Alan Parker
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"Sir Alan William Parker", is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. The early part of his career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television commercials. After about 10 years doing commercials, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films.

Among the different genres Parker has directed have been musicals, including Bugsy Malone (1976), Fame (1980 film)/Fame (1980), Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982), The Commitments (film)/The Commitments (1991), and Evita (1996 film)/Evita (1996); true-story dramas, including Midnight Express (film)/Midnight Express (1978), Mississippi Burning (1988), Come See the Paradise (1990), and Angela's Ashes (film)/Angela's Ashes (1999); dramas, including Shoot the Moon (1982), and horrors and thrillers including Angel Heart (1987), and The Life of David Gale (2003).

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This sale brings the excellent partnership that we have enjoyed with Marriott International to a close.

I hope it goes through.

Thank God that he brings all the troops and my son home safely. Thank God.

And this film was not meant to be a political diatribe. Hopefully it's balanced, for people to make up their own minds.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I've never actually watched another director work.

It's probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do, ... just being away from my kids and my family. That's all I thought about everyday.

People should focus their energy on developing a taste for dark chocolate, because its high cocoa content means that it contains far less sugar than the average chocolate bar.

We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us.

I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous.