Maurice Kanbar
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Maurice Kanbar is an entrepreneur and inventor. He created New York's first multiplex cinema, and owns over 36 patents on various consumer and medical products, invented the D-Fuzz-It comb for sweaters, Tangoes Puzzle Game, the Safetyglide hypodermic needle protector, a cryogenic cataract remover, and a new LED stoplight. In the beverage industry, Kanbar had a success with SKYY vodka and has recently launched Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur.
Kanbar is a graduate of Philadelphia University, Class of 1964. In 2005, he donated $6 million dollars going towards the construction of the school's new campus center.
Recently, he produced the new animated hit "Hoodwinked" that was number one over the Martin Luther King weekend.
[edit] Bibliography
- Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook, by Maurice Kanbar, Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-200056-6
[edit] External links
- The Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
- San Francisco International Film Festival
- Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook published by Council Oak Books
- Blue Yonder Films - Makers of Hoodwinked! along with Kanbar Entertainment
- Tangoes Puzzle Game from Rex Games
- European official site for Vermeer Dutch Chococolate Cream Liqueur with link to US official website for Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur
- Official website for SKYY
- Philadelphia University's Kanbar Campus Center
- The Official Website of the "Hoodwinked" film
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