David Brown (producer) editor of "Cosmopolitan" before his wife, Helen Gurley Brown, joined the magazine. In 1951, the producer Darryl F. Zanuck hired Brown to head the story department at Zanuck's studio, 20th Century-Fox. Brown eventually rose to become executive vice president of creative operations. He and Richard D. Zanuck, Darryl's son, left Fox in 1971 for Warner Bros., but the following year they set out to form their own production company. The caper film "The Sting" (1973) starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford was a Zanuck/Brown "presentation". In 1974, the company produced, along with Universal Pictures, "The Sugarland Express", Steven Spielberg's directorial
Michael Gurley Danish and Joie Calio, bass player and vocalist for dada. In his more than 25-year career, Gurley has published over 300 songs and has sold over 1,000,000 records. Gurley has written theme songs for three Disney Channel television series, with the best known being "American Dragon", the theme song for Disney’s animated series "", which was sung by The Jonas Brothers. His song "Stick Hippo" was used for the Disney Channel movie "Prom". He has also written music for the Nickelodeon channel show "SpongeBob SquarePants", and his music has been used in a variety of television shows and movies. Gurley,