January 15, 2025 • 22 mins
Today we visit with film editor and author Lisa Cheek, about the her book, SIT, CINDERELLA, SIT: A Mostly True MemoirWhen Film Editor Lisa Cheek was abruptly fired from doing the work she loved, cutting television commercials. Two days later she got a call at 2:45am – from cinematographer and director Robert Owen who knew and valued her work. That call brought Lisa into the director’s vision of filming the original story of Cinderella, written in China in 768 AD, in China. But Lisa had to say yes, now, and be on location to hit the ground running in just several weeks. Thinking back to when she first saw Cinderella at the age of five, etched into her memory as, “the most magical story”, she couldn’t say no. Reality soon hit, however, when Lisa realized the film would be told entirely in Mandarin – a language she didn’t speak.
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I thought you'd never ask, Heidi. Today is Wednesday. It
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(00:53):
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this very fascinating Cinderella story is what we're gonna call it.
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For listening to the John n. Heidi Show on a Wednesday.
Excited a visit right now with Lisa Cheeks. She's a
film editor and the author of a book called Sit Cinderella, Sit,
a mostly true memoir. Am I saying all of that? Right?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
This is such a fun story and it's quite the
string of events that led to well, a pretty fascinating book.
So tell us a little bit about what happened.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You know, life is such an adventure, it really is.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So I've been a film letitor for twenty five years,
working mostly in commercials, and you know, they seem to
like to work with young people, that's where it's at.
And so I was told that I had aged out
and I had heard this bad director kept telling me
about the film that he was going to do. And
you know, like everybody in Hollywood, everybody's got you know,
(08:52):
they got something going on, you know, actually making it
happen as an under story, oh exactly so, because you know,
it takes some money and the whole crew to make
it all happen. And sure enough, right about that time,
my friend got some money too to make this movie
that he wanted to make, shooting it all in China
along the Sibbetan border with an entire Chinese crew that
(09:16):
didn't speak a word of English, and the simple was
shot all in Mandarin and that's the language I don't speak.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And this is like the story Cinderella, but it's going
to be filmed in China and it was apparently originally
written in China. Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, the director film documents that I think she found
like around nine forty nine a d. And he felt
that it was, you know, the original telling of the
Cinderella story. It's a very powerful female story and that
she helped the print save the world and it's super sweet,
and he felt that people needed to know that it
(09:52):
was actually a Chinese story.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I love that. So the thing that's neat, that's what
the film is about that you were working on. But
the book sit Cinderella's a mostly true memoir. This is
really about your adventure of getting pulled into the middle
of this and it it sounds like it's quite the tale.
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It really is. It was it was you know, going
to and I've traveled a lot. I've been to many places.
I've even been to Antarctica, but not too This was
a part of kinda that was so magical, and so
the villages were so tiny. No one there spoke English,
and like I said, I had not a clue how
(10:29):
to speak Mandarin. But I did have a t I
did have an assistant who spoke for languages nice or man.
He wound up talking to me instantly because that was
the only you know, he was the only person I
could really talk to because the director was very busy.
But I wound up living in a house with the
camera crew, which was fourteen men who didn't speak a
(10:50):
word of English, and that was such an adventure. It
was so wonderful. You know, I look back on it
now and you know, verbal communication, it's really interesting. It's
there wasn't any of that going on there, but you
could totally feel everybody from the heart, and you know,
they were super sweet. They wound up taking care of
(11:12):
me at one point, and they threw me a busy
party that was just extordinary with Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson
tied us all in together. They were all dancing, Michael Jackson.
So it's just it's amazing how music and just people's
energy is enough to communicate with, and you know they
(11:33):
were all connected.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, I'm excited to see this again. Sit cindere Ellison
a mostly true memoir. I'm excited to read the book.
Now the film that you were there working on. Is
that film done? Is that out as well?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Or?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So where can people find that?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
From what I understand, you can find it on Apple TV.
They have it. It was a small movie, so it
didn't have a very big distribution at the time, but
it came out in two thousand and ten, and yeah,
you can find it. I'm sure there's someenty of other
places you can find it. I just happened to know
because I put it on my website. Yeah, so people
(12:08):
who wanted to know about it could go and rent it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, I will make it easy to find the book.
I'll throw links so folks can find your book again.
Sit Cinderelicit a mostly true memoir. But folks, hung also
put a link to that movie for those of you
like me that are going, I gotta see this. This
would be fun because I can only imagine. You know, again,
it's in Mandarin, so we're probably not gonna understand it.
