By DERRIK J. LANG AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER FILE - In this Friday, April 26, 2002 file picture, Army Archerd, left, and his wife, Selma, are joined by Regis Philbin at a gala event honoring the start of Archerd's 50th year with the entertainment newspaper Variety, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Veteran entertainment journalist Army Archerd, who wrote a column for the entertainment trade publication Variety for over 50 years, died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. He was 87. (AP Photo/Jill Connelly) LOS ANGELES -- Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the entertainment trade publication Daily Variety kept tabs on various Hollywood doings for more than a half-century, has died. He was 87. Archerd's wife, Selma, said he died Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center of mesothelioma, a cancer of the lungs strongly tied to asbestos exposure. She said the... [read full story]
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Hollywood Entertainment Columnist. Born in the Bronx borough of New York City, he was a writer for the trade magazine Daily Variety for 52 years. A graduate of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1941, he began...
Playbill - Army Archerd, who chronicled the projects and practitioners of show business for a half a century through his column in Variety, died Sept. 8 in Los Angeles, the trade publication reported. He was 87.
Last summer I was fortunate enough to be able to contribute a profile of Army Archerd to American Express's exquisite 50th Anniversary book Extraordinary Lives: Members Since 1958, which AmEx created and sent, during the 2008-9...
By DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES—Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the entertainment trade publication Daily Variety kept tabs on various Hollywood doings for more than a half-century, has died....
Longtime entertainment columnist Army Archerd, who was one of the first writers to reveal that actor Rock Hudson was being treated for AIDS, has died at age 87, according to the industry publication Daily Variety.
Longtime entertainment columnist Army Archerd, who was one of the first writers to reveal that actor Rock Hudson was being treated for AIDS, has died at age 87, according to the industry publication Daily Variety.
Archerd Won Praise For Fact Checking Sources DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer POSTED: 9:06 pm EDT September 8, 2009 UPDATED: 8:26 am EDT September 9, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the...
Archerd Won Praise For Fact Checking Sources DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer POSTED: 8:06 pm CDT September 8, 2009 UPDATED: 7:26 am CDT September 9, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the...
Archerd Won Praise For Fact Checking Sources DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer POSTED: 9:06 pm EDT September 8, 2009 UPDATED: 8:26 am EDT September 9, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the...
Archerd Won Praise For Fact Checking Sources DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer POSTED: 9:06 pm EDT September 8, 2009 UPDATED: 8:26 am EDT September 9, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the...
