Company Town : Grossman Named VP of Talent, Casting at Turner

Iris Grossman has been named vice president of talent and casting for Turner Pictures and Turner Network Television.

* Gini Barrett has been elected chair of the new Entertainment Industry Development Corp.

* Universal Pictures has extended the contract of Fred Mound as president of distribution.

* LucasFilm Ltd. has appointed Andre Lake Mayer director of licensing.

* Randy Sosin has been named senior director of video production at A&M.;

* Amy Lorbati has joined Universal Pay Television Inc. and Universal Pictures Non-Theatrical as manager of pay TV and ancillary markets.

* Warner/Chappell Music Inc. has promoted Shari Saba to senior creative director.

* Twentieth Century Fox has expanded its licensing and merchandising divisions and appointed Stacy Fleming director of retail development and Lora Mazer Cohn manager of domestic licensing of hard goods.

* Valerie DeLong has been appointed senior vice president of promotion at Lava Records.

* Shilah Morrow is new senior director of marketing for TAG Recordings.

* Steve Pritchitt has been appointed senior vice president for international operations at Atlantic Records.

* Frank Wildhorn has been named creative director at Atlantic Theatre.

* Rich Fitzgerald has been named executive vice president and general manager of Reprise Records.

* Warner Bros. Records has named Jeff Gold executive vice president and general manager.

* New York-New York Resorts Inc. said William J. Sherlock has been named president and CEO of the resort under construction.

* Barbara J. Parsky has joined the Los Angeles office of the international public relations firm Burson-Marsteller as a vice president.

* Christopher Galazzi has been named director of sales and marketing for Promax International.

* Janice Cook has been promoted to executive director of international operations for MCA Home Entertainment Group.