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(E) Tomislav Golubic SIX FEET ABOVE
By Nenad N. Bach | Published  03/5/2002 | Culture And Arts | Unrated
(E) Tomislav Golubic SIX FEET ABOVE
 
Dear All, 
 
For those who are not aware, Thomas Golubic is a music supervisor for the HBO show "Six 
Feet Under", created by Alan Ball, author of American Beauty. Since I know Tomica, I want you to know few things about him. He is extremely talented man, who loves music and know function of the same in the visual arts. He worked at the radio station in Los Angeles and was struggling music supervisor for years. For my taste, and ability to recognize the talent, he was already there many years ago. It was just matter of time when someone else would recognize it. And it finally did. In my opinion one of the best writer of our generation Alan Ball is working with Tomica. What is also important for us Croatians is that he is very proud of his name and keep his (Ch), the line above c, intact on the credit screen. One thing that I also recognized is that Tomica and his partner Gary Calamar have full screen credit. That doesn't happen by chance. If you get your full screen as a music supervisor it means that you are doing tremendous job for the show. I cannot remember last time I've seen that. Ivo Skoric discovered Tomica for me years ago and knowing Ivo's, to say the least avangard, taste in music, I would expect something else. But what is impressive to me as an author is a wide taste and appreciation of any sound that comes over the speakers. I share the same love for music and somehow for me everything is easy in communication with such people. Story after story, we see that our roots go deep. Deeper then six feet under. We are not present just at the landing on the moon or every possible university, or we just don't build parts for space ships and write good music and literature, we have a great music supervisor too. I have a great joy in watching professional at work. Surgeon or buss driver, it doesn't matter. People who love their work and go deep to discover their own vehicle to divine through their talent. The way someone plays the music for you, takes care of CDs or vinyl records... you are watching ballet of movements. 
 
One last note: Thomas Newman's main title theme is original piece of music and so well 
edited with the picture. It's the best I have ever seen on TV. 
 
Nenad Bach 
 
 
Dig TV's 'Six Feet Under' 
      Fri Mar 1, 2:40 PM ET 
      By Steve James 
      NEW YORK (Reuters) - Undertakers were skeptical that "Six Feet Under," the 
      TV drama set around a funeral home, would portray them as grim 
      stereotypes, or play for cheap laughs. But America's funeral directors now 
      are actually praising the show, not burying it. 
 
      Unlike lawyers who lambaste court dramas, and cops who cringe at crime 
      dramas, some death-care industry professionals think the highly-rated AOL 
      Time Warner Inc.'s Home Box Office drama might even help the image of 
      their business. 
      The view of the industry's human side is helpful at a time when the 
      business is in flux, with an increasingly corporate funeral industry 
      trying to hold onto its traditional personal style. 
      "Funeral directors are always portrayed as very eerie, Vincent Price 
      stereotypes, so we brushed it off at first thinking it would be another 
      Hollywood portrayal," said Dawn Fisher, whose husband, John, owns the 
      Fisher Funeral Chapel in Logansport, Ind. 
      Not that kids are suddenly rushing out to become embalmers or makeup 
      artists for the deceased in the same way everyone wanted to be a reporter 
      after "All the President's Men." But undertakers say the TV drama, which 
      starts its second season on Sunday, has people talking more openly about 
      death and the sensitive issue of what happens afterwards. 
      "People kept saying: 'You have to see this,' and so we signed up for HBO," 
      she said. "The death-care industry gets a lot of bad press, but this shows 
      what funeral directors do behind the scenes." 
      "I was concerned at first, when I heard it would be humorous," said Steve 
      Turner, a third-generation funeral director and owner of the Walker 
      Mortuary in Freeport, Ill. 
      "But somebody has really done their homework -- it brings an awareness of 
      the business." 
      In "Six Feet Under," the fictional Fisher & Sons funeral home in Los 
      Angeles is run by two brothers, one gay, one straight. Their widowed 
      mother is re-discovering her youth and their sister is an angst-ridden 
      teen. Son David's gay lover is a black cop, and Nathaniel's girlfriend has 
      a mentally disturbed brother. 
      The family may be dysfunctional, but in the past, Hollywood has usually 
      portrayed undertakers as Dickensian, obsequious Uriah Heep-like 
      characters. For action-minded viewers it may bring to mind "Paul Bearer," 
      the creepy urn-carrying ex-manager of World Wrestling Federation 
      performer, The Undertaker. 
      "They (undertakers) are usually very morbid characters portrayed in a 
      negative light," said David Walkinshaw, spokesman for the National Funeral 
      Directors Association. "On 'Six Feet Under,' they are believable people, 
      albeit with character flaws. 
      Death is traditionally a difficult subject to talk about, he said. "Now 
      they can, in the guise of asking about the show," said Walkinshaw, a 
      funeral director at Saville & Grannan in Arlington, Mass. "A lot of what's 
      in 'Six Feet Under,' I lived myself." 
      HBO spokeswoman Mara Mikialian said the show was the channel's highest 
      rated series in a first season -- better than "The Sopranos (news - Y! 
      TV)" even, or "Sex and the City (news - Y! TV)." This season it will 
      feature its first Buddhist and first Jewish funerals. 
      E-mails and letters from funeral homes pour in. 
      "They say the show is doing a service de-mystifying death," Mikialian 
      said. 
      The show comes at a time when the issue of corporate takeover of 
      family-run funeral homes is a recurring theme and major funeral and 
      cemetery companies have recently reported disappointing income. 
      At a time when people in the United States are living longer, a more 
      mobile population means that families tend to be dispersed. And because 
      fewer people are buried in family plots, funeral companies have focused on 
      so-called pre-need sales, in which customers pre-pay the cost of their own 
      funeral. 
      Also, more Americans are choosing cremation, which costs less. Bob 
      Achermann, executive director of the California Funeral Directors 
      Association, said there is an approximate 50-50 split between cremations 
      and burials in his state. 
      Achermann said of the TV show: "You see lots of issues raised that the 
      public is not aware of, like the obvious bias against corporate ownership. 
 
      "They are portrayed as trying to threaten and buy out the small funeral 
      directors. (But) Corporate ownership is common and in the show, the 
      corporations tend to be heavy-handed." 
      "I watch the show and I think it's well-written. Talking about it (death) 
      is normally difficult as people would rather not know the details. 
      Anything that fosters understanding of the death-care industry is 
      helpful," said Achermann. 
      "I have not heard of anyone who thinks it's awful," said Tammy Neville, 
      administrator of the Illinois Funeral Directors Association. "Whoever the 
      writers are, they have true insight into the funeral profession." 
      But it's the gallows humor of creator Alan Ball's drama set in a funeral 
      home that has the professionals laughing. 
      "We all have curious things that have happened that would fit into a dark 
      comedy," said Walkinshaw. "Like the clergyman falling in the grave or the 
      grave caving in. 
      "I was at one funeral where the moment the priest ended the prayer, the 
      stone slid silently into the grave. But we wouldn't want to embarrass 
      anyone and we keep it to ourselves." 
 
 
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