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  4. Biography of Dominique Ingres
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  6. Biography of John Locke
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Biography of Bob Beamon

Jumps and enterprises
August 29, 1946

Who is Bob Beamon?

Robert Beamon, better known simply as Bob Beamon was born in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, on 29 August 19Great American athlete, has passed into history long jump for having achieved the world record in the Olympics 1968 Mexican, with a length of 8.9 meters: this result has remained unmatched until Mike Powell test of 19Beamon's record is the second longest ever unbeaten run which lasted 23 years well.
A life not easy, Beamon, despite athletic glory that is earned on the field. In just eight months, her mother, then twenty-five, dies of tuberculosis. Taking care of little Bob is his grandmother, which fails to give him, despite the best efforts and due to the turbulent neighbourhood in which they live, an iron discipline, can protect them from childhood.
Get custody because the father of the future is a violent athlete, who from birth of Bob does not intend to take care of, his wife and son away from their lives. How many kids unhappy, little Robert is undisciplined in school and does not like it should. The turning point, as with many other American kids, especially, color comes through sport.
When the future is athlete in high school, he was discovered by a talent scout, sports as well as well-known track coach: Larry Ellis. This makes him a member of the "All American" track and athletics teams, telling it their valuable lessons and removing it, as much as possible, from the street.
Bob Beamon adolescence passes through the streets of his neighborhood, where it becomes the protagonist of unpleasant events: as stabbings, brawls and booze. By day, however, the sport seems to get the better of him, and soon proves to be his main activity. Love athletics, but it's also a good basketball player.
However, the turning point, at least early in his career, it's called the University of Texas. Beamon in 1965, finished in second place in the u.s. in the long jump and won a ticket to El Paso, with a scholarship that win on sporting merits.
Runs about three years to great levels, training with attention and commitment to long in his new discipline, decided to participate in the Olympics in Mexico City. However, when it is still at the University, Bob Beamon shows its character, which, as on other occasions, the expensive, despite being driven by good intentions. During a meeting of athletics, future boycotts the race, as a sign of protest against some Mormons, whose attitude was openly racist against people of color. Because of this behavior, and shortly before his departure for Mexico City, Beamon loses scholarship and is suspended.
By this time, lost its official coach, is the Olympian Ralph Boston, his team-mate to deal with, by way of unofficial, of his workouts. Abandoned by his young wife, overburdened by debt, the American athlete you decide to go to Mexican Olympics 1968.
Suffering from insomnia, because his troubles, on 17 October 1968, on the eve of the Olympic final, Bob Beamon decides to throw himself in the street, in the city of Mexico, at a time of some tequila shots, completely discouraged for tomorrow's test. On 18 October 1968, therefore occurs in track a frustrated athlete, as well as with the head still addled from the flue gases of the previous night.
The tests are held on a devastated by bad weather, with high winds and a rainstorm to announce itself. These negative elements, adds altitude Mexican, you fear the subsequent rarefaction of breathable air to disadvantage the athletes.
Beamon sees three athletes that precede fail their tests, all of them, due to bad weather conditions. The Japanese Yamada, the Jamaican Brooks and German Baschert miss their first jump attempt. But when Beamon part, there is already in the race, the prodigious acceleration, which the American has something more than others. Makes a long flight, with a prodigious shot of kidneys and two small successive jumps, having marked the history and hard courts with a new world record in the long jump.
At 15.45 by that Friday, after Beamon's jump, the Court fails to immediately measure the distance, not having a device suitable to the length achieved by the athlete. A few seconds pass, you require a decameter, used to the discipline of men's triple jump, until on the Board does not appear to all amazing, of 8.90 meters.
The sample takes a few minutes to realize, despite the scream coming from the stands. Is my colleague Ralph Boston to explain the situation, not knowing the metric system: joy, with dances and prayers, is irrepressible. The thunderstorm that follows, immediate, even seems a baptism for what becomes a remarkable record that carve the name of Bob Beamon in Olympic history and sport.
Never, in fact, a record was broken with so much scrap: improving New York athlete is 55 cm from the previous. Before him, the world record long jump had been broken thirteen times, but with an average increase of about 6 cm. The biggest breakthrough of the record until his company, was just 15 cm; so it is not surprising that the result of Beamon has remained intact for 23 years, until 1991.
Referring to the time when the athlete ground landslide, on her knees, hearing the voice of his friend and teammate Ralph Boston the outcome of its result, an American journalist defines Beamon with the expression of "man who saw lightning", which we paste on him.
Defending Olympic champion instead, Britain's Lynn Davies, referring to fellow company tells him publicly that he "destroyed this event". By now, in the jargon of the Athletics uses a new adjective: "beamonesco", to define any kind of business out of the ordinary.
Anyway, thanks to that jump is dated 1968, young Bob earns a place among the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century at least, according to the magazine "Sports Illustrated".
That fateful moment, however, remains the highest peak of his life, which from that moment begins a second stage, much less exciting. Falls from Mexico and returned to University, where resumes with basketball, his other great passion. However, never fail to become a professional. In 1972 he graduated in sociology at Adelphi University.
During the four years that the distance by the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, distressed by his own company, the black athlete begins to squander all their money. When training resumes, now in debt again, you realize you can't jump like it once was, because of his right foot, the same that had allowed the momentum at the moment of his great historic leap.
The Olympics taking place in Germany, the American team part without him, that blatantly missing Olympic qualification. Several years pass before someone track, in New York, where he deals with kids misfits.
In 1979, he returned to Mexico City, on the occasion of the World University Games, where he tries to scrape together a few bucks retracing points of his triumph, telling details to the press.
On 30 August 1991, before Carl Lewis and Mike Powell then beat both the record of Bob Beamon, jumping respectively 8.91 meters (but with winds over 2 m/s, then no valid records) and 8.An opportunity where there are such measures, however, are the IAAF World Championships in athletics in Tokyo; Beamon therefore loses the record, but not one Olympic, which in fact still remains in his hands, indeed in his legs.
Beamon is later hired by Chicago State University, as Director of athletics.

Ingrid Bergman biography

Prestige receipts
August 29, 1915
August 29, 1982

Who is Ingrid Bergman?

Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm (Sweden) on 29 August 1915, the only child of Swedish painter and photographer Justus Samuel Bergman and German Friedel Adler. When Ingris has just three years loses his mother, fact that will spend a lonely childhood alone with the father.
At thirteen Ingrid finds herself an orphan of both parents and is adopted by relatives, who become her guardians.
He studied at Mathew the Royal dramatic Theatre School (Royal Dramatic Theater), then at the age of 20 years knows Peter Lindstrom, a dentist by profession, which is a love story. Peter introduces her to an Executive of the Swedish film industry (Svenskfilmindustri). Ingrid gets a small part in "The Earl of old town" (Munkbrogreven, 1935). In his debut film-unpublished in Italy-Ingrid Bergman plays the role of a waitress in a modest hotel in the old town of Stockholm.
Thanks to this small part she was noticed by Director Gustaf Molander, trying to cast it in Sweden to make her great promise: in a few years, from 1935 to 1938, he played more than ten movies, including "faceless" (En Kvinnas Ansikte)-that will be filmed a remake with Joan Crawford in the title role-and the famous "Intermezzo", filme that will be his passport to Hollywood.
In 1937 she married with Peter Lindstrom: the following year gave birth to her daughter Pia Friedal.
Meanwhile, producer David o. Selznick was determined to turn an American version of "Intermezzo". Ingrid Bergman is named in the United States and is offered a contract by dream: for the next seven years the Swedish actress personally chooses to play scripts, directors and partners. These were concessions and privileges unusual for its time, but that give an accurate idea of the prestige that had reached the class of Ingrid Bergman in America, even before you put the foot.
Selznick thought maybe Ingrid Bergman as the possible successor to Greta Garbo, only ten years older than she, another Swedish diva (compatriot of Bergman) that after the transition from silent films to talkies had found in the descending phase of his career, so much so that in a few years it would be withdrawn from the scene forever. Ingrid however rejects the proposal because he wants on the one hand supporting her husband's career is ending new studies undertaken to become a neurosurgeon, and devote themselves to the other girl who has only one year old. Ingrid signs contract for one year, with the proviso that they could return home if the movie will not be successful.
It happens then that the remake of "Intermezzo" collects a huge consensus. Bergman returns to Sweden to complete some other movies, then fly to the United States in 1940 with the whole family: after appearing in three films.
In 1942 Selznick sells borrowed the actress at Warner for the realization of a low-budget film, next to Humphrey Bogart: the title is "Casablanca" movie intended to enter into the history of cinema, becoming a classic of all time.
In 1943 the first Academy Award nomination as best actress for the film "for whom the bell tolls" ("For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943).
The following year he won the statuette for the thriller "anguish" (Gaslight, 1944). His third consecutive nomination for an Oscar as best actress comes to the interpretation of "the bells of St. Mary's" ("The Bells of St. Mary's, 1945).
In 1946 new CD "Notorious" (directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant): is the last film that Bergman runs under contract with Selznick. The husband Lindstrom the wife who convinced Selznick has extensively exploited, grossing millions of dollars in Exchange for a fee of just $ 80 per year: Ingrid so signing with a new production company to interpret "Arc de Triomphe", with Charles Boyer, the novel by Remarque. The film, unrealistic and confused, will not have the desired success and the actress, who for years had asked in vain to Selznick to interpret on-screen role as Joan of arc, decides that it is time to take a risk. Is an independent production company and, with a cost of no less than 5 million (astronomical figure for the time), he made his "Joan of Arc" (Joan of Arc, 1948), rich production of glitzy costumes, characters and spectacular scenery.
The film the fruit its fourth nomination, however it will be a spectacular failure. The double crisis with Lindstrom, of which we were chatting for a long time, becomes more acute and the disappointment at the failure of conviction feeds Bergman on excessive importance that Hollywood gives the business side of film, at the expense of the artistic aspect.
Boost by his friend Robert Capa, photojournalist known which weaves a brief affair, Ingrid is interested in the new wave of cinema that comes from Europe, and in particular Italian neorealism. After seeing "Rome open city" and "Paisan," writes Italian director Roberto Rossellini a letter-remained famous-where it stands ready to act for him. The letter included the passage "If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, which has not forgotten her German, it does almost understand French, and Italian only knows how to say" I love you ", are ready to come to Italy to work with her."
Rossellini doesn't miss the opportunity: has a script in the drawer intended originally to the Italian actress Anna Magnani, while his partner in life, and set in Stromboli. Bergman is in Europe, engaged in the filming of "the sin of Lady Considine" and Director rushes to Paris, where he was able to meet her and to propose the design of the film.
Obtained in the meantime a loan from Howard Hughes, thanks to the fame of Bergman, Rossellini received a positive response from the telegram, actress: in March 1949 part machining "Stromboli". The set is besieged by photographers and journalists; begin to leaked rumors about the relationship between the Director and his interpreter. At the end of the year the Press publishes news of Bergman's pregnancy.
For the American public is one huge scandal: Ingrid Bergman, hitherto considered a Saint, suddenly becomes an adulteress from stoning and the press calls Hollywood's apostle of degradation (Apostle of degradation of Hollywood), against mounting a smear campaign. Dr. Lindstrom asks divorce and get custody of daughter Pia, which in turn States that he never loved her.
In 1950, Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman married Roberto Rossellini was born Jr, said Robbie: Roman must intervene in law enforcement to quell the crowds of paparazzi and curious. In the meantime, comes out in theaters the film "Stromboli": in Italy gets a good success, generated mostly by curiosity, while in the United States the film records a resounding fiasco, both for the unfavorable attitude of the media, both the pressures of film financiers, who demanded that Assembly did not reflect in any way the author's intentions.
Ingrid Bergman in June 1952 gives birth to the twins, Ingrid and Isabella. The actress slowly reconquering the sympathies of the audience: the press portrays housewife poses and happy mom and says he has finally found peace in Rome, although the film that continues to run under the direction of Roberto Rossellini (including: "Europa ' 51" and "journey to Italy") are ignored by the public.
In 1956 the United States receives a great offer from the Fox, who offered her to play the lead role in a big-budget film about the survivor of the massacre of the family of the Tsar of Russia. With this role in the film titled "Anastasia" (1956, with Yul Brynner), Bergman makes his triumphant return to Hollywood after the scandal of the previous years, even winning the Oscar for "best actress" for the second time.
The Union with the Director Roberto Rossellini meanwhile is in crisis: the Italian side to India to make a documentary and it comes back after sometime with a new companion, Sonali das Gupta. Ingrid Meanwhile continues to interpret films-the first two titles are "Intrusive" and "the Inn of the sixth happiness", both from 1958-and knows a Swedish Impressario, Lars Schmidt, who would become her third husband (December 1958).
In the following years alternating roles in American and European films, but at the same time he also in theater and television. His third Academy Award-is the first best supporting actress-for her role in "murder on the Orient Express" (Murder on the Orient Express, 1975, Sidney Lumet, with Albert Finney and Lauren Bacall), adapted from the story by Agatha Christie. By withdrawing the third statue Ingrid declares publicly that, in his opinion, the Oscar should go to her friend Valentina Cortese, nominated for "day for night", by François Truffaut.
In 1978 from Sweden comes the proposal of working with the most prestigious of his directors, Ingmar Bergman. Ingrid accepts with courage a twofold challenge: recovering from surgery and a heavy chemotherapy for breast cancer, decides to immerse himself in the difficult role of a cynical and selfish mother who put her career at affection for their children. "Autumn Sonata" (Autumn Sonata) is his latest film interpretation. Considered a test of acting between its best, to receive his seventh Oscar nomination.
In 1980, while the disease gives signs of its resurgence, publishes a memoir written with Alan Burgess: "Ingrid Bergman-my story". In 1981, she starred on television in his latest work, a biography of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, which will receive a posthumous Emmy Award (1982) as "best actress".
On August 29, 1982 in London, on his 67th birthday, Ingrid Bergman dies. The body is cremated in Sweden and the ashes are scattered with flowers on national waters; the URN, now empty, that contained, is located at Norra Begravningsplatsen (Northern Cemetery) in Stockholm.
His modesty, Indro Montanelli, he say: "Ingrid Bergman is perhaps the only person in the world who does not consider an actress Ingrid Bergman completely successful and finally arrived".

