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	Sam Shepard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, writer and actor.
		Shepard is also a respected actor of stage and motion pictures.
		Shepard was previously married to actress O-Lan Jones (born O-Lan Barna) from 1969 to 1984, by whom he has one child.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Shepard (481 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Sam Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shepard moved back to the States in 1976 at the age of 32, trailing clouds of glory and an apocryphal reputation as a contentious new writing talent.
		Shepard's most fertile period opened up with the dual influences of the painter Jackson Pollack who, according to Shepard, "discovered the explosion inside himself," and his mining of a new thematic ground -- the family drama.
		Shepard was Signature Theatre's playwright-in-residence for 1996-97: use the bar on the upper right hand corner of the home page to find out about the man and his oeuvre.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=165 (632 words)

	Sam Shepard
		Born Samuel Shepard Rogers VII in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, he was the son of an Air Force career man who had been a bomber pilot in World War II.
		Shepard gradually built his theatrical reputation upon a series of one act-plays produced in off-off-Broadway theatres.
		In 1971, Shepard told an interviewer, "I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star..." Regardless, by the time he turned thirty, he had more than 30 New York productions to his credit.
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	About Sam Shepard
		Shepard disavowed the narrative convention that required consistent character motivations, preferring instead to see his characters as capable of a wide variety of roles and actions.
		Shepard once told an interviewer that, "I preferred a character that was constantly unidentifiable, shifting through the actor, so that the actor could play almost anything, and the audience was never expected to identify with the characters," (Shewey, Sam Shepard, 1997, p 51).
		Shepard's impact on modern theater can be gauged by the numerous scholarly books and articles devoted to his work, as well as the hundreds of productions of his plays, both in the U.S. and abroad.
	www.sam-shepard.com /aboutsam.html (1305 words)

	Sam Shepard and Identity
		Shepard's wife was at the time living in Brooklyn with their one-year-old son, Jesse, but Shepard left her.
		Shepard chose to act out this particular fantasy on the stage, despite the facts that his affair with Smith was hot gossip already and his wife was starring as Mae West in his other play, Back Bog Beast Bait, which opened as the first of a double-bill with Cowboy Mouth.
		Consistently, Shepard enacts and inhabits the roles which most trouble him, and the fruits of those frustrations are his writing, as seen in the recent "Three Stories." Frustration and ambivalence over role-playing are constants, yet the urge to play the role is paramount.
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	AllRefer.com - Sam Shepard (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		A product of the 1960s counterculture, Shepard combines wild humor, grotesque satire, myth, and a sparse, haunting language evocative of Western movies to create a subversive pop art vision of America.
		His settings are often a kind of nowhere land on the American Plains, his characters are typically loners and drifters caught between a mythical past and the mechanized present, and his works often concern deeply troubled families.
		Also involved in motion pictures, Shepard wrote the screenplays for The Right Stuff (1983), in which he played the part of Chuck Yeager, and Paris, Texas (1984); wrote and directed Far North (1989) and Silent Tongue (1994); and has acted in a number of other films.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/ShepardS.html (310 words)

	shepard\biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sam Shepard was born under the name Samuel Shepard Rogers on November 5, 1943 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.
		Shepard's father was an alcoholic which is why Shepard's memories of home are not pretty: violent confrontations with his father, an ineffectual mother, unfulfilled hunger for something not available in Duarte, a rural suburb of Los Angeles.
		At this time, Shepard obeyed Jack Kerouac’s dictum: “first thought, best thought” as he was heavily influenced by the Beat Generation writers with whom he also shares the topics of concerns (such as alienation from society, loss of identity and the deterioriation of the family structure).
	angam.ang.univie.ac.at /western2000/pres/samshepard/biography.htm (1261 words)

	Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard
		Sam Shepard would work as a stable hand, herdsman, orange picker, sheep shearer, bus boy, and musician before beginning his career as a playwright in New York in 1964.
		Shepard spent several successful seasons with off-off-Broadway groups such as La Mama and Caffe Cino and was playwright-in-residence at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco for a number of years.
		Sam Shepard is widely regarded as the most important American playwright since Edward Albee.
	www.theatrezone.org /productions/past/curse/curse.htm (1147 words)

