Btw, an British composer I know composed the music for a couple of Hollywood movies in the 70s. He said that "Hollywood rules" forced a composer to have an orchestrator even if that person isn't used (in cases where the composer orchestrate him/herself, which my fried did). Was it really like that? Or perhaps it still is like that?
I've never heard of that, but then I've not been active in that part of the business, either. Any such rules would be musicians union rules, since Hollywood productions are governed by the overlapping and sometimes conflicting work rules of all the many different unions involved. (Which is also why more and more "Hollywood" movies are being shot in places like Canada and New Zealand and Eastern Europe, where they can get away from the strict (and expensive!) union rules.) Stephen Spielberg is shooting at least part of "War of the Worlds" just a few miles from here in Virginia, which just happens to be a right-to-work state with weak unions.
John
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