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Clubhouse News cinematography while attending the University of North Carolina, Rodney Taylor, ASC began shooting live sports for ESPN, ABC and TBS. In 1987, he photographed his first feature-length documentary, and the next year he reloJan. 26, will be named for Laszlo Kovacs, ASC, who died on July 22. “Laszlo envisioned the Heritage Award as a tangible way for us to inspire talented, young cinematography students to pursue their dreams,” says ASC President Daryn Okada. “It was his idea to dedicate the Heritage Award to the memory of a different ASC member each year.” So Well Remembered Alex Thomson, BSC, who in 2002 was fêted with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Society of Cinematographers and also served as the editor of the BSC’s newsletter, died in June at the age of 78. After finishing his National Service in the Royal Corps of Signals, Thomson was determined to get into the film business, and his first break was indeed a fortuitous one; finding employment at Denham Studios, he was made clapper boy on the feature So Well Remembered, photographed by Freddie Young, BSC. After Denham, Thomson put in a few years with Technicolor, where he worked on such films as Laurence Olivier’s Richard III and John Huston’s Moulin Rouge, and then moved on to Pinewood Studios before setting off as a freelance focus puller and, later, an operator. Thomson’s career as a director of photography got off to a rollicking good start with his first feature credit, Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush. Later work included Legend and Hamlet, both of which earned BSC Awards, and Excalibur, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination. He once said he was most proud of his work on Michael Cimino’s The Sicilian. Thomson is survived by his wife, Diana Golding, and daughter, Chyna Thomson, who worked frequently with him as a camera assistant and operator. — Jon D. Witmer I New Members The Society recently welcomed two new active members to its ranks, Adam Kane and Rodney Taylor. A native of Burbank, California, and the son of industry veterans Artie and Sara Kane (a composer and a studio singer, respectively), Adam Kane, ASC got his start in the business at age 14 assisting the staff cameraman at a grassroots television station in Aspen, Colorado. After high school, he refined his passion for cinematography under the tutelage of Hungarian cinematographer Beda Batka at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. After shooting nine films as an undergraduate, Kane next sought his master’s degree from the American Film Institute. With that degree in hand, he began building his résumé, shooting commercials, infomercials, independent features, low-budget television, and video news with the Associated Press. Since the late 1990s, Kane has shot a number of features (including The Boondock Saints, Love and Sex, The Man, Skinwalkers, and Resurrecting the Champ) and television pilots (including Heroes, which earned an ASC Award nomination). His TV credits include The West Wing, Hack and Grey’s Anatomy. After discovering his passion for 110 November 2007 cated to Los Angeles, where he worked as an assistant before moving into the role of director of photography in the mid-1990s. In addition to his narrative feature credits (including Sparkler, Morning and Riders), Taylor has put together an impressive body of work in the Imax format, an accomplishment that earned him a Kodak Vision Award in 2003. Some of his Imax credits include Ride Around the World, Wired to Win, The Legend of Loch Lomond, Michael Jordan to the Max and Alaska: Spirit of the Wild. Most recently, he photographed Home of the Giants for director Rusty Gorman and Save Me for director Rob Cary. Heritage Award Dedicated to Kovacs’ Memory The 2008 ASC Heritage Award, which will be presented to one or more recipients during the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards on

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