	Drama: Sam Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel Shepard Rogers VII was born in Illinois in 1943 and is one of America's most important playwrights.
		In his way Shepard has been an underground playwright who has won the respect of most theater people, including the best playwrights.
		Shepard began his work with a sense of the West drawn from popular literature, reshaped it, and produced it in a new form.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/shepard.htm (560 words)

	Sam Shepard @ Filmbug UK
		Sam Shepard is an actor, screenwriter, director and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright for his 1979 three-act play Buried Child.
		As an actor, Shepard debuted in Bob Dylan's Renaldo and Clara, followed by a number of strong appearances in Days of Heaven, Resurrection, Raggedy Man, opposite Jessica Lange in Frances, and as astronaut Chuck Yaeger in The Right Stuff, which brought him an Academy Award nomination.
		Shepard's notable television films and mini-series include: Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo, Lily Dale, Purgatory, Dash and Lilly, for which he received both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his performance as writer Dashiell Hammett, One Kill and Wild Geese.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/21512 (295 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Sam Shepard
		Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than forty-five plays.
		In his latest play, States of Shock, Sam Shepard turns a bizarre anniversary party into a grisly yet hilarious reopening of the wounds of war, sex, and family betrayal.
		One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=28060 (607 words)

	The Tooth of Crime. Protocols of Improvisation: Sam Shepard in British Columbia by Marshall Soules, 2001. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shepard had expressed a desire that the actors also be rock musicians "with chops," at one time suggesting Lou Reed for the role of Hoss.
		Shepard envisioned The Tooth of Crime as a rock-inflected spectacle, a classic agon between the aging rocker Hoss and the irreverent gypsy upstart Crow.
		In Shepard's vision of the play, this performance using words as weapons takes place up on the stage--think rock concert--with a strong center of focus on the insult-slinging rivals.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/shepard/tooth.htm (705 words)

	Sam Shepard Life Stories, Books, & Links
		Now that she was attempting to combine music and writing, Shepard was an ideal partner, for not only did he dream of being a rock and roll star himself, he also approached his plays almost as improvisational jazz; he was less interested in plot and characterization than in convulsive bursts of imagery..
		Shepard's appointed role was to write scenes and dialogue for a film to be made along the way, though the film was never produced.
		The opportunity provided Shepard, a long-time fan and student of the cult of Dylan, the rare, even bizarre, experience of writing fictional scenes in which the charismatic Dylan was to act.
	todayinliterature.com /biography/sam.shepard.asp (906 words)

	Sam Shepard
		Shepard lived in England from 1971 to 1974, and two notable plays of this period--The Tooth of Crime (1972) and Geography of a Horse Dreamer (1974)--premiered in London.
		In Killer's Head (1975), for example, the rambling monologue, a Shepard stock-in-trade, blends horror and banality in a murderer's last thoughts before electrocution; Angel City (1976) depicts the destructive machinery of the Hollywood entertainment industry; and Suicide in B-Flat (1976) exploits the potentials of music as an expression of character.
		Shepard returned to acting in the late 1970s, winning critical accolades for his performances in such films as Days of Heaven (1978), Resurrection (1980), The Right Stuff (1983), and Fool for Love (1985), which was written by Shepard and based on his 1983 play of the same name.
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	The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard - Cambridge University Press
		A thorough chronology of Shepard¿s life and career, together with biographical chapters, a note from the legendary Joseph Chaikin, and an interview with the playwright, give a fascinating first-hand account of an exuberant and experimental personality.
		Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard in Collaboration Marc Robinson; 6.
		Sam Shepard¿s The Late Henry Moss Matthew Roudané; 17.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521777666 (503 words)

	Sam Shepard - Early Sam Shepard, and other stories
		On this day in 1943 Sam Shepard was born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.
		Because Shepard's father was an air force pilot, his first years were spent moving base to base.
		The family finally settled outside of Los Angeles on a small ranch, and Shepard's teen years were stable enough to have him join the 4-H Club and raise a prize sheep; nonetheless, according to an interview at the age of thirty-six, it was the moving around rather than the settling down that stuck...
	www.todayinliterature.com /stories.asp?Event_Date=11/5/1943 (129 words)

	SAM SHEPARD at THESPIAN NET
		Sam Shepard's plays are not easy to catezorize, but in general they blend images of the Old West, fascination with pop culture and science fiction.
		Sam Shepard was the son of an Air Force man, who retired to be a farmer.
		Shepard's one act-plays were produced in off-off Broadway theatre next year.
	www.thespiannet.com /actors/S/shepard_sam/index.shtml (507 words)

