The one person who you'd think would be in a position to offer some insight into the Tony Montana story claims he knows nothing about it.
Marc Wallice, who just turned 40 October 2, was contacted Wednesday afternoon. Wallice voiced genuine surprise at what happened. Then, again, Marc has not been very active in the business lately. "Nobody called me to tell me," said Wallice who indicates that he's been having a real hard time finding a job in the business. "VCA laid me and eight other people off. They kept one off line editor and call him in only when they need him for Jane Hamilton's stuff. Everybody else in house does their own editing. That's been like three months now.
"I can't find anything," Wallice continues. "I put the word out that I want to get on some crews. Bud Lee hired me for his last three movies, paying me $250 a day to shoot some behind-the-scenes stuff. That was real nice. I helped out with the boom a couple of times. I talked to P.T. at Vivid about it, and he said that it was a trained job. I couldn't argue with him. I got these few little jobs in between which barely offset it with a little help from my mother. And so I decided to hit the pavement and look for a fucking regular job. But what kind of experience can I put down?
"I called Chris Mann at Video Team a few days ago. I said I heard you might be getting an editing bay. I'd like to do that. And if it's anything to do that I haven't done, I pick it up quick. Then I called him Wednesday morning just as he was walking out the door. They told me he does want to talk to me. I have nothing to do but prove myself as a hard worker, now. I also checked in on Metro. But I've been getting down in the dumps. I went to Home Depot. I looked through the paper, telemarketing jobs, supermarkets - anything that's no experience is a minimum wage job. That's another thing with looking for a job. You look at the birthdates. People don't want to hire a fucking 40 year-old person. They want to hire someone in their 20's. Or maybe I'm looking for all kinds of excuse. But nothing's happening. I even went to Sears and had a half-hour interview to renew warranties on merchandise. They didn't call me back.
Concerning Montana, Wallice had this comment, "That's really incredible. Has he been testing all along? What the fuck did he go do? He and I used to hang out and get stoned many, many years ago. Back when Roy Brewington had his studio in Van Nuys. He definitely doesn't use needles. The last time I ran into Tony was at Jay Shanahan's studio when I was working for Lucky."
