RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

["Chasteen, Howard" <Howard.Chasteen(at)fotf.org>]

At the CBS, channel 3  network affiliate station where both my brother and I worked we had a 15 year old kid "Steve" show up and he was an electronics whiz. It was only a few weeks before the nickname "Stevie Wonder" stuck to him. He was one funny character. The joke when something went wrong soon became. "Oh, oh. Where is Stevie".

 

No matter what you tried to show him he already "knew it".  Unfortunately the management took a shine to him because he was working for free in order to "intern". Within two years he was a very unpopular, paid manager and within two more years he moved on and started his own company and went into and out of business about 5 times before he hit it big.

 

He made fistfuls of money and then crashed again. The last I heard Stevie had a bad auto wreck, collapsed into self examination and sat in his apartment a lot looking backwards. Kind of a sad little guy.

 

To this day when I hear Stevie Wonder's music I think of Stevie the intern. What a twisted connection.

 

H

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Tom Harris
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 5:36 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

Love it….30 years in this business, with a lot of that time with my back to a group of egos , I’ve heard it all…Your Theo has come and gone many times….

Tom

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Dsderanged(at)aol.com
Sent: July 31, 2005 5:48 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: OT - He's just fine, right?

 

I can certanily relate to this thread.  I have hemorrhoids older than some of the punk brats I work with.  A common scenario as follows:

 

1.  Young Theodore the Intern delivers a much needed tape that the Agency Producer forgot.  Gets to watch his first edit session for about 5 minutes before he has to go back to the agency and pick up the AE's dry cleaning and wash their cars.

 

2.  A week later, he actually gets to sit in on an entire session and after about 10 minutes is adding stupid suggestions which are promplty ignored.  Gets to eat lunch, orders basic fare and offers to pay for his sandwich.  Is told that lunch comes with the edit.

 

3.  Two weeks later, the Agency Producer calls in sick and young Theodore who now is an employee, gets to actually supervise adding a phone number tag to an existing spot.  We spend about 4 hours trying about 50 different type faces for a phone number then another hour "art directing" the slate.  Milks the session long enough for lunch, orders the most expensive item on the menu AND a Pizza.  He eats the menu item, doesn't eat the pizza, but takes it home for dinner.

 

4. A month later, "Theo" as he insists to be called will be supervising an all day session.

Shows up dressed in all black.  Complains about the lunch menu selections and insists

we order from a place not in the menu book.  Complains that our wi-fi is slow and spends the session on his cell phone pausing only occassionally to bark out some insane order so

whoever he is talking to knows he is in an edit and in total control.

 

5.  A couple of month's go by and we don't see Theo.  Find out that somehow, none of the

edit shops in town are good enough anymore so he has to leave the market for post.

 

Oddly, he has learned more about the business than those of us who have been doing it

forever and strangely, our experience ceased as his continued to grow.

 

Sound familiar????

 

Rick at naked eye