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Steve Martin
Steve Martin
Birth name	Stephen Glenn Martin
Born	August 14, 1945 (1945-08-14) (age 62) Waco, Texas, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Victoria Tennant (1986-1994) Anne Stringfield (2007-Present)
Influences	British television, Red Skelton, Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny, Laurel and Hardy
Influenced	Eddie Izzard, Chris Rock, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Will Forte, David Walliams, Bowling for Soup, Jason Schwartzman
Official site	www.stevemartin.com/
Awards Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music 1969 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Grammy Awards Best Comedy Album 1978 Let's Get Small 1979 A Wild and Crazy Guy Best Country Instrumental Performance 2002Foggy Mountain Breakdown Other Awards NYFCC Award for Best Actor 1984 All of Me

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Biography

Early years

Martin was born in Waco, Texas, to Glenn Vernon Martin, a real estate salesman and an aspiring actor and Mary Lee Stewart, a housewife. Martin was raised in Garden Grove, California, and is of English, Scottish and Irish descent.^[1] As a teenager, Martin started out working at the Magic Shop at Disneyland, where he developed his talents for magic, juggling, playing the banjo and creating balloon animals. He teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to do a musical comedy routine, performing at local coffee houses and at the Bird Cage Theater in Knott's Berry Farm. For the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas, see Waco Siege. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ... Salesman is a 1969 cinema verité documentary film which follows four salesmen of expensive Bibles door-to-door in a low-income neighborhood which cannot afford expensive Bibles. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... A stereotypical housewife A homemaker is a person whose prime occupation is to care for their family and home. ... Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove Garden Grove is a city centrally located in northern Orange County, California, United States. ... This article is about the English as an ethnic group and nation. ... This article is about the Scottish as an ethnic group. ... Disneyland is a theme park that is located at 1313 South Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, California, USA. It opened on July 17, 1955. ... “Illusionist” redirects here. ... Juggling is a form of skillful, often artful, object manipulation. ... For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument developed by enslaved Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments. ... A balloon artist in Vienna, Austria Balloon modelling or balloon twisting is the shaping of special modelling balloons into almost any given shape, often a balloon animal. ... Garden Grove High School is located in Garden Grove, California. ... Kathy Westmoreland (born August 10, 1945 in Texarkana, Arkansas; grew up in Abilene, Texas) is an American singer. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Coffeehouse in Damascus A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or cafe (French/Spanish/Portuguese: café; Italian: caffè) shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant, but it is different from a cafeteria. ... Knotts Berry Farm is a brand name of two separate entities: a theme park in Buena Park, California, and a manufacturer of food specialty products (primarily jams and preserves) based in Placentia, California. ...

Martin majored in philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, and for a while, considered becoming a philosophy professor instead of an actor-comedian. In 1967, he transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. Martin soon began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices. At the age of twenty-one, he dropped out of college for good.^[2] Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his 1970s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology. "If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life."^[3] For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... The Walter Pyramid, the Universitys most prominent sporting complex and most recognizable landmark. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the...

While attending college, he appeared in an episode of The Dating Game. His time at college changed his life: "It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff, because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up, that it's easy... and it's thrilling."^[4] Martin's girlfriend in 1967 was a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. She helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams. Williams initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along with the other writers for the show, Martin won an Emmy Award in 1969. Martin also wrote for John Denver (a neighbor of his in Aspen, Colorado, at one point), The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. He also appeared on these shows and several others, in various comedy skits. The Dating Game was an ABC television show that first aired on December 20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Logic (from Classical Greek λόγος logos; meaning word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle) is the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration. ... Cause and Effect is considered by many fans to be one of the best episodes of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... The climax (or turning point) of a narrative work is its point of highest tension or drama in which the solution is given. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Smothers Brothers are an American musical-comedy team, formed by real-life brothers Tom and Dick Smothers. ... Mason Williams with Claudine Longet Mason Williams (b. ... An Emmy Award. ... John Denver (December 31, 1943 â€“ October 12, 1997), born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. ... The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the most populous city and the county seat of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour hosted by country singer Glen Campbell from January, 1969 through June, 1972. ... The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was a variety show which ran on CBS from August 1971 until May 1974. ...

