Viacom PR professional segues to Cablevision

Cablevision Tuesday named former Viacom professional Kelly McAndrew as veep of corporate communications. McAndrew will offer the cable operator's strategy, financial performance and key corporate developments and guide communications at Cablevision's local media qualities, including Newsday, News 12 Systems, Monosodium glutamate College and Clearview Movie theaters. She reviews to Charlie Schueler, professional Vice president of media and community relations. She'll also direct charitable activities. Just before joining Cablevision, McAndrew offered as senior Vice president of corporate communications at Viacom. From 2000 to 2007, she oversaw public and media relations activities across six nations for that Pepsi Bottling Group. Formerly, she held pr and public matters roles at Texaco where she labored for pretty much ten years. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Spencer Tracy Was Kind of a Dick

"When Tracy won Best Actor for his turn in Captains Courageous in 1938, he was unable to attend the ceremony. MGM said he was recovering from a hernia, which was the 1940s way of saying 'hospitalized for exhaustion,' if youre picking up what Im putting down. The studio arranged for Tracys wife to accept the award in his stead, as a gesture towards the supposed strength of their marriage. With all the audience fully aware of how Tracy had neglected and mistreated her, Mrs. Tracy walked the stage. But the Academy had a sense of humor: the award was inscribed not to Spencer, but to Dick Tracy. ROUGH. MGM would periodically force Tracy to 'dry out' after massive benders - not out of kindness, but so that they could force him to do his next film. During this period, he was living at the Beverly Wilshire and constantly on the prowl one MGM exec purportedly claimed that 'No one gets more sex than Spencer Tracy.....except Joan Crawford.'" [The Hairpin]