[…]to the voting. The idea I think they felt that the editors were getting enough money without overtime. You kept hearing about all these golden hours in American they got paid and thought “Well, why are we slavering away?” It was this time off in lieu that the firms used to offer […]
[…]o you do?’ I said ‘well, I was a trade union organiser and I retired at 60 but since then I have travelled very widely and I had worked in Vienna and Moscow and so on.’And he said ‘do you play tennis?’ I said ‘no’. He said ‘do you play golf?’ I said ‘no’. I felt that I was let down there. ‘Do you be[…]
[…] and Jon Voight as Joe Buck. The film won three Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director. […]
[…] films, Live and Let Die, and The Man with the Golden Gun is mentioned by Sydney Samuelson (http://historyproject.org.uk/interview/sydney-samuelson) and Peggy […]
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[…]ft but then I believe he got involved in a lot of legal hassles and didn't end up happening, but it was a stunning script. And then I did a couple of Golden Oldies as well. The Golden Oldies was a very interesting concept where bright, young directors, and for some reason I was deemed to be one of t[…]
[…]ten to be done in the effects model stage. Both as model work and force I said, Hey, we're on the moon or spaceship. Hey, you've seen pictures of the International Space Station. It's quite cramped, the smaller ladies easy. And I actually wrote in two locations just to get us out. One would have bee[…]
[…]s or work and ideas. And he made a prize winning film was Ron Wyatt, the combination of the two called Guinness Guinness at the Albert Hall which won awards. And obviously, Richard Williams was trying to get financed because he made his one of his early films, little island. And he was working on ot[…]
[…]ll of the programmes was the Referendum programme in September of 1997. We were broadcasting from a constructed studio in the bowels of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre because the declaration was being made upstairs and I was sitting with Bill Miller, who was the psephologist in those […]
