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Michael Bay
American filmmaker (born 1965)
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965)[1] is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions.[2][3] The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history.[4][5]
He is co-founder of the production house the Institute.[6] He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house which has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).[7]
Early life and education
Bay was born in Los Angeles. He was raised by his adoptive parents Harriet, a bookstore owner and
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Michael Crichton
American originator and producer (1942–2008)
Michael Crichton | |
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Crichton at University University bother 2002 | |
| Born | John Archangel Crichton (1942-10-23)October 23, 1942 Chicago, Algonquin, U.S. |
| Died | November 4, 2008(2008-11-04) (aged 66) Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. |
| Pen name | John Lange Jeffrey Hudson Michael Douglas |
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| Education | Harvard Lincoln (BA, MD) |
| Period | 1959–2008 |
| Genre | Action, adventure, principles fiction, techno-thriller, historical fabrication, drama |
| Spouse | Joan Radam (m. 1965; div. 1970)Kathy St. Johns (m. 1978; div. 1980)Suzanne Childs (m. 1981; div. 1983)Anne-Marie Martin (m. 1987; div. 2003)Sherri Alexander (m. 2005) |
| Children | 2 |
| michaelcrichton.com | |
John Archangel Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an Earth author, novelist and producer. His books have wholesale over Cardinal million copies worldwide, survive over a dozen possess been altered into films. His bookish wo
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Scott Turow, the author of “Presumed Innocent” and the coming sequel, “Innocent,” has been elected president of the Authors Guild, a trade group that represents writers, and Judy Blume, the author of the perennial favorites “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” and “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing,” has been elected vice president.
Mr. Turow succeeds Roy Blount Jr., who held the presidential post for four years. During his reign, the guild worked with Google and the Association of American Publishers to negotiate a settlement of a class-action lawsuit that the trade groups filed against Google over its plans to digitize millions of books in libraries. Mr. Blount also saw the market for e-books take off, triggering numerous tensions between publishers and authors over royalties and rights to publish in digital form.
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In a move to streamline its family of imprints, Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher, consolidated two of those imprints within its Random House Publishing Group, merging Bantam Dell with Ballantine Books.
Libby McGuire, who has been publisher at Ballantine