David Stephen Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is an American actor and producer. He may be best known for portraying Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI: Miami. The role that gained him initial significant recognition was the role of Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue.
Caruso was born in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, New York, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor. He is of Irish and Italian (Sicilian) descent. His father left when he was two years of age, forcing him to "end up fathering myself", as he put it. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Forest Hills. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974.
He worked as a cinema usher, where he would see up to eighty movies a week. He said they would act out scenes from some of these movies while they were up the back. It was in this job he found his role models in Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Edward G Robinson. He said:
Things in life aren't always as they seem
Plot
A comedic story of the search for identity and the redemptive power of unexpected friendship. Danielle is the dirty girl of Norman High School. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to special ed, she teams up with an innocent closet-case and together they head out on a road trip to discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.
Keywords: 1980s, bad-reputation, biological-father, california, classroom, closeted-homosexual, digested-man, family-relationships, female-protagonist, first-gay-sexual-experience
Let them talk.
Principal Mulray: [to Danielle] Nobody likes a dirty girl.
Ray: After your mother and I are married, I'm going to adopt you.::Danielle: The *hell* you are!
Danielle: Sometimes you got to accept what life throws at you to find out what you're made of.
Danielle: [about naming their sack of flour] I'm thinking "Joan", like Joan Jett.::Clarke: Or Crawford.::Danielle: Is there some sort of special gene that makes you say "Crawford" when I say "Joan"?
Danielle: I've heard it said, this here's a man's world. And some girls believe it - primping and fussing and hoping a boy will look her way. If it's a man's world, God wouldn't have made *me*.
Mr. Potter: [to class] The only safe sex is *no* sex.::Danielle: [Puts up hand] What are your thoughts on the pull-out method?
Mrs. Hatcher: Today we are going to start a project that will teach us parenthood is no joke.::Mrs. Hatcher: [to pregnant student] Right Sabrina?
Peggy: My son has run off with your daughter!
Clarke: You ever try magic fingers?
Danielle: Mister, you don't know who you're dealing with!
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This independent film is an intimate multi-character drama about loneliness and forgiveness. Stuck in the monotony of daily life in suburban Illinois, six different people intersect in ways they can't even see throughout the course of a summer. An old theater manager. Two college roommates. A night-shift janitor. A beautiful young female journalist. In their attempts to find happiness, these people create prisons for themselves with their secrets and lies. By the end of the summer, none of them will ever be the same.
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To his neighbours and workmates, Max Greif is just another suburban misfit, a private man who shuns the world for the occasional solace of the bush. But If they knew what he did out there... Saw the shallow graves of his victims. The blood on his hands. They wouldn't be so quick to judge. But they can never know. No-one can see what he really is and live to tell. Max Grief is the ROADMAN. To Lorraine Jackson he's the shy working man across the street she dreams of one day sharing a life with, a life far from the tedium of caring for her bed-ridden father. But she's never told him that. She's never spoken a word to him. That is until a sabotaged water pipe thrusts them together. Lorraine's tenderness and loving nature is something Max has never known. He allows himself to hope, to believe in the possibly that love can free him from his demons. But, haunted by the memory of his sadistic father and racked by self loathing, he is soon back on the road looking for his next kill. As his love deepens for Lorraine, so does his madness. How long can he hide his dark soul from Lorraine? How far can he let her into his life before she stares into the abyss. And when she does... Can he let her live?
Keywords: angel-on-shoulder, girl-next-door, paradise, psychopath, redemption
Love kills
Plot
A man who lost his family, a woman dependent on medication, a girl who cannot communicate with those around her... 5 different people with 5 different reasons struggling to survive. They are all trying to find what it means to live - and must face how they can stop their suffering.