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Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and musician. Thornton gained early recognition as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire and in several early 1990s films including On Deadly Ground and Tombstone. In the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the independent film Sling Blade, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He appeared in several major film roles following Sling Blade 's success, including 1998's Armageddon and A Simple Plan. During the late 1990s, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released three albums and was the singer in a blues rock band.
Thornton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the son of Virginia Roberta (née Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond "Billy Ray" Thornton (November 1929–August 1974), a high school history teacher and basketball coach who died when Thornton was 18. He has two younger brothers, Jimmy Don (April 1958–October 1988), who died of a heart attack at 30, and John David (born 1969), who resides in California. Jimmy Don Thornton wrote a number of songs, two of which—"Island Avenue" and "Emily"—Thornton has recorded on his solo albums. During his childhood, Thornton lived in both Alpine, Arkansas, and Malvern, Arkansas. He was raised a Methodist, in an extended family in a shack that had neither electricity nor plumbing. Thornton graduated from high school in 1973. A good high school baseball player, he tried out for the Kansas City Royals, but was let go after an injury. After a short period laying asphalt for the Arkansas State Transportation Department, he attended Henderson State University to pursue studies in psychology, but he dropped out after two semesters.
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Jim Piddock (actor), Sylvester Stallone (actor), Eric Idle (actor), Norman Jewison (actor), Larry King (actor), Ryan O'Neal (actor), Robert Evans (actor), Tony Devon (actor), Jackie Chan (actor), Coolio (actor), Chuck D. (actor), Billy Barty (actor), Harvey Weinstein (actor), Stephen Tobolowsky (actor),
Plot: Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee.
Keywords: amazing-grace-the-hymn, box-office-flop, cameo, celebrity, character-name-in-title, director, fake-documentary, film-director, film-industry, film-producerThere are voices in my head
And demons in my soul
Sometimes they keep me warm
Sometimes they leave me cold
There are strangers in my bed
To caress my jaded skin
And squeeze my body tight
And forgive me of my sins
And I know I?m not insane
If I am, I?m not to blame
It?s just this damned old hungry pain
Like a drug inside my veins
And I?ve sown just what I?ve reaped
And my thoughts are mine to keep
And through my chilly bones they creep
And they whisper me to sleep
When the nighttime goes away
And the voices have all gone
I fumble with my clothes
And put myself back on
I walk out on the streets
To face another day
I know I?ll meet my fears
Somewhere along the way
As I climb the mighty steel
And watch the river flow
I?ll drown beneath the waves