{"id":57755,"date":"2024-03-26T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=57755"},"modified":"2024-03-26T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:00:38","slug":"r-i-p-david-seidler-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/r-i-p-david-seidler-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P.: DAVID SEIDLER, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVID SEIDLER, R.I.P.<\/h1>\n

About a week and a half ago, there was a very quiet show business death\u2014that of eighty-six-year-old Oscar winner David Seidler. I had met the man a little over a dozen years ago, at an event for the Golden Globes, and he made a very good impression on me. I\u2019ve remembered him ever since. So now I want to pay a bit of a tribute to him.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>

David Seidler right after winning his Oscar.<\/p><\/div>\n

David Seidler was a British playwright and screenwriter who penned both the stage and screen versions of\u00a0The King’s Speech<\/em>, for which he won not only a\u00a0BAFTA,\u00a0(of course,)\u00a0but also the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.<\/p>\n

The topic of King George VI and his stutter was one that was near and dear to Mr. Seidler\u2014he stammered himself. The Stuttering Foundation reached-out to me last week to laud the impact his work has had on the eighty million people around the world who stutter, with the president of the organization, Jane Fraser, saying, \u201cDavid Seidler made a profound difference for those who stutter around the entire world through his work on the screen and off.\u00a0 When watching\u00a0The King\u2019s Speech<\/em>, we truly understood the plight of the person who stutters. As David said in his Academy Awards acceptance speech, \u2018I accept this on behalf of all the stutterers throughout the world. We have a voice. We have been heard.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Daughter of a Speech Chairman at a well-known high school in New York, I\u2019ve always tried to help people overcome their stutters.\u00a0 And I recently assisted a teenager in Austria with her paper on the topic, (because I adore her parents.) While doing a bit of extra research on stutterers for her, I was surprised by the number of famous people who suffer from the speech disorder. I always use Mr. Seidler\u2019s movie as an example of triumphing over it.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>

David Seidler the day I met him.<\/p><\/div>\n

Upon meeting him at that Golden Globes event a couple of months before his Oscars win in 2011, I wrote that the best celebrity at it, for me, was \u201ca ruggedly handsome older man with whose visage I was not familiar, but was kind and gentle to all he met.\u00a0 (We were in several of the areas at the same time, so I got to observe his self-deprecating ways.) I finally got to find-out just who he was, and to my absolute delight, he\u2019s David Seidler, the writer of\u00a0The King\u2019s Speech<\/em>! At a private screening just the week before, Colin Firth had told us about Mr. Seidler\u2019s three-decade-long journey* with his script, so meeting him meant much more to me than it normally would have. When I told him of Colin and Guy Pearce\u2019s nice words about him the previous week, he replied, \u2018Oh, they were just being kind.\u2019 What a lovely celebrity to have met at GBK\u2019s suite.\u201d<\/p>\n

*That long time to write his multiple-awarded script was because the Queen Mother, widow of King George VI, had asked\u00a0David to not pursue the project during her lifetime. So he abandoned the project for\u00a0over two decades<\/em>! That\u2019s so different from just about everyone in show business today!<\/p>\n

So now R.I.P., David Seidler. And know that your work will benefit generations of stutterers, and movie fans, to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVID SEIDLER, R.I.P. About a week and a half ago, there was a very quiet show business death\u2014that of eighty-six-year-old Oscar winner David Seidler. I had met the man a little over a dozen years ago, at an event for the Golden Globes, and he made a very good impression on me. I\u2019ve remembered him<\/p>\n

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