Now living on an island in the Pacific Northwest, screenwriter Bill Kerby (ex-marine, ex-NYC Welfare Investigator, ex-hippie, ex-teacher, ex-hillbilly) ended up working in feature films andlong form television. For thirty years he wrote for the stars -- Paul Newman, Jane Fonda, Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Julie Christie, Sally Field, Sophia Loren and Jeff Bridges. Bette Midler and Frederic Forrest received Academy Award nominations for their work in his rock and roll screenplay, The Rose. He won the Cowboy Hall of Fame award for best teleplay on Lakota Women, while On The Beach, which he co-wrote in 2001 for Showtime, was nominated for a Golden Globe. He is currently at work on the stage musical for The Rose. He is also writing a novel, The Bottom of the Ninth, about a private detective who is a cat. His students have gone on to write, produce or direct films such as Gladiator, Day of the Jackal, Dumb and Dumber, A World Apart, Hideous Kinky, Captain Correlli’s Mandolin, Memphis Bell and Something About Mary
