Quentin Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1963. He is the son of actor and amateur musician Tony Tarantino and nurse Connie McHugh. He has a younger half-brother named Ron. Tarantinos father, from Queens, New York, is of Italian descent, while his mother has Irish and Cherokee ancestry. His stepfather was Curt Zastoupil, a musician.Tarantino was raised by his mother, as his parents separated before his birth. Tarantino says that his mother dated NBA star Wilt Chamberlain. When he was four years old, they moved to Torrance, California and later to the Harbor City neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he attended Fleming Junior High School. He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his first year, but dropped out of school when he was 15 to attend an acting class full-time at the James Best Theater Company in Toluca Lake. In an interview with NPR in 2013, Tarantino talked about how his mothers boyfriends would take him to blaxploitation movies. Tarantino grew bored with the James Best Acting School and left after two years, although he kept in touch with all of his acting friends. He then landed a job which threatened to interfere with his long-term acting ambitions. As an employee of Video Archives, a now-defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach, he and fellow movie enthusiasts (including Roger Avary) discussed cinema and customer video recommendations at length. He paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career. Tarantino has been quoted as saying: When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, no, I went to films. Quentin Tarantino with Uma Thurman, THE LADY LUCK. How many of you can connect to this story? why not learn? #LearnfromtheLearned #Virtualgurukul - Motion Picture medialexiconedu
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:43:02 +0000
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