Martin also performed his own material, sometimes as an opening act for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and The Carpenters. He appeared at San Francisco's The Boarding House, among other venues. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in 1976. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since 1966. ... For other uses, see Carpenter (disambiguation). ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Richard Wayne Dick Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an Emmy-Award winning American actor of film, stage, and screen, comedian and dancer. ...

Fame

In the mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. That exposure, together with appearances on HBO's On Location and NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL) (on which, despite a common misconception, he was never a cast member) led to his first of three comedy albums, Let's Get Small. The album was a huge success; one of its tracks, "Excuse Me", helped establish a national catch phrase. His next album, A Wild and Crazy Guy, was an even bigger success, reaching the #2 spot on the sales chart in the U.S. and featured another catch phrase (the album's title), this time based on a Saturday Night Live sketch in which Martin and Dan Aykroyd played a couple of bumbling Czechoslovakian would-be playboys, the Festrunk Brothers. The album ended with a song "King Tut", sung and written by Martin and released as a 45 RPM single during the King Tut craze that accompanied the extremely popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king's tomb artifacts; the single reached #17 in 1978. The song was backed by the "Toot Uncommons" (they were actually members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band). The album was a million seller. Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording in 1977 and 1978, respectively. In his comedy albums, Martin's stand-up comedy was clearly self-referential and sometimes self-mocking. It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of "happy feet", banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease. His style is off-kilter and ironic, and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions. A typical gag might be interrupted for a sip from a glass of water and just as he is about to speak again, he forcefully spits the water onto the floor. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... On Location is a term used to describe the filming of a television show or movie on the actual site where the story is set, as opposed to indoors on a soundstage designed to look like, or at an outdoor site substituting for, the real one. ... This article is about the television network. ... This article is about the American television series. ... Lets Get Small (1977) was Steve Martins first album, and a major success. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) was Steve Martins second album and greatest success on record. ... Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. ... Czechoslovakia (Czech: Československo, Slovak: Česko-Slovensko/before 1990 Československo) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1992 (except for the World War II period). ... King Tut is a 1978 novelty song performed by Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band). ... For other uses, see Nitty (disambiguation). ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... A self-reference occurs when an object refers to itself. ... Riff is also an alternate spelling of Rif, a region of Morocco. ... Sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), also known as sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), are diseases that are commonly transmitted between partners through some form of sexual activity, most commonly vaginal intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex. ... Ironic redirects here. ...

Movie career

By the end of the 1970s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was "just an accident" for him. His real goal was to get into film.^[4] Martin's first film was a short, The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). The seven-minute long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action. His first feature film appearance was in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where he sang The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". In 1979, Martin wrote and starred in his first full-length movie, The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner. The movie was a huge success, grossing over $73 million on a budget of far less than that amount.^[5] This is a list of rock and roll performers. ... For other uses, see Arena (disambiguation). ... Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... The Absent Minded Waiter is a short film starring Steve Martin, Teri Garr, and Buck Henry. ... Buck Henry Zuckerman (born December 9, 1930 in New York, New York) is an American actor, writer and director, best known for his work in television, film, comedy, and satire. ... Teri Garr (born December 11, 1947 in Lakewood, Ohio) is an American actress and comedienne. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... // This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. ... Sgt. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Maxwells Silver Hammer is a song by The Beatles, from the Abbey Road album, with Paul McCartney singing lead. ... The Jerk (1979) is Carl Reiners rags-to-riches-to-rags film comedy of belated self-discovery. ... Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. ...

The success of The Jerk opened more doors for Martin. Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999's Eyes Wide Shut). Martin was executive producer for Domestic Life, a prime-time television series starring Martin Mull, and a late-night series called Twilight Theater. It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film, Pennies From Heaven, a movie he was anxious to do because of the desire to avoid being typecast. To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross, and spent months learning how to tap dance. The film was a financial failure; Martin's comment at the time was "I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy." Kubrick redirects here. ... Traumnovelle (Dream Story) is a 1926 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. ... Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 film directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novella Traumnovelle (in English Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor who has starred in his own TV sitcom and acted in prominent films. ... The opening title sequence to the first episode of Pennies from Heaven. ... For other meanings, see typecasting. ... Herbert David Ross (May 13, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York - October 9, 2001 in New York City), also known as Herb Ross, was a prolific film director, producer, choreographer and actor from the 1950s to the 1990s. ... Man tap dancing. ...

Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Two Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984. In 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and Randy Newman. It was originally entitled The Three Caballeros and Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1986, Martin was in the musical film version of the hit off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), as a sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film also marked the first of three films teaming Martin with actor Rick Moranis. In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains & Automobiles. That same year, the Cyrano de Bergerac adaptation Roxanne, a film Martin co-wrote, won him a Writers Guild of America award and more importantly, the recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels alongside Michael Caine. Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid was a movie first released in 1982. ... The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 US film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner. ... Summary Steve Martin plays an attorney dating the boss daughter, who is also an aspiring jazz rhythm guitarist. ... This article is about the American television series. ... Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian/American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. ... For other uses, see Chevy Chase (disambiguation). ... ¡Three Amigos! is a 1986 comedy western film, produced by George Folsey, Jr. ... John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ... Lorne Michaels (born Lorne Michael Lipowitz on November 17, 1944) is an Emmy-winning Canadian-born television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Knight (disambiguation) or Knights (disambiguation). ... Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. ... John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoons Animal House and The Blues Brothers. ... Little Shop of Horrors is a 1986 screen adaptation of the off-Broadway stage musical of the same name. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... 1982 Cast Album of the original off-Broadway production of ORIGINAL OFF-BROADWAY CAST: Seymour Krelborn - Lee WIlkoff Audrey - Ellen Greene Mr. ... This article is about 1960 Roger Corman film. ... Look up sadism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Frederick Alan Rick Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian and musician best known for his comedy work on SCTV and appeared in several Hollywood films including Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs, and My Blue Heaven. ... John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... For other people with this name, see John Hughes. ... Planes, Trains & Automobiles is an American comedy movie produced by Paramount Pictures in 1987. ... This article is about the historical figure. ... Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. ... The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States. ... ... Frank Oz (born May 25, 1944) is an American film director, actor and puppeteer. ... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film directed by Frank Oz and starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine as the con artists of the title. ... This article is about the English actor. ...

Martin starred in the Ron Howard film Parenthood, with Moranis in 1989. He later met with Moranis to make the Mafia comedy My Blue Heaven in 1990. In 1991, Martin starred in and wrote L.A. Story and was a member of the ensemble existentialist tragedy Grand Canyon that were both about life in Los Angeles. In a serious role, Martin played a tightly wound Hollywood film producer trying to recover from a traumatic robbery that left him injured. In contrast to the serious tone of Grand Canyon, Martin also appeared in a remake of the comedy Father of the Bride in 1991 (followed by a sequel in 1995). Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article is about the film Parenthood. ... This article is about the criminal society. ... My Blue Heaven is a 1990 film starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. ... L.A. Story is a 1991 movie directed by Mick Jackson and written by Steve Martin. ... Existentialism is the philosophical movement positing that individual human beings create the meaning and essence of their lives as persons. ... Grand Canyon is an ensemble drama directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan, advertised as The Big Chill for the 90s, in reference to one of Kasdans earlier successes. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... ... Grand Canyon is an ensemble drama directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan, advertised as The Big Chill for the 90s, in reference to one of Kasdans earlier successes. ... Father of the Bride is a 1991 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, George Newbern, Martin Short, and Kieran Culkin. ... Father of the Bride Part II is a 1995 comedy starring Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. ...

In David Mamet's 1997 thriller, The Spanish Prisoner, Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman (Campbell Scott). In 1999, Martin and Goldie Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners. By 2003, Martin ranked 4th on the box office stars list, after co-starring in Bringing Down The House and starring in Cheaper By The Dozen, each of which earned over $130 million at U.S. theaters. Both were family comedies. David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ... The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television. ... This article is about the movie. ... Campbell Scott (born July 19, 1961 in New York City, New York) is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. ... Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... Neil Simon (1966) Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. ... The Out-of-Towners is a 1970 feature film starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis. ... Bringing Down the House is a 2003 comedy film, written by Jason Filardi, and directed by Adam Shankman. ... Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American comedy film about a family with twelve children (seven boys and five girls). ...

