posted 08-11-2010 03:51 PM                       

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Jeff Winfield, The Left Banke guitarist, is dead at 60

By Rick Hill

Jeff Winfield, a former guitarist of The Left Banke, died June 13 at age 60 at St. Vincent’s Hospital. His death followed his admission Feb. 25 for an emergency hernia operation with complications of diabetes. His condition worsened with pneumonia.

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When his former father-in-law suggested he follow in his profession and become a film projectionist, Winfield heeded the call and went to a union-run projectionist school on Long Island and joined the projectionists’ union in the city.

The film director Sidney Lumet told Charlie Rose in an interview a few years ago that cinema projection booths as we know them would be gone in two to three years with their 2-inch-wide unbreakable Mylar film and giant and complex projectors in favor of DVD projection. Already the Angelika has projected films using DVD’s.

Last year Winfield retired after 33 years, having worked, as he said, at every cinema in Manhattan and some outer boroughs, including the now-defunct 8th Street Playhouse, across the street from his home, for 29 years.

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