Posted on 11/21/2006 6:05:03 PM PST by Migjagger
Please, bear with me. I posted this before but didn't do a very good job of it. Forgive me.
When I was a child actress at Universal, everyone knew that Sid Sheinberg was Steven Spielberg's uncle. Somehow that family connection never made the news. I would like to know if it's true.
A Hollywood Story -- Sid Sheinberg, former MCA Universal President and credited for "discovering Steven Spielberg, may have been his maternal uncle.
Do you wanna graduate college or do you wanna be a film director?" – Spielberg makes his choice More from this book. Following on from the success, such as it was, of Firelight, Spielberg's next effort as a film maker was Amblin, and this, given that he had already made some movie industry insider contacts, got him the serious attention of Hollywood. So much so that Hollywood made him an offer which he did not refuse …
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Do you wanna graduate college or do you wanna be a film director?" – Spielberg makes his choice More from this book. Following on from the success, such as it was, of Firelight, Spielberg's next effort as a film maker was Amblin, and this, given that he had already made some movie industry insider contacts, got him the serious attention of Hollywood. So much so that Hollywood made him an offer which he did not refuse …http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/education/famous_educations/
A couple of months later Amblin was ready for unveiling. Since the negative was held at the Technicolor lab within Universal Studios, the twenty-four-minute movie was handily situated for a providential borrowing.
Universal's president in charge of TV was thirty-two-year-old Sidney Jay Sheinberg, and after a feature screening one night. Chuck Silvers prevailed on him to watch 'this young guy's short film'. Sheinberg agreed and was suitably impressed. He liked the way Spielberg had selected the performers and developed their relationship, he admired what he saw as the maturity and warmth in the movie. Taking in the close-to-mirror image of himself that Spielberg presented in the hastily arranged follow-up meeting was something else again. Sheinberg recalls a 'nerd-like, scrawny creature' appearing: 'The surprising thing was that he looked just like me.'
'You should be a director,' he informed Spielberg.
'I think so too,' came the rapid agreement, 'but I'm still at college. I haven't graduated yet.'
'Do you wanna graduate college or do you wanna be a film director?'
A TV contract at Universal or back to college? Oh, real tough. Spielberg quit
----------------------------------------------------- The school Spielberg quit was UCLA. He was approximately nineten- years-old when he directed his first episode of Universal's "Night Gallery." When he directed "Duel" for Universal he was in his early twenties. How can someone get so much work out of one small student film entitled "Amblin." Whatever happened to that film and did it win any awards? --------------------------------------------------
December 2, 2004 ‘Night Gallery’ producer Sackheim dead at 83 William Sackheim, one of the producers who gave Steven Spielberg his first professional work on Universal’s “Night Gallery” series, died yesterday at his home in Beverly Hills at the age of 83.
Sackheim contended in recent years that Spielberg wasn’t forced upon him by mentor Sid Sheinberg to direct the “Eyes” segment of the “Night Gallery” pilot in 1969. Rather, Sackheim says the suggestion of hiring Spielberg was made and when he screened Spielberg’s short film “Amblin’,” Spielberg’s sizeable talents were already apparent. This of course says a lot about Sackheim’s eye for judging new talent (especially in someone as young as Spielberg at the time) and the fact that Spielberg’s talents paved the way to his outstanding career more than legends of Sheinberg pushing his protégé off on producers would have people think.
So talented after only one short "student" film?
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Hollywood is nothing but nepotism. That's why Hollywood is so dysfunctional and "quirky" with a warped view of reality: too much inbreeding.
I'm looking for citations or references that point to the fact that Sheinberg and Spielberg are indeed related. This is not a vanity post. I'm looking for that specific information. Thanx for your response, however -- M
"Biography for Sid Sheinberg"
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0790901/bio
...A very moving script fell into his lap while head of Universal, and he knew that only one man was right for the job, so he sat down with his friend & colleague, Steven Spielberg, and told him he should do it.. and he did, it was Schindler's List (1993).
Co-owns a large apartment on the 62nd floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan with Steven Spielberg.
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