ABOUT & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Polaroid by Max Hellweg. Susan Elizabeth (Suzy) Rice, a painter and writer.
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History As Is My Name
I attended Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida and the University of California in Irvine, CA. I married Daniel H. (Dan) Vining, screenwriter and novelist, while still enrolled at the University of Florida, and Dan and I moved to Northern California when Dan was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
It’s necessary for me to explain my name for these reasons: (1.) there are people in addition to me who use the same name who are of public interest; and, (2.) my name with media credits has changed due to marriage and divorce — I’ve been known in media and credited by way of several names for these reasons.
So, about the name and those changes:
I was employed as Designer and later, Assistant Art Director, during that time by ROLLING STONE magazine in San Francisco, CA and was originally known there and credited as Suzy Vining and later reverted legally to my name of Susan Elizabeth Rice as also the use of “Suzy Rice”, which I continued to use while later employed as Art Director by Seiniger Advertising (as it was known then) in Los Angeles, CA and Lucasfilm, Ltd. After a marriage to Anthony S. (Tony) Lane, I became known as Suzy Rice-Lane. Years later, after a divorce from Tony Lane, I again reverted to my own name, Susan Elizabeth Rice and the use of my nickname, “Suzy Rice“. I’ve been using the nickname, “Suzy” since I was first able in early childhood to write my name phonetically, thus, the spelling.
No One Said History Was Simple. Least of All, Me
To further complicate these issues, there are several persons with media presence who use the name of Tony Lane and a few more who use the name of Dan Vining.
The Tony Lane I *was married to* is self-described as “painter, photographer, designer, former Art Director at Rolling Stone and Sony Music, Oakland, CA” (and was also the Art Director of Fantasy Records, Elektra-Asylum Records and Forbes’ magazine’s “FYI” publication).
Among the Tony Lanes I was *not married to* are the following:
– songwriter and musician in and of Nashville, TN (“Tony Lane and the Fabulous Spades”);
– a Christian theologian/writer/editor in the U.K.;
– former make-up artist and internet creative personality who manages or managed a fan club for Jackie Chan;
– the Chief of Police in Castle Rock, CO;
– a football player;
– this nice guy in Cleveland, Ohio;
– a make-up artist;
– a critic/columnist who writes about various entertainment and cultural issues;
– a freelance photographer and digital artist; and,
– a painter in New Zealand (whose paintings I like very much).
And those are but a few who resulted after a simple Google search.
The Dan Vining I was married to wrote the screenplay for the film, “Black Dog,” and authored the novel, “The Quick“.
A quick-sketch self-portrait done in oil pastels in all of about ten minutes while listening to music. The white-line errata was me enjoying the use of the pastels. VIEW LARGER SIZE.
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