A production design nomination for the sketch series would be the 17th for the late Lee, who started on the NBC show with its 1975 pilot.
“I was very honored to work with Eugene Lee for 47 years,” says fellow production designer Leo Yoshimura. “Eugene hired me to be his art director onin August 1975. I overstayed. I will miss his consummate passion for design. But it is comforting to know that I will still be able to work in Eugene Lee’s television studio. Studio 8H is his room; he created this studio.
Yoshimura describes that train split as “pure luck, since we rehearsed this complicated movement only twice, once at run-through and once at dress rehearsal with an audience. I guess that’s how confident, how good and how foolish we really are.” This story first appeared in a June stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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