In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl, based on his own novella. Martin played a wealthy businessman who strikes up a romance with a Saks Fifth Avenue counter girl (Claire Danes). He also starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 that year. Martin's last work to date was the 2006 installment of The Pink Panther, attempting to stand in Peter Sellers shoes as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. In 2007, he announced on his website that he would likely be starting work on the sequel later in the year. Shopgirl is a 2005 film starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman. ... A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ... Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain of upscale department stores. ... Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television, and theater actress. ... Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a film produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 2005 (see 2005 in film). ... The Pink Panther is a 2006 comedy film. ... Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his three roles in Dr. Strangelove and as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther films. ... Peter Sellers in one of a number of appearances as Inspector Clouseau Inspector Jacques Clouseau (later chief inspector) is a fictional detective in Blake Edwardss Pink Panther series. ...

Other work

Throughout the 1990s, after Tina Brown took over The New Yorker, Martin wrote various pieces for the magazine. They later appeared in the collection Pure Drivel. He appeared in a version of Waiting for Godot as Vladimir (with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky). In 1993, Martin wrote the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, which had a successful run in several American cities. In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode of The Simpsons titled Trash of the Titans. Martin provided the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson. In 2001, Martin hosted the 73rd Annual Academy Awards. Also in 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs' remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". Martin called fellow comedian and banjo player Billy Connolly to tell him, prompting the cry of "you lucky bugger!" Connolly's wife thought he was referring to Martin being chosen as the Oscar's host. The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the following year's Grammys. In 2002, Martin adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company. In 2003, Martin hosted the Academy Awards for the second time. Tina Brown (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a British-born American magazine editor, columnist, and talk-show host. ... For other uses, see New Yorker. ... Pure Drivel is a collection of stories by Steve Martin, published in 1998, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker. ... Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which the characters wait for a man (Godot) who never arrives. ... Vladimir (affectionately known as Didi; a small boy calls him Mr. ... For other persons named Robin Williams, see Robin Williams (disambiguation). ... Estragon (affectionately Gogo; he tells Pozzo his name is Adam) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot. ... Bill Irwin (born April 11, 1950, Santa Monica, California as William Irwin) is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. ... Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a play written by Steve Martin in 1993. ... This article is about the Irish rock band. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Trash of the Titans is the Emmy Award-winning twenty-second episode of The Simpsons ninth season and the 200th overall. ... The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. ... For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument developed by enslaved Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments. ... Earl Scruggs performing at The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 12th, 2005 Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for creating a banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. ... Foggy Mountain Breakdown is a famous bluegrass music instrumental by the seminal bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. ... Dr William Billy Connolly, CBE, (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter, and actor. ... The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was first awarded in 1970. ... The 44th Grammy Awards were held on February 27, 2002. ... Carl Sternheim (April 1, 1878 – November 3, 1942) was a German playwright and short story writer. ... The Underpants is the most recent adaptation of the 1910 German farce Die Hosen by playwright Carl Stenheim. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... 75th Academy Awards Sunday, March 23, 2003 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California Host Show: Steve Martin Crew Producer: Gil Cates Duration 3 hours, 30 minutes The 75th Academy Awards ceremony was originally intended to be an especially festive celebration of the ceremonys 75th anniversary. ...

In 2005, Martin hosted a film along with Donald Duck, Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, which was intended to show at Disneyland until the end of Disneyland's 50th anniversary celebration in September 2006, but it is continuing to run indefinitely. Martin was also honored in 2005 with a Disney Legend award, acknowledging Martin's early career at Disneyland and connections with The Walt Disney Company throughout his career. Martin has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live 14 times, as of his February 2006 hosting (musical guest: Prince featuring Tamar), breaking his previous record of 13 (now held by fellow frequent host Alec Baldwin) and retaining his title as SNL's most frequent host. Coincidentally, Steve Martin was supposed to host with Prince as the musical guest on the first episode of SNL's 30th season, but both he and Prince backed out at the last minute and were replaced by Ben Affleck and Nelly. Donald Duck is an animated cartoon and comic-book character from Walt Disney Productions. ... Wikinews has news related to: Disneyland marks 50th anniversary The Happiest Homecoming on Earth is the eighteen-month-long celebration (held through 2005 and 2006) of the fiftieth anniversary of the Disneyland theme park, which opened on July 17, 1955. ... The Disney Legends awards are given annually by The Walt Disney Company to honor individuals who have made a notable contribution to the company. ... Disney redirects here. ... This article is about the American television series. ... For another person sometimes known as The Artist, see Michael Haynes III. Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American funk musician. ... Alexander Rae Alec Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe Award-winning, American actor. ... Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor, director, an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. ... For other uses, see Nelly (disambiguation). ...

