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Eric Gardner, Chairman and CEO of Panacea Entertainment, Dies at 74
Panacea Entertainment CEO and chairman Eric Gardner died from complications of pneumonia on July 19 at his home in Camarillo, Calif. He was 74.
Gardner’s career began in 1970 when, as a graduate student earning his Master of Fine Arts in playwriting at Columbia University, he started coordinating tours for such rock bands as Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead and, later, KISS. Projects in the works at the time of his death included a Blues Brothers primetime animated TV series in partnership with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s widow Judy Belushi (who died two weeks before Gardner, on July 5 at age 73); adapting the hit 1980 Blues Brothers movie as a Broadway musical; “Sharknado the Musical” in Las Vegas in partnership with Caesar’s Entertainment/Greg Young/The Asylum; a Hellraiser primetime TV series with former New World Entertainment chairman Larry Kuppin; and a feature film about Timothy Leary life’s story with HBO. Panacea Entertainment Chairman and CEO and honoree Eric Gardner attends the 2017 Personal Managers Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino on May 18, 2017 in Las Vegas.
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