Biography of James Hunt

August 29, 1947
June 15, 1993

Who is James Hunt?

James Simon Wallis Hunt was born on August 29, 1947 in London, the son of Sue and Wallis (a skilled player), who grow up trying to give him a rigorous discipline. The Hunt family lives in a flat in Cheam, Surrey, and he moved to Sutton when he was eleven years old. After attending the Westerleigh School in Hastings, East Sussex and Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire, Hunt abandons the intention to become a doctor to devote himself to the sport: first in a cricket team, then as a doorman in a football team. Very skilled also in the tennis game, since he was a boy develops a somewhat rebellious personality, often marked by violent reactions.
His approach to racing occurs in races where only contribute Mini: his first race will be staged at Snetterton, but not actually materializes, because the machine should run is considered irregular. Joint in Formula Ford in 1968, sits behind the wheel of a Russell-Alexis Mk 14: concludes its first race in fifth place, despite the loss of fifteen horses of the engine due to a wrong attitude of the car, and won for the first time at Lydden Hill. James Hunt, then, arrives in Formula Three the following year, driving a Merylin Mk11A. Always present in the first place, it is noted also by Formula 1 team.
His Formula 1 debut dates back to 1973, when, driving a March, takes part in the Monaco Grand Prix late in the season: started from 18th place on the grid, he finished eighth at the finish line. Then, after missing the Gp of Sweden, Hunt is back on track in France, where you earn a surprising sixth place. Also confirmed for the Grand Prix of Great Britain by virtue of the excellent results achieved in no time, recorded the fastest lap and finished in fourth place: the season will conclude with two podiums, a second and a third place.
The pilot, thus, gets a gig by the Hesketh team, founded by billionaire namesake: in 1974, the season concludes with three podiums, and in 1975 won the fourth place in the standings, scoring his first win in the Netherlands. James Hunt, so he moved to McLaren, with whom he won the title of world champion in front of Niki Lauda, Ferrari, only to a point.
In fact, the season starts in a way favourable to Austrian pilot, but is forced to stop after the accident during the Gp of Germany: Hunt, so has the opportunity to recover the disadvantage and win points on the opponent directly. Lauda at the wheel back in just over a month after the accident, and from that moment gives life to a duel with Hunt until the last race. Last race that is staged at the circuit of Fuji, for the Japan Grand Prix, very dense rain: Lauda decides to retire as early as the second lap, feeling too dangerous track conditions, while James Hunt ends race and win the title.
This is a rather unexpected triumph for him who is called "Hunt the shunt" (i.e. "Hunt the crash", to emphasize its numerous accidents), decidedly rebellious man and rather abrupt character that led him to enter often at odds with colleagues and managers. In fact, the Englishman manages to arrive at the top for the first time this season until the last race, but, of course, enough to earn the title.
McLaren also remained in the following two years, with three successes earned (in the British Gp, East Japan and United States), it makes a rather bitter controversy on the occasion of Italy Grand Prix of 1978, when Riccardo Patrese to be charge responsible for the accident that caused the death of Ronnie Peterson at the circuit of Monza: actually, the television images that will be later discoveries prove that the responsibility for that incident should be divided among various drivers , including Hunt.
English switch to Wolf in 1979, taking over from Jody Scheckter. That's what his last year in the world of Formula 1, concluded with the Monaco Grand Prix, after ten WINS and a title obtained.
Abandoned pilot life believing that the machine now counts more than man, he devoted himself to the career of commentator, often leaving go to bitter controversy against the former colleagues. Called in that role by Jonathan Martin, head of Bbc sport, alongside Murray Walker on the Bbc2 television Grand Prix ". His career lasted 13 years, commentator between highs and lows (before its debut, for example, drink two bottles of wine). In 1979, also makes a small appearance in "The Plank", dumb slapstick comedy genre, and along with Fred Emney starred in an advert for Texaco Havoline Tv.
James Hunt is found dead at the age of 45 years, on 15 June 1993, at his home in London: the death officially happened to heart failure, but is not likely to have inscribed on it the abuse of alcohol and smoking.
In the book "drivers, people!" Enzo Ferrari showed James Hunt as a perfect example of what is known as the parable of the pilot, who, after being initially hungry for victories, succeeding in a competitive trance to overcome the limits of the machine to achieve success, is distracted and is consumed by fame, wealth and commitments, and loses that ability that distinguished him en route to a slow decline into mediocrity.
In 2013 the movie comes out, "Rush" (the award-winning director Ron Howard) who tells the sporting rivalry between Niki Lauda and Hunt, starring Chris Hemsworth.

