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Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. is an iconic landmark of the studio era. Any day of the week you can find legions of tourists bending down to photograph the hand and footprints of classic Hollywood stars, a tradtion Sid Grauman began when he opened the theater in 1927 with the premiere of Cecil B. DeMille’s King of Kings.
Labor Day weekend for many of us means only one thing: CINECON, the annual convention of film collectors, film buffs, film historians and archivists. The proceedings begin on Thursday and end on Monday with regulars flying in from all over the country.
As mentioned in my last blog, I became friends with Bob Koster in the late 1990s, when I was working at Universal Studios. Bob is the son of Henry Koster, the well-known Hollywood film director. But Bob Koster also had a long career in the movies, working as an AD (Assistant Director) and UPM (Unit Production Manager).
I can’t exactly remember when I met Bob Koster, but probably some time in my first year at Universal, where I had been hired to establish a material culture archive to collect all the history they had lost, despite being housed on the same piece of east Valley land for 85 years.
It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of our friend and colleague, Charles Hopkins. He died on Saturday morning, July 27 from a number of complications. Charles was UCLA Film & Television Archive’s longest-serving employee, having started at the Archive as a student volunteer in 1971.
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