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Hire Learning
‘Hollywood Jobs’ is packed with vital information for anyone seeking a career in the media industries.
Columns
Tail Pop
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)
Viewing the shower scene for the first time, I don’t think I was aware of its status as one of the most famous sequences in cinematic history. Little did I know that my fascination (and later my career) in editing would be traced back to this moment in time.
Union Made
UNION MADE: My Colorful Career
Even though I grew up on black-and-white television, color became my way of life.
This Quarter in Film History
‘Apocalypse’ Then
Rex Ingram put what became MGM on the map, but ironically, the studio he helped to create was also his undoing.
Tail Pop
Gus Van Sant’s ‘Good Will Hunting’ (1997)
Will Hunting made a choice to leave his comfort zone and follow his heart to California. He ‘had to go see about a girl.’ At the end of 1997, I too made a choice. I had to go see about Hollywood.
Columns
Whether It’s Bagels or Bargaining Rights, Union-Busting Attempts Continue
Conservative lawmakers may claim to support job creation for the middle class, but their legislative actions clearly show that destruction of labor unions is also one of their highest goals.
Book Reviews
Blooping the Join And Other Memories of Editing’s Early Days
With this engaging and highly entertaining autobiography, Clark recounts an illustrious career as an editor.
Union Made
UNION MADE: A Long and Winding Career Path
I arrived in Hollywood with no contacts––and as I observed the inner workings of the business, I felt that what I learned in college was horribly insufficient for me to succeed. So I opened myself up to any job I could get, observing everyone and everything.
Tail Pop
Mike Figgis’ ‘Leaving Las Vegas’
Over time, I realized I was married to an alcoholic. For me, Leaving Las Vegas was the film that most moved me in my adult life. Nicolas Cage plays Ben, an alcoholic Hollywood writer struggling greatly with the disease.
Book Reviews
Wide, Wide World
In the Jean-Luc Godard film Contempt (1963), director Fritz Lang, portraying himself, acidly jokes that CinemaScope “wasn’t meant for human beings. Just for snakes and funerals.”
