Showing posts with label Stewart Stern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stewart Stern. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

Stewart Stern, "The Rack," and words to regain consciousness to

Over at Movies on Demand (Chicago Sun-Times), Jeff Shannon profiles venerable screenwriter Stewart Stern (Rebel Without a Cause for starters) on the occasion of Stern's 1956 Korean P.O.W. courtroom drama The Rack, starring Paul Newman, finally hitting DVD.

This one has personal resonances for me: I met Stewart when he was one of my instructors at TheFilmSchool. In 2009, after I came to in the ICU after weeks in a coma (following heart surgery gone cascading kablooey), I discovered that he had delivered to my room an inscribed copy of his screenplay to Rebel Without a Cause. He's a lovely man, a Yoda without the speech impediment and a wellspring of stories about Hollywood That Was.