"Michael Gore" is an American composer. He, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1981 for Academy Award for Best Original Song/best original song for "Fame (Irene Cara song)/Fame" from the Fame (1980 film)/film of the same title. He also won the award that year for Academy Award for Original Music Score/best original score. Gore is the younger brother of singer/songwriter Lesley Gore.

Gore wrote the music for the notorious Broadway (theatre)/Broadway flop Carrie (musical)/Carrie - The Musical. Two of his songs, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, were featured in the 2003 movie Camp (2003 film)/Camp.

He also composed the theme and score for the 1983 hit film Terms of Endearment starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger, notching a hit song/hit on the Adult Contemporary chart (and briefly the Billboard Hot 100/pop charts) under his own name with the "Theme" from this film.

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We didn't know how to finish the top off until we had the piece up. We decided on it last minute by laying out the different patterns.

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I just decided these could be beautiful pieces in and of themselves. I wanted to start attaching them to walls and this is the first time someone let me do it.

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