(Long Island, NY) On August 24th Hayground School kicked off the 11th celebration anniversary with an intimate screening of the gripping cult horror classic film “Jaws” also celebrating the 30th year since its ground -breaking release. Screenwriter David Koepp, movie star Roy Scheider and Hollywood mogul film director Steven Spielberg hosted the event at Guild Hall in East Hampton and participated in an audience Q&A for this offering from Guild Hall’s Red Carpet Film Series.
I remember darlings, waiting in anticipation for this highly publicized exciting flick of its time to be released in the summer of 1976. Everything in the movie is so perfectly synchronized, the mixture of director Steve Spielberg’s humor, the intense build up of music, the dialogue, the acting, the script, and the tension all things combined is what made this classic horror flick a very real blockbuster masterpiece that launched Spielberg’s career in the motion picture industry.
A resident of East Hampton, Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg is one of the most distinguished influential film personalities in the history of film. Mr. Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood’s best-known director of our time and one of the richest movie-makers in the world today.
Spielberg born 1946 in Cincinnati Ohio began his show business career soon after dropping out of Long Beach University. His first job was a non-credited editor on “Wagon Train” a classic western in 1957.
Soon after he started directing short films like “Battle Squad” in 1961 and “Escape to Nowhere in 1961. Mr. Spielberg went on to produce and direct more films in the motion picture industry as well as television. In the early 1970s Spielberg was working on TV, directing Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery” (1970) in which he had the chance to work with Hollywood movie star legend Joan Crawford. At the time he was relatively still an unknown director and many famous actors did not want to work with him. Crawford saw his raw talent and knew he would become an influential Hollywood director. Spielberg also worked on “Marcus Welby, M.D.” (1969) and Columbo: Murder by the Book (1971) (TV).
His entire work in short films and television were just a hint of his genius that would dazzle and mesmerize audiences globally.
E.T the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Poltergeist, Jurasic Park and the Color Purple are just a few of spectacular movies that he has produced and directed. What is next for the great Steven Spielberg? We shall all find out soon darlings,
