Lewis Teague at Salute 2016, Photo: NYU Photo Bureau: Galo
The New Yorker reports on Lewis Teague, director of Cujo and The Jewel of the Nile, who graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, class of 2016.
"Lewis Teague, the filmmaker, dropped out of the New York University undergraduate film program in 1963. A short that he’d shot, “It’s About This Carpenter,” had earned him an N.Y.U. scholarship, some festival attention, and a now-or-never offer from Universal to go to Hollywood and work on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.” So he bailed on school a semester short of a degree. He also relinquished the scholarship money, which was awarded instead to a classmate by the name of Martin Scorsese. Teague’s mentor, Haig Manoogian, told him, “You can always come back.”