"Songs My Mother Taught Me (Marlon Brando book) Songs My Mother Taught Me an autobiography by Marlon Brando with Robert Lindsey as co-author, published in 1994. The book deals with Brando's childhood, his memories of being a struggling actor and of his various relationships with his family and with other actors, producers, and directors. He also talks candidly about his sex life. The book has been translated into several languages, including a Persian version translated by Niki Karimi in 1999. Notably, little to no mention is made of his wives or children. It was said that he made this a"
"Las Vegas. In 1993, he performed in ""Doppelganger"". Maharis released LPs and singles through Epic Records earlier in his career. His only top-40 pop hit was his version of the standard ""Teach Me Tonight"", which hit number 25 in June 1962, although several other singles charted below the top 40. Later, he performed in nightclubs, and pursued a secondary career as an impressionist painter. As of 2008, Maharis was still painting, while splitting his time between New York and Beverly Hills. George Maharis George Maharis (born September 1, 1928, Astoria, Queens, New York City) is an American actor who portrayed"
"Jim Carroll James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work ""The Basketball Diaries""; the book inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll. Carroll was born to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up in New York City's Lower East Side. When he was about 11 (in the sixth grade) his family moved north to Inwood in Upper Manhattan. He was taught by the LaSalle Christian Brothers, and his brother in the"
"five. The Basketball Diaries (film) The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, and Mark Wahlberg. The film is an adaptation of Jim Carroll's autobiographical work of the same name, telling the story of Carroll's teenage years as a promising high school basketball player and writer who developed an addiction to heroin with his misguided friends. The film is an adaptation of poet and memoirist Jim Carroll's juvenile diaries chronicling his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. The role of Jim is played by"
"Davis is the author of an autobiographical essay entitled ""A Mason-Dixon Memory"" in which he recounts his experiences as an eighth grader dealing with prejudice on a trip to a southern state. Clifton Davis Clifton Duncan Davis (born October 4, 1945) is an American actor, songwriter, singer, and pastor. Davis starred on the television shows ""That's My Mama"" and ""Amen"". Davis also wrote several hits for The Jackson 5, including ""Never Can Say Goodbye"" and ""Lookin' Through the Windows."" Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Thelma van Putten Langhorn, a nurse, and Toussaint L'Ouverture Davis, a Baptist"
"Me"". Toby and his mother sing ""I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair"" from the popular post-war musical ""South Pacific"". However, most of the music reflects Toby's fondness for rock and roll and doo wop, including songs by Eddie Cochran, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and Link Wray. Carter Burwell composed the film's pensive score, which featured New York guitarist Frederic Hand. This Boy's Life (film) This Boy's Life is a 1993 film adaptation of the memoir of the same name by American author Tobias Wolff. It is directed by Michael Caton-Jones and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Tobias"
"and Steve McQueen were the only two students admitted one year, out of 2000 candidates who auditioned. In Brando's autobiography, ""Songs My Mother Taught Me"", the actor claimed he learned nothing from Strasberg: ""After I had some success, Lee Strasberg tried to take credit for teaching me how to act. He never taught me anything. He would have claimed credit for the sun and the moon if he believed he could get away with it. He tried to project himself as an acting oracle and guru. Some people worshiped him, and I never knew why. I sometimes went to the"
"Clifton Davis Clifton Duncan Davis (born October 4, 1945) is an American actor, songwriter, singer, and pastor. Davis starred on the television shows ""That's My Mama"" and ""Amen"". Davis also wrote several hits for The Jackson 5, including ""Never Can Say Goodbye"" and ""Lookin' Through the Windows."" Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Thelma van Putten Langhorn, a nurse, and Toussaint L'Ouverture Davis, a Baptist minister. He was raised in Mastic, New York.Clifton Davis is a graduate of Pine Forge Academy. In a piece he wrote for ""Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul,"" he described the racism"
