Stephen Rebello

Stephen Rebello is an American writer, screenwriter and former clinical therapist.

Biography

Born to parents of third-generation Portuguese-American and French-Portuguese American extraction in Fall River, Massachusetts, Rebello was raised in Somerset, Massachusetts. He graduated from Somerset High School where he co-edited the school newspaper and was a soloist in the mixed chorus. As a child singer, he had performed on a weekly radio show and done extensive live performances.

He graduated with a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he double majored in literature and psychology. He received a Master's from Simmons College School of Social Work in
Boston, Massachusetts.

After several years as a clinical social worker and supervisor at a Harvard University-affiliated hospital and also as a private therapist in Boston, Massachusetts, he relocated in 1980 to Los Angeles, California. Continuing his work as a therapist, he eventually branched into journalism, publishing feature articles and interviews in The Real Paper, Cinefantastique [cite news title = Psycho: The Making of Hitchcock's Masterpiece | author = Stephen Rebello date = 1986 - 10] [cite news Paul Schrader's "horror chic" - Cat People | Stephen Rebello date = 1982 - 5/6] , American Film Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Saturday Review, Cosmopolitan, Movieline, GQ and More, among others.

His interview subjects have included Lee Iaccoca, Chuck Yeager, Sharon Stone, Nicole Kidman, Anthony Minghella, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Jerry Bruckheimer, Eva Mendes, [Colin Farrell] , Clive Owen, Demi Moore, Drew Barrymore, Tom Cruise, Dennis Leary, Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson. He is a Playboy magazine Contributing Editor.

In the late 'Nineties, he worked with some of the great Disney artists as writer on several Disney animated film concepts and projects that remain unproduced. He also and wrote the teleplay for a Disney live action musical for the American Broadcasting Company, yet to be produced.

Career as Author

He wrote the award-winning 1998 non-fiction book Reel Art - Great Posters From the Golden Age of the Silver Screen (with Richard C. Allen) Abbeville Press. The book generated film poster exhibitions in 1988 at The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York and in 1990 in the Paine Webber Building in New York City. [cite news title = Real Estate: More Buildings Unite Art and Commerce | author = Richard D. Lyons April 18, 1990 ]

The book was honored at an event at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the best ever written about Hollywood.

Hitchcock Book

Rebello's 1990 non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, distributed by W.W. Norton, received considerable praise on publication. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the May 7, 1990 edition of the New York Times declared it a "meticulous history of a single film production." [cite news title = "Casaba," he intoned, and a screen nightmare was born | author = Christopher Lehmann-Haupt date = 1990 - 5] [cite news Paul Schrader's "horror chic" - Cat People | Stephen Rebello date = 1982 - 5/6] Critic, author and filmmaker Richard Schickel called the book "indispensable and marvelously readable" and "one of the best accounts of the making of an individual movie we've ever had." Reviewer Gary Johnson called the book "one of the best books ever written about the making of a movie" and "unquestionably the best source available." [cite news title = Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Psycho | author = Gary Johnson ]

Paperback editions have been published by St. Martin's Griffin and by W.W. Norton. Hardcover editions have been published in the U.K., Australia, Italy, and Japan. The book has become a standard and continues to be used in film studies classes on director Alfred Hitchcock.

In 2005, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter announced the optioning of the screen rights to Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho for a television movie or miniseries. When that option expired, another filmmaking company immediately took an option to produce a major feature film. The drama is in the works from MRC and is scheduled for theatrical release in 2009. Stephen Rebello is a screenwriter and executive producer.

Books

*Reel Art - Great Posters From the Golden Age of the Silver Screen (with Richard C. Allen) (1988), Abbeville Press.
*Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (1990), Dembner Books.
*Bad Movies We Love (with Edward Margulies) (1993), Plume.
*The Art of Pocahontas (1995) Hyperion.
*The Art of the Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997) Hyperion.
* (1997) Hyperion.

External links

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