Stephen Rebello EP68 The Jay Michael Show

Stephen Rebello EP68 The Jay Michael Show

From The Jay Michael Show by Jay Michael

March 27, 2026 · 43 min · Season 3 · Episode 68

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Stephen Rebello shares his childhood experiences and influences in literature, music, and film.

Stephen Rebello was born in Fall River, Massachusetts and grew up in nearby Somerset. His mother was a hairdresser, his father a millworker; both were movie-lovers. As Evelyn and Arthur Rebello's only child, he was shamelessly over-indulged. He spent many of his waking hours with his nose stuck in a book and/or with his ears covered in headphones listening obsessively to every kind of music imaginable. HIs posterior was also often parked in a fifth row center seat at the double and triple-features playing at southern New England's grandest movie palaces and fleapits alike. He has transcendent memories of discovering Dickens, Bradbury, John Cheever and Shirley Jackson, the music of Beatles, Stones, and the folk movement, alongside movies from Hitchcock, Fellini, Antonioni, David Lean, Fred Zinnemann, Richard Lester, Louis Malle, Visconti, and Arthur Penn. His childhood and adolescence were exceptionally nice. Easily-pleased rich folks paid him to vocalize at parties and weddings, even after hearing him sing on a weekly radio show. Later, even richer people paid him to model expensive boys wear for local clothing stores. Sometimes the owners of those stores let him keep those…

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Host: Jay Michael

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Organizations: Somerset High School

Places: Fall River, Massachusetts, Somerset

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