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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
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Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 04-01-2006 06:34 PM
Well said, Bud.
I was afraid this might happen. Bruce and Steve are good friends and I was really hoping it would work for them. They really gave it the ol' college try, but I guess the chips were stacked against them. Starplex will certainly benefit from their continued service, however. That much is good news.
Nearly my entire service career was spent with ASC Technical Services... first under Lamarr Michael in '82, and later Bruce Schroeder. As noted, the loss of General Cinema was the impetus to the former ASC's demise. As Louis said, it truly is the end of an era. The company went back to 1937.
While we're raggin' on Bob Gandolfi... I'd gotten laid off when the GCC-to-AMC deal finalized, so I put that on my application when I began driving a truck. The trucking company called Bob to verify my info, and he told them that I'd QUIT! (But then, says I, how was it that I was getting UI, if I'd quit?) Fortunately, I had them call back and talk to Bruce.
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Sam D. Chavez
Film God
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Posts: 2153
From: Martinez, CA USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 04-01-2006 06:56 PM
I, like others have stories about Bob.
A Million years ago, before TAP, I used to assign calls for Universal, WB, Columbia and others. I did as many as 150 screens for various films. It was always a scramble to find good techs for each city.
All the srvice groups gave me lists of techs with phone numbers, but not Bob. He insisted I send him the list and he would do the assignments. According to him, all his techs were excellent and equal. Since it was my ass, I found my own people.
The reason he would not cough up the list is he as afraid I would make side deals with the techs and he would be cut out. What a dirty mind!
It came to a head in St. Louis when I unknowingly sent the late Vern Klingman of RCA into an ASC house. Even after that, he would not cough up a list.
Let's just say he wasn't a people person. Everyone else at ASC was, in my experience.
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