Writer Katherine Reback Dies
The screenwriter worked on television series as well as feature films.
Katherine Reback, a writer for television and feature films, died May 24, 2010, of complications from cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 59.
According to news reports, Reback wrote the production draft of the hit 1983 movie Flashdance, as well as the story and screenplay for the 1997 movie Fools Rush In.
A native of Stamford, Connecticut, Reback graduated from Columbia University. She began her entertainment career in the mid-1970s in the New York office of comedian and producer Alan King.
In 1980, she moved to California, where she wrote for various television shows, including One Day at a Time and The Line, and was a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America, West.
In addition to her work for movies and television, Reback published essays and contributed to Bill Clinton’s speechwriting team during his first presidential campaign.
She was working on a project for Fox TV Studios prior to her death.
Survivors include her husband of 15 years, Sonny King, three stepchildren and a step-grandchild.
She served as a board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (www.jdrf.org), where she requested that donations be made in her name.