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By Patricia Burkhart Smith.
This article first appeared in Creative Screenwriting volume 9 #2,
As the writers responsible for some of the greatest action films of the 80s and 90s, Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight) and Jeb Stuart (Die Hard, The Fugitive) know their stuff when it comes to the genre. Creative Screenwriting caught up with the pair at the Austin Heart of Film Conference in , just after the 9/11 attacks, so we talked about the impact of events on their writing and the state of Hollywood filmmaking.
Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive
How did you become a screenwriter?
Jeb Stuart: I majored in English at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and was teaching tennis. I married my high school sweetheart, then completed a Masters in Communication at Chapel Hill and took another masters at Stanford, where I won the Nicholl Fellowship in On the strength of that screenplay, I got my start. When I was coming up, there was an expression that you could make a killing as a screenwriter, but not a living, and my whole goal was to make a living. After five years of grad school, I was $, in debt. Then our first child was born two months premature and we ended up with another quarter-million dollars in hospit
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‘Die Hard’ scriptwriter planted roots in Gastonia
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J. E. B. Stuart
Confederate cavalry general (–)
"Jeb Stuart" redirects here. For other uses, see Jeb Stuart (disambiguation).
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| Birth name | James Ewell Brown Stuart |
| Nickname(s) | "Jeb," "Beauty,"[1] "Knight of the Golden Spurs"[2] |
| Born | ()February 6, Patrick County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | May 12, () (aged&#;31) Richmond, Virginia |
| Buried | Hollywood Cemetery, |
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| Alma mater | United States Military Academy |
| Spouse(s) | Flora Cooke &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 4 |
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James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, &#;&#; May 12, ) was a Confederate army general and cavalry officer during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb,” from the initials of his given names. Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance and the use of cavalry in support of offensive operations. While he cultivated a cavalier image (red-lined gray cape, the yellow waist sash of a regular cavalry officer, hat cocked to the side with an ostrich plume, red flower in his lapel, often sporting cologne