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    Michele Tongate Named Exec. Prod. At CUT

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    By KATHY DeSALVO

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    Postproduction house charlieuniformtango (CUT), Dallas, has promoted Michele Tongate to an executive producers position. She will share exec. producer duties with CUT president/exec. producer Lola Lott.

    Tongate joined CUT when it opened in Dec. 95 and had been working as a post producer. Her new responsibilities will include overseeing all aspects of the companys editorial, music and audio projects.

    I feel very fortunate to have grown with the company since its inception, said Tongate. Im looking forward to the continued development and growth of charlieuniformtango, and the creative projects were part of on a local and national level.

    In 90, Tongate graduated from The American University in Washington, D.C., with a degree in international relations. Following graduation, she moved to Los Angeles, where she spent two years working in production for Paramount Studios Hard Copy. Following this, she moved into freelance production and relocated to Dallas in 94 to continue her career.

    Founded in 95 by Lott and VP/senior editor Jack Waldrip, CUT also features editor/composer Mark Boardman, editor Jon Price, graphics editor David Slack, visual effects artist Dave Laird, post producer Mary Alice Butler, postproduction coordinator Missey Dobbs and audio engineer Russell Smith.

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    Hollywood’s Oscar Season Turns Into A Pledge Drive In Midst Of L.A. Wildfires

    Wednesday, January 15, 2025

    When the Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles last Tuesday, Hollywood's awards season was in full swing. The Golden Globes had transpired less than 48 hours earlier and a series of splashy awards banquets followed in the days after.

    But the enormity of the destruction in Southern California has quickly snuffed out all festiveness in the movie industry's high season of celebration. At one point, the flames even encroached on the hillside above the Dolby Theatre, the home of the Academy Awards.

    The fires have struck at the very heart of a movie industry still trying to stabilize itself after years of pandemic, labor turmoil and technological upheaval. Not for the first time this decade, the Oscars are facing the question of: Should the show go on? And if it does, what do they mean now?

    "With ALL due respect during Hollywood's season of celebration, I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider NOT televising them and donating the revenue they would have gathered to victims of the fires and the firefighters," "Hacks" star Jean Smart, a recent Globe winner, wrote on Instagram.

    The Oscars remain as scheduled, but it's certain that they will be transformed due to the wildfires, and that most of the red-carpet pomp that typically stretches between now and then will be curtailed if not altogether canceled. With so many left without a home by the fires, there's scant appetite for the usual self-congratulatory parades of the season.

    Focus has turned, instead, to what the Oscars might symbolize for a traumatized Los Angeles. The Oscars have never meant less, but, at the same time, they might be more important than ever as a beacon of perseverance for the reeling movie capital.

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