About Nat...
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Nat Segaloff is a writer-producer-journalist. He covered the film industry as commerce (rather than as gossip) for The Boston Herald, but has also variously been a studio publicist (Fox, UA, Columbia), college teacher (Boston University, Boston College), and broadcaster (Group W, CBS, Storer, and independent stations).
He is the author of fourteen published books including Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin, Arthur Penn: American Director, and Mr. Huston/Mr. North: Life, Death, and Making John Huston’s Last Film in addition to writing career monographs on Stirling Silliphant, Walon Green, Paul Mazursky and John Milius. He later turned his Silliphant work into a full-length biography of the Oscar®-winning screenwriter, The Fingers of God. His writing has appeared in such varied periodicals as Film Comment, Written By, International Documentary, Animation Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, Boston After Dark, Time Out (US), MacWorld, Documentary Magazine, and American Movie Classics Magazine.
Nat was senior reviewer for AudiobookCafe.com and contributing writer to Moving Pictures magazine. His The Everything® Etiquette Book and The Everything Trivia Book and The Everything® Tall Tales, Legends & Outrageous Lies Book are in multiple printings for Adams Media Corp.
As a TV writer-producer, Segaloff helped perfect the format and create episodes for A&E Network's flagship "Biography" series. His distinctive productions include episodes on John Belushi, Stan Lee, Larry King, Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop, and Darryl F. Zanuck. He wrote and co-produced the Rock 'n' Roll Moments music series for The Learning Channel/Malcolm Leo Productions, and has written and/or produced programming for New World, Disney, Turner Classic Movies, and USA Networks. He is co-creator/co-producer (with Gayle Kischenbaum) of “Judgment Day” with Grosso-Jacobson Communications Corp. for HBO.
His extraterrestrial endeavors include “When Welles Collide,” the cheeky sequel to the Orson Welles "Invasion From Mars" radio hoax that featured a "Star Trek"® cast. Written with John deLancie, it was produced by L.A. Theatre Works and has become a Halloween tradition on National Public Radio. In 1996 he formed the multi-media production company Alien Voices® with actors Leonard Nimoy and actor John de Lancie and produced five best-selling, fully dramatized audio plays for Simon & Schuster: The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man and The First Men in the Moon, all of which featured "Star Trek"® casts. Additionally, his teleplay for Alien Voices’ The First Men in the Moon was the first-ever dramatic TV/Internet simulcast and was presented live by The Sci-Fi Channel. He has also written narrative concerts for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, written special material for celebrity award events, and is a script consultant. He contributes Hollywood-themed fiction to Nikki Finke’s celebrated website, HollywoodDementia.com.
Nat is the co-author (with Daniel M. Kimmel and Arnie Reisman) of the play The Waldorf Conference, a comedy-drama about the secret meeting of studio moguls in 1947 that triggered the Hollywood Blacklist. Waldorf had its all-star world premiere at L.A. Theatre Works. and was acquired for production by Warner Bros. Nat produced a subsequent production to benefit the Hollywood ACLU and the Writers Guild Foundation, and has also produced such other celebrity events as a public reading of censored books and a recreation of the classic anti-HUAC broadcast, “Hollywood Fights Back.” He was staff producer for The Africa Channel, wrote the stage comedy Closets (produced at the Gloucester Stage Company), and is co-writer on the long-running public radio word/game show “Says You!" after having run the gauntlet as a guest panelist.
Nat has just completed the biography of award-winning speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison. His first celebrity memoir, Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood, was published in 2016 by Bear Manor Media and its sequel, Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back, will appear (also from Bear Manor) in October 2017 and will piss off a lot of people.
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Nat Segaloff is a writer-producer-journalist. He covered the film industry as commerce (rather than as gossip) for The Boston Herald, but has also variously been a studio publicist (Fox, UA, Columbia), college teacher (Boston University, Boston College), and broadcaster (Group W, CBS, Storer, and independent stations).
He is the author of fourteen published books including Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin, Arthur Penn: American Director, and Mr. Huston/Mr. North: Life, Death, and Making John Huston’s Last Film in addition to writing career monographs on Stirling Silliphant, Walon Green, Paul Mazursky and John Milius. He later turned his Silliphant work into a full-length biography of the Oscar®-winning screenwriter, The Fingers of God. His writing has appeared in such varied periodicals as Film Comment, Written By, International Documentary, Animation Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, Boston After Dark, Time Out (US), MacWorld, Documentary Magazine, and American Movie Classics Magazine.
Nat was senior reviewer for AudiobookCafe.com and contributing writer to Moving Pictures magazine. His The Everything® Etiquette Book and The Everything Trivia Book and The Everything® Tall Tales, Legends & Outrageous Lies Book are in multiple printings for Adams Media Corp.
As a TV writer-producer, Segaloff helped perfect the format and create episodes for A&E Network's flagship "Biography" series. His distinctive productions include episodes on John Belushi, Stan Lee, Larry King, Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop, and Darryl F. Zanuck. He wrote and co-produced the Rock 'n' Roll Moments music series for The Learning Channel/Malcolm Leo Productions, and has written and/or produced programming for New World, Disney, Turner Classic Movies, and USA Networks. He is co-creator/co-producer (with Gayle Kischenbaum) of “Judgment Day” with Grosso-Jacobson Communications Corp. for HBO.
His extraterrestrial endeavors include “When Welles Collide,” the cheeky sequel to the Orson Welles "Invasion From Mars" radio hoax that featured a "Star Trek"® cast. Written with John deLancie, it was produced by L.A. Theatre Works and has become a Halloween tradition on National Public Radio. In 1996 he formed the multi-media production company Alien Voices® with actors Leonard Nimoy and actor John de Lancie and produced five best-selling, fully dramatized audio plays for Simon & Schuster: The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man and The First Men in the Moon, all of which featured "Star Trek"® casts. Additionally, his teleplay for Alien Voices’ The First Men in the Moon was the first-ever dramatic TV/Internet simulcast and was presented live by The Sci-Fi Channel. He has also written narrative concerts for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, written special material for celebrity award events, and is a script consultant. He contributes Hollywood-themed fiction to Nikki Finke’s celebrated website, HollywoodDementia.com.
Nat is the co-author (with Daniel M. Kimmel and Arnie Reisman) of the play The Waldorf Conference, a comedy-drama about the secret meeting of studio moguls in 1947 that triggered the Hollywood Blacklist. Waldorf had its all-star world premiere at L.A. Theatre Works. and was acquired for production by Warner Bros. Nat produced a subsequent production to benefit the Hollywood ACLU and the Writers Guild Foundation, and has also produced such other celebrity events as a public reading of censored books and a recreation of the classic anti-HUAC broadcast, “Hollywood Fights Back.” He was staff producer for The Africa Channel, wrote the stage comedy Closets (produced at the Gloucester Stage Company), and is co-writer on the long-running public radio word/game show “Says You!" after having run the gauntlet as a guest panelist.
Nat has just completed the biography of award-winning speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison. His first celebrity memoir, Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood, was published in 2016 by Bear Manor Media and its sequel, Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back, will appear (also from Bear Manor) in October 2017 and will piss off a lot of people.
NOTE ON LINKS: I've tried to link to articles that don't need visitors to register or watch advertising, but my apologies for any changes that may happen down the road..