I don’t know if this counts, but my name is on the DVD Credits page of the LOTR DVDs that just came out on 8/29.
It means a lot to me because when Fellowship came out, I watched it at the Mann Theatres in Culver City CA, right in the middle of early motion picture history. I stayed to watch the credits and the movie manager walked up to me and said “Why are you watching this, your name isn’t up there.” I should have hit him. I wanted to hit him, I still want to hit him. It’s not because he said it to me, it’s because he had the audacity to think he knew what someone who worked on movies looked like – I could have been a director, or a gaffer, or sound, or lighting tech, I could have been Speilberg’s @$&@& !ing niece, and he still said that.
The magic of Hollywood is that anyone can be anything, not just on-screen.
While I hope that some of that magic turns that a$$hole into a toad, some of that magic got my name on a DVD that hopefully a few million people will buy and go who is R—... on the credits page?
