Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God by Nat Segaloff Ebook Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 234 pages+++Publisher:::: BearManor Media (December 18, 2013)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 9781593937584+++ISBN-13:::: 978-1593937584+++ASIN:::: 159393758X+++Product Dimensions::::6 x 0.5 x 9 inches++++++ ISBN10 9781593937584 ISBN13 978-1593937 Download here >> Description: During the 1950s and 1960s it seemed that every TV show was written by Stirling Silliphant. His scripts for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Tightrope, Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre, Perry Mason, and, of course, Naked City and Route 66, made him Hollywoods most produced writer. Later he dominated the disaster film cycle with The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, brought martial arts phenomenon Bruce Lee to screen prominence with Marlowe and Longstreet, won an Oscar® for In the Heat of the Night, and helped create the TV mini-series. He lived the life of a movie star, not a movie writer, attending A-list parties, sailing his yacht around the world, driving posh cars, and turning out one hit after another. But it came at a price: Four marriages, estranged children, a sons death, and, ultimately, expatriation. Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God intimately explores the life and creative process of the man behind Charly, Pearl, The Grass Harp, Village of the Damned, and other big and small screen events. Drawn from exhaustive interviews conducted by author Nat Segaloff in the years before Silliphants 1996 death and augmented by material from his private files, what emerges is a complex portrait of a larger-than-life figure who rose to the top of a larger-than-life industry. About the Author Nat Segaloff has written biographies of Arthur Penn and William Friedkin, in-depth profiles of Paul Mazursky, John Milius, and Walon Green; and TV biographies of Stan Lee, Larry King, John Belushi, Darryl F. Zanuck, and Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop. He is a playwright, college instructor, journalist, and producer who loves writing books. Stirling Silliphant was a legendary, larger-than-life screenwriter whose brilliant, innovative scripts changed the face of television and film. Nat Segaloffs compelling biography itself feels like the plot for a movie as it chronicles Silliphants fascinating personality, epical life, and dramatic career. - David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of First Blood and The Brotherhood of the Rose Seeing as how The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno were the two films that first made the 10-year-old me want to pursue a career in the movies, I devoured Mr. Segaloffs wonderful book about one of our finest screenwriters; a man who brought us from the sublime (In the Heat of the Night) to the ridiculous (The Swarm), with equal parts artistry and verve. - Scott Rosenberg, screenwriter, Con Air and High Fidelity Highly-respected film/TV writer Stirling Silliphant gets A+ treatment in this flavorful account of the prolific craftsman. Silliphants prodigious talents and unique viewpoints shine through this fast-flowing narrative by Nat Segaloff, whose interactions with the Oscar-winning scenarist over many years, gives this detailed study an added dimension. This book is a winner and a choice read! - James Robert Parish, author of Its Good to be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks In one of the hundreds of scripts Stirling Silliphant wrote in his lifetime, one of his characters used the famous story about an elephant in a room with three blind men. Each man had a different idea what it was. To the one holding the elephant’s trunk it was like a long snake. To the one holding the elephant’s leg it was like a pillar. And to the third one holding touching the elephant’s side it seemed like a wall. The point the character was making that it’s almost impossible to know anyone or anything completely, as it really is.And that seems to be case with Stirling Silliphant, the man himself. Nat Segaloff’s biography, Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God has made an admirable attempt to capture the man in his entirety, but like the elephant, Silliphant’s life and his work are too large, of larger than life proportions in fact, that all we can do is applaud his biographer’s heroic effort. That Segaloff succeeds as well as he does is due mostly to his affection for the man he was privileged to call a friend, and his access to rare words written by Silliphant himself and faxed back to the U.S., after he had expatriated to Thailand.It is through these words written in response to Segaloff’s questions, that we learn so much about a man who wrote almost the 8 million stories of the Naked City, and yet, curiously, seems never to have written much about himself. Aside from the revelations, mostly of a professional nature, contained in these faxed letters, Silliphant wrote very little about himself. There are no memoirs, no autobiographical works, but Segaloff points out that a lot of autobiographical material is contained in the scripts he wrote, especially the 73 hours of television he wrote for “Route 66,” the 1960s TV series starring George Maharis, Martin Milner, and latecomer Glenn Corbett.Those scripts included mentions of things like Zen, Pirandello, and existential psychology, all subjects that interested him. But there were deeper personal things, burid in subtext. A script about a Bernie Madoff-type character played by Douglas Fairbanks, who risks sneaking back in the US to talk his daughter out of becoming a nun, was based on his own experience with his own daughter who joined a convent. Another about a philandering Vietnam vet trapped in a mine cave in with another woman, while his own wife is in labor, was based on his own failing marriage, at least in metaphor.Segaloff recounts the history of four marriages, three of which ended because Silliphant more or less wanted them to, and the wreckage left behind as a result.After Route 66 Silliphant went on to films and won the Oscar for In the Heat of the Night. The glory lasted into the seventies, but soon a new marriage, high divorce settlement costs to his third wife, found him needing money and thus began his cycle of disaster films with producer Irwin Allen. They started well, but by the time “When Time Ran Out” and “The Swarm” appeared he had reached a creative nadir. He frankly admitted he took the jobs because he wanted to buy things, like a yacht that he sailed with his new wife to the South Pacific.But a truer reason was that he took those jobs because there was nothing else. Hollywood had changed. Scripts written on a human scale, that probe deep into the humanity of their characters became passé about the time Star Wars came out. Silliphant had dozens, no hundreds, of ideas for scripts he wanted to write. But Hollywood was no longer interested. The most devastating part of Segaloff’s book is the long, long list of projects, complete scripts, treatments, step outlines that are listed in the appendix of the book. How anybody, even a writer with as many produced scripts made into movies as he had, could persist on without being discouraged by so much rejection is the true measure of the man’s apparently indomitable spirit. In that sense, Stirling Silliphant truly was larger than life. And thanks to Nat Segaloff for showing him to us.Get this book. Highly recommended. 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