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    Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974 in Hollywood, California. Leonardo is an American actor, movie director, movie producer and writer. Background Information DiCaprio was born in Hollywood California. DiCaprio’s father is half Italian and half German and is mother was born in Germany, but came from a ancestry line of Germans and Russians. He was named Leonardo because while his mother was pregnant, she was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum

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    a way to maintain the public’s interest of attending theater viewings. The strategy of packaging their actors’ “personas” and selling it to their audiences started to become popular and yielded positive results (VanDerploeg 24). The star system was one of the key economic strategies that helped production companies find new talent for their movies and helped audiences differentiated movies from competing studios. While it was primary created to effectively promote their movies, the star system was

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    Billy Brown Biography

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    Billy Brown Net Worth Introduction One of the famous actors and voice artists of America Billy Brown, who is famous for his amazing role as Detective Nate Lahey in an American TV series has a net worth of around $2 million. Biography & Wiki Billy was born on 30th October 1970 at Inglewood located in California, U.S. The family in which Billy belongs was middle class. His descent was Afro American. There is no information about his siblings. Career The muscular actoer with a height of 6 feet and

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    Jimmy Carter Biography

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    Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan: The Actor and the Political Diplomat During the election of 1980 most Americans eyes were fixed on two presidents. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Most Americans hearts were fixed on one issue. The Iranian hostage crisis. Jimmy Carter, the current president, had tried without success to end the crisis diplomatically. Ronald Reagan, an actor turned politician, had very little experience in a political position. Carter was not fit to handle the current crisis. His

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    The California Milk Processor Board needed to reverse plunging industry sales fast. Ever since, they have been credited with great increasing milk sales in California. Starting out with commericials, the campaign showed actors eating dried foods such as, peanut butter & jelly, peanuts, crackers, or cookies and then the actor would be stuck with a dried mouth and no milk. By the end of the commercial would be the words “Got Milk.” The consumption of fluid milk had steadily declined from 0.96 (1970)

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    Have you ever wanted to know how it feels to be batman? There is a plump amount of actors that have acted in many movies and T.V. shows, but I will be talking about an actor named Adam West. I’m going to start at the beginning first, his childhood. Adam West was born as William West Anderson, September 19, 1928 in Seattle, Washington. He lived in Walla Walla, then his parents divorced. Otto was his father’s name and his mom’s was Audrey. He went to Whitman college, then moved to Hawaii. There he

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    1930, in San Francisco, California, as Clinton Eastwood Jr. to Clinton Sr. and Ruth Eastwood, with an older sister named Jean. After looking for work in California during the Depression, the family settled in Oakland, where he graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1948. Clint worked odd jobs, including as a hay baler, logger, truck driver and steel-furnace stoker. In 1950, he joined the military with the Army Special Services, based at Fort Ord in Monterey, California. While in the Army, he

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    Truman Symbolism

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    Truman try's to drive on the bridge over water. Seahaven also stands for haven from the sea, which is one of Truman's fears. The symbolizim of the name Truman in the movie is ironic in that he is a True man. Which is false because all his life he is being watched and monitored on a live TV show. Burbank, Truman's last name, is a town in California. It takes 5 and a half hours from Indianapolis to get to Burbank California. This perfectly and flawlessly represents that life is fragile and should

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    "Renaissance man" is one who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field. Normally one from the renaissance time period(1905-1910). A modern day Renaissance man is a term used for those who have accomplished such achievements but lives in another period-the present. James Franco is a man that epitomizes such a title.. Franco is a man of many vices, actor, Broadway actor, director, author, screenwriter, producer, painter, model, host, musician, volunteer, humanitarian, director

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    would give people only their scripts and not anyone else’s. That way the actors could reply with the flow of other actors, and not just blandly reading the scripts. This factor in his plays make them have truly amazing acting. In the 2014 version of the play the acting was incredible. The Movie with actor Leonardo DiCaprio had several odd things about it like the set, language and modernized atmosphere. The 1968 version the actors of the movie were the same age as the original play characters and was

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