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Heathers (AC Nov. ’88), came three years later. (His credits also include the features New Jack City , She’s All That, Scary Movie, Harriet the Spy and Jason’s Lyric ; the telefilm Sweet Bird of Youth ; and the documentaries The Creation of the Universe, Riders in the Wind (Aboard the Calypso) and He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’. The latter was an Academy Award winner.) When Kenny moved from New York to Los Angeles to concentrate on feature work, he called the local office of the International Cinematographers Guild and told them he would like to join. “They’re probably still laughing about it,” he says, shaking his head at his own naïveté. Kenny has a wonderful sense of humor about himself, and has no qualms confessing gaffes he has made along the way. The first major-studio project he shot was a TV series called The Flash. “Someone came up to me and asked if I needed ‘greens.’ I thought he was talking about ficus trees, and said, ‘No, I don’t think so.’ Turns out, of course, he was talking about green beds that cost about $80,000 to put up. The guy went back to the producer and said, ‘This guy’s brilliant; he just saved us $80,000.’ A week before shooting, I announced, ‘I’m going to need some way to put lights up there.’ The guy looked at me like I was a moron and said, ‘I asked you that before.’” Even after 30 years as a cinematographer, Kenny still gets excited about “what you can achieve through the power of an image. There is a reason why you’re telling a story a certain way with your camera and with light. Justified has a wonderful texture — the characters have dirt under their fingernails, their jeans are 10 years old — so I light in a way I call ‘asymmetrical.’ On most shows the actors are perfectly lit, but the producers on Justified let me use toplight. It’s not smooth and perfectly wrapped; instead, it looks real, and that makes the story better. Of course, I couldn’t do any of it without my remarkable crew.” Kenny maintains that “nothing
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Top: Kenny and director Nicolas Roeg on location for the telefilm Sweet Bird of Youth in 1989. Middle: The cinematographer quenches his thirst while Roeg checks the frame and star Elizabeth Taylor readies herself for the scene at hand. Bottom: Kenny lines up a shot with co-star Valerie Perrine.

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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: When You Find Me
Production Slate: The Ghastly Love of Johnny X • Project X
Varied Visions
Power Trip
Blazing Trails
A Wholly “Justified” Honor
Filmmakers’ Forum: Vincent De Paula
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoriam: Torben Johnke, ASC
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Jonathan Taylor
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