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Wayne native Mark Kamine makes the shows you talk about
WRITTEN BY CINDYSCHWEICH HANDLER
LA FAMIGLIA Co-producer Mark Kamine ( far left ) attends the Season 2premiere of HBO ’ s The White Lotus with members of the cast and crew in 2022 . ( Opposite ) Kamine and series creator / co-producer / writer Mike White celebrate after the 2022 Emmy Awards .
PREMIERE : AMY SUSSMAN / GETTY IMAGES ; EMMYS : COURTESY OF MARK KAMINE
Mark Kamine ’ s work takes him to alot of high-profile locations , including Wailea in Maui , Taormina in Sicily , and Kearny in Hudson County . While Kearny isn ’ t considered as much ofatourist attraction as the others , itwas Kamine ’ s visit that put it on TV viewers ’ radar : As location manager for The Sopranos , hefound the empty storefront that became Satriale ’ s Pork Store .
Kamine has gone on to co-produce films such as Silver Linings Playbook , American Hustle , Ted and other films , and to executive-produce HBO ’ s The White Lotus , becoming an Emmy and Golden Globe award winner in the process . Inhis new book , On Locations , he takes readers behind the scenes with memorable scene-stealers to show how asuccessful showbiz career takes the same discipline and life balance asother lines of work . Kamine , aformer longtime Montclair resident , shared details with us while working in Thailand , the setting for The White Lotus , Season 3 .
WHATARE SOME FAVORITE MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN WAYNE ? Imade some great friends there , acouple of them life-long , itseems . For akid , any suburb like that can be idyllic , Ithink , with woods and ponds to walk to , and astrip mall with apizza place , and just jumping with other kids your age . And in the 1960s when Iwas in grammar school , let ’ ssay it was adifferent style of parenting . You were free to do what you want if you got home for dinner or by your curfew , unless you got into trouble .
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