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Lasky
Lasky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Art Lasky (1909–1980), American heavyweight professional boxer *Bette Lasky (born 1947), American politician; New Hampshire state senator and former state representative * David Lasky (born 1967), American cartoonist *Dorothea Lasky (born 1978), American poet *Floria Lasky (1923–2007), American lawyer in the theater world *Jesse Louis Lasky (1880–1958), American movie producer and founder of Paramount Pictures * Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. (1910–1988), American screenwriter, often with his wife Pat Silver-Lasky * Kathryn Lasky (born 1944), American author *Mark Lasky (1954–1983), American cartoonist * Melvin J. Lasky (1920–2004), American journalist *Mitch Lasky (born 1962), American venture capitalist *Pat Silver-Lasky, American actress, screenwriter, and writer, often with her husband Jesse Lasky, Jr. *Rick Lasky, American emergency services consultant, author, motivational speaker *Victor Lasky Victor Lasky (7 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Lasky
Arthur Lakofsky (November 16, 1909 – April 2, 1980), also known as Art Lasky, was a heavyweight professional boxer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Personal life Lasky was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on November 8, 1908, and called Minneapolis his home. He was of Russian-Jewish ancestry. Both he and his brother Maurice worked in a scrap metal yard before taking up boxing. His brothers Dave and Eli both had short, but less successful careers as boxers during the depression years of the 1930s. Lasky's brother Maurice acted as his trainer, and trained the boxer Young Harry Greb for a time. After his boxing career ended, Lasky went on to become a cameraman, stunt coordinator, and even dabbled in acting. Being a bit of a renaissance man, and always interested in new challenges, he had a short career in the Palm Springs police department, and later became a physical therapist with a practice in three California cities; San Bernardino, then Palm Springs, and later at his home in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Louis Lasky
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Early life Born in to a Jewish family in San Francisco, California, Lasky worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer, playing the cornet in a duo act with his sister Blanche. Career In 1911, Lasky was the producer of two Broadway musicals: ''Hello, Paris'' and ''A La Broadway''. Beatrice deMille was also producing plays on Broadway and she introduced him to her son Cecil B. DeMille. Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company In 1913 Lasky and his sister Blanche's husband, Samuel Goldwyn, teamed with DeMille and Oscar Apfel to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, with Lasky as president. With limited funds, they rented a barn near Los Angeles where they made Hollywood's first feature film, DeMille's '' The Squaw M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Lasky
Mitchell Harold "Mitch" Lasky (born January 18, 1962) is a general partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark and a former entrepreneur and video game executive. He is the father of rapper and YouTube personality Quadeca. Education and early career Lasky received a B.A. degree in History and Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Early in his career, Lasky practiced law at the Los Angeles firm Irell & Manella, where he worked on various technology-related intellectual property cases. In 1993, he joined the Walt Disney Company. He left Disney in 1994 to launch a massively multiplayer online game company, Serum Entertainment Software. Lasky subsequently spent five years at video game publisher Activision, including a stint as executive vice president of Worldwide Studios, helping to launch Quake 3, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Spider-man. In 2000, he joined mobile games company JAMDAT as CEO and took the company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Lasky
Victor Lasky (7 January 1918 – 22 February 1990) was a conservative columnist in the United States who wrote several best-selling books. He was syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Background On January 7, 1918, Victor Lasky was born in Liberty, New York. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1940. Career In 1942, Lasky joined the U.S. Army and served during World War two; during that time, he did correspondence work for the army's newspaper '' Stars and Stripes''. After World War Two, Lasky joined the staff of the ''New York World-Telegram''; while there, he assisted Frederick Woltman in writing a series of articles on Communist Party infiltration within the US, for which Woltman won a ''Pulitzer Prize for Reporting'' in 1947. Lasky first came to prominence with his 1950 book ''Seeds of Treason'', co-authored with Ralph de Toledano, in which the authors argued against Alger Hiss and in favor of Whittaker Chambers, with regard to Chambers' accusations bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Silver-Lasky
Barbara Hayden, usually known professionally as Pat Silver or Pat Silver-Lasky, is an American actress, screenwriter, and writer, mostly known for her collaborations with her second husband, Jesse Lasky Jr. Beginnings Born in Seattle, Washington, Silver-Lasky attended the University of Washington as a drama major, as well as Stanford University and Reed College. Silver-Lasky worked in films and TV under her birth name, Barbara Hayden. When she played the lead in an episode of ''Rescue 8'' and went on to write three more episodes, she took the pen name Pat Silver. Collaborations with Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Silver-Lasky wrote four books with her second husband, Jesse, including the best-selling historical novel ''The Offer'', eight films, nearly 100 TV scripts, including the award-winning "Explorers" series ("Ten Who Dared" in the United States). Their verse play ''Ghost Town'' won several awards in the U.S. In 1984 and 1986, their TV series ''Philip Marlowe, Private Eye'' won three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944) is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, ''Sugaring Time'', '' The Night Journey'', ''Wolves of the Beyond'', and the '' Guardians of Ga'Hoole'' series. Her awards include Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, National Jewish Book Award, and Newbery Honor. Biography Kathryn Lasky grew up in Indianapolis, descendant of a line of Russian Jews. She is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in early childhood education from Wheelock College. She was the 2011 winner of the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature and her work has received many other honors and awards. She is the author of over one hundred books. Her most nota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She has published four full-length collections of poetry through Wave Books and one through Liveright/ W.W. Norton, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals. She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts. Background and education She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1978. She graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1996. She earned a BA in classics and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers, and her Ed.M. in Arts & Education from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Creativity and Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in ''The Paris Review'', ''Boston Review'', and the ''New Yorker.'' Bibliography ;Full-length collections *''Animal''. Wave Books, 2019. *''Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Lasky
Richard "Rick" Lasky is an emergency services consultant, author, motivational speaker, current fire chief of the Estes Valley Fire District in Estes Park, Colorado, and former fire chief of the Lewisville, Texas, Fire Department as well as the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Fire Department. Originally from the Chicago area, Lasky worked in various capacities for police and fire departments in Illinois and Idaho before moving to Lewisville, where he was the city's fire chief for 11 years. He retired as chief in Lewisville in 2011 to become a full-time consultant and educator until accepting the chief position in Estes Park in 2024. He has written one book and co-authored another. Early life Lasky was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Lyons Township High School in La Grange. Although he considered playing Major League Baseball with the Chicago White Sox after some success in the sport, he eventually worked for the police departments in Justice and Willow Springs before becoming a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bette Lasky
Bette R. Lasky (born March 16, 1947) was a member of the New Hampshire Senate, representing the 13th District from 2008 to 2010, and again from 2012 until her retirement in 2018. During her tenure, Lasky represented Wards 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in Nashua, New Hampshire. While on the State Senate she has served as Chair of the Election Law and Veteran's affairs Committee. Lasky has also served as Vice-Chair of the Judiciary Committee, and as a member of the Education Committee, and the Energy, Environment, and Economic Development Committee. Prior to becoming a State Senator, Lasky served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives for five terms, and served as Assistant Majority Leader during the 2007-2008 biennium. Prior to that, Lasky served as the House Minority Whip. Lasky has also served as Chair of the Nashua Planning Board, as a Nashua City Councilwoman, and as Vice Chairman of the Nashua City Committee. Lasky holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lasky
David Lasky (born December 8, 1967 in Washington, D.C.) is an alternative cartoonist based in Seattle, Washington. Biography After spending the bulk of his life in Virginia, and graduating from the College of William & Mary, Lasky moved to Seattle in 1992. He quickly found a circle of young comic book artists—including Megan Kelso, Tom Hart, Ed Brubaker, Jon Lewis, and Jason Lutes—drawing and publishing their own work. With them, Lasky aspired to take clichéd or neglected genres of comics and revitalize them with the lessons learned from the first wave of alternative comics. Lasky's first two full-length comic books, ''Arrabbiata Comics'' and ''Monster City Comics,'' were created in collaboration with printmaker Paul Bonelli under the name Fistball Productions. In 1993, Lasky won a grant from the Xeric Foundation to self–publish his comic ''Boom Boom''. With this nudge, ''Boom Boom'' graduated from its minicomic format, added a color cover, and began to take on its matu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floria Lasky
Floria V. Lasky (April 24, 1923 – September 21, 2007) was an American lawyer in the theater world, who represented some of the biggest names in American entertainment. Career Lasky was born in the Bronx, New York City. She was named for the eponymous heroine of the opera ''Tosca''. She was the younger sister of American journalist Melvin J. Lasky. She entered Hunter College at the age of 14 and graduated first in her class at New York University's law school in 1945, after which she joined the law firm of Fitelson & Mayers, where she would stay for the next 62 years, eventually becoming a principal partner. Her clients over the years included Jerome Robbins, Tennessee Williams, Burl Ives, David Merrick, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jule Styne, Frederick Loewe and Carson McCullers. As their lawyer, she was one of the first women to break into the legal sphere of Broadway and beyond. Her law firm, Fitelson, Lasky, Aslan & Couture, continued to represent the estates of many of her clie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lasky
Mark Lasky (1954 – July 31, 1983 in New York City) was an American cartoonist known for having succeeded Ernie Bushmiller on ''Nancy''. Lasky first worked on ''Nancy'' as Bushmiller's editor, and was named the strip's new writer and artist after Bushmiller's death in 1982. He had previously worked on other comic strips, including Mell Lazarus's ''Miss Peach'' and ''Momma''. After less than a year, however, Lasky died of cancer; there was no gap in ''Nancy'' publication, as Lasky had prepared enough strips to run for two more months, during which publishers were able to arrange for Jerry Scott to succeed Lasky. In his honor, United Media and Parsons The New School for Design launched the Mark Lasky Memorial Internship in 1984. (page 48) for the 1983 Reuben Award Ceremony, Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
