George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris...
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Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American actress, activist, and former model. Her feature-film debut was in Rollover (1981); she subsequently...
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Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first published in the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated. According to Plimpton, Finch was raised in...
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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling about the writer George Plimpton...
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Paper Lion is a 1966 non-fiction book by American author George Plimpton. In 1960, Plimpton, not an athlete, arranged to pitch to a lineup of professional...
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cousin of writer George Plimpton. Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and her father died of cancer, aged 50, when Plimpton was twelve years...
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Zaire 74 music festival, alongside interview footage of Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee and Thomas Hauser from the 1990s. The film took Gast 22...
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George Arthur Plimpton (July 13, 1855 – July 1, 1936) was an American publisher and philanthropist. Plimpton was born in Walpole, Massachusetts, the son...
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Clarke, Gerald, Capote: A Biography, 1988, Simon & Schuster: p308. Plimpton, George, editor, Truman Capote, 1997, Doubleday: p162-163. "Truman Capote's...
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Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, George Plimpton, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (who began affecting it permanently while...
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finished addressing supporters in the hotel's main ballroom. Authors George Plimpton, Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, former professional football player Rosey...
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longtime editor of The Paris Review, George Plimpton, who died in 2003. The Plimpton Prize is funded by Sarah Plimpton, his widow, and Terry McDonell, president...
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is a 1968 sports comedy film starring Alan Alda as writer George Plimpton, based on Plimpton's 1966 nonfiction book of the same name depicting his tryout...
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City Bar Association. Plimpton was born on East 33rd Street in New York City on December 7, 1900, the son of George Arthur Plimpton, of Walpole, Massachusetts...
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Broadway. During this period, Dante, who was a Manhattan neighbor of George Plimpton, was invited to serve as the publisher of the Paris Review, as whose...
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established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack...
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written by Michael Mailer and Adams. The film stars Jonathan Penner, George Plimpton, Wendy Adams, Gerald Orange, Chuck Pfiefer and Sandra Bullock in her...
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Lovshin. The Plimpton Playing Fields are used for various outdoor sports. They are named in honor of alumnus and trustee George Arthur Plimpton (1873). Phelps...
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Molly Gilchrest Mike Doyle as Luke In addition, authors Gay Talese and George Plimpton make cameo appearances as themselves. Shot in early 2001 in New York...
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period in Europe. In Paris, he became friends with writers Romain Gary, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, James Baldwin, James Jones and Irwin Shaw, among...
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drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath. It is based on George Plimpton's 1997 book, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances...
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they might see him get killed in the ring.[citation needed] Writer George Plimpton described Ali's stance as like "a man leaning out his window trying...
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grandchildren. George Plimpton related an anecdote about Spinelli having bought at auction an evening with the Plimptons, in New York City, during which George Plimpton...
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when he was 27 years old. Miley Cyrus, American singer and actress George Plimpton, notable author, sportswriter, and literary personality "What Are the...
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"Jonathan Yardley". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 31, 2018. George Plimpton (Spring 1996). "John Gregory Dunne, The Art of Screenwriting No. 2"...
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the subjects of George Plimpton's nonfiction book Paper Lion (published in 1966), he was one of the two principal subjects of Plimpton's follow-up book...
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Clark Jimmy Flynn as Judge George H. Malone Christopher Britton as Executive #2 Alison Folland as MIT Student George Plimpton as Henry Lipkin Matt Damon...
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release of the Ribwich tour schedule. At the Spellympics, hosted by George Plimpton, Lisa wins the semi-finals and secures a spot in the finals. The other...
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1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham, and is considered a subgenre...
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as Mr. Partlow Bessie Love as Mrs. Partlow Max Wright as Floyd Dell George Plimpton as Horace Whigham Harry Ditson as Maurice Becker Leigh Curran as Ida...
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