Biography of Dominique Ingres

Incorruptible art
August 29, 1780
January 4, 1867

Who is Dominique Ingres?

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, the great painter of the nineteenth century, was born in Montauban (France) on 29 August 17The first of five children, he apprenticed at his father's. In 1791 he joined the Academy of Toulouse as a pupil of the painter Roques, passionate lover of Raphael, and later the landscaper Briant. He very soon in Paris in 1797, quickly asserts itself as a portraitist of the upscale Parisian bourgeoisie, coming to represent even the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1800, however, gets the second place in the competition for the Prix de Rome with "Scipione and Antiochus".
Arrived in Italy in 1806 to study ancient sculpture and Renaissance painting, remained there until 18The works of the classical subject, as "Jupiter and Thetis" (Aix en Provence, Granet Museum), Ingres alternates and historical setting paintings depicting medieval love between Paolo and Francesca (Angers, Museum) or that between Raphael and the fornarina (Baltimore, Art Gallery), thus starting the artistic trend of nineteenth century painting called "trobadour". Finished his retired to the Villa Medici, takes a study in via Gregoriana. Performs some portraits of French who live in Rome, as Madame Panckoucke, Cordier, Bochet, and the Chevalier de Narvins.
In 1813 the bride and your Ann Chapelle of that year is the "engagement Bugsy" that you mentioned before.
The fame achieved at home thanks to the numerous portraits but also to works which involved "the apotheosis of Homer" of 1826, enables it to attract prestigious assignments: in 1825 by Charles X received the cross of the Légion d'honneur, then was elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts from 1835 to 1841, is Director of the Academy of France in Rome.
On returning to Paris in triumph and was also the King wants him to Versailles. He commissioned numerous portraits and stained glass panels for the chapel in Notre Dame de la Compassion in Paris. In 1846 participates for the first time in a public exhibition at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts; the following year belongs with Delacroix Commission of fine arts, from which he resigned in 1849, when his wife dies and struck from an eye disease.
Mature works are the result of lengthy processing aimed at achieving beauty and perfection of form, to the point that often run of final secondary parts was left to the employees. The great Odalisque ", one of his most famous oils, was painted in 1814 for Caroline Murat, King of Naples, and was intended to act as a" companion piece "to another work depicting another female nude, a subject that had spread in the neoclassic period. Ingres gives however to exotic tone painting through the inclusion of everyday objects: a Hookah, swatter of feathers and the censer.
In 1851 he decides to donate a substantial core of his works to the Museum of Montauban, which will be inaugurated next year. In 1852 Delphine Ramel wedding. In 1855, forty-three of his paintings are chosen for the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Between 1858 and 1860 is dedicated to self-portraits and, in 1862, organized an exhibition of his works and was appointed Senator. January 4, 1867 died. In February of the same year his hometown decided to create the Musée Ingres, which opens to the public in 1869.
Ingres has revolutionized the history of painting with a new concept, that of "art for art's sake", i.e. Recognizing an absolute art, never subject to any conditions.

Biography of Michael Jackson

King of pop
August 29, 1958
June 25, 2009

Who is Michael Jackson?

Dubbed the "King of pop" and "Lord" Peter Pan of pop music, Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in the city of Gary, Indiana (USA). Certainly not wealthy family, Michael is from childhood interested in music, as well as all the other ingredients (the mother sang frequently, the father played guitar in a small R & B band), while his older brothers accompanied him playing and singing.
Joseph Jackson, father-master of the family, realising the talents of children, decide to form a group: mai intuition proved more successful.
Infants "Jackson Five", aided by extremely rhythmic and engaging music, led by Michael unleashed pass quickly from small local shows to a contract with the legendary label "Motown". Will something like fifteen albums (including four saw the protagonist Michael Jackson as a solo singer) in just seven years, charting and claiming crowded tour.
Michael also recorded a few solo albums with Motown, but in 1975, due to the limited artistic freedom granted to him, the band decided not to renew the contract and choose a new label. All, except Jermaine, who decides to continue recording albums for the same label.
Signed a deal with Epic, the "Jackson Five" simply become "Jacksons" (the brand and the name of the Group were recorded by Motown), although the success seems to have abandoned.
Michael decides to pursue a solo career and in 1978, he worked as an actor at the filming of the movie "The Wiz", with Diana Ross, which also affects the soundtrack (by participating in four songs, including "You can't Win" and "Easy on" down on the street "); during the recording of the soundtrack for the film knows the legendary Quincy Jones. In 1979 he decided to partner with friend Quincy Jones, handyman known as part R & B, he recorded his first solo album for Epic/CBS, "Off the Wall" (with Motown had already recorded four solo albums).
The dark disk of the Jacksons decline, reaching the top of the us charts, and the whole world. The road to the next exploit, that it will go down in history as the author of the best selling album of all time, is marked. After being reunited with his brothers for another album and tour, Michael Jackson achieves the second solo album: "Thriller".
We are in 1982 and will serve at least a decade to dispose of the orgy dance that the album "Thriller" has produced. The album remained at the top of the charts for 37 weeks and to date has sold over 40 million copies. Famous has also become the innovative launch video of the single "Thriller", a fifteen-minute music video directed by filmmaker John Landis.
Despite the new superstar status, Jackson once again performed with his brothers in 1984 (Victory Tour), an event that pushes some of the other family members to pursue a solo career (as sisters Janet Jackson and La Toya Jackson).
Meanwhile, the increasingly paranoid Michael buys a huge ranch in California, renamed "Neverland", equipping him to playground and inviting smaller guys to visit and stay guests from him.
His penchant for plastic surgery and sometimes bizarre behaviour (how to wear medical masks in public) make him a target for the tabloids all over the world. In addition, its reluctance to grant interviews inevitably increases the interest on his life, giving àdito to "urban legends" as that would star in a sort of hyperbaric chamber.
In 1985 buys ATV Publishing, which owns the rights to many Beatles songs (as well as material by Elvis Presley, Little Richard and others), a move that apparently ruined her relationship with Paul McCartney.
The same year Michael is a promoter along with Lionel Richie of "We are the world", a song whose proceeds are intended for children in Africa; the interpretation of the USA's biggest stars to the track: Planetary success.
In 1987, the highly anticipated album Bad which, although easily reaches the top of international rankings (selling well in a short time 28 million copies), fails to reach the success of "Thriller".
Following another world tour but his concerts are criticized for use of playback.
In 1991 "Dangerous" is another success, despite the competition with Nirvana's "Nevermind", which marks the detachment from pop to "grunge" for the MTV Generation. In the USA the Michael Jackson image is heavily scaled by the voices of unlikely harassment.
Jackson's love for children is unknown, but its continuous attention, generate suspicions to no end, strengthened in 1993, regularly, by the complaint of a child friend of the singer, who accused him of molestation. The fact is resolved by an agreement between Jackson and the accuser (the father of small).
In an attempt to justify its "normalcy", joins in May 26, 1994 marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the great Elvis. Unfortunately, the shipwrecked wedding just two years later, although Jackson quickly remedied by marrying his nurse who, among other things, give birth to the first child of Michael Jackson in February 1997.
Not even stop the urge to make music and here Meanwhile released "History", accompanied as usual by a huge promotional campaign, including video of huge statues of Jackson who roam the streets of Europe. The album is a double disc of "greatest hits" and in a new material, including the single "Scream" (a Duet with his sister Janet) and the song "They don't care about us" that becomes an object of dispute in the texts considered by some anti-Semites and then subsequently changed. The output is supported by another tour. The media blitz is scaled for the next and most recent 1997 disc, "Blood on the dance floor".
Michael Jackson is inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame in March 20The same year he organized a mega concert at NYC's Madison Square Garden to celebrate 30 years of career.
In addition to tributes in his honor by Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, 'N Sync and Liza Minnelli (his friend), the concert with the participation of Jacksons, together on stage after nearly 20 years. The show, already sold-out, is broadcast by CBS and beats all previous records with over 25,000,000 listening viewers.
Immediately after the second concert in New York City is upset by the tragedy of the Twin Towers.
Michael decides to react to this blow by writing a song dedicated to the victims of that tragedy. Collect 40 stars around him (Celin Dion, Shakira, Mariah Carey, Backstreet Boys, Santana) and recorded the song "What More Can I Give?" (Accompanied by a Spanish version entitled "Todo para ti", with the participation, among others, also by Laura Pausini).
On October 25, 2001 Michael and his best friends gather in Washington for a charity concert during which is officially presented the all-star song for the victims of the twin towers.
In October 2001 "Invincible" was released, which contains the single "You rock my world" accompanied by a clip, in the tradition of Jackson, sees the cameo appearance by Marlon Brando and other songs that they see the appearance of major music stars like Carlos Santana on the song "Whatever happens".
In November 2003 the greatest hits package "Number ones", but also the news that Michael Jackson should be arrested for multiple charges of molesting children, with the option of paying a deposit of three million dollars.
The process ends on June 14, 2005, after the jury Santa Maria Court declares him innocent, for all ten charges that saw him accused.
After the closure of the Neverland ranch, after alleged health problems, with many debts to escape and after a long time away from the scene in March of 2009 back in public in London organizing a press conference to present its new world tour by the British capital was supposed to start in July. But the tour would never have started: Michael Jackson died suddenly of a heart attack, at his home in Los Angeles on June 25, 51 years not yet accomplished.
Just weeks away from the fact we talk increasingly of a murder, perpetrated against the singer by his personal physician, who was given a lethal dose of anesthetic. The hypothesis is then officially at the beginning of 2010.

Biography of John Locke

Liberty seeds
August 29, 1632
October 28, 1704

Who is John Locke?

John Locke is considered the philosopher of freedom. Besides giving a contribution to ideas about the rule of law, separation of powers, and limited authorities state, even his thesis supported in favour of religious tolerance-expressed very clearly in his Letters Concerning Toleration "-were crucial in the history of thought and civil progress. Born in Somerset, England, on August 29, 1632, John Locke made his studies at Oxford, obtaining his medical degree.
His profession led him to become friends with Lord Ashley, later first Earl of Shaftesbury. Afterwards he shelter in France, but when his patron fell into disrepute in the eyes of the British Government, was forced to flee to the Netherlands, where he lived in hiding and under a false identity.
This clandestine life was fatal because he was involved in the plot to put on the throne the silent Dutchman William of Orange, in what would later be known to history as the "glorious revolution". From this turning point in English constitutional history will be the most famous work of Locke, two treatises of Government ", which is later used as an ideological manifesto for political events related to the revolution.
He returned to London in late 1679 to be back near Shaftesbury who was returned to power. But these, blamed for high treason, was forced to flee to the Netherlands where he died shortly after (1682). Despite his cautious demeanor Locke fell into suspicion and in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland where he remained for more than five years.
Here he took an active part in the preparations of the expedition of William of Orange which was made in November 16In the wake of Princess Mary, wife of William, John Locke returned to England in 1689, where great credit representative regained intellectual and philosophic defender of new liberal regime.
Then began the most intense period of his literary activity. In 1689 he went out his anonymous "Letter concerning toleration". In 1690 there appeared his fundamental work, "essay concerning human understanding". In the following years, Locke waits with other works including the philosophical controversy with Stillingfleet, posthumously published treatise on "Conduct of the intellect and the examination of Malebranche". In 1693 he published "Thoughts on education" and, between 1695 and 1697, essays on "reasonableness of Christianity".
Since Locke 1691 had accepted the hospitality of sir Francis Masham in the castle of Oates (Essex) about 20 miles from London, where he was surrounded by loving care by Lady Masham, Damaris Cudworth, philosopher's daughter. There John Locke died on October 28, 1704.

Biography of Maurice Maeterlinck

August 29, 1862
May 6, 1949

Who is Maurice Maeterlinck?

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck was born on 29 August 1862 in Ghent, Belgium, from a wealthy family.
Poet, playwright and essayist, he was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for literature.
Studies and early writings
As a boy he studied with the Jesuits, then enroll in University courses. In 1885, at age 23, he published some short stories and poems of inspiration: some remnants parnassiana are found on the Brussels literary magazine "La Jeune Belgique". Later, Maurice Maeterlinck began to attend Paris: here comes into contact with Villiers de l'Isle Adam, which will have a substantial influence on its production, and Stéphane Mallarmé, and inspiration from the emerging Symbolist movement in those years.
At the same time, discovers the romance of the brothers August and Friedrich von Schlegel, forerunners of symbolism, and German mysticism.
Sudden fame
In August 1890 Maeterlinck suddenly becomes famous later on enthusiastically to an article written in his honor by Octave Mirbeau. The latter, a literary critic of Le Figaro, he speaks in very positive terms, defining it as the new Belgian Shakespeare: not so much of poetry collection "Serres chaudes" published the previous year, because of "La princesse Maleine", his first drama.
Other works
In the months after Maurice Maeterlinck composed "intruse", "Les Aveugles" and "Pelléas et Mélisande", shows marked by a notable Symbolist dose of fatalism and mysticism. Shortly after he began a love affair with Georgette Leblanc, singer who will attend for over twenty years.
During this time, inspired by a very prolific vein, writes "Intérieur", "La mort de Tintagiles", "Aglavaine et Sélysette", "Le trésor des humbles" and "Douze chansons".
Relocation to France
In 1897 Maurice leaves Belgium permanently and decides to live in France: initially settled in Paris. Here he composed, among other things, "La sagesse et la destinée", "Ariane et Barbe-Bleue" (music by Paul Dukas), "Soeur Béatrice" and "Monna Vanna", but also "Joyzelle".
From 1907 he went to live in an Abbey in Normandy; the following year he wrote the story "the Blue Bird", considered the most significant success, at least among his contemporaries.
The Nobel Prize and the later works
In 1911 the Belgian playwright, as mentioned, received the Nobel Prize for literature; afterwards, he devoted himself to composing "La mort", "Marie-Magdeleine", "l'hote inconnu", "Le miracle de saint Antoine" and "Le grand secret", but also "Les AMISRAEL" and "La puissance des morts".
In 1919 he married the actress Renée Dahon nicoise, which over the next decade makes trips around the world: in Hollywood, at the suggestion of Sam Goldwyn, but also in Spain, Italy, Palestine, Greece and Egypt.
Meanwhile Maeterlinck is also dedicated to nature: essays after having experienced already in 1901 with "the life of the bees", in 1926 he wrote "life of termites", which according to some is a plagiarism of a work by Eugene Marais, South African poet and scientist.
Between the late 1920s and early 1930s Maeterlinck carries out "La vie de l'Espace", "La grande féerie", "La vie des fourmis (" The life of ants ") and" The araignée de verre ", before composing" La grande loi "and" Avant le grand silence ".
The last years
After you have bought a nice Castle and have it called "Orlamonde", inspired by his drama "Quinze Chansons", in 1932 he was appointed count Maeterlinck from Belgium King Albert I.
Also awarded the French Legion of honour, almost eighty years-in-1939 decided to move in the United States: here writes "l'autre monde ou le cadran stellaire". Stay in America until 1947, before returning to France: after having composed "Jeanne d'Arc" and "Bulles bleues"; Maurice Maeterlinck died on 6 May 1949 in Nice.

Biography of John McCain

Discipline and experience
August 29, 1936

Who is John McCain?

John Sidney McCain III was born on August 29, 1936 at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone United States controlled. Both his father's grandfather, John s. McCain Jr., had a brilliant career as a u.s. Navy admirals. His grandfather, John s. McCain, SR., Commander of Naval Aviation during the battle of Okinawa in 1945 while his father was in command of the armed forces during the Viet Nam war.
John attended the Episcopal School until 1954, then entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He graduated in 1958; curious how its low classification (895° on a total of 900 students) followed in his father's footsteps, even they don't really excellent in their courses of study.
After the Naval Academy is transferred to the air base in Pensacola, Florida, where he started his naval pilot training. Despite an accident that saw his plane fall into Corpus Christi Bay, granted a patent to enter the aircraft.
In 1965 John McCain bride Carol Shepp, a model of Philadelphia, from which adopts two children (from a previous marriage), has a daughter (in 1966) and from which will separate in 1980.
During the war in Viet Nam on his plane is shot down. It's the October 26, 19McCain is taken captive: held for over five years, back to his homeland and became famous nationwide.
Cindy Hensley in 1980 wedding (with whom he had four children) and with her he moved to Phoenix, Arizona State.
After 22 years of military career he devoted himself to politics, to which introduces mechanisms in 1977 as the Navy representative to the Senate. In 1982 he was elected to Congress where he claims the Reagan administration. Is a candidate for the Senate for the State of Arizona and was elected in 1986.
In 1999, publishes the book "Faith of My Fathers" which tells the story of his family's military and that includes their own tragic experiences.
Strong, conservative Republican in 2000 decided to run for the Presidency. He was defeated by George w. Bush.
Back in the race for the 2008 elections. Although conservative, in the eyes of the public shows a considerable independence: it is not uncommon that his grades differ from party lines.
In November 2008 he was defeated by Barack Obama.

Biography of Charlie Parker

"Bird," Picasso of Jazz
August 29, 1920
March 12, 1955

Who is Charlie Parker?

Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920 in Kansas City, in the u.s. State of Kansas. In all likelihood can be considered the greatest saxophonist of Jazz history, by far, among the top three great musicians of this genre that ever lived. With Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz musicians of the era gave birth to the extremes, the current artistic levels of jazz known as bebop, that trend a few years would be boundless outside the States, also becoming the most played jazz style and scope to all jazz musicians of the 20th century.
To give an idea of the contribution in kind by the saxophonist, color following the thinking of the most important scholars, critics and music historians, the Italian Arrigo Polillo, an expert in the field, called Charlie Parker in the following terms in his famous anthology of jazz: "it was the Picasso of African American art, the man who reinvented the syntax and morphology of jazz music and diverted the course".
Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City, a suburb of the State and, ironically, moved almost immediately to Kansas City, the great state of Missouri city. What happens when the future "Bird" is still a baby, his father abandons the family, but in fact in the first Kansas and away forever by his wife and son. Parker Senior is a street theatre in a bad way and little known, hired at some vaudeville companies in the area. The same Charlie don't revise than dead, several years later, at his funeral, caused by a stab wound received from a prostitute.
His mother was a cleaning woman, and after her husband suffered moves with his son in Missouri, finding a job that committed at night. Sign up Charlie at Lincoln High School, which he attended for a few years, with little profit. The future jazz musician spends his days intrufolandosi in what will be his world, listening to and learning from some of the great masters, such as Lester Young and Buster Smith, nicknamed "Il professore", both active in Kansas City's comedy.
In 1935, at the age of fifteen years, Charlie Parker married a girl of nineteen, named Rebecca Ruffin. In the meantime can be considered already a professional musician, although even mediocre level. Has already known drugs and makes a wide use. The period, musically speaking, is shining in the city. And there is no place for him, too, that from 1934 to some bands, like the one with pianist Lawrence Keyes.
It takes a couple years to ripen and immediately, the best in the area, as Buster Smith and Jay McShann, want to play in their orchestras. In those days you feel already number one and, leaving his wife and son to the pole, he decides to leave the city of Kansas, headed to Chicago, traveling hidden in a freight car. The passage is short for Parker realizes that New York is the right destination. There goes and does accommodate from his former boss orchestra, Buster Smith, almost hidden from his wife. The young jazzman lives at night: works on the premises and, when we make plays during the jam session.
Does the garbage boy, in practice, both the Clarke Monroe's and Jimmy's Chicken Shack, a stylish venue where she performed almost every night and Art Tatum, Charlie attends only to hear the great pianist. Some time passes and start earning a living with music. He joined the orchestra of Parisian Ballroom, a ballroom near Times Square. His father dies in these days, and Parker made a brief comeback in Kansas. There remains little though, the lure of New York is strong and return there, without thinking twice, determined to fine-tune what already calls his style.
Between 1940 and 1941 Parker he recorded his first records. Just twenty years, but it reached its own sound, mature and recognizable, according to some already "superb", as they call their colleagues at the end of his famous concert at the Savoy, in Harlem.
In 1942 the army avoids declaring Bird addict. Thanks to some fans managed to get in touch with Dizzy Gillespie, and then with Earl Hines, who takes in his orchestra. Parker worked there for ten months, in the absence of evidence, sometimes falling asleep onstage, often disappearing for days and getting, punctual, Cape fines orchestra.
Undisciplined to the core, then goes away permanently, taking to roam around some cities, like Washington and Chicago, before receiving a call from New York, this time in another great orchestra of the time, Billy Eckstine, exactly in the spring of 1944.
The attitude of "Bird" but doesn't change and soon, saxophonist realizes that if he wants to survive, it is only through small formations guided by him, nothing else in this way.
It "sells" then at 52nd Street and the "Three Deuces" is definitely its sound, a small but, thanks to him, became the cradle of new bopper.
Between 1944 and 1945 the carvings with occasional musicians multiply: for the Savoy label, Parker records many new pieces in this period, such as the famous "Red Cross". Soon she finds herself with Dizzy Gillespie recording a number of songs that marked the beginning of a new form of jazz as "Groovin' high", "Dizzy Atmosphere" and "All the things you are", followed a few months later from "Salt peanuts", "Lover man" and "Hot house".
In the fall of 1945, the Savoy, he recorded a series of songs, including there is also "Ko", according to some, his masterpiece. Most of the audience and critics, however, with a few exceptions, it still fails to penetrate all the way to the new way of playing of Dizzy and Bird and the latter is consoled with drugs, alcohol and, especially, with women.
Geraldine Scott wedding from which divorced almost immediately, to love and marry, in Mexico, later (forgetting, however, that it did not officially divorced from Geraldine), Doris Snydor Meteor. In this same period, knows and loves even Chan Richardson, the white woman who does a little patron with black artists in the area and will remain in touch until his death.
During these years, Bird eats and drinks as anyone, to excess, and the same thing is with drugs and, despite almost daily sounds, is always looking for money, which sometimes borrows without returning again.
Also in 1945, Dizzy and Charlie go to conquer Hollywood, to bring the new sound from New York, at Billy Berg's. However the Californian colleagues they show only infrequently, and often when you go specifically to hear Bird, ends that don't even, because of her wandering around aimlessly, prey for drugs and alcohol. Gillespie himself should take a reserve saxophonist during that tour.
When the time comes to return to New York, finished writing at Billy Berg's, Miss Parker to the appeal; These meanwhile has met the right guy can get heroin, nicknamed "Moose the Mooche", to which it devotes even a piece, in addition to the 50% of his royalties.
After a few months, you know that Bird has found a new job and plays almost every night at the "final", a restaurant located in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. In 1946, the place becomes the new nerve center of American jazz, with Parker and associates.
Ross Russell, a writer, gives life to new label Dial, which welcomes in that period all inventions of Bird, in a State of grace. The period doesn't last forever and with Final closure, due to the marketing of drugs, disappears also the heyday for California.
Bird's bad so not having more heroin available; begins to drink immoderately. Even Norman Granz, with his Jazz at the Philharmonic, he occasionally manages to get him out of trouble.
In July 1946, Russell gives up at the insistence of Bird, and gives rise to a hacking session, despite Parker's terrible. For the occasion, in fact, there is even a psychiatrist, called specifically to prevent Bird give escandescenza, as happens in that period. The recording, however, contains a legendary version of "Lover man", according to many the best ever played in the history of jazz, for pathos and emotional intensity, which has inspired many stories and novels by famous writers, as "The stalker" by Julio Cortazar, inserted in his work titled "Bestiario".
The famous seat also assists the journalist Elliott Grennard, who a few months later she published a story titled "Sparrow's Last Jump", released on Harper's Magazine in May 1947 and focused on the legendary experience alongside Parker. During the session are recorded only two more songs, "The Gypsy" and "Bebop", before bringing them one exhausted Bird in the hotel.
A few hours pass and the saxophonist goes crazy, naked and screaming swoops in the hotel lobby and sets fire to the bed in his room, before being taken away by police. He was interned in the psychiatric ward of the "Camarillo State Mental Hospital", a hundred kilometers from Los Angeles, where he remained hospitalized for six months, composing the well-known tune "Relaxin' at Camarillo".
Spending a few months sober but, on the final return in New York from 1947 onwards, will start using drugs. Some years pass between highs and lows, musical and physical, however recording for the Savoy and Dial labels, often accompanied by so-called "classic Quintet" with Miles Davis on the flugelhorn and Max Roach on drums. Resumes also playing at the Three Deuces and The Onyx, with Gillespie, who in vain tries to clean it up every time, without ever succeeding.
He played with the best ever, such as Miles Davis, Howard McGhee, Red Rodney, Fats Navarro, Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, the vibraphonist Milt Jackson and Bud Powell, apart from the various Barney Kessel, Ray Brown and Charles Mingus.
In 1949 the "Metronome", combines label Parker with Lennie Tristano and Pete Rugolo, plus other great ever, creating historical engravings. In 1950, he recorded Bird in New York with a large orchestra. Is a financial success, perhaps the only of his life, but the old friends accuse him, resulting in him a strong delusion. Indeed Parker has always been a lover of European classical music, from Schoenberg to Debussy to Stravinsky.
In the same year cross the Atlantic, already crossed years ago for an unlucky tour of Paris, and went to Sweden, where he held some concerts. Delaunay is invited by again to play in Paris but despite ads, does not occur.
Meanwhile, in New York, in his honor, the "Birdland", a place where only plays his music. However, even here, Parker takes just to get to hunt, because of his behaviour.
From 1950 to 1953 takes some good recordings, but very fuzzy in comparison to executions ranging between 1947 and 1948 with the Savoy and Dial. It is more and more drugs and keep alive, so to speak, only with the help of his true and only companion of a lifetime, the patient Chan Richardson.
At the beginning of 1954 Parker completes a final installment in California, to replace Mr Stan Getz, arrested for threatening with a gun a pharmacist because they ran out of drugs. Run of good performances but freak when it reaches the news of the death of his baby daughter Pree, had with Chan and nipped by pneumonia.
In New York a few months pass and is readmitted to a mental hospital, at Bellevue Hospital. Is discharged, he plays with the Philharmonic, with Sarah Vaughan, but voluntarily returned to hospital, only a few days later.
His last concerts on 4 and 5 March 1955, at "Birdland". Would be an "all star band", along with Powell (he tried drugs and madness), Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and Kenny Dorham. But it is a total fiasco: Parker won't take it anymore.
A few days pass and Bird visits a friend, another white patron, Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter Rothschild. Is called a doctor, convinced by the poor condition of the musician, to visit him every day. I spend about three and 12 March 1955, Charlie Parker dies in front of the tv, in the apartment of the Baroness, officially to pneumonia.
The coroner called to do the autopsy, not knowing immediately the cause, writes on the report that the body belongs to a man of about fifty years. When he dies, instead, Bird has only thirty-four years.
Musical tributes in his honor are numerous; his life inspired the film "Bird" of 1988, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Forest Whitaker as a musician.

Biography of Joel Schumacher

Hollywood costumes
August 29, 1939

Who is Joel Schumacher?

Joel Schumacher was born in New York on 29 August 19His mother is a Jewish Swedish descent and his father was a Baptist from Tennessee and, as he himself says, grows as an american mongrel-a half-breed American. Lost his father when he's only four years, and now lives with her mother in the popular neighborhood of Long Island in New York. The mother is a seamstress and Joel spends his time almost abandoned in himself, reading the Batman comic books and passing the afternoons at the movies with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. This period is very important for his subsequent education and for defining their tastes and interests. His passion for fashion develops more and more thanks to the window dresser who performs as it is still little more than a boy. He graduated in 1965 at Parson School of design and then attends the Fashion Institute of technology.
Thus began a career as a fashion designer, while managing a boutique, Paraphernalia, in collaboration with Andy Warhol. Joel Schumacher for the sixties are most interesting from a business point of view, in fact, begins a long collaboration with Revlon. From a strictly personal but the sixties marked his descent into hell. His drug addiction, which began since it was little more than a child, worsens to the point that he spends all day at home with Windows obscured by some blankets and only comes out at night. Things change dramatically in the 1970s when he moved to California. Is thus able to detoxify from drug abuse, although it will continue to binge drinking for another two decades.
In California, he began working in the film industry as a costume designer. His first major work dates back to 1973, when he worked as a costume designer in the Woody Allen film "crazy love story".
Thanks to this first work manages to make important contacts and begins his work as a Director. His first film is a 1974 television production for NBC called "The Virginia Hill Story." In this period also began working as a screenwriter and wrote and directed the movie: "Car wash" in 1976, "D.C.cab" in 1983, "St. Elmo's Fire" in 1985 and "the lost boys" in 1987.
The big success came in the early 1990s, when the writer John Grisham asks him to transpose on its film thriller "the client". Joel chooses as her leading man Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon as the female lead, receiving an Oscar nomination for best actress.
In 1995 obtained the rights to make "Batman Forever". The two previous episodes filmed by Tim Burton are considered too grim and serious so Joel Schumacher is asked to spice up the film. His version starring Val Kilmer and Jim Carrey becomes blockbuster of the summer with a cash receipt in the United States by as much as 184 million dollars. In 1997 following another lucky episode in the saga of the character created by Bob Kane "Batman and Robin".
The great filmmaker's skill in directing the actors allows him to discover many new talents such as Matthew McConaughey, who starred in the 1996 film "a time to kill"; or Colin Farrell, starring in the 2000 film set in Viet Nam "Tigerland" and Chris Rock saying in 2002 in Bad's Company ".
In 2004 runs the film version of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical "the Phantom of the opera".
In later years he realizes many movies: "the killer" (2002), "Veronica Guerin-the price of courage" (2003), filmed in Ireland with as many as 93 different locations, "Number 23" (2007) "Blood Creek (2009)," Twelve "(2010)," Man in the mirror "(2011). With the film on the true story of journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed for having discovered and denounced drug trafficking in the Irish capital, Schumacher proves to be capable not only to manage large capital which offers Hollywood, but also know how to make films on a budget.
Despite being considered a Director of experience, said he felt still an apprentice and want to continue to make films because, he said, has not yet turned his best work. Officially declared his homosexuality, but to those who ask him to talk about it opposes refused, arguing that there is nothing to add.

Sources: Biografieonline.it