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
James Brown (editor) for such brands as "Scotts", "Carling" and "Adidas". In 1985 James Brown was a contributor to the alternative newspaper "Leeds Other Paper". In 1986, following work on his fanzine "Attack on Bzaag", Brown was hired as freelance features writer for "Sounds"; from there he soon joined the magazine "NME". In 1991 Brown became the manager of Fabulous, a rock band composed of various "NME" journalists. After leaving "NME", he wrote features for the "Sunday Times" magazine. In 1994, Brown launched the magazine "Loaded", which became an early example of the modern "lads' mag" format. Brown won the British Society of