Union Made
UNION MADE: From the Diamond to the Bench
People ask me how I got started in music editing. To be honest, it was a total fluke.
Columns
Union Made
UNION MADE: Music in the Womb, Movies in the Blood
I’ve met and worked with people who are fascinating and talented. Movies are in my blood, and it has been a fulfilling, exciting and gratifying experience.
Union Made
UNION MADE: Joy, Luck and an Altman Connection
My career has been filled with luck and many serendipitous moments that brought me to this space in time.
Union Made
An Ear for a Career
A very summer, my family got invited to the Paramount Studio picnic by my uncle, Al Zuniga. New movie and TV stars would appear; most notably for me were the Cartwrights from Bonanza. Al was Paramount’s trailer editor and his job really intrigued me.
Union Made
UNION MADE: From Valley Girl to Emmy Winner
By the time I was 25, I was a store manager working long hours with little respect and a low level of creativity. I needed a change.
Tail Pop
Stanley Donen’s Two For the Road (1967)
It’s a journey of marriage, with all its highs and lows and in-betweens.
Book Reviews
Hal Ashby, Bound for Glory
‘Being Hal Ashby’ examines the director’s tormented personal life and childhood, and traces the troubled personal skein into an exemplary body of work in motion pictures
Union Made
UNION MADE: Following in Father’s Footsteps
I started editing quarter-inch reels of recorded audio sessions, then got bumped up to an assistant working with film on a Moviola. I was surprised by how much I liked it.
This Quarter in Film History
The Original Road
Forty years ago, Steven Spielberg transformed television narrative with his made-for-TV movie Duel, which aired on ABC in November 1971.
Book Reviews
Revisiting Some Classic Texts of Film Editing
The re-publication of this invaluable tome by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar is a cause for celebration among editors and filmmakers.
