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Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and film director. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label before directing the Oscar-nominated film A Single Man.
Tom Ford was born August 27, 1961 in Austin, Texas, to realtors Tom Ford and Shirley Burton. He spent his early life in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and in San Marcos, outside Austin; his family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, when he was 11. In Santa Fe, he entered St. Michael's High School and later moved to Santa Fe Preparatory School, from which he graduated in 1979. Ford left Santa Fe at age 16, when he enrolled at Bard College at Simon's Rock, but quickly dropped out.[citation needed] He then moved to New York City to study art history at New York University.
Ford dropped out of NYU after only a year, preferring to concentrate on acting in television commercials; at one time, he was in 12 national advertising campaigns simultaneously. Ford then began studying interior architecture at The New School's famous art and design college, Parsons The New School for Design. During his time in New York, Ford became a fixture at the legendary nightclub Studio 54, where he realized he was gay. The club's disco-era glamor would be a major influence on his later designs. Before his last year at New School, Ford spent a year and a half in Paris, where he worked as an intern in Chloé's press office. Though his work primarily involved sending clothes out on photo shoots, it triggered his love of fashion. He spent his final year at The New School studying fashion, but nonetheless graduated with a degree in architecture.
Actors: Kevin J. O'Neill (actor), Russ Forga (actor), Vincent Farrell (director), Jake Cartledge (actor), Mike Orie (actor), Mikey Jones (producer), Ronald Woodard (actor), Robert M. Bowman (writer), Richard Dine (producer), Andrew Bowlin (actor), Juan Velez (actor), Robert Valentine (composer), Adam Montgomery (director), Jessica Clark (editor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Naomi Watts (actress), Alexander Payne (producer), Nick Searcy (actor), Jack Thompson (actor), Leonardo DiCaprio (producer), Jason Kliot (producer), Richard Nixon (actor), Don Cheadle (actor), Tim Halpin (actor), Sean Penn (actor), Alfonso Cuarón (producer), Michael Wincott (actor), Mykelti Williamson (actor), Aggie Guerard Rodgers (costume designer), Joana Vicente (producer),
Plot: In 1974 Samuel Joseph Byck attempted to hijack a plane he intended to fly into the White House to kill Richard Nixon - possibly the first time an airliner was to be used as a flying bomb in a terrorist attack. Sam Bicke is a lonely, ineffectual incompetent who feels wronged by his family, friends, employers and the world in general, though his problems are largely of his own making and his petulant refusal to compromise what he sees as his 'values'. Thus he loses his job rather than 'lie' to customers about prices, while at the same time he continuously deceives his friends, and steals from his friend and his brother. Elaborate plans for success founder on equally avoidable issues. As his world falls apart, he fantasizes Richard Nixon (then under the shadow of Watergate and soon to leave office) as his ultimate enemy, and Leonard Bernstein (to whom he dictates endless self-exculpatory audio letters) as his only friend and equal. As a bleak future closes in, Bicke mounts the assassination - with characteristic incompetence.
Keywords: 1970s, abuse-of-power, african-american, airplane, airport, american-dream, anger, anti-authority, assassin, assassinationActors: James Marsden (actor), Lenny Kravitz (actor), Lukas Haas (actor), Karl Lagerfeld (actor), Stephen Dorff (actor), Judah Friedlander (actor), Cuba Gooding Jr. (actor), David Duchovny (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Godfrey (actor), Andy Dick (actor), Lance Bass (actor), David Bowie (actor), Garry Shandling (actor), Patton Oswalt (actor),
Plot: Derek Zoolander is VH1's three time male model of the year, but when Hansel wins the award instead, Zoolander's world becomes upside down. His friends disappear, his father is disappointed in him, and he feels that he's not good as a model anymore. But when evil fashion guru Mugatu hires Zoolander, he thinks his life has turned back round again, that is until he finds out that Mugatu has actually brainwashed him to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Can Zoolander and his new friends find out how to prevent the incident before it's too late?
