ABSTRACT
Don Bassman, chief honcho of sound at Twentieth Century Fox, started out as a production mixer on many classic Fox pictures. Norval Crutcher, a founding member and past president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), won the MPSE’s Life Achievement award in 1989. He has spent a career battling to have the contribution of sound recognized by the movie community and the lay public. 1991 saw three veterans of the post-production sound scene in Hollywood felled by the effects of time and stress on the human body. Gene Corso, while working on the new Peter Bogdanovich picture, collapsed with a stroke and has had to take it easy. Aside from his dedication and exceptionally high professional standards, the point about Spivack most reiterated by the speakers was his incredible ear. On the scoring stage, he could point out to Alfred Newman that one violinist was slightly off, even though the entire 100 piece 20th Century-Fox Orchestra was playing.
