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Re: interview with LOLITA film script writer
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Nabokovians:
Below you will find a biographical profile of Stephen Schiff, who is
writing the screenplay for Adrian Lyne's cinematic interpretation of
_Lolita_, scheduled for release in the fall of 1996. I am currently
conducting an electronic interview with Schiff which I hope to post on
ZEMBLA <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov.nsintro.htm> sometime
in the next few weeks. The profile was written by Schiff and as he
commented, in the third person as these things commonly are. A more in
depth profile will accompany the interview.
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Stephen Schiff is a staff writer at "The New Yorker," where he writes
cultural profiles, essays, and criticism. He is also the film critic of
National Public Radio's "Fresh Air." Although he first established his
reputation as a film critic (and served a then-unprecedented three terms
as chairman of the National Society of Film Critics), he became better
known for his work from 1983 to 1992 as the Critic-at-Large of "Vanity
Fair." At that magazine and then at "The New Yorker" (where he has been
since 1992), he wrote in-depth profiles of Vaclav Havel, Philip Roth, Mick
Jagger, E.L. Doctorow, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Stephen Sondheim, Oliver Stone, V.S. Naipaul, Tom Stoppard,
John le Carre, Vanessa Redgrave, and many others, as well as essays on the
New York City Ballet, on the culture of physical self-enhancement, and on
the sociopolitical environment of the Nineties.
A finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Distinguished Criticism, Schiff
became well-known on television during the two seasons he spent as a
Correspondent on CBS-TV's prime-time news magazine "West 57th." He has
also been a contributor to and co-host of "Arts and Entertainment Revue"
on the A&E network, has contributed several on-air essays to the American
Movie Classics and Showtime networks, and has been a frequent guest on the
PBS show "Charlie Rose." In print, he has been Film Critic of "The
Atlantic," "Glamour," and "The Boston Phoenix" (where he was Film Editor
from 1978 to 1983). His articles have been frequently anthologized and
reprinted, often in textbooks for writing and journalism courses. Many of
his film reviews and essays are collected in the National Society of Film
Critics books "Produced and Abandoned," "Foreign Affairs," "Love and
Hisses," "They Went Thataway," and "Flesh and Blood."
Schiff has taught at Brandeis University (as a lecturer in American
Studies) and served as Visiting Artist in Musical Theater at Wesleyan
University. He is married and has a daughter.
Suellen Stringer-Hye
Special Collections
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
Vanderbilt University
stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu
Below you will find a biographical profile of Stephen Schiff, who is
writing the screenplay for Adrian Lyne's cinematic interpretation of
_Lolita_, scheduled for release in the fall of 1996. I am currently
conducting an electronic interview with Schiff which I hope to post on
ZEMBLA <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov.nsintro.htm> sometime
in the next few weeks. The profile was written by Schiff and as he
commented, in the third person as these things commonly are. A more in
depth profile will accompany the interview.
----------------
Stephen Schiff is a staff writer at "The New Yorker," where he writes
cultural profiles, essays, and criticism. He is also the film critic of
National Public Radio's "Fresh Air." Although he first established his
reputation as a film critic (and served a then-unprecedented three terms
as chairman of the National Society of Film Critics), he became better
known for his work from 1983 to 1992 as the Critic-at-Large of "Vanity
Fair." At that magazine and then at "The New Yorker" (where he has been
since 1992), he wrote in-depth profiles of Vaclav Havel, Philip Roth, Mick
Jagger, E.L. Doctorow, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Stephen Sondheim, Oliver Stone, V.S. Naipaul, Tom Stoppard,
John le Carre, Vanessa Redgrave, and many others, as well as essays on the
New York City Ballet, on the culture of physical self-enhancement, and on
the sociopolitical environment of the Nineties.
A finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Distinguished Criticism, Schiff
became well-known on television during the two seasons he spent as a
Correspondent on CBS-TV's prime-time news magazine "West 57th." He has
also been a contributor to and co-host of "Arts and Entertainment Revue"
on the A&E network, has contributed several on-air essays to the American
Movie Classics and Showtime networks, and has been a frequent guest on the
PBS show "Charlie Rose." In print, he has been Film Critic of "The
Atlantic," "Glamour," and "The Boston Phoenix" (where he was Film Editor
from 1978 to 1983). His articles have been frequently anthologized and
reprinted, often in textbooks for writing and journalism courses. Many of
his film reviews and essays are collected in the National Society of Film
Critics books "Produced and Abandoned," "Foreign Affairs," "Love and
Hisses," "They Went Thataway," and "Flesh and Blood."
Schiff has taught at Brandeis University (as a lecturer in American
Studies) and served as Visiting Artist in Musical Theater at Wesleyan
University. He is married and has a daughter.
Suellen Stringer-Hye
Special Collections
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
Vanderbilt University
stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu