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Encyclopedia > Bird (1988 film)

Bird is a 1988 U.S. film directed by Clint Eastwood. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ...


The film is a biopic, a tribute to the life and music of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, written by Joel Oliansky. It is constructed as a collage of scenes from Parker's life, from his childhood in Kansas City, through his marriage to Chan Richardson, to his early death at the age of thirty-four. A biographical film or biopic (from biographical picture) is a film about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened. ... Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... For other uses, see Charles Parker. ... Kansas City is a city covering parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties in Missouri, USA. Although it is the largest city in Jackson County, the suburb of Independence is the county seat. ...


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Forest in the movie Panic Room Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961 in Longview, Texas) is an American actor, producer and director. ... For other uses, see Charles Parker. ... Diane Venora (born August 10, 1952) is an American stage, television, and film actress. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Robert Roland Chudnick (1927–1994), who performed as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter. ... Voice of Sebastian in Disneys The Little Mermaid. ... Dizzy Gillespie photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 - January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... Keith David - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Sam Robards is an American actor. ... Penelope Windust (born in New York City, New York) is an American actor who starred on television, and in a few movies. ... Bill Cobbs (born June 16, 1935) is an African-American film actor. ...

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MovieMartyr.com - Bird (519 words)
Bird, Clint Eastwood’s ambitious treatment of the life of Jazz improvisationalist Charlie “Bird” Parker, uses a fragmented time structure in a seeming attempt to replicate the construction of its subject’s music.
Eastwood edits the film not in any chronological sense, but instead in a way that suggests its subject’s life is to be taken as a whole; that the artist is inseparable from the art.
Bird wouldn’t be half the film it is if not for the sensational performances by Forest Whitaker and Diane Venora, as the influential jazz musician and his wife.
Bird (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (185 words)
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, daughter of former President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson.
The Bird is a song by the band The Time.
The "bird" is also a way of referring to the middle finger, when it is used offensively or rudely by doing this:
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