Canon USA’s regional sales director.
Pavlik had been with the company for 12 years as sales and rental coordinator and most recently a coordinator in Fletcher’s sports division.
Two Fletcher alums who also moved up with the company’s blessing were former sales manager Kevin O’Connor now Sony’s regional account manager here, and former rental coordinator Sharon Walker, now with Panavision L.A.’s rental department.
WISCONSIN IS REVVING UP for what could be a $100 million year of film business when the state’s film incentives kick off in January, 2008. Film Wisconsin has received inquiries for that amount of business of work for the Badger state.
Actors Craft of Kenosha is preparing for the busy future by upgrading actors skills by teaching the Ivana Chubbuck Technique that’s helped put major awards in the hands of actors.
Actors Craft’s Maureen Cashin Bolog is the only acting coach officially certified to teach the famed Chubbuck Technique in the Great Lakes area.
THE FUN OF CIFF is all the stars who appear here during the two week film orgy. Latest addition is Mos Def who interviews Jeffrey Wright when the actor receives the Career Achievement Award at the Oct. 13 Black Perspectives Tribute. Ch. 12’s Robin Robinson hosts the evening.
NATIVE SON JEFF GARLIN’S COMEDY, “I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With,” gets a Chicago run Oct. 5 at the Music Box. Garlin plays a 39-year old comic still living with his mother, who moons around Chicago in a lovelorn fashion and suffers through a series of low-level professional and romantic humiliations.
It also stars Sarah Silverman who wins his heart by offering him not cheese, but ice cream.
Mostly the movie provides a whole bunch of Garlin’s Second City chums to do some good turns: Bonnie Hunt, Dan Castellaneta, Tim Kazurinki, David Pasquesi and Amy Sedaris.
