Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household in Ogden, Utah, on September 2, 1929. His father was a dairy farmer. After a rough childhood that included the divorce of his parents, his father’s suicide, his dropping out of high school, getting married and divorced all before he was 19, he decided to leave Utah for California. A Californian employment office found him a printing press job at Universal Studios. Within a few years, he was an assistant film editor at various other studios. One of his pals while at MGM was a young messenger named Jack Nicholson. He moved up to being a full fledged editor on The Loved One (1965) and started editing the films of director Norman Jewison.
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Died Today (December 26th): Jason Robards (1922–2000)
Jason Robards (1922–2000) Born: July 26, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, USA Died: December 26, 2000 (age 78) in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA [about Arthur Miller’s semi-autobiographical play “After the Fall”] They should have called it “After the Money”! Sometimes you do junk just to keep alive. You know it’s junk when you go in. You just… Continue reading Died Today (December 26th): Jason Robards (1922–2000)
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