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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. […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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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.
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UNION MADE: History + Photography = Documentary Editing Career
I was fortunate to fall into picture editing. […]
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UNION MADE: From the Art House to the Cutting Room
I was on the path of the confused college looking primarily for an interesting career and secondarily for a way to earn a living. My two goals never seemed to want to co-exist. […]
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UNION MADE: A High-Flying Career in TV Editing
As a member of both the Editors Guild and the American Cinema Editors, I look back on my 50-plus years in the greatest industry on the planet, feeling blessed that I was able to earn a good living in jobs that I loved. […]
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I Cut My Teeth on Kinescopes
My interests in film and theatre started at Roy Elementary School in Northlake, Illinois, when I got to do lighting for school plays. […]
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UNION MADE: The Symmetry of an Editing Career
Production felt like endless problem solving––whereas editing was about storytelling using a vocabulary of images and sounds, and that excited me. […]
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UNION MADE: Growing Up with Moviemaking — And Never Leaving
When I saw the ending montage of my character walking into the sunset to the Doors’ “Not to Touch the Earth,” I was floored at the raw emotion it invoked in me. It was a defining moment and my first encounter with the power of image and music. […]
