Robert Dowling Jr Dies; former Hollywood Reporter Publisher Was 83
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deadline.comRobert Joseph “Bob” Dowling, the former publisher and editor in chief of The Hollywood Reporter for 17 years, died December 30 after a short illness.
He was 83. Born on Long Island in New York on September 16, 1939, Dowling was given up by his birth mother and spent his first three years in a series of foster homes before his final adoption.
Dowling believed that the sense of unease this created in him would drive his lifelong capacity to instinctively recognize motivations and quickly assess situations.
Dowling was a natural salesman. As he described in his 2019 memoir “My Life…and then some,” selling became second nature to him due to his ability to empathize with those on the other side of the deal.
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