Maurice Kanbar

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Maurice Kanbar (born 1918) is a controversial New York native entrepreneur and inventor living in San Francisco, California.

Life

He created New York's first multiplex cinema, and owns 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 traffic light. In the beverage industry, Kanbar had a success with SKYY vodka and has recently launched Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur and Zip Notes, rolled sticky notes with a centerline adhesive strip.^{[citation needed]}

Kanbar is a graduate of Philadelphia University, where he studied Materials Science. In 2005, he donated $6 million dollars for the construction of the school's new campus center.^{[citation needed]}

He produced the animated film "Hoodwinked" which was released in January 2006.

Kanbar owns many commercial buildings in Tulsa, Oklahoma in conjunction with Henry Kaufman. Kaufman is currently in a legal suit against Kanbar for defamation (May 2009). Tisch School of the Arts, part of New York University, named its film school after him: The Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.

Kanbar is a member of Mensa.^[1]

Kanbar is a funder of the activities of talk show host Michael Savage.

Kanbar is listed amongst the many Jewish individuals who lost money to Bernard Madoff.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook, by Maurice Kanbar, Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-200056-6

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