Stephen Rebello
Encyclopedia
Stephen Rebello is an American
writer
, screenwriter
and former clinical therapist.
, 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
, 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
, Clive Owen
, Demi Moore
, Drew Barrymore
, Tom Cruise
, Denis Leary
, Robert Downey Jr, Rosario Dawson
and Scarlett Johansson
. He is a Playboy
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 Company
, yet to be produced.
in Astoria, New York and in 1990 in the Paine Webber
Building in New York City
.
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.
, 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." 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." Critic Leonard Maltin
on his blog called the book a "landmark."
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
. That option was superseded when two other major production companies optioned the rights for a theatrical motion picture version. In January, 2010, Paramount Pictures bought the screen rights to the book. In 2011, the drama with dark comedic overtones is in the works from The Montecito Picture Company
and Paramount Pictures
for production commencing in 2011 with a projected 2012 theatrical release. In January, 2011, Sacha Gervasi
was widely announced as being "in negotiations" to helm the project; he is currently in preproduction on the film. Anthony Hopkins
has stated in several interviews his intention to star as Alfred Hitchcock
. Stephen Rebello
is screenwriter
and executive producer
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writer
Writer
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, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and former clinical therapist.
Biography
Born to parents of third-generation Portuguese-American and French-Portuguese American extraction in Fall River, MassachusettsFall River, Massachusetts
Fall 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 south of Taunton. The city's population was 88,857 during the 2010 census, making it the tenth largest city in...
, Rebello was raised in Somerset, Massachusetts
Somerset, Massachusetts
Somerset 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....
. 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.
Bachelor of Arts
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 Dartmouth
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is one of five campuses and operating subdivisions of the University of Massachusetts . It is located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States, in the center of the South Coast region, between the cities of New Bedford to the east and Fall River...
, 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
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
-affiliated hospital and also as a private therapist in Boston, Massachusetts, he relocated in 1980 to Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
. Continuing his work as a therapist, he eventually branched into journalism, publishing feature articles and interviews in The Real Paper
The Real Paper
The Real Paper was a Boston alternative weekly newspaper with a circulation of 50,000. It 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.The Cambridge Phoenix...
, Cinefantastique
Cinefantastique
Cinefantastique 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 Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, Saturday Review, Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan 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...
, Movieline
Movieline
Movieline is a website, formerly a Los Angeles-based film and entertainment magazine, started in 1985 as a local magazine and went national 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...
, GQ and More
More (magazine)
More, launched in September 1998, is a women's lifestyle magazine published once a month by the Meredith Corporation with a rate base of 1.3 million and a circulation of 1.5 million...
, among others.
His interview subjects have included Lee Iaccoca, Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He was the first pilot to travel faster than sound...
, Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct...
, Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
, Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella
Anthony 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....
, Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...
, Matt Damon
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, 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 Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerome 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, Eleventh Hour, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The...
, Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes is an American actress.She began acting in the late 1990s, and after a series of minor roles and performances in several smaller films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror and Urban Legends: Final Cut , she broke into the mainstream, appearing in leading roles in Hollywood...
, Clive Owen
Clive Owen
Clive Owen is an English actor, who has worked on television, stage and film. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for portraying the lead in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991...
, Demi Moore
Demi Moore
Demi Guynes Kutcher , known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress. After minor roles in film and a role in the soap opera General Hospital, Moore established her career in films such as St...
, Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore
Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered...
, Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won three Golden Globe Awards....
, Denis Leary
Denis Leary
Denis Colin Leary is an Irish-American actor, comedian, writer and director. Leary is known for his biting, fast paced comedic style and chain smoking...
, Robert Downey Jr, Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson
Rosario Isabel Dawson is an American actress, singer, and writer. She has appeared in films such as Kids, Men in Black II, 25th Hour, Sin City, Clerks II, Rent, Death Proof, The Rundown, Eagle Eye, Alexander, Seven Pounds, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Unstoppable.-Early...
and Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson is an American actress, model and singer.Johansson made her film debut in North and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo . She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer and Ghost World...
. He is a Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago 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...
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 Company
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting 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. Its first broadcast on television was 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 ImageMuseum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image was a museum of the history of technology and media, including cinema and its forerunners. MOMI was opened on 15 September 1988 by Prince Charles and became an instant international hit and winning 18 awards...
in Astoria, New York and in 1990 in the Paine Webber
Paine Webber
Paine Webber and Company was an American stock brokerage and asset management firm that was acquired by the Swiss bank UBS AG in 2000. The company was founded in 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, by William Alfred Paine and Wallace G. Webber. Operating with two employees, they leased premises at 48...
Building in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
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
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...
, distributed by W.W. Norton, received considerable praise on publication. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Christopher 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 Schickel
Richard Schickel
Richard Warren Schickel is an American 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." Critic Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin is an American film and animated film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.-Personal life:...
on his blog called the book a "landmark."
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
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
.
In 2005, Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American 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...
and The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...
announced the optioning of the screen rights to Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
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...
for a television movie or miniseries
Miniseries
A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a 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...
. That option was superseded when two other major production companies optioned the rights for a theatrical motion picture version. In January, 2010, Paramount Pictures bought the screen rights to the book. In 2011, the drama with dark comedic overtones is in the works from The Montecito Picture Company
The Montecito Picture Company
The Montecito Picture Company is a film production company owned by Ivan Reitman.-Filmography:*Road Trip *Evolution *Alienators: Evolution Continues *Killing Me Softly *Old School...
and Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
for production commencing in 2011 with a projected 2012 theatrical release. In January, 2011, Sacha Gervasi
Sacha Gervasi
-Early life and career in screen-writing:Born Alexander Gervasi in London in 1966, Gervasi was educated at Westminster School, and then read modern history at King's College London...
was widely announced as being "in negotiations" to helm the project; he is currently in preproduction on the film. Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, KBE , best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television...
has stated in several interviews his intention to star as Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
. Stephen Rebello
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...
is screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and executive producer
Executive producer
An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
.
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 PsychoAlfred 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...
(1990), Dembner Books. - Bad Movies We Love (with Edward Margulies) (1993), PlumePlumePlume may refer to:In science:* Plume , the form of effluent in water or emissions in air* Eruption column, or volcanic plume, a column of hot volcanic ash and gas emitted into the atmosphere during an explosive volcanic eruption...
. - The Art of Pocahontas (1995) Hyperion.
- The Art of the Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997) Hyperion.
- The Art of Hercules: The Chaos of Creation (1997) Hyperion.