Stephen Rebello is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writerA writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.-Profession:...
,
screenwriterScreenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....
and former clinical therapist.
Born to parents of third-generation Portuguese-American and French-Portuguese American extraction in
Fall River, MassachusettsFall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is located about south of Boston, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, and west of New Bedford and 12 miles south of Taunton. The city's population was 91,938 during the 2000 census, making it the eighth largest...
, Rebello was raised in
Somerset, MassachusettsSomerset is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,234 at the 2000 census. It is the birthplace and hometown of Clifford Milburn Holland , the chief engineer and namesake of the Holland Tunnel in New York City.- History :Somerset was first settled in 1677 on...
. He graduated from
Somerset High SchoolSomerset High School may refer to:*Somerset High School in Bellflower, California*Somerset High School in Somerset, Massachusetts*Somerset High School in Somerset, Kentucky...
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.Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
from the
University of Massachusetts DartmouthThe University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a multi-campus university, part of the statewide university system of the University of Massachusetts...
, where he double majored in literature and psychology.
Stephen Rebello is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writerA writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.-Profession:...
,
screenwriterScreenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....
and former clinical therapist.
Biography
Born to parents of third-generation Portuguese-American and French-Portuguese American extraction in
Fall River, MassachusettsFall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is located about south of Boston, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, and west of New Bedford and 12 miles south of Taunton. The city's population was 91,938 during the 2000 census, making it the eighth largest...
, Rebello was raised in
Somerset, MassachusettsSomerset is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,234 at the 2000 census. It is the birthplace and hometown of Clifford Milburn Holland , the chief engineer and namesake of the Holland Tunnel in New York City.- History :Somerset was first settled in 1677 on...
. He graduated from
Somerset High SchoolSomerset High School may refer to:*Somerset High School in Bellflower, California*Somerset High School in Somerset, Massachusetts*Somerset High School in Somerset, Kentucky...
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.Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
from the
University of Massachusetts DartmouthThe University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a multi-campus university, part of the statewide university system of the University of Massachusetts...
, 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 UniversityHarvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units...
-affiliated hospital and also as a private therapist in Boston, Massachusetts, he relocated in 1980 to
Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...
. Continuing his work as a therapist, he eventually branched into journalism, publishing feature articles and interviews in
The Real PaperThe Real Paper was a Boston alternative weekly newspaper that ran from August 2, 1972, to June 18, 1981, often devoting space to counterculture issues of the early 1970s. The offices were located on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
,
CinefantastiqueCinefantastique was a horror, fantasy, and science fiction film magazine originally started as a mimeographed fanzine in 1967, then relaunched as a glossy, offset quarterly in 1970 by publisher/editor Frederick S. Clarke...
, American Film Magazine, the
Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California since 1881. It is distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States...
,
Saturday ReviewSaturday Review was a weekly U.S.-based magazine. Originally known as The Saturday Review of Literature , it was established by Henry Seidel Canby from the New York Posts weekly books supplement....
,
CosmopolitanCosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
,
MovielineMovieline is a website, formerly a Los Angeles-based film and entertainment magazine, started in 1989. Known for its cult status and popularity among film critics, the magazine eventually was retooled and named Movieline's Hollywood Life. The magazine closed in 2009.Mail.com Media bought Movieline...
, GQ and
MoreMore or Mores may refer to:-Music:* More , a New Wave of British Heavy Metal band in the early 1980sSongs:* "More" , a song by Alex Alstone and Tom Glazer, and popularized by Perry Como...
, among others.
His interview subjects have included Lee Iaccoca,
Chuck YeagerCharles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired General in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He is widely considered to be the first pilot to travel faster than sound...
,
Sharon StoneSharon Yvonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She first achieved international recognition for her performance in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct...
,
Nicole KidmanNicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer and humanitarian. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civilian honour. In 2006, she was also the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry.Kidman's...
,
Anthony MinghellaAnthony Minghella, CBE was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.-Early life:...
,
Steven SoderberghSteven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director...
,
Matt DamonMatthew Paige Damon is an American actor, writer and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting, from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
,
Jerry BruckheimerJerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Without a Trace, Cold Case, and The Amazing Race...
,
Eva MendesEva Mendes is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, Training Day, We Own the Night and The Spirit.-Early life:Mendes was born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents and was...
,
Clive OwenClive Owen is an English actor and has been working for nearly two and a half decades. He won a Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his appearance in the 2004 film, Closer.- Early life :...
,
Demi MooreDemi Guynes Kutcher, professionally known as Demi Moore is an American actress.After minor roles in film, and a role in the television drama series, General Hospital, Moore established her career in films such as St...
,
Drew BarrymoreDrew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, film producer and film director. She is the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was eleven months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered...
,
Tom CruiseThomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards...
,
Denis LearyDenis Colin Leary is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He is known for his often biting comedic style and his chain smoking. Leary is the star and co-creator of the television show Rescue Me now in its fifth season....
, Robert Downey Jr,
Rosario DawsonRosario Dawson is an American actress and singer, having appeared in films such as Men in Black II, Clerks II, The Rundown, Sin City, Rent, Death Proof, Eagle Eye and Seven Pounds.-Early life:...
and
Scarlett JohanssonScarlett I. Johansson is an American actress and singer. Johansson made her film debut in the 1994 film North and was subsequently nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female for her performance in 1996's Manny & Lo...
. He is a
PlayboyPlayboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. Playboy is one of the world's best...
magazine Contributing Editor.
In the late 'Nineties, he worked with some of the legendary 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 CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
, 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 CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
.
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 PsychoAlfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho is the title of a non-fiction book by Stephen Rebello.First published in May 1990 by Dembner Books and distributed by W. W. Norton and Company, the book details every aspect of the creation of director Alfred Hitchcock's famous thriller Psycho released to...
, distributed by W.W. Norton, received considerable praise on publication.
Christopher Lehmann-HauptChristopher Lehmann-Haupt is an American journalist, critic and novelist who has worked in the field of books all of his professional career. He began as an editor for various New York City publishing houses, among them Holt, Rinehart and Winston and The Dial Press, from where he moved in 1965 to...
in the May 7, 1990 edition of the New York Times declared it a "meticulous history of a single film production." Critic, author and filmmaker
Richard SchickelRichard Warren Schickel is an author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. He is a film critic for Time magazine, having also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review....
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."
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 HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
.
In 2005,
VarietyVariety is a weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the Daily...
and
The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter is an American trade publication of the entertainment industry. During the last century it was one of the two major publications — the other being Variety. Today both newspapers cover what is now more broadly called the entertainment industry.- History :The Hollywood Reporter...
announced the optioning of the screen rights to
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of PsychoAlfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho is the title of a non-fiction book by Stephen Rebello.First published in May 1990 by Dembner Books and distributed by W. W. Norton and Company, the book details every aspect of the creation of director Alfred Hitchcock's famous thriller Psycho released to...
for a television movie or
miniseriesA miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
. When that option expired, another filmmaking company immediately took an option to produce a major feature film. The drama with comedic overtones is in the works for theatrical release in 2010.
Anthony HopkinsSir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE is a Welsh film, stage and television actor. Considered to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, its sequel, Hannibal, and its prequel, Red Dragon...
has stated in several interviews his intention to star as
Alfred HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
. Stephen Rebello is a
screenwriterScreenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....
and
executive producerAn executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also associate producer, co-producer, line 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
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho is the title of a non-fiction book by Stephen Rebello.First published in May 1990 by Dembner Books and distributed by W. W. Norton and Company, the book details every aspect of the creation of director Alfred Hitchcock's famous thriller Psycho released to...
(1990), Dembner Books.
- Bad Movies We Love (with Edward Margulies) (1993), Plume
Plume may refer to:In science:* Plume , the form of effluent in water or emissions in air* Mantle plume, a geologic process associated with upwelling rock...
.
- The Art of Pocahontas (1995) Hyperion
-Writing and publishing:* "Hyperion" , by John Keats* Hyperion , a book by Dan Simmons in the Hyperion Cantos series* Hyperion * Hyperion * Hyperion , a literary journal...
.
- The Art of the Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997) Hyperion
-Writing and publishing:* "Hyperion" , by John Keats* Hyperion , a book by Dan Simmons in the Hyperion Cantos series* Hyperion * Hyperion * Hyperion , a literary journal...
.
- The Art of Hercules: The Chaos of Creation (1997) Hyperion
-Writing and publishing:* "Hyperion" , by John Keats* Hyperion , a book by Dan Simmons in the Hyperion Cantos series* Hyperion * Hyperion * Hyperion , a literary journal...
.