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Maura Spiegel

Narrative Medicine Rounds

FIFTEEN MINUTE FILM FANATICS

Richard Skipper Celebrates

Sidney Lumet

Julie Salamon

Freda Payne

Eve Ensler

Alfred Hitchcock

Randy Cohen

Toni Morrison

Ruth Messinger

Jerry Lewis

Harriet A. Washington

Oliver Sacks

Colm Toibin

Orson Welles

Richard Ford

Benedict Cumberbatch

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For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/RchGykWVPbMSubscribe to Richard Skipper Celebrates on YouTube and be entered in drawing for a copy of Sidney Lumet: A Life by Maura Spiegel Acclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Sidney Lumet began his astonishing five-decades-long directing career with the now classic 12 Angry Men, followed by such landmark films as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network. His remarkably varied output included award-winning adaptations of plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O’Neill, whose Long Day’s Journey into Night featured Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson in their most devastating performances.Renowned as an “actor’s director,” Lumet attracted an unmatched roster of stars, among them: Henry Fonda, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Ethan Hawke, and Philip-Seymour Hoffman, accruing eighteen Oscar nods for his actors along the way.Mau­ra Spiegel is a born and bred New York­er, and has been teach­ing lit­er­a­ture and film at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty for over two decades.https://www.amazon.com/Sidney-Lumet-Life-Maura-Spiegel/dp/1250030153 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001486 https://www.indiewire.com/2012/04/the-films-of-sidney-lumet-a-retrospective-252714

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: <a href="https://youtu.be/RchGykWVPbM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/RchGykWVPbM</a> Subscribe to Richard Skipper Celebrates on YouTube and be entered in drawing for a copy of Sidney Lumet: A Life by Maura Spiegel Acclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Sidney Lumet began his astonishing five-decades-long directing career with the now classic 12 Angry Men, followed by such landmark films as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network. His remarkably varied output included award-winning adaptations of plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O’Neill, whose Long Day’s Journey into Night featured Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson in their most devastating performances. Renowned as an “actor’s director,” Lumet attracted an unmatched roster of stars, among them: Henry Fonda, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Ethan Hawke, and Philip-Seymour Hoffman, accruing eighteen Oscar nods for his actors along the way. Mau­ra Spiegel is a born and bred New York­er, and has been teach­ing lit­er­a­ture and film at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty for over two decades. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sidney-Lumet-Life-Maura-Spiegel/dp/1250030153" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Sidney-Lumet-Life-Maura-Spiegel/dp/1250030153</a> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001486" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001486</a> <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2012/04/the-films-of-sidney-lumet-a-retrospective-252714" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.indiewire.com/2012/04/the-films-of-sidney-lumet-a-retrospective-252714</a>

Sidney Lumet: A Life with Maura Spiegel (04/09/2021)

After reading Maura Spiegel's terrific new biography, Sidney Lumet: A Life, Dan invited her on the show to talk about her work.  She, Mike, and Dan discuss Lumet's growing up in a world of theater and television, what his triumphs have in common, and some ideas about why too many viewers might take his talent for granted.  Come spend a few minutes with us talking to a great biographer about  the great director of The Verdict, Prince of the City, and Network--all covered in previous episodes.  Thanks again to Maura Speigel for coming on the show!   Please follow or subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and on Twitter @15MinFilm.   You can also contact us at FifteenMinuteFilm@gmail.com, and support the show with a buck or two at Venmo @FifteenMinuteFiIm.   Incredible bumper music by John Deley.

After reading Maura Spiegel's terrific new biography, Sidney Lumet: A Life, Dan invited her on the show to talk about her work.  She, Mike, and Dan discuss Lumet's growing up in a world of theater and television, what his triumphs have in common, and some ideas about why too many viewers might take his talent for granted.  Come spend a few minutes with us talking to a great biographer about  the great director of The Verdict, Prince of the City, and Network--all covered in previous episodes.  Thanks again to Maura Speigel for coming on the show!   Please follow or subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and on Twitter @15MinFilm.   You can also contact us at <a href="mailto:FifteenMinuteFilm@gmail.com,">FifteenMinuteFilm@gmail.com,</a> and support the show with a buck or two at Venmo @FifteenMinuteFiIm.   Incredible bumper music by John Deley.

Sidney Lumet: A Conversation with Maura Spiegel

For our December Narrative Medicine Rounds, we welcome Maura Spiegel, who teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is co-director of the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Humanities and Ethics at Vagelos Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she also teaches a film course to first-year medical students. She has lectured on Narrative Medicine in Venice, London, Dublin, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Baroda, India, and in cities around the U.S.   She co-authored The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2017); The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living on (Anchor/Doubleday), The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History (Workman), which was a Book-of-the-Month Club-Quality Paperbacks selection; she edited and introduced new editions of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes for the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series.  With Rita Charon, MD, PhD, she edited the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) for seven years.  She has written for The New York Times and Newsday and has published articles on the history of the emotions, Charles Dickens, Victorian fashion, diamonds in the movies, among many other topics.  Her new book Sidney Lumet: A Life, a biography of legendary American film director Sidney Lumet, is published by St. Martin’s Press.Narrative Medicine Rounds are monthly rounds on the first Wednesday of the month during the academic year hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. These events are free and open to the public.

For our December Narrative Medicine Rounds, we welcome Maura Spiegel, who teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is co-director of the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Humanities and Ethics at Vagelos Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she also teaches a film course to first-year medical students. She has lectured on Narrative Medicine in Venice, London, Dublin, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Baroda, India, and in cities around the U.S. She co-authored The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2017); The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living on (Anchor/Doubleday), The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History (Workman), which was a Book-of-the-Month Club-Quality Paperbacks selection; she edited and introduced new editions of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes for the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series. With Rita Charon, MD, PhD, she edited the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) for seven years. She has written for The New York Times and Newsday and has published articles on the history of the emotions, Charles Dickens, Victorian fashion, diamonds in the movies, among many other topics. Her new book Sidney Lumet: A Life, a biography of legendary American film director Sidney Lumet, is published by St. Martin’s Press. Narrative Medicine Rounds are monthly rounds on the first Wednesday of the month during the academic year hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. These events are free and open to the public.

“Writing a Biography: The Promise and Peril of Telling Someone Else’s Life,” a talk by professor Maura Spiegel