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Today I read sad news: Lewis John Carlino, Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter, Dies at 88
The year I was born a play debuted In NY Written by a then 27 year old Mr. Carlino. I never met him. I never talked to him. But he had as big an influence on my life than anyone who ever lived. Mr. Carlino wrote “The Brick and the Rose”.
I Performed in that play in 1977. It was the highlight of an otherwise miserable high school experience. I won my All State Rhode Island Acting award and All New England acting award playing Gimp in that production.
I went on to direct the play several times Later in 1977 and in 1979. Then in my first show in Barrington I directed it in 2002, Where 25 years to the day after it won the RI Drama Festival, it won again. All Actors won All state Acting awards.
I directed it twice more when i got new generations of actors. Many like my self would tell you the play altered the path of their lives.It is my favorite play of the over 500 I have worked on.
All most all the actors who worked with me on the play do not speak to me, which I regret. They were wonderful experiences.
I thought I would mark the moment
RIP Mr. Carlino. You made a big difference in my life.
Remembered for his adaptations of “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” and “The Great Santini,” he prided himself on knowing his characters inside and out.
Lewis John Carlino in 2018. During a long career, he wrote and directed for the stage, the screen and television.
Lewis John Carlino in 2018. During a long career, he wrote and directed for the stage, the screen and television.Credit…Lucy O’Bryan
By Julia Carmel
June 30, 2020
Lewis John Carlino, a screenwriter and playwright who earned an Oscar nomination for “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” and who both adapted and directed “The Great Santini,” died on June 17 at his home on Whidbey Island, Wash. He was 88.
His daughter, Alessa Carlino, said the cause was complications of myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disease.
Mr. Carlino had written several Off Broadway plays earlier, including “Cages,” “Telemachus Clay,” and “Doubletalk.” His other screenwriting credits included John Frankenheimer’s “Seconds” (1966); “The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea” (1976), starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles, which he also directed; “The Brotherhood” (1968), starring Kirk Douglas; “The Mechanic” (1972), starring Charles Bronson; and “Resurrection” (1980).
In a long career of writing and directing for the stage, the screen and television, however, Mr. Carlino was best known for the films “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” (1977), based on Joanne Greenberg’s novel about a teenage girl’s struggle with schizophrenia, for which he and Gavin Lambert received an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay; and “The Great Santini” (1979), based on the autobiographical novel by Pat Conroy, which he adapted and directed. That movie’s stars, Robert Duvall and Michael O’Keefe, were nominated for Academy Awards, and Mr. O’Keefe was nominated for a Golden Globe.
After Mr. Carlino read Mr. Conroy’s novel about a son’s troubled relationship with his authoritarian and abusive father, a Marine Corps fighter pilot, he later recalled, he wrote furiously, finishing the entire screenplay in 21 days.
“I loved its humanity. I loved its humor,” Mr. Carlino told The New York Times in 1980. “The people were very real. They just leaped off the page for me.”
We were saddened to learn of the passing of local screenwriter, director, and playwright Lewis John Carlino. Carlino was best known for scripting and directing “The Great Santini” and earned an Oscar nomination for penning “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.” In this interview Carlino shares his passion for writing, theater, and finding your own voice.
Lewis John Carlino, a screenwriter and playwright who earned an Oscar nomination for “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” and both adapted and directed “The Great Santini,” has died
Lewis John Carlino, a screenwriter and playwright who earned an Oscar nomination for “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” and both adapted and directed “The Great Santini,” has died https://t.co/XYoNxLwfPr
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