Mark Stein (author) Mark Stein (author) Mark Stein (born 1951) is an American writer. Raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973. Stein wrote the screenplay for the Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin film "Housesitter." His stage plays were first produced at New Playwrights Theater of Washington, D.C. From there he went on to productions at Actors Theater of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and elsewhere. His non-fiction book, "How the States Got Their Shapes", became the basis for a
Goldie and the Gingerbreads Paris at the Olympia earned Goldie & The Gingerbreads a favourable introduction to the French music scene, despite technical difficulties that arose during the performance. Throughout the early 1960s, when Goldie and the Gingerbreads toured extensively throughout North America. Club and venue promoters were not so much interested in their music as in the excitement that an all-female musical group caused. Goldie and the Gingerbreads did have one single, "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat", that reached No. 25 on the UK Singles Chart in 1965. Although the single was also released in the United States, a recording of the same