	Salon.com People \| Sam Shepard
		Sam Shepard is wearing fl slacks, a fl mock-turtleneck sweater and a glossy fl leather jacket.
		For not only has Shepard steered clear of the public since gaining renown as the second coming of Gary Cooper in "The Right Stuff," he has made the pitfalls of fame a critical theme in many of his four dozen plays.
		But rather than risk discovering that Sean Penn or Sam Shepard doesn't care one way or the other whether we too love Cormac McCarthy and John Ford, we don't dare breach their personal spaces -- their auras, really.
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2001/01/02/shepard (727 words)

	Buried Child - Sam Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child is a seven character play that probes family dynamics in the American tradition of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, but Shepard does it in utterly original style and with a modernist twist that reinvents and reinvigorates the form.
		The very meaning of family comes into question as these characters threaten, disparage, repudiate, and snipe at one another, yet somehow remain locked in their family unit, trapped in long term patterns of mutual destructiveness.
		It's a very dark vision, indeed, but Shepard then clothes this bleak portrait in a unique combination of genuinely funny comedic dialogue, puzzling and unresolved contradictions, and an atmosphere charged with foreboding, menace and the threat of violence.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater3/BuriedChild.htm (755 words)

	Salon.com People \| Sam Shepard
		As friendly and accommodating as Shepard seems, though, his conversational manner is clearly schooled by his spiritual mentor, Samuel Beckett.
		Shepard smiles, crow's feet spreading across his temples.
		As the party wears on, Shepard remains insulated by friends, eating dinner with Philip Kaufman, who directed him in "The Right Stuff," and talking with musician T-Bone Burnett, whom Shepard has known since 1976, when they were both members of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2001/01/02/shepard/index1.html (836 words)

	Sam Shepard
		Sam Shepard has written 45 plays, 11 of which have won Obie Awards, and has appeared as an actor in 16 films.
		In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1992 he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy.
		Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman;" Angel City; Curse of the Starving Class; Killer's Head; A Monologue; Action; The Mad Dog Blues: A Two-Act Adventure Show; with Patti Smith, Cowboy Mouth; The Rock (7 + 2)." Gelber's introduction reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams.
	www.stage-door.org /authors/shepard.htm (960 words)

	Fool for Love Summary & Essays - Sam Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Focusing, as many of Shepard’s plays do, on the dark side of life in the West, Fool for Love was first produced at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in February, 1983, before moving to Off-Broadway at the Circle Repertory Theatre in May of that year.
		Others believed that Shepard was covering territory and themes that he had dealt with to better effect in plays such as Buried Child and True West, adding nothing new and going nowhere fast.
		Most critics agreed that with this new play, Shepard continued his exploration of the mythic American West—particularly as it was portrayed in the pulp entertainment of the 1950s and 1960s—and its extrapolation to contemporary environments and relationships.
	www.enotes.com /fool-love (374 words)

	Sam Shepard
		As a playwright, Shepard went on to win a number of Obies for such dramas as {+Curse of the Starving Class (1977), which he made into a film in 1994, and {+True West (aired on PBS in 1986).
		The film followed Shepard's residence in London during the early '70s, where he worked on-stage as an actor and director when not playing drums for his band, The Holy Modal Rounders, which had performed as part of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975.
		Also in 1978, Shepard made a big impression playing a wealthy landowner in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, but it was not until he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for playing astronaut Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983) that he became a well-known actor.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P111142 (439 words)

	Sam Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sam Shepard - Born: Ft. Sheridan, IL., November 5, 1943.
		I think Sam is a good, old-fashioned storyteller - an American storyteller.
		Also, he seems so unlike a guy who would write and be interested in the theater, but he is. He's just a cowboy actor who spends most of his time on a ranch in Minnesota with the actress Jessica Lange.
	www.wiu.edu /users/brs101/sam.htm (149 words)

	Sam Shepard
		When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable), co-written with Joseph Chaikin, appeared in last season's A.R.T. New Stages series and will appear on tour at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia March 28-31 and in Singapore June 9-11.
		Shepard wrote the screenplays for Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, Altman's Fool for Love, and Wender's Paris, Texas.
		Shepard was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where in 1992 he was awarded its Gold Medal for Drama.
	www.amrep.org /people/shepard.html (138 words)

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