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At 5:15 on a Thursday morning, a young cosmetologist boarded a bus for the first studio job of his career. Cold and out of his element, the wide-eyed 29-year-old assumed he was merely being driven to other side of Columbia Studios. When the bus pulled out of the front gate, Maurice Stein figured he was headed to the studio’s San Fernando Valley location. He cast his eyes around at the other occupants of the bus, seasoned veterans who all knew what to do – sleep. He would not dare. So Stein sat, wondering where he was going. Forty-five minutes later, parked in the middle of the Santa Clarita Valley, a northern suburb of Los Angeles where Stein would later ride dirt bikes with his sons, he was handed his equipment makeup and a sponge. Read More
- Published in AIA Legend