Martin has also written two novellas, Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company. Shopgirl was later turned into a film (see above). A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ... Shopgirl is a 2005 film starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman. ... The Pleasure of My Company is a novel by Steve Martin, first published in 2003, which tells the story of the life of an obsessive compulsive and introverted young man named Daniel Cambridge. ...

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, Martin was voted one of the top 15 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. On October 23, 2005, Martin was presented with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts annually since 1998. ...

Art collection

Martin is an avid art collector, particularly modern American art, and a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Martin's personal collection has at one time included the art of Georgia O'Keeffe, John Henry Twachtman, Richard Diebenkorn, Po Shun Leong, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Cy Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and Pablo Picasso. In 2005, The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, announced that Martin had pledged US$1 million over five years for the museum's American art collection.^[6] Three-quarters of the gift will be used for exhibitions, with the remainder being used for acquisitions. Before he made his pledge, Martin loaned paintings to the museum, helped it acquire a sculpture by John Gregory, and sponsored an exhibition of "sugar paintings" by 19th century American artist Eastman Johnson. Jessica Todd Smith, the museum's American art curator, said Martin became an "enthusiastic" supporter of The Huntington after he visited the museum in 2002 while filming a movie nearby.In the fall of 2007, Martin was spied leaving the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, badly disguised with a black moustache and derby hat.When discretely acknowledged by an erstwhile fan, Martin was abrupt and somewhat dismissive. P.J. Tirpack (son of renowned socialite Dr.Patricia Davis ) , visiting his Aunt Terry and Uncle Andrew, was surprised and somewhat disappointed by the actor's poor attempt to conceal his identity, yet curious as to what kind of car Martin was going to drive away in. He later speculated that Martin drove either a Mustang or a Porsche. Dejeuner sur lHerbe by Pablo Picasso At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893 I and the Village by Marc Chagall, 1911 Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917 Campbells Soup Cans 1962 Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two... The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California. ... Georgia Tottoeanocomita OKeeffe (November 15, 1887—March 6, 1986) was an American artist. ... John Henry Twachtman (August 4, 1853-August 8, 1902) was a US impressionist painter. ... Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. ... Po Shun Leong was born in Northampton, England, on March 15, 1941 and is an artist, former architect, sculptor and furniture maker. ... Willem de Koonings Woman V (1952-53), National Gallery of Australia Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. ... Franz Klines Painting Number 2, 1954 Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 - May 13, 1962) was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist group which was centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting. ... Leda and The Swan 1962. ... Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American post-painterly abstraction artist. ... Nighthawks. ... We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961. ... Roy Lichtenstein (27 October 1923–29 September 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles, which he himself described as being as artificial as possible. // Roy Lichtenstein was born on 27 October 1923 into an upper-middle-class family in... Picasso redirects here. ... The Huntington Library is an educational and research institution established by Henry Huntington in San Marino, California. ... Location of San Marino in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Government  - Mayor Matthew Lin  - City Manager Matt Ballantyne  - City Clerk Carol Robb Area  - City  3. ... Eastman Johnson (1824 - 1906) was a U.S. painter. ...

Marriages

On July 28, 2007, Martin married Anne Stringfield (born 1973) at his Los Angeles home. Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey presided over the ceremony. Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live, was his best man. Several of the guests, including close friends Tom Hanks, Eugene Levy, comedian Carl Reiner, and magician/actor Ricky Jay were not informed that a wedding ceremony would take place. Instead, they were told they were invited to a party.^[7] Robin Williams was invited, but he felt he was too busy at the time to go to just a regular party. Joseph Robert Bob Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) was the Democratic Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987, and a U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989–2001). ... Lorne Michaels (born Lorne Michael Lipowitz on November 17, 1944) is an Emmy-winning Canadian-born television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ... This article is about the American television series. ... Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956[1]) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist, writer, and movie producer. ... Eugene Levy (born 17 December 1946) is a Canadian Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actor, television director, producer and writer. ... Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. ... Ricky Jay Ricky Jay (b. ... For other persons named Robin Williams, see Robin Williams (disambiguation). ...