But I still think it would be fun to check
it out.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well there are you know, honestly, I didn't even look
to see what version it was, but there were several
different versions done. That was one with subtitles, there was
one done with dubbing. There was a lot of different
versions that wound up being done at the end.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, I'm not sure that you might be able to
find all kinds of things out there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Bonus that would even be better. Lisa, thank you so
much for your time. I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh John, thank you, Bye.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Bye bye again Lisa Cheek. And I'm going to throw
a link to her book. It's called sit Cinderelicit I'm
mostly true memoir. I've got it in the show notes
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cruised finished shoveling the driveway and you're so sweet. It
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Not heavy snow man, Oh yeah, dangerous.
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And I grew up in South Dakota and we were
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Here's John and Heidi. Today is a special day, Heidi,
do you know what today is?
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What is today? John?
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I thought you'd never ask, Heidi. Today is Wednesday. It
is the fifteenth day of January. It's National Bagel Day.
I like bagels. It's been a bit bags They're good.
It's National booch Day today. I don't know what that
really is. That Kombucha's I've heard people refer to National
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it is also a Wikipedia day, which I'm not going
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what booch Day is. Oh, it is kombucha Day, so
the same thing as what I was thinking. So booch
Day or Kambucha Day. And I have a guest joining
me today. It is a Cinderella story. We're going to
talk to Lisa Cheek and the thing that's really cool
(00:53):
she went to China to film a movie about Cinderella,
and now she's got her own story to share about
this very fascinating Cinderella story is what we're gonna call it.
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For listening to the John n. Heidi Show on a Wednesday.
Excited a visit right now with Lisa Cheeks. She's a
film editor and the author of a book called Sit Cinderella, Sit,
a mostly true memoir. Am I saying all of that? Right?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
This is such a fun story and it's quite the
string of events that led to well, a pretty fascinating book.
So tell us a little bit about what happened.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You know, life is such an adventure, it really is.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So I've been a film letitor for twenty five years,
working mostly in commercials, and you know, they seem to
like to work with young people, that's where it's at.
And so I was told that I had aged out
and I had heard this bad director kept telling me
about the film that he was going to do. And
you know, like everybody in Hollywood, everybody's got you know,
(08:52):
they got something going on, you know, actually making it
happen as an under story, oh exactly so, because you know,
it takes some money and the whole crew to make
it all happen. And sure enough, right about that time,
my friend got some money too to make this movie
that he wanted to make, shooting it all in China
along the Sibbetan border with an entire Chinese crew that
(09:16):
didn't speak a word of English, and the simple was
shot all in Mandarin and that's the language I don't speak.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And this is like the story Cinderella, but it's going
to be filmed in China and it was apparently originally
written in China. Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, the director film documents that I think she found
like around nine forty nine a d. And he felt
that it was, you know, the original telling of the
Cinderella story. It's a very powerful female story and that
she helped the print save the world and it's super sweet,
and he felt that people needed to know that it
(09:52):
was actually a Chinese story.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I love that. So the thing that's neat, that's what
the film is about that you were working on. But
the book sit Cinderella's a mostly true memoir. This is
really about your adventure of getting pulled into the middle
of this and it it sounds like it's quite the tale.
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It really is. It was it was you know, going
to and I've traveled a lot. I've been to many places.
I've even been to Antarctica, but not too This was
a part of kinda that was so magical, and so
the villages were so tiny. No one there spoke English,
and like I said, I had not a clue how
(10:29):
to speak Mandarin. But I did have a t I
did have an assistant who spoke for languages nice or man.
He wound up talking to me instantly because that was
the only you know, he was the only person I
could really talk to because the director was very busy.
But I wound up living in a house with the
camera crew, which was fourteen men who didn't speak a
(10:50):
word of English, and that was such an adventure. It
was so wonderful. You know, I look back on it
now and you know, verbal communication, it's really interesting. It's
there wasn't any of that going on there, but you
could totally feel everybody from the heart, and you know,
they were super sweet. They wound up taking care of
(11:12):
me at one point, and they threw me a busy
party that was just extordinary with Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson
tied us all in together. They were all dancing, Michael Jackson.
So it's just it's amazing how music and just people's
energy is enough to communicate with, and you know they
(11:33):
were all connected.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, I'm excited to see this again. Sit cindere Ellison
a mostly true memoir. I'm excited to read the book.
Now the film that you were there working on. Is
that film done? Is that out as well?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Or?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So where can people find that?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
From what I understand, you can find it on Apple TV.
They have it. It was a small movie, so it
didn't have a very big distribution at the time, but
it came out in two thousand and ten, and yeah,
you can find it. I'm sure there's someenty of other
places you can find it. I just happened to know
because I put it on my website. Yeah, so people
(12:08):
who wanted to know about it could go and rent it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, I will make it easy to find the book.
