Hilary Duff Honors “Lizzie Maguire ”Producer Stan Rogow After His Death: 'Thank You'
Rogow, the Emmy-nominated 'Fame' producer, died Thursday at age 75.
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Hilary Duff (left) and Stan Rogow.Hilary Duff is paying a heartfelt tribute to late Lizzie Maguire producer Stan Rogow, who died Sunday night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, his family told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Stan, thank you for thinking I had ‘that special thing’. [SIC]” Duff, 36, wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday. “Thank you for all the Lizzie adventures. Thank you for helping me create a reality I could never have dreamed of.”
In her message, Duff wrote that Rogow fought for her to land the titular role in 2000s Disney channel series Lizzie Maguire, which she said went on to “change the course of my entire life.”
The How I Met Your Father star ended the post by telling her former colleague to “rest easy” and saying that she was thinking of his family, including his son Jackson Rogow.
Early in his career, Rogow received a 1982 Emmy nomination for outstanding drama series for his work on the producing team of the pilot episode for the series Fame.
He frequently collaborated with his business partner John Sayles, first on the 1986 film The Clan of the Bear starring Daryl Hannah. In 2001, the pair teamed up again for the hybrid live-action and animated children’s sitcom, Lizzie Maguire.
Rogow produced every season of the series and received Emmy nominations for outstanding children’s program in 2003 and 2004. He was also a producer on 2003’s The Lizzie Maguire Movie, which grossed almost $56 million at the worldwide box office at the time, per THR.
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Rogow and Duff at the premiere of "The Lizzie Maguire Movie" in 2003.According to the outlet, Rogow told author Luke Ford in the 2004 book The Producers, that Disney Channel originally planned for Lizzie‘s thoughts in the show to be shared with the audience via a voiceover.
Rogow and Sayles were asked to come up with a “higher concept,” for the show, he said, THR reported. That’s when Rogow proposed the idea of Lizzie’s thoughts being expressed in the form of an animated character.
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Rogow is survived by his sister Marian Levine, his son and his grandson Vega Rogow, per Variety.
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