Veteran Director Marty Pasetta Dies at 82
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Mark Jeffries
May 22, 2015, 3:00:41 PM5/22/15
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He directed every Oscarcast from 1972 to 1988 and was responsible for such things now taken for granted on awards shows like seat fillers, picture cards of the nominees on their seats during rehearsals, the five-way inserts of the nominees when the presenter opens the envelope, and more--he also directed many variety shows and was a key confederate to NBC early-mid-70s daytime programming chief Lin Bolen (inspiration for Faye Dunaway's Diana Christensen in "Network") by directing the pilots and opening weeks of her game shows, no matter who the packager was (with only Heatter-Quigley getting out of having to use him) and created the reverse polarity mirror shot of the wheel on "Wheel of Fortune" that everybody thinks is an overhead crane shot (all four directors that succeeded him to this day shoot the wheel the same way)--he also produced his own syndicated game show in the 80s, "Catch Phrase" (which bombed in the U.S. but has been successful in foreign markets):
Mark Jeffries
May 22, 2015, 3:02:06 PM5/22/15
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I should add in case you don't hit the link that Mr. Pasetta died outside Palm Springs when an unmanned car struck his vehicle.
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:
He directed every Oscarcast from 1972 to 1988 and was responsible for such things now taken for granted on awards shows like seat fillers, picture cards of the nominees on their seats during rehearsals, the five-way inserts of the nominees when the presenter opens the envelope, and more--he also directed many variety shows and was a key confederate to NBC early-mid-70s daytime programming chief Lin Bolen (inspiration for Faye Dunaway's Diana Christensen in "Network") by directing the pilots and opening weeks of her game shows, no matter who the packager was (with only Heatter-Quigley getting out of having to use him) and created the reverse polarity mirror shot of the wheel on "Wheel of Fortune" that everybody thinks is an overhead crane shot (all four directors that succeeded him to this day shoot the wheel the same way)--he also produced his own syndicated game show in the 80s, "Catch Phrase" (which bombed in the U.S. but has been successful in foreign markets):
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Bob Jersey
May 22, 2015, 3:30:54 PM5/22/15
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Even non-Elvis fans might consider his direction of The King's landmark "Aloha from Hawai'i" special a slightly greater pinnacle...
Mark Jeffries, to his own post:
I should add in case you don't hit the link that Mr. Pasetta died outside Palm Springs when an unmanned car struck his vehicle.
Guy gets out without putting the car in park, that's bad enough... then it moves and collides with the other car... as dad would say, who builds this ****?
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