I'll throw links so folks can find your book again.
Sit Cinderelicit a mostly true memoir. But folks, hung also
put a link to that movie for those of you
like me that are going, I gotta see this. This
would be fun because I can only imagine. You know, again,
it's in Mandarin, so we're probably not gonna understand it.
But I still think it would be fun to check
it out.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well there are you know, honestly, I didn't even look
to see what version it was, but there were several
different versions done. That was one with subtitles, there was
one done with dubbing. There was a lot of different
versions that wound up being done at the end.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, I'm not sure that you might be able to
find all kinds of things out there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Bonus that would even be better. Lisa, thank you so
much for your time. I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh John, thank you, Bye.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Bye bye again Lisa Cheek. And I'm going to throw
a link to her book. It's called sit Cinderelicit I'm
mostly true memoir. I've got it in the show notes
for today at John anddheidishow dot com.
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John?
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Cotton candy was invented by a dentist. We've talked about
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Love cotton.
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I think it was called something very bloss Yeah, yeah,
something like that. Fun factor A hand to John. Popsicles
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The first time the word yo was ever used. It
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I didn't even know rocky was that old? Fun fact
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to eat different meals just a case there's food poisoning.
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Oh jeez.
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Yeah, that's good to know. And our final fun fact
for you, Heidi was that John, studies have found that
untidy or unmade beds are better for your health than
made beds.
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Heidi, I disagree, you're wrong, not better for my mental health.
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Uh huh. Well, according to the studies, my side of
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I think that's a good idea.
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So they're gonna hand large fines to companies that don't comply. Hmmm.
The ban is to apply to services like TikTok.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And x I honestly think that's a great idea.
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Instagram and Snapchat. This comes after several incidents of bullying
and complaints from parents about the pressure their children face online.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
So and the mental health decline of kids on these sites.
It's just sad.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, and so I don't know if there's anything magical
about the age sixteen, but you know they're saying that
if you're under that age that you would no longer
in this. In government, I'm sorry, in Australia, the government
would say you're no longer able to be on these
Here's what will happen. The people will just punch in
a different area because there was already a date for
many And I remember having like a seven year old
(17:07):
that was on Facebook when you were supposed to be
sixteen back then, I was like, wo how do they
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At least it would help to maybe kurbit a little bit.
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Weird news brought to you by Weird Gift of the
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I am ready?
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All right. I'm not going to get through all of
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But we're gonna start with this one. Cringe. I've never
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Speaker 6 (18:02):
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Speaker 2 (18:03):
But she's that age where you say things like, you know, yeah, cramp.
Another one, game changer. I actually have said that one.
This phrase is often used to describe anything remotely innovative. Uh,
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Speaker 3 (18:21):
True.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So yeah, it's overused. I've got the entire list in
the show notes if you want to read it all.
But we'll go through the rest the next couple of days.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Thanks for listen, John. That was tubular.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh yeah, that's the that's one Heidi's trying to get at.
It's not going to happen.
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comes from Overland Park, Kansas. Firefighters finished shoveling a driveway
after a man collapses. So they don't have to do this.
They go above and beyond. Though, firefighters in Kansas went
way above and way beyond by responding to an emergency
(20:45):
medical call Tuesday. They not only provided the life saving
assistance to a man who had suffered a cardiac arrest
while shoveling his driveway. But when they were finished with that,
they decided, you know what, let's finish the challenge, and
they actually shoveled the rest of his driveway.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
What great, guys.
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The incident occurred at eight forty am when a man
collapsed while clearing some heavy snow. First responders getting to
the scene in Overland Park. The first responders from Overland
Park Fire Department and Lenexa Fire Department, and Johnson County
Medical act They all rushed to the scene to treat
the man. Once the man was safely en route for
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(21:25):
you know what, let's finish this up.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
How great.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
This is a job known to be physically demanding and
potentially hazardous for individuals with underlying health conditions. Are like,
the guy just had a cardiac arrest. We you know
he's going to come home to this and try to
do it again. But I thought it was really cool
a man shoveling snow suffered a cardiac arrest, and then
it showed all these different people on the post on
Twitter when he was being transported to an area hospital,
(21:50):
cruised finished shoveling the driveway and you're so sweet. It
looks like three people that are working on it at
the time of the photo, but who knows how many
were involved when it was also.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Not heavy snow man, Oh yeah, dangerous.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And I grew up in South Dakota and we were
you know where I lived. We had snow all the time,
so I was so used to it. But that is
not something I ever ever looked forward to. Not a fan,
not a fan of snow. Definitely not a fan of
heavy snow. No time saying good bye, heide, bye, he goodbye, everybody,
have a great day. Thank you so much for listening
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