Sunshine State

Starring: Alan King, Alex Lewis Director: John Sayles Original UK Premiere: 2002 Dvd Release: 27th January, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Closed-captioned, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Alan King, born Irwin Alan Kniberg, was an American comedian known for his biting wit & often angry humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian & satirist. He appeared in a number of movies & television shows. King wrote several books, produced films & appeared in plays. In later years, he helped many philanthropic causes. He died of lung cancer. King was born Irwin Alan Kniberg. The youngest of several children, King spent his first years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Later, Kings family moved to Brooklyn. King used humor to survive in the tough neighborhoods. As a child, King performed impersonations on street corners for pennies. When he was fourteen, King performed Brother, Can You Spare A Dime on the radio program Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour. He lost first prize, but was invited to join a nationwide tour. At fifteen, King dropped out of high school to perform comedy at the Hotel Gradus in the Catskill Mountains. After one joke that made fun of the hotels owner, King was fired.

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John Sayles is a fiercely independent American film director who frequently takes a small part in his own & other indie films. Like Martin Scorsese & James Cameron, among others, Sayles got his start in film working with Roger Corman. Sayles went on to fund his first film, The Return of the Secaucus 7, with $40,000 he had in the bank from writing scripts for Corman; he set the film in a large house so that he did not have to travel to or get permits for different locations, set it over a three-day weekend to limit costume changes & wrote it about people his age so that he could have his friends act in it. In 1983, after Sayless film Lianna, a sympathetic story in which a married woman becomes discontented with her marriage after falling in love with another woman, Sayles received a MacArthur Fellowship for $30,000 a year for a five-year term. Sayles used the money to fund The Brother from Another Planet, a film about a black four-toed slave who escapes from another planet & finds himself at home among the people of New York City, largely because he is incapable of speaking. Posters Of Eight Men Out

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