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Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou (1965), he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.
Marvin was born in New York City. He was the son of Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive and the head of the New York and New England Apple Institute, and his wife Courtenay Washington (née Davidge), a fashion writer and beauty consultant. He was named in honor of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who was his first cousin, four times removed. His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin, Sr., who emigrated from Great Bentley, Essex, England in 1635 and helped found Hartford, Connecticut.
Marvin studied violin when he was young. As a teenager, Marvin "spent weekends and spare time hunting deer, puma, wild turkey, and bobwhite in the wilds of the then-uncharted Everglades." He attended St. Leo College Preparatory School in St. Leo, Florida after being expelled from several other schools for bad behavior.
John Boorman (born 18 January 1933) is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.
Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey, England, the son of Ivy (née Chapman) and George Boorman. He was educated at the Salesian School in Chertsey, Surrey, even though his family was not Roman Catholic. He has directed a total of 22 movies.
Boorman first began by working as a drycleaner and journalist in the late 1950s. He ran the newsrooms at Southern Television in Southampton and Dover before moving into TV documentary filmmaking, eventually becoming the head of the BBC's Bristol-based Documentary Unit in 1962.
Capturing the interest of producer David Deutsch, he was offered the chance to direct a film aimed at repeating the success of A Hard Day's Night (directed by Richard Lester in 1964): Catch Us If You Can (1965) is about competing pop group Dave Clark Five. While not as successful commercially as Lester's film, it drew good reviews from distinguished critics such as Pauline Kael and Dilys Powell and smoothed Boorman's way into the film industry. Boorman was drawn to Hollywood for the opportunity to make larger-scale cinema and in Point Blank (1967), a powerful interpretation of a Richard Stark novel, brought a stranger's vision to the decaying fortress of Alcatraz and the proto-hippy world of San Francisco. Lee Marvin gave the then-unknown director his full support, telling MGM he deferred all his approvals on the project to Boorman.
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His acting breakthrough came in 1939 with John Ford's Stagecoach, making him an instant star. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.
Among his best known films are The Quiet Man (1952), which follows him as an Irish-American boxer and his love affair with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; The Searchers (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran who seeks out his abducted niece; Rio Bravo (1959), playing a Sheriff with Dean Martin; True Grit (1969), playing a humorous U.S. Marshal who sets out to avenge a man's death in the role that won Wayne an Academy Award; and The Shootist (1976), his final screen performance in which he plays an aging gunslinger battling cancer.
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Keywords: 1910s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, bartender, california, chinatown-san-francisco, cigarette-smoking, dancehall, dancehall-girl, dancer, dancing[Verse 1:]
What I wanna know,
Is why you comin' through,
A pretty girl like you,
What you tryna prove.
If yo daddy knew where you was he'll hate it,
And who you was with he'd probably go crazy.
He wants you with a college educated,
Guy who made it, out the hood,
And ya friends think I'm bad news,
They think I'm trouble.
I tell you babe,
Just say I love you.
So can you tell me...
[Chorus:]
What a good girl like you,
Want in a thug like me.
I'm hangin' in the hood you licin' in the burds.
I don't think it's gonna work out on us.
So what a good girl like you,
Want in a thug like me.
Is it my style that's got you goin' wild,
Baby can you tell me.
[Verse 2:]
You find a good home,
You use the good food,
And trips to the summer,
While I'm on the corna.
Oppisites attract but this ain't yo life.
I know you think I'm wrong but trust me I'm right.
How would you feel if you got that phone call,
Sayin' I got locked up or the block got shot up,
And that's a possibly if you with me,
You say that's fine if I gotta do time and I wanna know.
[Chorus:]
What a good girl like you,
Want in a thug like me (want with a thug like me)
I'm hangin' in the hood you livin' in the burbs.
I don't think it's gonna work out on us.
So what a good girl like you (can you tell me)
Want in a thug like me (what would you want baby)
Is it my style (is it my)
That's got you goin' wild (that's gotcha doin')
Baby can you tell me (baby can you tell me)
What is it bout' me.
Is it my gangsta walk,
My gangsta talk (or is it my)
My gangsta style
I'm not the kinda guy you wanna settle down with (No I'm not that kinda guy)
I'm not that kinda guy you wanna give ya heart too.
I'm not that kinda guy that you should wanna take home (so baby want you let me know)
[Chorus:]
What a good girl like you,
Want in a thug like me (what would you want)
I'm hangin in the hood you livin' in the burds.
I don't think it's gonna work out on us.
So what a good girl like you want in a thug like me (cause don't nobody want you with me)
Is it my style,
That's got you goin wild,
So baby can you tell me.
Why you wanna be with ya (thug like me)
Daddy said stay away from (a thug like me)
Mama warned you about (a thug like me)
And yo friends don't love (a thug like me)
But you keep comin' to (a thug like me)
And you keep callin' (a thug like me)
What is it about (a thug like me)
That's got you goin' crazy for (a thug like me)
[Chorus:]
What a good girl with you,
Want in a thug like me.
I'm hangin' in the hood you livin' in the burds.
I don't think it's gonna work out on us.
So what a good girl like you,