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The Outsourcerer’s Apprentice?

November 1, 2004

Remember, the job you lose just may be your own! […]

UNION MADE: Straight Outta Detroit

January 1, 2012

My mother, father, aunt and uncles were all in the teachers union. I learned from an early age how unions can help us make our lives better. […]

UNION MADE: Come On, Feel the Noise

January 1, 2014

I was preparing for a career in Foley. Whether I was imitating a birdcall that I heard during recess or pantomiming the rhythm of Miss Brady’s heels clip-clopping down the hall, I’ve always had a heightened awareness of sound and movement. […]

UNION MADE: Sounds Like a Great Way to Begin a Career…

September 1, 2015

Knowing that I was unhappy with my apartment maintenance job, my cousins invited me to travel with them as their soundman. There was no pay, but they thought I might go for it. They were right; I accepted! […]

Rick Alexander on ‘Ronin’

August 4, 2017

In 1998, when re-recording mixers Rick Alexander and Richard D. Rogers first met with director John Frankenheimer about working on “Ronin,” there were many subjects that could have been discussed. […]

Blame It on the Beatles
The Launch of an All-Around Sound Career

December 8, 2017

When I was born and raised in the west San Fernando Valley in the late 1950s; television was black-and-white, radio was mono and AM radio channel KHJ with “The Real Don Steele” was the coolest thing. […]

Early on, a Woman’s Place Was in the Cutting Room

December 2, 2016

“Great film editing begins with great pictures,” said Barbara “Bobbie” McLean in a 1977 interview in Film Comment magazine. She could make such a gracious statement with authority at that point, after cutting for more than 60 years, beginning as […]

Robert “Bubba” Nichols on ‘Top Gun’

June 12, 2018

To hear Robert “Bubba” Nichols describe it, working as a recordist sounds a little like serving as a fighter pilot. Okay, okay — pilots operate under life-and-death pressures in the air, while recordists toil under far less challenging conditions on a re-recording stage. […]