Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Martin Hewitt (actor)
Martin Hewitt( born February 19, 1958) is an American actor.
He is best known for his film debut as David Axelrod in Franco Zeffirelli's" Endless Love"( 1981).
John Donatich
John Donatich is the Director of Yale University Press.
Michael Govan
Michael Govan( born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006.
Prior to this, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
Endless Love (1981 film)
Endless Love is a 1981 American romantic drama film based on Scott Spencer's 1979 novel of the same name.
The film is directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt.
The screenplay was written by Judith Rascoe.
The original music score was composed by Jonathan Tunick.
The film was released in July 1981 and received negative reviews, with critics comparing it unfavorably to the novel.
Spencer disliked it, believing the filmmakers to have missed the point of the book which showcased the dangers of obsessive love.
The film was a box-office success, and its theme song, performed by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie, also called "Endless Love", became a #1 hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
It spent nine weeks at #1 and received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for "Best Original Song", along with five Grammy Award nominations.
The film is also notable for being the film debut of Tom Cruise in a minor role.
John Farrell (businessman)
John Farrell is the director of YouTube in Latin America.
Franco Zeffirelli
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), commonly known as Franco Zeffirelli , was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television.
He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian centre-right "Forza Italia" party.
Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.
He was also known for several of the movies he directed, especially the 1968 version of "Romeo and Juliet", for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
His 1967 version of "The Taming of the Shrew" with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remains the best-known film adaptation of that play as well.
His miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977) won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown on Christmas and Easter in many countries.
A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary British knighthood in 2004 when he was created a KBE.
He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Scott Spencer (writer)
Scott Spencer( born September 1, 1945) is an American author who has written thirteen novels.
He also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 movie" Father Hood".
Two of Spencer's novels," Endless Love" and" Waking the Dead," have been adapted into films.
" Endless Love" was first adapted into a motion picture by Franco Zeffirelli in 1981, and a second adaptation by Shana Feste was released in 2014.
" Waking the Dead" was produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Keith Gordon in 2000.
The novels" Endless Love" and" A Ship Made of Paper" have both been nominated for the National Book Award, with" Endless Love" selling over 2 million copies.
Spencer has heavily panned both film adaptations of" Endless Love".
Interviewed in" The New York Times", Spencer once said:" It may be time for serious, literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies."
Joyce Carol
Oates, writing about" A Ship Made of Paper" in The New Yorker, said:" Like Cheever, Spencer has imagined for his ... infatuated lover melodramatic crises that verge on the surreal; like John Updike, Spencer is a poet- celebrant of Eros, lyrically precise in his descriptions of lovers' fantasies, lovers' lovemaking, lovers' bodies ... The Wall Street Journal" has said:
" There are few novelists alive who use the English language as Scott Spencer does ...
Every ache of feeling, every failed effort at restraint, every attempt at self- deception is captured in precise, beautifully cadenced prose."
Spencer was born in Washington, D.C..
He has worked as a journalist and been published in" The New York Times The New YorkerHarper's MagazineGQO, The Oprah Magazine", and he is a regular contributor to" Rolling Stone".
He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Williams College, Bard College's Bard Prison Initiative, and the University of Virginia.
Spencer attended the University of Illinois, Roosevelt University, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
In 2004, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
For the past twenty years, he has lived in a small town in upstate New York.
For some of his latest works, two sequenced horror novels, Spencer has chosen the pseudonym ″ Chase Novak ″.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: What nationality is the director of film Endless Love (1981 Film)?
Answer: Italia