- Gil Reavill
Gil Reavill (born 1953) is a screenwriter, true-crime journalist, ghostwriter and author whose work has appeared in a variety of venues.
His screenplay "Dirty", co-written with his writing partner
Eric Saks premiered at the 2005American Film Institute Film Festival in Los Angeles, released theatrically by Sony in February 2006. It was directed byChris Fisher and starsCuba Gooding, Jr. , Clifton Collins, Jr.,Wyclef Jean and Taboo ofThe Black Eyed Peas .Many of Reavill's true-crime articles appeared in
Maxim magazine from 1998 to 2004. His non-fiction book, "Aftermath: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home", is published by Gotham/Penguin. He is also the author of a parenting book, "Raising Our Athletic Daughters", about the benefits of sports participation for girls, written with his wife, the authorJean Zimmerman .As a ghostwriter, Reavill has collaborated on projects with
Terry Irwin , the wife ofSteve Irwin ("Steve & Me"), fomerNew York Giants running back and Today ShowcorrespondentTiki Barber ("Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond") and rap impresarioJerry Heller ("Ruthless: A Memoir"). He and Zimmerman were credited pseudonymously as Carol Calef on "Beyond All Reason: My Life withSusan Smith ", husband David Smith's account of the 1994 child murders of his sons, Michael and Alex.Reavill was born in Wisconsin and educated at
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Colorado. After working at daily newspapers in Colorado he moved to New York in 1981. Among his jobs in the early 1980s was working as a ghostwriter toAl Goldstein , publisher ofScrew magazine . Out of that experience grew his non-fiction book Smut (2005, Sentinel/Penguin). Reavill also wrote several plays which were produced in off-off-Broadway venues throughout the 1980s.Beginning in 2002, a writing parnership with Eric Saks yielded the script for Dirty and several other optioned or in-development screenplays. As a song lyricist, Reavill was profiled in the August 2005 issue of American Songwriter magazine. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.
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*imdb name|id=1802798|name=Gil Reavill
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385489607&view=rg Raising Our Athletic Daughters]
* http://www.dirtywriters.blogspot.com
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