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Al Pacino

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:15:30 +0000

Al Pacino whose full name is “Alfredo James “al” Pacino” was born on 25th April, 1940. He was born in east Harlem, Manhattan. In 1966, he got selected at “The Actors Studio”. His debut film was in 1969 “Me, Natalie”. His first breakthrough in the film industry came in 1970s only after the movie “The Godfather” in which he had the lead role of “Michael Corleone” and “Serpico”, which is about a New York police officer who gained his fame by testifying the corruption of the police department, in which he played the lead role of “Francis Serpico”. He got the golden globe award for the movie “Serpico”, “Scent of a Woman”, “Angels in America”, BAFTA award for the movie “The Godfather part II” and for the movie “Dog Day Afternoon” , Academy award for the movie “Scent of a Woman”.

Walt Disney

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:24:01 +0000

Walt Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901. He was a multi talented person. He was a director, script writer, cartoonist, producer, voice actor and was the co founder of Walt Disney pictures along with his brother Roy O. Disney. He was the creator of many children’s favorite cartoon character “Mickey Mouse”. During his teenage years, Disney along with one of his friends joined the Red Cross and became an ambulance driver. He got his first academy award in the year 1932 for creation of Mickey Mouse. Then he kept on creating new and new characters as Mickey’s friends like Pluto, Goofy and Donald duck. Then he started to plan on his own amusement park for children “Disney Land”. In the middle he came up with many new movies like “one hundred and one Dalmatians”, “Snow White and the seven dwarfs”. Disney died at December 15, 1966 as he was a chain smoker and had his left lung removed because of a tumor in it.

Beethoven

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:26:53 +0000

Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 at Germany. He started to perform professionally at the age of nine. Although his father was the first teacher of Beethoven, he learnt his first lesson of composing from his teacher Christian gottlob neefe who was the court organist during those years. He moved to Vienna on 1787 and got a chance to play with Mozart who was one of the most celebrated composers during those times. Then by 1792 he started to study and play piano along with Joseph Haydn. His first public performance was on 1795. From 1796, Beethoven had his hearing problems which people say was due to unimaginable lead content in his body and he was totally deaf by 1814. But his hearing problems did not stop him in any way he was still composing and playing piano. Then he stopped playing piano after his failure on playing his own composition piano concerto no.5 for the crowd. On 26th march 1827, Beethoven was dead during a thunder storm.