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Colin Hanks apparently has directed a doc on Tower Records. Looking forward to this. I used to practically live in the Tower Records in Foggy Bottom in DC on weekends as a kid. Staying at my dad's in Friendship Heights, I'd take Metro down and they were the best adventures and because I had a job picking balls on a driving range, I had money to blow on records. I'm not the nostalgic type, but I'll indulge on this one.
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/the-rise-and-fall-of-tower-records-colin-hanks-on-his-tribute-doc-20150327
Like this bit, which sounds like a lot of sales guys i've known:
Hanks and his crew, including producer Sean Stuart and writer Steven Leckart, began the film seven years ago and finished it thanks to a recent $92,000 round of Kickstarter funding. In directing his first movie, the actor borrowed a strategy from Solomon: "The Tom Sawyer theory of letting someone else paint the fence." At Tower, the founder never disciplined an employee for drinking on the job or ingesting the necessary substances to make it through intense all-night inventory sessions.
"You find the people that get their #### together, who get the job done, regardless of how much fun they have — and you leave 'em alone," Hanks says of the the organization's laissez-faire management style. "It's pretty dangerous, but it works for the era and for the music business. Russ kept finding himself in the right place, at the right time, with the right attitude."
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/the-rise-and-fall-of-tower-records-colin-hanks-on-his-tribute-doc-20150327
Like this bit, which sounds like a lot of sales guys i've known:
Hanks and his crew, including producer Sean Stuart and writer Steven Leckart, began the film seven years ago and finished it thanks to a recent $92,000 round of Kickstarter funding. In directing his first movie, the actor borrowed a strategy from Solomon: "The Tom Sawyer theory of letting someone else paint the fence." At Tower, the founder never disciplined an employee for drinking on the job or ingesting the necessary substances to make it through intense all-night inventory sessions.
"You find the people that get their #### together, who get the job done, regardless of how much fun they have — and you leave 'em alone," Hanks says of the the organization's laissez-faire management style. "It's pretty dangerous, but it works for the era and for the music business. Russ kept finding himself in the right place, at the right time, with the right attitude."
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