"Nick Lachey Nicholas Scott Lachey ( ; born November 9, 1973) is an American actor, singer, and television personality. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the multi-platinum-selling boyband 98 Degrees, and later starred in the reality series """" with his then-wife, Jessica Simpson. He has released four solo albums: ""SoulO"", ""What's Left of Me"", ""A Father's Lullaby"", and ""Soundtrack of My Life"". He also had a recurring role on the television series ""Charmed"". Lachey was born in Harlan, Kentucky, the son of Cathalyn (née Fopma) and John Lachey. He is the brother of singer and actor Drew"
"Monica. He died three days later on September 2 at the age of 65. Troy Donahue Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson, Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor and singer. He was a popular male sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s. Born in New York City, Donahue was the son of a retired stage actress and the manager of the motion-picture department of General Motors. Donahue later recalled in a 1959 interview: Acting is all I ever wanted. Ever since I can remember, I've studied and read plays. My mother would"
"Billy Bob Thornton Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician. Thornton had his first break when he co-wrote and starred in the 1992 thriller ""One False Move"", and received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film ""Sling Blade"" (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He appeared in several major film roles in the 1990s following ""Sling Blade"", including Oliver Stone's neo-noir ""U Turn"" (1997), political drama ""Primary Colors"" (1998), science"
"of his Beverly Hills-based publishing companies, in which his children also became involved as they became adults. Bill Withers William Harrison Withers Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. He recorded several major hits, including ""Lean on Me"", ""Ain't No Sunshine"", ""Use Me"", ""Just the Two of Us"", ""Lovely Day"", and ""Grandma's Hands"". Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for four more. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film ""Still Bill"". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in"
"Neil Patrick Harris Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, magician, and singer. He is known primarily for his comedy roles on television and his dramatic and musical stage roles. On television, he is known for playing the title character on ""Doogie Howser, M.D."" (1989–1993), Barney Stinson on ""How I Met Your Mother"" (2005–2014, for which he was nominated for four Emmy Awards), and Count Olaf in ""A Series of Unfortunate Events"" (2017–present). Harris is also known for his role as the title character in Joss Whedon's musical ""Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"" (2008)"
"Troy Donahue Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson, Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor and singer. He was a popular male sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s. Born in New York City, Donahue was the son of a retired stage actress and the manager of the motion-picture department of General Motors. Donahue later recalled in a 1959 interview: Acting is all I ever wanted. Ever since I can remember, I've studied and read plays. My mother would help me, but my parents didn't want me to become an actor. They preferred"
"Qaasim Middleton Qaasim Asani Malik Seawright-Middleton is an American actor, singer and musician best known for his role on ""The Naked Brothers Band"". Qaasim is also known for his role on the HBO documentary movie ""The Music in Me"". In 2015, he became a finalist in season 14 of ""American Idol"". Qaasim Middleton was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of actor/musician-songwriter Keith Middleton, who performed in the New York cast of ""STOMP"", and actress/singer-songwriter Toni Seawright, the first African American Miss Mississippi and a 4th runner-up in Miss America. He graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High"
"50s Pop"", performing a tribute to Billy Williams (""I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"") and Tommy Edwards (""It's All in the Game""). Carter later acted on television programs such as ""Quincy, M.E."", ""Sanford and Son"", ""Marcus Welby, M.D."", ""The Eddie Capra Mysteries"", ""CHiPs"" and ""Magnum, P.I."", and in films such as ""Friday Foster"" (1975), ""Chesty Anderson, USN"" (1976), ""American Raspberry"" (1977) and ""Angel"" (1984). Mel Carter Mel Carter (born April 22, 1939, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer and actor. He is best known for his 1965 million-selling recording, ""Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"". Carter"
"Robert Downey Jr. Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and singer. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal difficulties, and a resurgence of commercial success in middle age. For three consecutive years from 2012 to 2015, Downey topped the ""Forbes"" list of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, making an estimated $80 million in earnings between June 2014 and June 2015. Making his acting debut at the age of five, appearing in his father's film ""Pound"" (1970), Downey appeared in roles associated with the"
