Andre J de Saint Phalle

Andre J de Saint Phalle

Sahara Dust - 1980’s Windsurfing Antigua Memoir

Hitting The Big Time

Sahara Dust — Part One: Chasing My Tail — Chapter Four

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André J. de Saint Phalle
Apr 06, 2026
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They put me in the ready room.

It was a glorified storage closet — floor-to-ceiling racks of 35mm film in a windowless room deep inside the editorial building at Universal Studios, Studio City, California. Each ten-minute segment of a TV show or feature film could generate a dozen or more reels. Picture reels, dialogue reels, dialogue replacement reels, …

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