Milos Forman
President of Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel (C), former dissident playwright and leader of the Civic Forum (Obcanske Forum, OF), and his friend Czech-born US film director Milos Forman, celebrate 09 June 1990 at the Old City square downtown Prague, the OF's victory in general elections. As one of the results of the Velvet Revolution, the first democratic elections since 1946 were held in June, 1990, and brought the first completely non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in over forty years. At the end of 1989, Havel, who drafted large parts of Charter 77, the declaration which helped attract international attention to the civil rights abuses in Czechoslovakia, was elected first president of Czechoslovakia when the state-communist system crumbled in the Velvet Revolution.
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Hollywood’s Holy Trinity
umbilicus”: [T]he Godfather is Coppola’s shadow-King as much as he is Brando’s; “One Flew over The Cuckoo’s Nest” is Milos Forman’s kiss goodbye to soviet Czechoslovakia as much as it is Jack Nicholson’s middle-finger salute to Hollywood. This also explains from Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish Read more »
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Amadeus Biopic
Forman’s movie Amadeus produced in 1984 is both great as far as theatrics go and telling a story, but ultimately rather portrays an inaccurate depiction of Mozart’s life. Told from the flash back perspective of an aged Antonio Salieri in an insane asylum to from EssayClub.com Read more »
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Celebrity birthdays on Feb 18
George Kennedy is 88. Author Toni Morrison is 82. Movie director Milos Forman is 81. Vocalist Yoko Ono is 80. Singer Dennis DeYoung (Styx) is 66. Actress Cybill Shepherd is 63. Singer Juice Newton is 61. Actor John Travolta is 59. Game-show hostess Vanna White from Miami Herald Read more »
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The People vs Larry Flynt
Milos Forman's true-story drama starring Woody Harrelson as the porn magazine millionaire who became an unexpected champion of free speech. Harrelson manages to make the rather lowlife Flynt an engaging character in this biopic of the controversial founder from Sky Movies Read more »