"tells: ""Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs"". Mario has homes in Baltimore, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Mario (American singer) Mario Dewar Barrett (born August 27, 1986), known mononymously as Mario, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and model. He is known for his singles ""Just a Friend"" (2002) and ""Let Me Love You"" (2004), which won him two ""Billboard"" Music Awards, as well as for appearing in the films ""Step Up"" and ""Freedom Writers"". He has released four studio albums: ""Mario"" (2002), ""Turning Point"" (2004), ""Go"" (2007), and ""D.N.A."" (2009). At the end"
"name as part of his compound surname. His father was Puerto Rican and his mother was African American. He went to Lackawanna High school, earned his bachelor's degree from Binghamton University, his master's degree from Wayne State University and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Buffalo State College. In 2003, he was the reader in Volume 13 of the HBO film, ""Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives"". The series was narrated by Whoopi Goldberg. He wrote ""Lackawanna Blues"" (2001), an autobiographical play in which he portrayed himself and some twenty different characters from his past, which was"
"California. His father was Hollywood film and television producer Robert Thurston Stillman, who produced such films as ""Champion"", ""Second Chorus"", and ""Home of the Brave"" and produced television series such as ""Boots and Saddles"", ""Rawhide,"" and ""Bonanza."" His mother, Ruth Clark Stillman, was a former dancer in Busby Berkeley musicals. Stillman began his acting career at the age of nine in the television series ""The Faith of Our Children"" (1953–1955). The series, which starred Eleanor Powell, was a syndicated religious family show that won five local Emmy Awards. He became aware of his homosexuality when he was 10 years old."
"in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Murray and his eight siblings were raised in a Roman Catholic Irish-American family. Three of his siblings, John Murray, Joel Murray, and Brian Doyle-Murray, are also actors. A sister, Nancy, is an Adrian Dominican nun in Michigan, who has traveled the United States in a one-woman program, portraying St. Catherine of Siena. Their father died in 1967 at the age of 46 from complications of diabetes when Bill was 17 years old. As a youth, Murray read children's biographies of American heroes like Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, and Davy Crockett. He"
"James McMurtry James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American rock and folk rock/americana singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and occasional actor (""Daisy Miller"", ""Lonesome Dove"", and narrator of ""Ghost Town: 24 Hours in Terlingua""). He performs with veteran bandmates Daren Hess, Cornbread, and Tim Holt. His father, novelist Larry McMurtry, gave him his first guitar at age seven. His mother, an English professor, taught him how to play it: ""My mother taught me three chords and the rest I just stole as I went along. I learned everything by ear or by watching people."" McMurtry"
"friends and professional athletes"". Features: Short subjects: Dennis Morgan Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner, December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame. Morgan was born in the village of Prentice in Price County in northern Wisconsin, the son of Grace J. (née Vandusen) and Frank Edward Morner. He was of Swedish descent on his father's side. He enrolled at Carroll College, now known as Carroll University, in Waukesha, Wisconsin as a member of the 1930 graduating class. He"
"The Basketball Diaries (film) The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, and Mark Wahlberg. The film is an adaptation of Jim Carroll's autobiographical work of the same name, telling the story of Carroll's teenage years as a promising high school basketball player and writer who developed an addiction to heroin with his misguided friends. The film is an adaptation of poet and memoirist Jim Carroll's juvenile diaries chronicling his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. The role of Jim is played by Leonardo"
"Rick Moses Rick Moses (born September 5, 1952) is an American actor and singer/songwriter. Moses was born in Washington, District of Columbia. He is the oldest son of advertising executive Richard Cantrell Moses, Sr. and Marian McCargo (1932–2004). Moses has three siblings; brothers Graham, Harry and Billy. He grew up in Pasadena, California where he showed an interest in wrestling, swimming, movies, and music. His mother enrolled him in various AAU swim clubs and bought him a guitar. She drove him to Hollywood and enrolled him in acting classes. Moses attended boarding school at the Chadwick School in Palos Verdes,"
"Mario (American singer) Mario Dewar Barrett (born August 27, 1986), known mononymously as Mario, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and model. He is known for his singles ""Just a Friend"" (2002) and ""Let Me Love You"" (2004), which won him two ""Billboard"" Music Awards, as well as for appearing in the films ""Step Up"" and ""Freedom Writers"". He has released four studio albums: ""Mario"" (2002), ""Turning Point"" (2004), ""Go"" (2007), and ""D.N.A."" (2009). At the end of the 2000s decade, Mario was ranked #98 by ""Billboard"" on their ""Artist of the Decade"" list. His fifth studio album"
"mother's. McCartney performed at the Hope Rocks concert in 2005 to benefit the City of Hope Cancer Center. He appeared in the Concert for Hope October 25, 2009 with Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato. Jesse McCartney Jesse McCartney (born April 9, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama ""All My Children"" as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career. Additionally, McCartney has appeared on shows such as """", ""Summerland"", and ""Greek."" McCartney also is known for lending"
"Jefferson Mays Lewis Jefferson Mays (born June 8, 1965) is a Tony Award-winning American film, stage and television actor. Mays was raised in Clinton, Connecticut with his parents, a naval intelligence officer and a children's librarian, and his siblings. He has appeared at La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Playwrights Horizons. Mays appeared on Broadway in ""I Am My Own Wife"", a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Doug Wright, from November 2003 (previews) to October 31, 2004. He had appeared in the play Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in May 2003, and at the La Jolla Playhouse"
"the liner notes for the CD. Composer Mark McKenzie also released ""Con Passione"" (2001), a CD that contains various music he has written for films including seven tracks for ""My Family."" My Family (film) My Family is a 1995 independent American drama film directed by Gregory Nava, written by Nava and Anna Thomas, and starring Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, and Esai Morales. The film depicts three generations of a Mexican American family who emigrated from Mexico and settled in East Los Angeles. The story is narrated by the family's oldest son, Paco (Edward James Olmos). The film begins with"
"Blu-ray, HD DVD and LaserDisc. A soundtrack album, consisting mainly of film score composed and performed by Mike Figgis, was released November 7, 1995. The soundtrack also included three jazz standards performed by Sting and excerpts of dialogue from the film. A version of ""Lonely Teardrops"" performed by Michael McDonald that features in the film is not included. Leaving Las Vegas Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 American romantic tragedy film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles"
"Kevin Spacey Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller ""The Usual Suspects"" (1995) and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlife crisis-themed drama ""American Beauty"" (1999). His other starring roles have included the comedy-drama film ""Swimming with Sharks"" (1994), the psychological thriller ""Seven"" (1995), the neo-noir crime film ""L.A."
"Sam Rockwell Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor, who became known for his leading roles in ""Lawn Dogs"" (1997), ""Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"" (2002), ""Matchstick Men"" (2003), ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (2005), ""Moon"" (2009), ""G-Force"" (2009) and ""Seven Psychopaths"" (2012). Rockwell has also received accolades for his supporting roles in ""The Green Mile"" (1999), ""Galaxy Quest"" (1999), ""Charlie's Angels"" (2000), ""The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"" (2007), ""Frost/Nixon"" (2008), ""Conviction"" (2010), ""Iron Man 2"" (2010), ""Cowboys & Aliens"" (2011) and ""The Way, Way Back"" (2013) and ""Vice"" (2018). For"
"Stephen Tobolowsky Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is an American actor, author, and musician. He is known for film roles such as annoying insurance agent Ned Ryerson in ""Groundhog Day"" and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in ""Memento"", as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry (""Deadwood""), Bob Bishop (""Heroes""), Sandy Ryerson (""Glee""), Stu Beggs (""Californication"" and ""White Famous""), and Action Jack Barker (""Silicon Valley""). Tobolowsky has a monthly audio podcast, ""The Tobolowsky Files"", of autobiographical stories of his acting and personal life. In 2015, he co-hosted a short-lived second podcast, ""Big Problems – An Advice Podcast"", with"