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Hal Hartley is an American filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and composer who has made twelve feature films since 1988. Popularly associated with the American independent filmmaking scene of the early nineties, he went on to write and direct such films as No Such Thing (2001) for United Artists and Fay Grim (2006) for HD Net Films. Hartley has won numerous awards at Cannes and Sundance, and has had his work shown in retrospectives around the world. He has also written and staged theatre, most notably his play Soon (1998) and the world premiere of Dutch composer Louis Andriessen's opera La Commedia (2008). He maintains his own production company, Possible Films, in New York City.
Hartley established himself as a noted and prolific filmmaker in the first decade of his career, making many films very quickly: The Unbelievable Truth (Nominated, 1990 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize), Trust (Winner, Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival), Surviving Desire (1991), Simple Men (Official Selection, 1992 Cannes Film Festival), Amateur (Official Selection, 1994 Cannes Director's Fortnight; Winner, 1994 Tokyo International Film Festival Young Filmmakers Award), Flirt (1995), and Henry Fool (Winner, 1998 Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay).
In 1998 Hartley shot his first digital video feature, an eschatological comedy called The Book of Life. He continued with a monster movie, No Such Thing (Official Selection, 2001 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard), and a futuristic dystopia, The Girl from Monday (Winner, 2005 Sitges International Film Festival "Premi Noves Visions" Award). In 2004 he moved to Berlin, where he made Henry Fool's sequel, Fay Grim (Official Selection, 2006 Toronto International Film Festival; Winner, 2006 RiverRun International Film Festival Audience Choice Award). The distribution for his most recent release, Meanwhile (2012), was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Hartley has made dozens of short films, many of which are available in anthology form as Possible Films: Short Works by Hal Hartley 1994-2004 (2004) and PF2 (2010). There have been retrospectives of his work in the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Korea, Argentina, and Poland. He is an alumnus of the American Academy in Berlin. He was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France in 1996, and taught filmmaking at Harvard University from 2001 to 2004.
Hartley was born on November 3, 1959 to Eileen (nee Flynn) and Harold Hartley. He grew up in Lindenhurst, Long Island, in a working class suburb an hour from New York City with two older brothers and a younger sister. He graduated from Lindenhurst High School in 1977 and enrolled at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where he took a formative elective in Super 8 filmmaking. He returned home after the 1977-1978 academic year to earn more money for schooling, eventually matriculating at the State University of New York at Purchase Film School in September 1980. He graduated in May 1984, and after a year of various production assistant jobs, settled into a position at a commercial production company where his boss helped finance his first feature, The Unbelievable Truth (1989).- John Parrish was born on 25 February 1896 in Lindenhurst, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Joan of Arc (1948), The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and The Ten Commandments (1956). He died on 18 April 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Jack Barry was born on March 20, 1918 in Lindenhurst, New York, the son of Cecelia (Hepner) and Max Solomon Barasch. In his adult years, he did saloon work until Dan Enright said they should go into television game shows. He hosted Winky Dink and You, the first example of interactive TV. He later went on to host Juvenile Jury and Life Begins at 80. In 1956, he hosted Twenty-One, Tic Tac Dough and the first four episodes of Concentration. Barry was involved in the quiz show scandals which brought down Barry & Enright productions. During the 1960s, he hosted the unsuccessful Reel Game, and in 1972, he hosted The Joker's Wild. In 1976, he produced a revival of Break the Bank, with former You Don't Say! host Tom Kennedy as emcee. Even though the show was successful, it was canceled after only 15 weeks, after which Barry hosted a syndicated version which also was proven to be unsuccessful. In 1975, he created the short-lived game show Blank Check. In 1980, he created Play the Percentages, and in 1984, he made his final creation, Hot Potato, with game show king Bill Cullen as emcee. Barry died that same year in May from a cardiac arrest while morning jogging in Central Park and was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. After his death, Bill Cullen took over and Kline and Friends was formed by Richard Kline.
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Colleen Quinn was born on 24 April 1962 in Lindenhurst, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The X-Files (1993), In Quiet Night (1998) and Profiler (1996).- Linda Morand was one of the top fashion models of the mid-'60s to 1975. She was discovered by Eileen Ford in 1966 and appeared in "Vogue", "Glamour", "Mademoiselle", "Teen", "Elle" and many more international magazines. As an internationally acclaimed cover girl, her fashionable Mod image helped to set the standards of 1960s style and beauty. As a popular cover girl, and one of the favorite models of fashion and beauty icons Betsey Johnson and Vidal Sassoon, Morand was one of the first American models booked from New York to model for the French haute couture. She arrived in Paris under contract to Paris Planning, part of a business partnership with the Ford Agency. She walked the runways of Cardin, Couregges, Ungaro and Patou and other top European designers. As one of the most celebrated mannequins in Europe, she decided to remain in Paris to continue her education at the Sorbonne and study the languages of Western Europe. Laurence Harvey and Prince Albrecht von Liechtenstein were two of her noted suitors.
She learned fluent French, German and Italian and studied art and literature. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, as an international jet-setter, Linda lived and modeled in the fashion capitals of the world, including Paris, London, Rome, Munich, Zurich and Barcelona. In 1969 she began a long courtship to the controversial French film star Viscount Philippe Forquet de Dorne. They were married in 1970. Linda's striking resemblance to Jacqueline Kennedy led to a career as an exclusive celebrity lookalike and appearances on many American talk shows.
Today she is a noted fashion historian and archivist living in New York City and Executive Producer of the Supermodels Hall of Fame TV Awards Special, directed by Gary Smith. - Editor
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After graduating the Center for the Media Arts in New York City, Natale got his start in the entertainment industry as an assistant audio post-production sound engineer for feature films and TV commercials. While he maintains an interest in sound design, Natale set his sights on his passion for film production, and went on to independently produce, write, direct and co-edit Un-Real (2004), a short, no-budget slasher about a delusional filmmaker who becomes so immersed in the notion of realism in cinema that he films himself murdering people for authenticity in his next horror opus. The film had a successful festival run, and sent Natale on the path to his true calling.
His next film, Lost Suburbia (2007), was part of a four director collaborative feature-length horror anthology based on local ghost stories from his suburban New York hometown. The crowd-sourced, micro-budget film had several sold out local screenings upon it's release, and won the Audience Choice Award at the Long Island Big Fish Film Festival in New York. In his segment, Misery Loves (2006), Natale tells the story of four young men who have similar designs on ending their lives.
Natale earned a European Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Directing at ÉICAR: The International Film School of Paris, where he was the first non-French student to take home the coveted Kodak Vision Award for Best Student Film for his short Cassie (2008), which would afford him a prize of 35mm film stock for his thesis project, The Lesson (2009), which won the Best Screenplay and Best Editing awards at the school the following year, plus the Sixième Prix at the 22nd Festival International du Court-Métrage in Sens, France. Both of these films would go on to screen at festivals around the world, and their controversial thematic elements caused exactly the kind of audience reaction Natale had hoped for.
The following years found Natale living between Paris and New York, writing scripts and making music videos, most notably the visceral and unsettling clip for the song "Truth It Is" by electronic duo Winkie, which won the Best Music Video Award at the Nevada Film Festival, and a short script he wrote for long-time friend and colleague, Sean King titled This Mortal Coil (2010), about a teenager's obsession with vampire culture that goes to dangerous limits, and won the Best Short Screenplay Award at the Macabre Faire Film Festival in New York.