Lou Lombardo (filmmaker)
Lombardo and his wife, Lynn, had two daughters and a son, Tony Lombardo, who also became a film editor. In addition to his son, Lombardo mentored Dennis M. Hill and Paul Rubell in the early stages of their careers. Lombardo was interviewed about his career by Vincent LoBrutto in 1991. In that same year, he suffered a stroke that left him comatose until his death in 2002.
Lou Lombardo (filmmaker)
In 1986 Lombardo returned to editing with the fairly inconsequential "Stewardess School". The film was produced by Phil Feldman, who had produced "The Wild Bunch" about 15 years earlier. Lombardo's next film was "Moonstruck" (1987), which was being directed and produced by Norman Jewison. "Moonstruck" was extremely successful at the box office, garnered three Academy Awards and three additional nominations, and has been well-regarded by many critics. Stephen Prince has written, "Another brilliant editor of late-sixties American cinema, Lou Lombardo (who edited "The Wild Bunch" (1969) to seminal effect) worked sporadically in the eighties and mainly on low-key films ("Moonstruck", "In Country" (1989)) where his editing choices showed the intelligence and subtlety that rarely wins Oscars. The wonderful comic effectiveness and timing of "Moonstruck", for example, depends as much on Lombardo's editing as on John Patrick Shanley's script or the performances by Cher, Nicolas Cage, and the rest of the cast." Lombardo next edited "The January Man" (1989), which was also produced by Jewison but directed by Pat O'Connor. Lombardo worked on five more films through 1991, of which the very popular comedy "Uncle Buck" (1989, written and directed by John Hughes) is likely the best known. The final film edited by Lombardo was still another of Jewison's productions, "Other People's Money" (1991).