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11: 24 PM Getting back to the In Memoriam section: I first remember seeing Maggie Smith in California Suite, a 1978 movie. That’s some fifty years ago.  That’s a dang long time to be giving good performances in all sorts of movies. Dabney Coleman - Nine to Five. Classic. Dick Pope was the primary cinematographer for Mike Leigh, and had a forty year career.  Any time you can bring it for that long, any time in this job you can have a relationship with a director where the director wants to use you over and over and over again over a very long period of time… Marshall Brickman worked on several of the best Woody Allen films.  And his own movie Simon isn’t all that good, but the trip into Manhattan to see that movie over holiday break in 1980 is one of the keynote days in my coming of age as someone who really, really, really loved going to the movies.  A movie at Cinema One, a movie at the Loews Astor Plaza with mind-blowing six track 70mm sound.  A great day. Mar...