STELLA ZADEH, TALENT AGENT AND JOURNALIST, DIES AT AGE 58.Byline: HOLLY J. ANDRES Staff Writer A memorial will be held June 29 for talent agency owner and journalist Stella Zadeh. A former resident of Encino, Zadeh died June 7 in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. from heart failure after a brief illness. She was 58. Zadeh, who worked in print journalism from 1971 through the mid-1980s, established Stella Zadeh & Associates in Encino in 1985. The talent agency specializes in placing journalists in electronic media and providing staffing for reality-television shows. The agency, now based in Santa Barbara, represented producers and directors on such television shows as ``The Bachelor,'' ``Real Life with Bill Maher William Maher, Jr., (pronounced: /mɑɹ/) (born January 20 1956) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. ,'' ``Deal or No Deal'' and ``Judge Mathis.'' ``She really got joy out of mentoring her clients. They were family to her,'' said her husband, corporate attorney David L. Gersh. ```Energy' and `caring' were words to describe her. We had great joy together.'' As a journalist, Zadeh worked for the Santa Monica Outlook and The Associated Press, and she was city editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner from 1979 to 1981. Zadeh left print journalism to become a news planning manager at KCBS KCBS Kansas City Barbecue Society KCBS Korea Christian Book Service (now called KCB; Seoul, Korea) KCBS Kerala Catholic Bible Society (Kerala, India) (Channel 2) in Los Angeles and later held other executive positions with CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. . ``Stella was smart, organized and very much a `people person,''' said friend and journalist Alex Ben Block. ``She was my boss in 1979 at the Herald Examiner. She had great instincts. She had the ability to remain very calm, organized -- and keeping everyone moving (during a breaking story). She had a great way to make all the parts of the story mesh together.'' Zadeh was born July 27, 1947, in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . She graduated in 1969 from Radcliffe College and earned a master's degree in journalism in 1971 from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . Zadeh is survived by her husband of 18 years; her parents, Lotfi Zadeh, an internationally known mathematician and computer scientist, and Fay Zadeh; and a brother, Norman Zadeh. A memorial will be held June 29 in Calabasas. Further information is available at mark--gersh(at)earthlink.net. Donations in her memory can be sent to Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood A service mark used for an organization that provides family planning services. . holly.andres(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3708 |
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