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| Stirling Silliphant Interview |
| Knowing Is Not Enough, Bruce Lee Foundation, Spring 2000. "Among the ranks of Hollywood's most sterling writers, the name Stirling Silliphant stands alone. Over the past 25 years, he has cranked out more copy than the Xerox Corporation. What flows from his bustling pen are big-screen blockbusters like The Tower Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure; Oscar-winning screenplays like In The Heat of the Night; and imaginative concepts like TV's Longstreet series from the early 1970s. ..." |
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| Finding Aid for the Stirling Silliphant Papers, 1950-ca. 1985 |
| Online Archive of California. "Collection consists of materials related to the career of screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Includes film and television scripts, transcripts, treatments, clippings, correspondence, and production material. Includes materials for numerous projects including 'Dirty Harry' (1971), 'Towering Inferno' (1974), 'Fly Away Home' (television), 'Mussolini' (Miniseries, 1985), 'Pearl' {Harbor} (television), 'Route 66' (television), and 'Welcome To Paradise' (television). General files contain personal material such as correspondence. .." |
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| Hollywood's 8 Million Story Man |
| John M. Whalen, Washington Post. "... Stirling Silliphant died in Bangkok in 1996 at age 78. He moved to Thailand in 1988, leaving behind once and for all 'the cesspool that is Hollywood.' Before going, he donated his papers to UCLA. On the shelves of the Charles E. Young Research Library are 100 boxes full of Silliphant's scripts, treatments, proposals, personal papers enough for five writers. ..." |
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| Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road's End: Stirling Silliphant had a marvelous gift for writing, but he sold it out |
| Michael Ventura, Austin Chronicle, April 22, 2011. "'Mike, I'm the biggest whore in Hollywood.' Stirling Silliphant had the face of a man who'd compromised too much and too often. He'd scripted famous, trashy fun like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. He won a 1967 Oscar for In the Heat of the Night, a screenplay important in its day. And he wrote heaps of celluloid junk, lived the Hollywood life, and made big-time money most of the way. Toward the end, he wrote paperback potboilers. ..." |
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| Obituary: Stirling Silliphant |
| Trevor Willsmer, The Independent, May 1, 1996. "The screenwriter Stirling Silliphant was a master of 'the Oscar scene', Hollywood parlance for a scene that allows a star to pour out his heart and show his or her full range - and which inevitably features heavily in campaigns to get nominated for an award. ... Although certainly no worse than Paul Gallico's novel, The Poseidon Adventure was one of his weaker screenplays. ... Originally intended as an immediate follow-up to Poseidon, and somewhat bizarrely reworking the plot structure of In the Heat of the Night as a killer bee movie, the failure of The Swarm (1978) had a catastrophic effect on the reputations of both Irwin Allen and Silliphant. ..." |
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| Stirling Silliphant (1918-1996) |
| The Original Mickey Mouse Club Show. "Stirling Silliphant was one of the more respected and well-known writers in the history of television. His first stint at the Disney Studio was as a prospective animator in the 1930's. He returned to the studio for The Mickey Mouse Club, creating the serial concept What I Want To Be, which was cut short by a disagreement with Walt Disney. ..." |
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