hoffa and celeb-reality

Currently I'm cutting some "celebrity greetings" for the teamster convention with Hilmer, our editor. We are having fun pairing up these sound bites shot remotely from celebrities like Jack Nicholson, John Travolta and Tom Hanks, with sound bites from teamsters. the most fun part is finding music to underscore the whole thing, like Johnny Cash "I Won't Back Down" and Neil Young "Union Man."

The hard part is weaving sometimes, seemingly disembodied celebrity comments, with what the teamsters are saying. I think Ving Rhames had the most heartfelt salute out of the lot. Where as every teamsters is coming from a place that's very real. They're saying cool things about their lives and their struggles to be treated fairly and how they are proud to be a teamster, a part of something that is fighting for them, the convention theme is "moving forward together." The celebrities are just wishing the IBT Happy 100th!

I'm getting with this brotherhood/sisterhood thing. Some guy called me sister and Hilmer, brother the other day.