Joel Leshinsky
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Born in Queens, New York, Joel Leshinsky earned his Communications Degree in Radio and Television from Indiana State University. He began his career as a publicist in the early 1980s working with Don King Productions helping to promote the very first Pay-Per-View HBO boxing matches with Sugar Ray Leonard, Gerry Cooney and Larry Holmes. He joined the Miami Vice team in 1989 as unit publicist and also managed the personal publicity of both Saundra Santiago and Michael Talbott during the run of the show. In the 1990s, Joel worked on a series of films produced in South Florida from Moon over Miami (aka Off and Running) with Cyndi Lauper (1991); and Mr Nanny with Hulk Hogan (1993) to Cop and 1/2 with Burt Reynolds (1993). In 1991, Joel worked on the pilot and then the series, Super Force, produced at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL.