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Oliver Stone
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William Oliver Stone is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express and he also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie Scarface. As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama Platoon, for which Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director, Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July —for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth. Many of Stones films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century and they often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as evidenced in JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon. Stone was born September 15,1946, in New York City, the son of Jacqueline and Louis Stone and he grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His parents met during World War II, when his father was fighting as a part of the Allied force in France and his American-born father was a non-practicing Jew, and his French-born mother was a non-practicing Roman Catholic. Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church, and now practices Buddhism, Stone attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School, a college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were divorced abruptly while he was away at school, Stones mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life, father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stones films. He often spent parts of his vacations with his maternal grandparents in France. Stone also worked at 17 in the Paris mercantile exchange in sugar, Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964. Stone was admitted into Yale University, but left in June 1965 at age 18 to teach school students English for six months in Saigon at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam. Afterwards, he worked as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship in 1966 and he returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time. In April 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army, from September 16,1967 to April 1968, he served in Vietnam with 2nd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division and was twice wounded in action. He was then transferred to the First Cavalry Division participating in long range patrols before being transferred again to drive for an infantry unit of the division until November 1968. Stone graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film in 1971, Stone made a short, well received 12-minute film Last Year in Viet Nam. In 1979, Stone won his first Academy Award, after adapting true-life prison story Midnight Express into a hit film for British director Alan Parker. Stones screenplay for Midnight Express was criticized by some for its inaccuracies in portraying the events described in the book, the original author, Billy Hayes, around whom the film is set, spoke out against the film, protesting that he had many Turkish friends while in jail
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Gerald Green
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Gerald Anthony Green, Jr. also known as G-Money, is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He was drafted by the Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft, Green was born in Houston, Texas. When he was in the 6th grade, he was involved in an accident that left a significant portion of his ring finger cut off. He was wearing a ring on his ring finger when he attempted a dunk on a makeshift basketball hoop. The ring caught onto a nail on the goal and his finger was ripped, Green did not play high school basketball until his sophomore year, when he played junior varsity for J. Frank Dobie High School. In his junior year, he made the varsity team, Green transferred to a charter school, Gulf Shores Academy in Houston where he repeated his junior year. In his senior year at Gulf Shores, he averaged 33 points,12 rebounds,7 assists, Green also won the McDonalds All-American Slam Dunk Contest that year, defeating future Duke player Josh McRoberts. Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals. com, Green was listed as the No.1 player in the nation in 2005, Green originally committed to Oklahoma State University, but later decided to enter the NBA Draft upon graduation. He hired an agent, thereby making himself ineligible to participate in NCAA athletics, Green was expected by many analysts to be one of the top players chosen but he fell to the Celtics, who selected him with the 18th pick in the draft. His fall is attributed to his decision to give individual workouts only for the teams with the top six picks prior to the draft, Green drew comparisons to former Houston Rockets teammate and star Tracy McGrady in the period leading up to the 2005 NBA draft. During the pre-season, Green averaged 8 points and 1.3 rebounds per game for the Celtics in the 2005 Las Vegas Summer League. After seeing limited playing time during the first part of the season and he was recalled and activated to an NBA roster position on February 3. He was reassigned to the NBDL, to the Florida Flame and he was recalled and activated again on February 21, and saw his first significant NBA game action on the following night, scoring 13 points and grabbing 9 rebounds in 23 minutes. He appeared in 32 games and averaged 11.8 minutes,5.2 points, over the off-season, Green aimed at improving all aspects of his game in order to gain playing time. With injuries to Szczerbiak and Pierce, his time increased. Green started his first ever game early December against the Philadelphia 76ers, Green finished the 2006–07 season averaging 10.4 points,2.6 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game. On February 17,2007, Green won the 2007 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, beating out Nate Robinson, Tyrus Thomas, the season was going very well for Green. On March 16,2007, he scored a career-high 25 points in a Celtics loss to the Dallas Mavericks, at Minnesota, Green found himself stuck on the bench behind a number of players at his same position
