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liptonrm_backupThis afternoon has been filled with shocked and sorrowful text messages and phone calls between all of us at FGC. Someone we truly admired had died.
Back in 1994 I started watching a little show called The X-Files and faithfully caught every episode until I left for my mission in September 2000. After dozens of episodes, and nearly as many years, most of what I saw has faded into a colorful amalgam in the back of my mind. But there are a few that stick out, that appear in more vibrant colors and a greater depth of tone. It will surprise no one that many of those most memorable episodes were directed by Kim Manners. He could take an otherwise mediocre episode and bring out the depth of emotion that lay underneath. He was a true artist and he was one of a select group of television directors who proved how powerful an episode of tv could be, that brought moviescreen vision to a smaller, more personal medium.
I never got the chance to tell him what his work meant to me, I never got the chance to thank him for the way he affected my life. Thank you Kim, from the bottom of my heart.
I'll miss you.
Back in 1994 I started watching a little show called The X-Files and faithfully caught every episode until I left for my mission in September 2000. After dozens of episodes, and nearly as many years, most of what I saw has faded into a colorful amalgam in the back of my mind. But there are a few that stick out, that appear in more vibrant colors and a greater depth of tone. It will surprise no one that many of those most memorable episodes were directed by Kim Manners. He could take an otherwise mediocre episode and bring out the depth of emotion that lay underneath. He was a true artist and he was one of a select group of television directors who proved how powerful an episode of tv could be, that brought moviescreen vision to a smaller, more personal medium.
I never got the chance to tell him what his work meant to me, I never got the chance to thank him for the way he affected my life. Thank you Kim, from the bottom of my heart.
I'll miss you.
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