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David Fincher is 60!

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 August 28, 1962 in the city of Denver, Colorado, USA, in the family of Howard Kelly Fincher, also known as Jack, the head of the bureau of Life magazine, and his wife Claire, a mental health nurse who specialized in the treatment of drug addiction, a son was born - David Andrew Leo. When David was two years old, his family moved from Denver to Marin County, California. It just so happened that two doors from the Fincher house George Lucas lived, the future creator of " Star Wars ". This circumstance played a certain role in the fate of David Fincher. David Fincher during an interview, August 4, 2017 Shortly before David entered high school, the Fincher family moved again, this time to Ashland, Oregon. There, in the life of young David, another event occurred that seriously influenced his future fate. Namely, he saw George Roy Hill's "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid", and then also a documentary about how this George Roy Hill's film was made. David Fincher la...

Birthday of the South African film star

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 On August 7, 1975, in the city of Benoni, in the South African province of Transvaal, in the family of Charles Jacob Theron and his wife Gerda Jacob Aletta (nee Maritz), a daughter was born, who was named Charlize in honor of her father. (By the way, the current Princess Charlene of Monaco was born in the same city three years later.) The Charlize family, by the standards of South Africa, was far from ordinary. The mother, who had German roots, owned a farm and a road construction company, and her father, who had Franco-Dutch ancestors, came from a family of descendants of the famous and revered in South Africa, Dani Theron, who became famous for his exploits committed during the national liberation Anglo-Boer war at the beginning of the 20th century. There is even a monument to him in one of the districts of Pretoria. Charlize Theron in Taylor Hackford's "The Devil's Advocate". 1997. Movie's Rating - 7,940; 819th Rank in the Golden Thousand. Charlize's child...