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50 M PS E . O R G to find out what is your favorite movie that you worked on? JR: Well, I don't know that I have one favorite movie. I would have to say there were three or four that were favorites of mine. For various reasons. I'll try to make this brief. E.T., in that it was my first big blockbuster, let's call it that. Let's see, I would have to say Who Framed Roger Rabbit, just because of how unusual it was doing both live action and animation. Schindler's List, just because of the subject matter and how important it is to history, and how graphic and realistic we need to make the Foley side which was tough. Another film we will talk about a little bit today, I think, will be The Abyss, and that was mostly underwater, and that's a real challenge. And oh, gosh, I could pick a couple other ones, I suppose. The Little Mermaid is close to my heart because I just love the directors, John [Musker] and Ron [Clements]. It was a great picture. And last but not least, I'd say maybe the Thriller video. Not a movie, per se, but we approached it like a film when John Landis directed it for Michael Jackson. So that's kind of the thumbnail sketch there. SSS: There you go. And my favorite movie and hardest movie I've ever worked on was Twister, where I got to work with you. That was quite the privilege to work with you on that movie. JR: Yeah, it was a group effort. It was a lot of fun. That was a really tough film. SSS: You have more than 760 IMDb credits. Did you know that? JR: I'm going to tell you something. IMDb, who we might love, they are a huge P.I.T.A. Why? Some person has decided to promote my name on some projects that I have not done. There are probably 20, maybe 30 pictures listed on my IMDb that I did not work on, and I do go through it probably once every month or two months and submit back to them saying please take my name off this. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't. So I basically have given up at this point. I will do it when I see it and ask them but I don't make it my mission. I've given up because it's too crazy. I would say 95% of what you see there I have worked on. SSS: Now, P.I.T.A., what does that mean? JR: Pain in the ass. [Laughter] SSS: I knew I shouldn't have asked. You have won 13 Golden Reel Awards, including the MPSE Career Achievement Award in 2013, and you have a total of 66 nominations, of which 64 are Golden Reel Award nominations and the other two are Primetime Emmy nominations. JR: The Lifetime Achievement Award [Career Achievement Award]. That was incredible. My whole family loved it. SSS: Yes, it was, it was a great night. You should be very proud of that. JR: I am proud of that. I am. But if we look deeply into that, we would see all sorts of people because it's not me really. Honestly, it's not. SSS: You've always been humbled about your achievements in your career, and you've always given credit to others. And that's very honorable for you to do that. That's the truth. You had formed your own company, TAJ Soundworks. T-A-J, Tim, Alan, John. How did that start? JR: Well, Tim Sadler had been my partner back then. I was a Foley artist, and he was a mixer. And we'd worked a couple of different places, but we really didn't have a place of our own. So he got a line through a mutual acquaintance or friend which had a music-only recording studio John with a picture of his mentor, Charles L. "Chuck" Campbell (1930-2013).