Steve LeVine
Steve LeVine (born 1957 in New York) is a writer, journalist and blogger. He is Washington Correspondent for Quartz, a global financial startup by The Atlantic Company, where he writes about the geopolitics of energy and technology, and a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he teaches energy security in the graduate-level Security Studies Program. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan and the Philippines, for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Financial Times and Newsweek. He formerly wrote The Oil and the Glory, a blog on energy and geopolitics at Foreign Policy magazine. LeVine is married to Nurilda Nurlybayeva and has two daughters. He has published three books: The Oil and the Glory (2007) which tells the story of the struggle for fortune, glory and power on the Caspian Sea; and Putin's Labyrinth (2008), a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians. His latest book, The Powerhouse, on the geopolitics of advanced batteries, which was long-listed for the Financial Times-McKinsey 2015 Business Book of the Year.
Steve Levine
Steve Levine is a British record producer, most famous for his work on Culture Club's studio albums, but has also composed film and TV scores.
History
His career began as a trainee tape-op at CBS studios in 1975, soon progressed to in house engineer, working with many now classic new wave and punk acts including The Clash, The Jags, The Vibrators, XTC as well as many of CBS Records' pop acts, including Sailor.
It was at CBS that Levine met Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, who would play an important role in the consolidation of his production career, culminating with Levine producing a significant CBS album for The Beach Boys in the mid 1980s.
From the early 1980s, with the worldwide success of Culture Club, Levine's reputation grew and, apart from The Beach Boys, he produced well-reviewed work for The Honeyz, John Howard, China Crisis, Motörhead, Ziggy Marley, Westworld and Gary Moore.
In 2013, Levine is chairman of the Music Producer's Guild.
Steve Levine created and co-presents the BBC Radio 2 & BBC Radio 6 Music Music program The Record Producers with regular Radio 2 host Richard Allinson. This award-winning series of documentaries analyses, from the record producer's perspective, how iconic recordings are created. Episodes so far include analysis of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd and The Bee Gees.
'Steve Levine' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
A Mighty Heart (2007)
Actors: Ishaque Ahmed (actor), Azfar Ali (actor), Hasan Ali (actor), Shah Murad Aliani (actor), Nour Ayad (actor), Nassim Benbrik (actor), Ikram Bhatti (actor), Sean Chapman (actor), Chad Chenouga (actor), Harvesp Viraf Chiniwala (actor), Zachary Coffin (actor), Amit Dhawan (actor), Dan Futterman (actor), Demetri Goritsas (actor), Mohammed Afzal (actor),
Plot: On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.
Keywords: 1990s, 2000s, afghanistan, african, aircraft-carrier, airplane, airport, al-qaeda, altar, americanGenres: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War,
Taglines: It was an event that shocked the world. This is the story you haven't heard. One woman dared to keep hope alive
Quotes:
Mariane Pearl: [looking at a picture of her husband smiling while having a gun to his head] He says "fuck you" to them.[first lines]::Mariane Pearl: [narrating] The day after 9-11, Danny and I flew to Pakistan. He was the South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal, and I was working for French Public Radio. Thousands of journalist from all over the world arrived in Islamabad to cover the war in neighboring Afghanistan. On the 7th October, bombing began.
Mariane Pearl: And kidnappers - their point is to terrorize people. But *I* am not terrorized, and *you* can't be terrorized.
Captain: [after the two men have just watched a man be tortured] Are you okay?::Randall Bennett: [smiling nervously] Yeah.::Captain: We'll go easy on this next guy. He's a jihadi, spent time in Afghanistan. And he's a police officer.::Randall Bennett: Man, I love this town.
Male Guest: What abut the CIA agent, man?::Mariane Pearl: How do you mean?::Male Guest: All the American journalists are CIA agents, aren't they?::Asra: Sure. I mean, I work for the Wall Street Journal, so does that make me a CIA agent?::Male Guest: What do Americans really know about Pakistan, you know? I mean what do they know Afghanistan? A part from bombing all the time.::Asra: That's why I am a journalists, to let people know.
Mariane Pearl: It is not just a group of extremist Pakistani. It is a vast and international network of terrorists. And where ever there is misery, they find people. And there is misery in lots of parts of the world.
[last lines]::Mariane Pearl: [holding Adam for the first time] This film is for Adam.
Levine, Steve Filmography
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - President, Hemp Industries Association
Levin, Steve Filmography
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2010, role: actor , character name: Dan Allen
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2004, role: actor , character name: Mailman
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ALBUMS
- Believin' It All released: 1984
