Blind Items Revealed
July 15, 2008
This
one is a little hard to disguise because honestly there are not that
many directors names that would just pop in your head. Yes, I know you
can name a million, but think of the average person. How many directors
can they name? This is one of them. Oh, and he always writes his own
stuff as well.
So, this director bought a farm/estate about 4
years ago. It has been in existence for awhile and so had a number of
employees already there when he bought it. Even though it isn't really
related to the kindness, our director has treated the employees who
remained much better in the past four years then they ever were treated
by the past employers.
One of the guys who worked on the estate
was given some new jobs when the director took over. The director hired
him to work on his films as an electrician, handyman, and bartender for
parties on the sets. He even gave the guy some bit parts in his films.
Well about a year ago, the worker was diagnosed with liver cancer. Over
the course of the year our worker had his ups and downs but finally died
last week. From the time he was initially diagnosed, our director made
sure that the worker received the best care in the world wherever in the
world it could be found. He made sure the worker's girlfriend could
travel with the worker.
The director made phone calls, called in
favors, consulted with the best doctors in the world all for his
employee. No matter what he did though, it just was never enough. The
director now feels he could have even done more to help, and has been in
terrible shape over the past week since the worker's death.
M. Night Shyamalan