Hollywood mourns a legend – Hamburger Abendblatt

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 Film producer Jerry Weintraub (“Oceans Eleven”) died at the age of 77 years in Los Angeles

                 Los Angeles. Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub, who brought hits such as “The Karate Kid” and on the screen, “Ocean’s Eleven” is dead. According to his spokeswoman Michelle Bega he died Monday in a hospital. Weintraub suffered a cardiac arrest, he was 77 years old.

His sudden death triggered in Hollywood dismay and sadness from. “Today is our friend died,” actor George Clooney said in a release that was published by the “Hollywood Reporter”. “He was an absolute original. I loved him and I will really miss him,” quoted the trade publication of a notice of Brad Pitt. With two actors Weintraub turned the “Ocean’s” trilogy. “He was a giant in Hollywood and his heart was so big that it lit up the city”, Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote on Twitter. “He was a force of nature,” Carl Reiner said, who played in all the “Ocean’s Eleven” movies.

“So sad about the loss of Jerry Weintraub,” tweeted the actor Ralph Macchio , 53, who became known as Weintraubs “Karate Kid” in the ’80s trilogy. “So glad I was that kid,” Macchio wrote in the short message service.

Weintraub recently worked on a new “Tarzan” film version with Alexander Skarsgård and Christoph Waltz, the 2016 the cinemas should come. In his long career, Weintraub produced dozens of films, of Robert Altman’s classic “Nashville” (1975) and “Diner” (1982) to “Liberace – Too much of a good thing is wonderful” (2013). Before his success in the film industry, he worked as a music producer and concert promoter and has worked with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Elvis Presley and John Denver. Unforgettable are also organized by him tours of the Beach Boys and the Hard rock legend Led Zeppelin.

Weintraub was throughout his life a follower of the Republicans, were part of his vast circle of friends also Ronald Reagan and especially George W. Bush. The latter appointed him in 1991 to the board of the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington and certified him “a passion for life”.

In 2009 published Jerry Weintraub, the was considered a terrific storyteller, his memoirs, entitled “When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead” (If I do not speak, you know that I’m dead). Now his voice is really silent.