Ronni Chasen

Template:New Unreviewed Article ""Ronni Chasen"" Called "Hollywood's ultimate old-school publicist" by LA Times Movies contributor, "Patrick Goldstein" in his memiormatic article just post about Ms. Chasen's murder early on the afternoon of 16 November 2010 . Shot early on the morning of 17 Novemeber 2010, at appx 12:28 a.m. West Coast time, as Ms. Chasen was driving home from Hollywood Premier of her newest PR project, the big budget, star studded musical, Burlesque (film). Neighbors on Whittier Drive in the upscale neighborhood of Beverly Hills originally noted hearing gunshots in front of their homes but more calls came in to the 911 call center a few moments later stating that a late model, black Mercedes Benz had ran the curb, hit and toppled one of the distinctive, historic cast iron street lamps. When police crews arrived, they found Ms. Chasen slumped in the drivers seat, the steering wheel airbag inflated, blood eminating from her nose and chest area, in and out of consciousness with the front seat passenger side glass shattered. The 64 year old Ms. Chasen was pronounced dead after she was taken to Cedars Sinai Hospital .

The current status of the investigation, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department, is in its infancy at this time, but they have stated that Ms. Chasen received approximately 5 gunshot wounds to the chest which resulted in her loss of control of her vehicle just after turning from Sunset Blvd onto Whittier.

Ms. Chasen is known in the Hollywood for her PR work on such films as Driving Miss Daisy, On Golden Pond, the upcoming second film in the popular Michael Douglas Wall Street movie franchise Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps for which she was pushing for Oscar recognition for Mr. Douglas in his role as the money hungry, risk averse characterGordon Gekko . In addition to formerly being named the Senior Vice President for Publicity at MGM in 1993 , currently Ms. Chasen owned the PR firm, Chasen & Co. in which she represented many different types of talent, but specifically was drawn to artists who composed music for films - artists such as Trevor Horn, Mark Isham, David Newman and brother Thomas Newman .

Ms. Chasen began her career in Hollywood nearly 30 years earlier working for the famous B Movie Factory American International Pictures and, according to LA Times contributor, Patrick Goldstein, reminiced about her early years while working with George Burns on the hit 170's film The Sunshine Boys and coaching the budding star John Travolta on how to handle his first interview after his fame first broke during the hit television sitcom, Welcome Back Kotter .

Ms. Chasen is survived by her brother, Larry Cohen, famous in his own right for hit screenplays for cult favorite "B" films such as, It's Alive and The Invaders, teleplays in the early 1960's for the Kraft Mystery Theater who gained later fame for his work in the Blaxploitation film genre popular in the 1970's .