FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Thanks to Bill's longtime friend (since the Dean Street days), Michael Groob, the following appeared in the Hollywood Reporter on April 19:

A funeral mass will be offered Friday in Doylestown, Pa., for Bill Bukowski, a film technician whose development of the Optimax III system was instrumental in a revival of 3-D cinema in the early 1980s. He died late last month at age 54 after a fall at his home in North Hollywood, Calif.

Bukowski served as 3-D technical supervisor for the spaghetti-style Western “Comin’ At Ya!” (1981) and “The Man Who Wasn’t There” (1983), starring Steve Guttenberg. He edited numerous trailers and worked as an assistant director and sound technician.

Michael has also contributed the following pictures of Bill - first with Michael in 1978 and Bill alone in 2003.