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3:THE O Things are looking up for director Jonathan Hallstrom aka TOOL :
he's shooting a video for new Swe 9.00am I wake up, and rub the sleep off
my eyes. I look out of the veranda in my new three-storey Georgian
townhouse. The morning sunshine in Belgravia has a sublime quality to it.
This is going to be a good year, I think to myself, as I nibble on a pain
au chocolat. Yes, the three commercials I shot in December were hard work.
It was a stressful month. But hey: I've got enough money now to buy a
small county in the Midlands. Jonathan Hallstrom is finally on the up.
9.15am I wake up with horrible cramp. I've just had a dream that I was a
successful commercials director, earning bin liners of cash a day.
Suddenly I get an attack of thirst. My hand reaches out to a jam jar on my
bedside table and I swiftly neck a pint of three-day-old water. Ah, that's
better. Shit! I was supposed to be at a shoot three hours ago.Why didn't
my producer call me? Oh yes. I am the producer. 10am Arrive at the studio.
After getting physically battered with a mic stand for my crimes against
punctuality, I nip into the production room and start sellotaping an empty
16mm Aaton magazine to the back of a PD 150. I got the thing in a car boot
sale; the whole contraption looks like a really convincing lightweight
16mm camera. Amazingly the record company has never twigged this little
trick: it always saves heaps of money on developing and telecine
fees.Well, what can you do for
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