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Sidney "Sid" Jay Sheinberg (born 1935, Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American entertainment executive. He is married to actress Lorraine Gary. Image File history File links Sheinberg. ...
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1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Nickname: Sparkling City by the Sea Location in the state of Texas Counties Nueces County Mayor Henry Garrett Area - City 1,192. ...
Lorraine Gary (born August 16, 1937 in New York City) is an actress best known for her role as Ellen Brody in Jaws, Jaws 2, and Jaws: The Revenge. ...
Currently, he runs the Bubble Factory Studios, an independent production company of film projects. Prior to his work with The Bubble Factory, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer at MCA under Lew Wasserman. Sheinberg is credited with discovering director Steven Spielberg, hiring him into the Revue-MCA/Universal Television division, which he ran. The Music Corporation of America was a United States based corporation in the music business. ...
Lew Wasserman (March 15, 1913 - June 3, 2002) was a Hollywood agent and studio executive credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades. ...
Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film director. ...
In 1955, Sid Sheinberg completed a four-year program in three years at Columbia College and subsequently, attended The University of Texas School of Law. Although Sid was second in his class, in 1956 he transferred to Columbia Law School, where he was both a Harlan Fiske Stone and a James Kent Scholar. Columbia College is the name of several institutions of higher education. ...
The University of Texas School of Law is an ABA-certified American law school located on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. ...
Columbia Law School, located in New York City, is one of the professional schools of Columbia University, a member of the Ivy League, and one of the leading law schools in the United States. ...
In the summer of 1958, he arrived in California where he accepted a teaching position at UCLA School of Law. In 1959 while awaiting the results of his California Bar Examination, Sid joined the legal department of Revue Productions, MCA's former television subsidiary, and began his career in the entertainment industry. The Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA School of Law The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. ...
In June 1973, Sheinberg was elected President and Chief Operating officer of MCA, Inc. At that time, he was 38 years old. During the years of his tenure, Universal Pictures, a division of MCA, Inc., released the highest-grossing films of each of the past three decades, beginning with Jaws in 1975, following with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982 and concluding with Jurassic Park in 1993. It is no coincidence that Steven Spielberg, a filmmaker whose career began with Sid's assistance, was the director of each of these blockbuster hits. Universal Studios Theme Parks. ...
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For the Atari 2600 video game based off the movie, see E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600). ...
Jurassic Park is a 1993 film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, of the novel Jurassic Park written by Michael Crichton and published in 1990. ...
Honors
Sid not only serves on the National Board of the National Conference of Christians and Jews but is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Pitzer College (one of the Claremont group of colleges), serves as Vice Chairman of the Museum of Television and Radio, is a member of the Board of The American Jewish Committee, the Board of Research To Prevent Blindness and the Board of Trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Pitzer College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, USA. Pitzer College is the fifth of seven institutions of higher learning known as the Claremont Colleges and coordinated through the Claremont University Consortium. ...
The Claremont Colleges are a consortium of seven schools of higher education located in Claremont, California. ...
The East Coast branch of The Museum of Television and Radio is located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan in New York City (USA). ...
Additionally, Sid serves on The National Board of Human Rights Watch and is co-founder of The Children's Action Network and Hollywood Supports.
He received Columbia College's John Jay Award in 1981 for Distinguished Professional Achievement, the American Jewish Committees Human Relations Award in 1982, the National Conference of Christians and Jews Humanitarian Award in 1983, and Pioneer Of The Year Award in 1984 from the Motion Picture Pioneers, as well as the coveted Chevalier De L'Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres in 1984 bestowed by the French Government. In 1987, he received the DeWitt Carter Reddick Award at the University of Texas in Austin, and in 1989 he was named a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Directors Guild of America, for his decades of service on the DGA-AMPTP Creative Rights Committee. He received the AIDS Project Los Angeles Commitment to Life Award in 1991, the Medal of Honor from the American Academy of Achievement in 1994 and the GLADD Award in 1996.
Along with his wife, Lorraine, Sid Sheinberg received the 1995 Simon Wiesenthal Centers Humanitarian Award. Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, (Buczacz, December 31, 1908 – Vienna, September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust. ...
Famous Sheinberg cases Sheinberg was notorious for attempting to edit and make odd suggestions for Universal-distributed films and was sometimes successful. The current Universal Studios logo Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the major American film studios that has production studios and offices located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County between Los...
While Robert Zemeckis started post production for the classic time traveling film, Sheinberg contributed various odd notes. According to Sheinberg, the film should have been called Space Zombies from Pluto, as this is the title of the comic book that the Peabody family have that makes time traveler Marty McFly look like an alien. To correspond with this title, Sheinberg wanted Marty, while convincing his past father George to take Marty's past mother to the dance by dressing up as "Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan", Sheinberg wanted Marty to say he was from the planet Pluto. Thanks to a note from studio exec and Zemeckis' friend Steven Spielberg, which detailed Spielberg thanking Sheinberg for such a humorous note, Sheinberg laid off the issue. Back to the Future is an American adventure-comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1985. ...
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award-winning American movie director, producer and writer of Lithuanian heritage. ...
Darth Vader (occasionally referred to as Lord Vader or simply Vader) is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, and has a principal role in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and...
The planet Vulcan viewed from orbit. ...
Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film director. ...
Sheinberg's most famous intervention was with Terry Gilliam's Brazil. After a test screening with Universal producers, many thought it would not be a commercial success in the US, even though the film did well in the UK. Sheinberg thought the movie had potential if it was edited to fit the theme of "love conquers all". Gilliam refused to make the changes, but Sheinberg, along with a team of editors, did start to edit the film. After going public with this editing problem, Gilliam put much pressure on Sheinberg to let Gilliam release his own US version of the film. Sheinberg's 94 minute long "love conquers all" version of the film was put aside for a 132 minute cut of Gilliam's. Sheinberg's version, however, can be seen on Brazil's boxed set DVD. Terry Gilliam at Karlovy Vary 2006. ...
This article is a list of differences between various versions of the film Brazil. ...
Sheinberg felt that the Ridley Scott fantasy film would have a stronger box office potential with teenagers if 20 minutes were cut to trim the running time down to roughly an hour and a half and the Jerry Goldsmith score was replaced by one featuring Tangerine Dream. The film was a huge bomb at the box office. The DVD features both cuts of the film with almost all fans preferring Ridley Scott's original director's cut. Legend is a 1985 fantasy film released by 20th Century Fox (in Europe) and Universal Pictures (in the U.S. and Canada), directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, and Billy Barty. ...
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields) is an influential British film director and producer. ...
Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was a famous American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. ...
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ...
A Directors cut is a specially edited version of a movie that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit of the movie. ...
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