I SAT IN THE beautiful main reading room of the Library of Congress, flipping through a decades-old copy of Life magazine. My project was to find the people, the stories, and the artifacts—protest signs, TV cameras, 1970s attire, cop cars—that could be re-created by the art department for a Vietnam War protest scene in a feature film I was working on. The film had a funny name, and my list of items to research was even more unusual—from ping pong tournaments in China to helicopters in Vietnam. The film was Forrest Gump, and it turned out to be one of the most amazing stories on the screen—and what a work to help create, in a very small way as a freelance art-department researcher. In addition to my time researching, I adored the ...
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