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| | Ex-THR publisher recalled for philanthropy, modesty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Indeed, Wilkerson Kassel was synonymous with Women in Film, the nonprofit organization she founded in 1973 after reading a statistic in The Reporter from the WGA that only 2% of all television series scripts were penned by women. |
 | | At the end of an informal party that Wilkerson Kassel held at her home for the early members of WIF some years ago, she handed out small hand-held electric fans as a kind of premenopausal party favor, recalled longtime friend Bonny Dore, a producer and past president of WIF. |
 | | In addition to Kassel, Wilkerson Kassel is survived by her sister, Gloria O'Connor; two children from her marriage to Wilkerson, Cynthia, one-time managing editor of The Hollywood Reporter as well as an agent, and William, a songwriter; and three grandchildren. |
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