Stephen Rivele
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Pasadena, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Author of eleven books; co-author of Oliver Stone's "Nixon" (Academy Award nomination); Will Smith's "Ali"; "Copying Beethoven" with Ed Harris; "Like Dandelion Dust" (Mira Sorvino and Barry Pepper). Most recently completed screenplays about Freddie Mercury for GK Films, and Bruce Lee for Groundswell Productions. "Vice," the memoirs of a former Compton police officer, published by St. Martin's Press, January 2011; "Desert Songs," a collection of poetry, January 2013; "Singer in the Land of Night," a novel, February 2013. Currently writing a miniseries about the 1960 presidential election; and a film about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire. |
| Favorite Movies | Die Letzte Mann, F.W. Murnau; Andrei Roubliev, Andrei Tarkovsky; Lawrence of Arabia; The Third Man; Wind; City Lights, Charlie Chaplin; It's a Gift, W.C. Fields. |
| Favorite Music | Classical. Chaconne from the Sonata and Partita No. 2 for solo violin, Goldberg Variations, J. S. Bach; String Quartet opus 131 and piano sonata opus 111 by Beethoven; Verdi Requiem; Schubert piano sonatas opus posthumous; Miserere, Allegri; Sibelius Violin Concerto |
| Favorite Books | Anna Karenina, War and Peace by Tolstoy; Hamlet and Lear by Shakespeare; the poetry of G. M. Hopkins and John Donne; Waiting for Godot by Beckett; The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov; Some Desperate Glory by Vaughan; Sagittarius Rising by Lewis. |