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up as a camera operator and then as a director of photography. We stayed friends over the years. We wouldn’t necessarily see each other, but we’d talk on the phone, especially during football season. We were both USC fans. I think what I’ll miss most about him is chatting with him about the Trojan football team or about the movies we had seen. Every month or two, for 40 years, we’d talk on the phone. We never lost contact with each other. There’s a scene in The Professionals where they blow up the hacienda. [Director] Richard Brooks [was impatient] to start shooting, but Billy and I were building a barricade around our cameras because 100 sticks of dynamite were going to go off, and we didn’t want that timber to go through our bodies. Brooks said we were sissies. When the explosion went off, timber flew all around our barricade, hitting everything around us. Brooks didn’t say a word. He just kept quiet. Billy and Connie [Hall] both grew beards, and they made a bet: whoever cut his beard off first lost the bet. Nobody ever won or lost because neither of them ever cut his beard off! Bobby Byrne, ASC (1st AC on The Professionals, Paint Your Wagon and Monte Walsh ; camera operator on A Reflection of Fear and The Day of the Dolphin; 2nd-unit director of photography on The Legend of the Lone Ranger): I met Billy through my brother, a script supervisor. I used to ask Billy for advice. I’d say, ‘Hey, look at this frame. I really like it. Do you?’ And he’d say, ‘No, get the tree out of there.’ And I’d say, ‘But I love it this way,’ and he’d say, ‘Okay, leave it in, but it stinks!’ Early on, he told me, ‘You’ve got an eye. You’re not good yet, but you’ve got an eye.’ We were making The Professionals and shooting on Saturdays. Billy and Conrad [Hall, ASC] were big USC football fans, and every Saturday they’d have the radio on, listening to the game. And every Saturday Richard Brooks would scream, ‘Turn that damn thing off!’ So we decided to play a joke on him. One Saturday, we all wore USC T-shirts under
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Top: Filming the afterlife for the acclaimed comedy Heaven Can Wait (1978), a stylish remake of the classic 1941 picture Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Fraker’s cinematography earned him one of the film’s nine Academy Award nominations. Middle: Fraker, a lifelong USC football fan,shows off a good passing motion while planning the movie’s gridiron scenes with Beatty. Bottom: Director Floyd Mutrux and Fraker on the set of American Hot Wax (1978).
Heaven Can Wait photos by Peter Sorel, SMPSP.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - November, 2010
American Cinematographer - November 2010
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: “Sextape”
Production Slate: The LXD • Monsters
Horse Power
The World’s Most Wanted Man
A Modern Romance
King of Cool
Primetime Artistry
Post Focus: New Hat
Tricks of the Trade
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Phedon Papamichael
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Contents
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - 7
American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Short Takes: “Sextape”
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Production Slate: The LXD • Monsters
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Horse Power
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - The World’s Most Wanted Man
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - A Modern Romance
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - King of Cool
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Primetime Artistry
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Post Focus: New Hat
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Tricks of the Trade
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - New Products & Services
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - International Marketplace
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Ad Index
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - Clubhouse News
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American Cinematographer - November, 2010 - ASC Close-Up: Phedon Papamichael
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