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James Woods
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James Howard Woods is an American actor and producer. On television, he is known for portraying the titular protagonist of Shark, Woods has been twice recognized by the Academy Awards as a nominee, first in the Best Actor category for Salvador and again in the Best Supporting Actor category for Ghosts of Mississippi. He is also the recipient of three Emmy Awards for the television movies Promise and My Name Is Bill W. and the animated series Hercules, Promise additionally brought him a Golden Globe Award. He has lent his voice to animated characters in The Simpsons, Family Guy, Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas. Woods was born in Vernal, Utah, and had a ten years younger than he. His father, Gail Peyton Woods, was an intelligence officer who died in 1960 after routine surgery. His mother, Martha A. operated a pre-school after her husbands death, Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Pilgrim High School, from which he graduated in 1965. He is of part Irish descent and was raised Catholic, briefly serving as an altar boy, Woods ultimately chose to pursue his undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in political science. While at MIT, Woods pledged to Theta Delta Chi Fraternity and he was also an active member of the student theatre group Dramashop where he both acted in and directed a number of plays. To pursue a career in acting, he dropped out of MIT in 1969 before his graduation, Woods has said that he became an actor thanks to Tim Affleck, who was a stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston while Woods was a student there. Woods appeared in plays before making his Broadway debut in 1970 at the Lyceum Theatre. He got the part by pretending he was British and he returned to Broadway the following year to portray David Darst in Daniel Berrigans The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. In 1971, he played Bob Rettie in the American premiere of Michael Wellers Moonchildren at the Arena Stage in Washington, the production moved to Broadway the following year and Woods won a Theatre World Award for his performance. He returned to Broadway in 1973 to portray Steven Cooper in the production of Jean Kerrs Finishing Touches. He is known for his dark, intense characters and villains, early examples include his portrayals of a sadistic murderer in 1979s The Onion Field, and of serial killer Carl Panzram in 1994s Killer, A Journal of Murder. He appeared in an episode of The Rockford Files, playing a son whose parents were murdered, one of his favorite film roles is Max, the domineering gangster, in Sergio Leones epic Once Upon a Time in America. In 1995, Woods took the role of pimp Lester Diamond in Martin Scorseses Casino and that same year, he portrayed H. R. Haldeman in Nixon, the biopic of Richard M. Nixon, directed by Oliver Stone. In one of his most prominent television roles, Woods starred in the CBS legal drama series Shark and he played an infamous defense lawyer who, after growing disillusioned when his client commits a murder, becomes a successful prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorneys office
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Jim Belushi
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James Adam Jim Belushi is an Albanian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is the brother of late comic actor John Belushi and father of actor Robert Belushi. Belushi has also been a prominent figure in cinema, performing in such as Thief, Little Shop of Horrors, Trading Places, Salvador, Red Heat. K-9, Mr. Destiny, Last Action Hero, Jingle All the Way, Wag the Dog, Curly Sue, Return to Me, The Wild, Underdog, The Ghost Writer, Home Sweet Hell, and The Whole Truth. Belushi was born in Chicago to Adam Anastos Belushi and Agnes Demetri Samaras Belushi and he was raised in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings, older brother John, his older sister, Marian, and a younger brother, Billy. After graduating from Wheaton Central High School, Jim Belushi attended the College of DuPage and graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a degree in Speech, from 1977 to 1980, Belushi, like his older brother John Belushi, worked with the Chicago theater group The Second City. During this period, Belushi made his debut in 1978s Whos Watching the Kids. His first significant role was in Michael Manns Thief, after his elder brother Johns death, from 1983 to 1985 he appeared on Saturday Night Live, he portrayed characters such as Hank Rippy from Hello, Trudy. and That White Guy. Belushi also