Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, was 77

The former editor and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai after complications from intestinal surgery, the paper reports today. She had suffered from Parkinson's disease for 14 years. She had married Billy Wilkerson, the Reporter's founder, in 1947 when she was 19 and he was in his 60s. She took over as the paper's second editor and publisher after his death in 1962. Obituary in The Hollywood Reporter.