Stephen Rebello

While in Los Angeles on a brief vacation from his position as a supervising Clinical Social Worker at a Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, Stephen Rebello secured an interview with acclaimed director Alfred Hitchcock in his offices at Universal. The meeting led to the 1980 publication of an interview in "The Real Paper," the final Hitchcock interview published before the seminal filmmaker's death that same year. The interview was picked-up for national and international syndication. Relocating from Boston, Massachusetts to Santa Monica, California, Rebello gradually shifted from clinical practice to journalism, writing regularly for several national magazines and newspapers including "American Film" and publishing, among other pieces, a lengthy Cinefantastique cover story uncovering much new information on Alfred Hitchcock and his collaborators making the classic thriller "Psycho." In 1990, Rebello won international acclaim for his book-length stu