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Blood, Sweat, and Tedium

Michael Taylor

I was a juicer in Hollywood - set lighting technician - for forty years, and now I'm not ... so instead I tell stories about life inside the belly of the film and television industry beast

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I've Seen the Future

And this isn’t it.

On a recent Friday, weary of the usual whatever’s-in-the-fridge lunch at home, I drove around the narrow sliver of a bay that defines my part of the world to a little oyster shack that was built out over the water more t...

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Back to Work

(Note: This one is from March of 2016, my final year in Hollywood)

The parking pass worked, much to my surprise. What was once a shiny new badge with a clear photo and crisp graphics has faded to an all-but-indistinguishable smear, the pla...

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The Waiting is the Hardest Part

We’ve all been there

Years ago, a line from one of my posts resonated among a scattering of fellow film industry veterans: “How many times have I been sitting on an apple box at three a.m. staring at my boots, praying the First A.D. will c...

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The Shoot

Don’t ask…

(Note: this is the follow-up to “Monkey Business.”)

Chimps, kids, cats, and a donkey — this pilot had them all. As discussed previously, working with chimps was not a pleasant ex...

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Dennis Woodruff, Actor

(Note: A more recent missive from the archives — 2022 — appropriately reworked)

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    Born and raised in the Bay Area, then did 40 years of hard labor in Hollywood -- but now I'm back for the duration, however long that may be. Go Giants!

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