appeared in the film Trading Places as a man in a gorilla suit during a New Years Eve party. He made a guest appearance in Faerie Tale Theatres third-season episode Pinocchio, Belushi rose to greater prominence with his supporting roles in The Man with One Red Shoe, About Last Night. Salvador and Little Shop of Horrors, which opened up opportunities for lead roles and his voice work includes The Mighty Ducks, The Pebble and the Penguin, Babes in Toy land, Gargoyles and Hey Arnold. And the more recent Hoodwinked, Scooby-Doo. and the Goblin King and he also lent his vocal talents for 9, The Last Resort, in which he portrayed Salty, a coarse yet helpful character. In 1997, he portrayed the Masked Mutant in the Goosebumps PC video game, on January 4,2001, Belushi appeared on the ER episode Piece of Mind. The episode focused on both Dr. Mark Greenes life-or-death brain surgery in New York and Belushis character, who had been in a car accident with his son in Chicago. Belushis performance contributed to his re-emergence in the eye. His first animation voice-over was as a pimple on Krums head in Aaahh and that performance led him to be cast in the continuing role as Simon the Monster Hunter in that series, where he ad-libbed much of his own dialogue. In 2003, Belushi and Dan Aykroyd released the album Have Love, Will Travel and he also performs at various venues nationwide as Zee Blues in an updated version of The Blues Brothers. He released his first book, Real Men Dont Apologize, in May 2006, recently, Belushi was a narrator of an NFL offensive linemen commercial
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Michael Murphy (actor)
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Michael George Murphy is an American film, television and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including politicians, executives, Murphy was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Georgia Arlyn, a teacher, and Bearl Branton Murphy, a salesman. He served in the United States Marine Corps and attended the University of California at Los Angeles, after working as a high school teacher for two years at University High School in West Los Angeles, he pursued an acting career. Other Altman films and television series in which Murphy appeared include the World War II TV series Combat, countdown, That Cold Day in the Park, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial and Kansas City. Other notable film roles include The Year of Living Dangerously, Salvador, Silver City and his television roles include guest appearances on Law & Order, Law & Order, Criminal Intent, L. A. Law and Judging Amy. He has also narrated a number of episodes of the PBS historical documentary series The American Experience. He appeared in Canadian film and television, including This Is Wonderland and he also appeared in the 2004 Canadian film Childstar. Murphy was married to Canadian actress Wendy Crewson from 1988 until their divorce in January 2009 and they have two children, Maggie and John. Michael Murphy at the Internet Movie Database
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John Savage (actor)
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John Savage is an American actor, best known for his roles in the films The Deer Hunter, The Onion Field, Hair and Salvador. He is also known for his role as Donald Lydecker in the TV series Dark Angel, Savage was born in Old Bethpage, New York to Floyd-Jones Youngs, an insurance salesman who served on Guadalcanal during World War II with the Marine Corps. His sisters are Boston-based radio and television personality Robin Young and actress Gail Youngs and his brother is actor Jim Youngs. His first major role was as Steven in the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter. He also had a role in 1979s The Onion Field. One of his most famous roles was as Claude Bukowski in Miloš Formans 1979 film Hair and he had a brief role in Terrence Malicks war film, The Thin Red Line. In the late 1970s, he appeared on Broadway in David Mamets play. In 1991 he was featured in a role in Italian director Lucio Fulcis final film Door to Silence. In more recent years he has seen on the small as well as the big screen. He was the character of Donald Lydecker in the first and second seasons of Dark Angel. Another recurring role found him as Henry Scudder in the HBO-produced television series Carnivàle, in 2005, he appeared on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. He lent his voice to a monologue on the track of the album, This Town. In September 2009, he appeared in the episode of Season 2 of the Fox network drama Fringe. He most recently starred in the western thriller The Sorrow with Kirk Harris and he also played a supporting role in Hit List. John Savage at the Internet Movie Database
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Elpidia Carrillo
