Pop Geeks’ Flashback Interview: Alan Heim
I’ve interviewed quite a few people in the entertainment industry over the course of the past 8 1/2 years, but up until this February, I had never interviewed an Oscar winner. That changed when I spoke to Alan Heim. Mr. Heim won an Oscar for editing “All That Jazz” in 1980, and as we get close to the 35th anniversary of his Oscar win, I interviewed him about his editing work for filmmakers like Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Nick Cassavetes and more. It takes all sorts of people to make a movie, and an editor goes a long way to making a movie what it is. Get ready to meet one of the best as I interview Alan Heim. Johnny: To start off, in your early days of film editing, you were also a sound editor on the TV show “East Side/West Side” and movies like “The Pawnbroker” and “The Producers”. What led to the transition from editing the audio to editing the visuals? Alan: I was, frankly, bored, and I