Keywords: 2000s, absurdism, assassination, assassination-attempt, bare-chested-male, based-on-sketch-comedy, betrayal, black-and-white-scene, blackface, brainwashingActors: Carol Kane (actress), Rolfe Kanefsky (director), Bonnie Stauch (costume designer), Robert Donavan (actor), Richard Gabai (actor), Alexis Arquette (actress), Jay Woelfel (composer), Rolfe Kanefsky (writer), Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Alain Siritzky (producer), Kira Reed Lorsch (actress), Jorge Garcia (actor), Daniel Anderson (actor), Christopher Farrell (composer), Victor Kanefsky (editor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Ralph Bucko (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Pamela Blake (actress), Paul Gangelin (writer), R. Dale Butts (composer), R.G. Springsteen (director), Harry Keller (editor), Chick Hannan (actor), Paul Hurst (actor), Francis McDonald (actor),
Plot: During the Civil War many TRailhead ranchers have been killed or driven from their land by a ruthless gang of raiders. The secret leader of the gang is Bill Sanger ('James Nolan (I)' (qv)), who poses as a rancher but is actually the head man of an eastern syndicate seeking to buy up the land through which railroads will be constructed at the war's end. Learning the newspaper publisher John Thornton ('Jason Robards Sr.' (qv))has received a letter giving away the agenda of Sanger, and the latter kills Tornton, and then manages to cast the suspicion of the gang activities upon the dead man and his son, Frank ('Jay Kirby (I)' (qv)) whom the gang has kidnapped. U. S. Marshal Monte Hale ('Monte Hale' (qv))is convinced of the Thronton's innocence but finds himself opposed by the citizens and ranchers with the exception of Eli Walker ('Paul Hurst (I)' (qv)), and Cathy Thornton ('Pamela Blake' (qv)), daughter of John and sister of Frank.
Keywords: 1860s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, ambush, american-civil-war, brother, bullet, cattle-rancher, cattlemanActors: Cornelius Keefe (actor), Charles Judels (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Champion (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Elmer (actor), Hugh Farr (actor), Karl Farr (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Tracy Layne (actor),
Plot: When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, african-american, autograph, automobile-accident, blackmail, cattle, cattle-roping, centennial, chase, cowboyActors: Berton Churchill (actor), Harry Holman (actor), Joe Bordeaux (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Donald Cook (actor), Hallam Cooley (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), John Webb Dillon (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Tenen Holtz (actor),
Plot: Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. When her underling Dutton proposes telling the DA that Frisco Jenny is his birth mother, she kills the underling not to cause trouble for her son now the successful DA, she must face execution.
Keywords: 1900s, 1930s, accidental-death, accidental-killing, accidentally-firing-a-gun, ambush, american-football, announcement-of-death, archive-footage, aspiring-politicianClap for a nigga with his rapping ass
Blow a stack for your niggas with your trapping ass
Clap for a nigga with his rapping ass
Blow a stack for your niggas with your trapping ass
Tom Ford, Tom Ford, Tom Ford
Coming up, coming down
Riding clean fix your hair in my Crown
Bad bitch, H town
Keep it trill, y'all know y'all can't fuck around
Paris where we been, pard' my Parisian
It's Hov time in no time, it's fuck all y'all season
Piss Bordeaux and Burgundies, flush out a Riesling
When Hov's out, them hoes out, y'all put y'all weaves in
Clap for a nigga with his rapping ass
Blow a stack for your niggas with your trapping ass
Spent all my euros on tuxes and weird clothes
I party with weirdoes, yeah Hov, yeah Hov
I don't pop molly, I rock Tom Ford
International bring back the Concorde
Numbers don't lie, check the scoreboard
Tom Ford, Tom Ford, Tom Ford
Hands down got the best flow, sound I'm so special
Sound boy burial, this my Wayne Perry flow
Y'all know nothing about Wayne Perry though
District of Columbia, guns on y'all Tumblrs
Fuck hashtags and retweets, nigga
140 characters in these streets, nigga
Pardon my laughing, y'all only flagging on beats, nigga
Pardon my laughing, I happen to think you sweet
I don't pop molly, I rock Tom Ford
International bring back the Concorde
Numbers don't lie, check the scoreboard
Tom Ford, Tom Ford, Tom Ford, Tom Ford
Oh, man, homie
So throwed
Coming up, coming down
Riding clean fix your hair in my Crown
Bad bitch, H town
Keep it trill, y'all know y'all can't fuck around
Coming up, coming down
Riding clean fix your hair in my Crown
Bad bitch, H town
Keep it trill, y'all know y'all can't fuck around
Hold up