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Jim Tauber, Former Sidney Kimmel Entertainment President, Dies at 74
Jim Tauber, the president of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment for a decade until his retirement in 2015, has died from multiple myeloma. He was 74.
Tauber, an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member, grew up in Glencoe, Ill. His time at SKE included overseeing “Hell or High Water,” “The Place Beyond the Pines,” “Lars and the Real Girl” and “Death at a Funeral.” He spent the earlier part of his career at Columbia TriStar Pictures as executive VP of acquisitions and business/legal affairs, a position that allowed him to oversee production of films including Steven Soderbergh’s “Sex, Lies and Videotape.” After that, he was president and chief operating officer of Propaganda Films, producing David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” and Spike Jonze’s “Being John Malkovich” and contributing to the creation of Gramercy Pictures.
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