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Elpidia Carrillo is a Mexican and American actress and director. Her career includes roles in both Latin American and US film and television and she is best known in the United States for her supporting role in the iconic action film Predator, Bread and Roses and Nine Lives. She was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Salvador and she also known for the role Tecuichpo in the Independent film The Other Conquest. Carrillo was born in Santa Elena, Michoacán, Mexico, a mountain town. One of eight children in a family of laborers, her childhood was marked by violence. At the age of three, her father was murdered, forcing her eldest brother to assume control of the family, wanting Carrillo to get an education, he forged a birth certificate so she could begin first grade at age four. When she was six, her brother was gunned down outside a theater. When she was ten, Carrillo moved to the town of Uruapan with an older sister where she dropped out of school as she began working alongside her sister at a Chinese restaurant, Carrillo was discovered by a local photographer in Uruapan, Mexico and soon received a modeling contract. At 12 years old, director Rafael Corkidi cast Elpidia as Malinche in the surrealist Mexican feature film Pafnucio Santo, the film was Mexicos official submission to the Academy Awards that year, but with its many esoteric elements, it failed to garner a nomination. Due to the role involving nudity and her being under age, Corkidi cast Carrillo again for a larger role in his film Deseos. By age 16, she shot her first lead role in the controversial Mexican feature Nuevo Mundo, having worked numerous films, she decided to enroll in the Bellas Arts School in Mexico City. After numerous Mexican and International film and television credits, Carrillos US film career quickly emerged as she did a series of critically acclaimed roles in award nominated US projects. Her first US film came when Academy Award winning director Tony Richardson cast her in a role in the film The Border opposite Jack Nicholson. Next she made her US television debut in the role of Coana in the Primetime Emmy nominated mini-series Christopher Columbus and her character of Anna is also the only character to recur in more than a single film during the Predator franchise as she would also briefly appears in Predator 2. Predator is widely considered the most commercially successful film of Carrillos career and her most recognizable role, though initially weakly received by critics, the film has subsequently gone on to become an action film classic making numerous best of lists in later years. At the time of its release, the received an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects. The film also won the Casting Society of Americas Artios Award for Best Casting for a Drama Feature, johnny Depp cast her as the female lead of his only directorial effort, the controversial The Brave, which he also starred in along with Marlon Brando. Carrillo would go on to win the 2002 ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, during the telecast, both women came to the podium together and shared time in giving their acceptance speeches
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Georges Delerue
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Georges Delerue was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film awards, including an Academy Award for A Little Romance. The French newspaper Le Figaro named him the Mozart of cinema, Delerue was the first composer to win three consecutive César Awards for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Love on the Run, and The Last Metro. Georges Delerue was named Commander of Arts and Letters, one of Frances highest honours, Georges Delerue was born 12 March 1925 in Roubaix, France to Georges Delerue and Marie Lhoest. He was raised in a household, his grandfather led an amateur chorale group and his mother sang. By the age of fourteen he was playing clarinet at the music conservatory. In 1940 he was forced to abandon his studies at the Turgot Institute in order to work at a factory to support his family. He continued playing clarinet with bands, eventually transitioning to piano under the instruction of Madame Picavet-Bacquart. He studied Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Grieg, following a long convalescence after being diagnosed with scoliosis, Georges decided to become a composer. In 1945, following his studies at the Roubaix conservatory, Delerue was accepted into the Conservatoire de Paris, to help support himself, he took jobs playing at dances, baptisms, marriages, and funerals—even performing jazz in the piano bars near the Paris Opera. In 1947 he received a mention for the Rome Prize. That year at the Theater Festival of Avignon, Delerue conducted a performance of Scheherazade, in the 1949 Rome Prize competition, he won the First Second Grand Prize, and the First Prize for Composition. He began writing music during the late 1940s, including for the Théâtre National Populaire, Comédie-Française. He also became friends with Maurice Jarre and Pierre Boulez, by the early 1950s Delerue was composing music for short films and writing theatrical music for the Théâtre Babylone and the Opéra Comique. In 1952 he began directing the orchestra of the Club dEssai for French National Radio and Television, in 1954 he wrote his first compositions for historical spectacles of light and sound, Lisieux and The Liberation of Paris. In 1955 he composed his Concert Symphony for Piano and Orchestra, in 1959 he composed his first score for a feature film, Le bel âge. He composed the music for Flemming Flindts ballet, Enetime, based on Ionescos play, during his 42 years career he put his talent to the service of nearly 200 feature movies,125 short ones,70 TV films and 35 TV serials. The soundtrack for war docudrama by Pierre Schoendoerffer, Diên Biên Phu, was one of the notable works
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