Showing posts with label american screenwriter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american screenwriter. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Chris Rock - comedian, screenwriter , actor, television producer, film producer and director

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Chris Rock is an American famous comedian, screenwriter , actor, television producer, film producer and director. He was chosen in the US as the 5th furthermost stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central. He was also selected in the UK as the 9th furthermost stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007, and another time in the updated 2010 list as the 8th greatest stand-up comic. In November 2006, the entertainment news website TMZ.com statement that Rock was filing for divorce after almost ten years of marriage to Malaak. Two weeks later, however, TMZ report that Rock had not file divorce papers, and that it show that the couple had been capable to work out their differences and stay together.

Rocks out a report to the press denouncing them as "untrue rumors and lies". In 2007, freelance reporter and former actress Kali Bowyer filed a paternity suit beside Chris Rock, claim he was the father of her son, and in require of hospitalization. DNA testing confirmd that Rock was not the child's father. In 2008, Rock's family history was outline on the PBS series African American Lives 2. A DNA test showed that he is fall from the Udeme public of northern Cameroon and that he is 20% Caucasian.

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Birth name

Christopher Julius Rock III

Date Of Birth

February 7, 1965

Place Of Birth

Andrews, South Carolina, U.S

Medium

Stand-up comedy, television, film

Genres

Black humor, musical comedy, observational comedy, political satire, satire

Spouse

Malaak Compton-Rock

Monday, December 13, 2010

Dave Chappelle - American screenwriter, comedian, television/film producer and actor

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Dave Chappelle most known as American screenwriter, comedian, television/film producer and actor. Chappelle began his film profession in the film Robin Hood: Men in Tights in 1993 and constant to star in minor roles in the films The Nutty Professor, Con Air, and Blue Streak. His first lead role in a film was in Half Baked in 1998. In 2003, he became extensively known for his popular sketch comedy television series, Chappelle's Show, which ran until 2006. Comedy Central ranks him forty-third in its record of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians.

He also owns many houses in Xenia, Ohio. Regarding his home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Chappelle says, "Turns out you don't need $50 million to live approximately these parts, just a nice smile and a kind way about you. You guys are the finest neighbors ever," he stated at a blues and jazz celebration in the town in mid-September 2006, "That's why I come back and that's why I am staying." Chappelle is a Muslim; he changed to Islam in 1998. He told Time Magazine in a May 2005 interview, "I do not usually talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to connect me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you study it the right way."

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Birth name

David Khari Webber Chappelle

Date Of Birth

August 24, 1973

Place Of Birth

Washington, D.C., U.S.

Medium

Stand-up, television, film

Genres

Satire/political satire, improvisational comedy, observational comedy, surreal humor, sketch comedy

Subject(s)

Racism, race relations, American politics, African American culture, pop culture, recreational drug use, human sexuality, morality

Spouse

Elaine Chappelle

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Woody Allen - American screenwriter, actor, director, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright

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Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, actor, director, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. He’s characteristic films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a famous American director. He is also illustrious by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the mass of them. For inspiration, Allen draw greatly on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema, among a wealth of other fields of interest.

Allen developed fervor for music early on and is a celebrated jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to usual public performances at various small venues in his hometown of Manhattan, with irregular appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in presentation that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and performed in a rare European tour in 1996, which became the topic of the documentary Wild Man Blues.

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Birth Name

Allan Stewart Konigsberg

Date Of Birth

December 1, 1935

Place Of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Comedian, Musician, Playwright

Spouse

Harlene Rosen, Louise Lasser, Soon-Yi Previn

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