Martin has previously been involved with artist Allyson Hollingsworth and the actresses Anne Heche and Bernadette Peters. Anne Celeste Heche (IPA: ) (born May 25, 1969) is an American actress, director and screenwriter. ... Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress and singer. ...

He was married to actress Victoria Tennant from 1986 to 1994. Victoria Tennant (born 30 September 1950) is an English-born, American film and television actress. ...

Awards and honors

Along with the other writers for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Steve won an Emmy Award in 1969.
In 1978 Steve won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for Let's Get Small, and in 1979 for A Wild and Crazy Guy.
He shared a 2001 Grammy award for Best Country Instrumental Performance with Earl Scruggs (and others) for his banjo performance of Foggy Mountain Breakdown [1]
On October 23, 2005, Martin was presented with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The Smothers Brothers are an American musical-comedy team, formed by real-life brothers Tom and Dick Smothers. ... Foggy Mountain Breakdown is a famous bluegrass music instrumental by the seminal bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. ...

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Martin will be honored at the 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors on December 1, 2007. ^[8] Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Filmography

The Absent Minded Waiter is a short film starring Steve Martin, Teri Garr, and Buck Henry. ... Sgt. ... The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring Jim Hensons Muppets. ... Soundtrack album cover. ... This article is about the American film. ... The opening title sequence to the first episode of Pennies from Heaven. ... Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid was a movie first released in 1982. ... The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 US film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner. ... The Lonely Guy is a 1984 Steve Martin romantic comedy sexual film, written by Neil Simon and directed by Arthur Hiller. ... Summary Steve Martin plays an attorney dating the boss daughter, who is also an aspiring jazz rhythm guitarist. ... Movers & Shakers is a 1985 comedy movie distributed by MGM. It was directed by William Ashner. ... ¡Three Amigos! is a 1986 comedy western film, produced by George Folsey, Jr. ... Little Shop of Horrors is a 1986 screen adaptation of the off-Broadway stage musical of the same name. ... Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. ... Planes, Trains & Automobiles is an American comedy movie produced by Paramount Pictures in 1987. ... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film directed by Frank Oz and starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine as the con artists of the title. ... This article is about the film Parenthood. ... My Blue Heaven is a 1990 film starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. ... L.A. Story is a 1991 movie directed by Mick Jackson and written by Steve Martin. ... Father of the Bride is a 1991 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, George Newbern, Martin Short, and Kieran Culkin. ... Grand Canyon is an ensemble drama directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan, advertised as The Big Chill for the 90s, in reference to one of Kasdans earlier successes. ... HouseSitter is a 1992 comedy movie starring Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. ... Leap of Faith is 1992 comedy-drama film about a fake Christian faith healer who uses a fraudulent traveling revival show to bilk believers of the money. ... Simple Twist of Fate was also the title of a Bob Dylan song. ... Mixed nuts Mixed nuts are a snack food consisting of any mixture of nuts in the culinary sense, particularly peanuts, almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, cashews, filberts, and pecans. ... Father of the Bride Part II is a 1995 comedy starring Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. ... The film Sgt. ... This article is about the movie. ... The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 Academy Award-winning American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. ... The Out-of-Towners is a 1999 film starring Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin. ... The Middle Finger gesture (possibly offensive) The finger, as in giving someone the finger, known variously as the one-finger salute, the highway salute, flicking (someone) off, flipping (someone) off, flipping the bird, showing someone the middle finger, digital signalling, Thumbs up plus 2, or the Trudeau salute (in Canada... The Venice Project is a 1999 drama film directed by Robert Dornhelm. ... Fantasia 2000 is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. ... Joe Goulds Secret is a 2000 film based on the 1965 book by Joseph Mitchell. ... Novocaine is a 2001 film written and directed by David Atkins and starring Steve Martin, Laura Dern, Helena Bonham Carter, Lynne Thigpen and Elias Koteas. ... A catfight between Queen Latifah and Missi Pyle Bringing Down the House is a 2003 comedy film, written by Jason Filardi, and directed by Adam Shankman. ... Looney Tunes: Back in Action was a 2003 Warner Bros. ... Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American comedy film about a family with twelve children (seven boys and five girls). ... Jiminy Glick in Lalawood is a 2004 comedy film. ... Shopgirl is a 2005 film starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman. ... Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a film produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 2005 (see 2005 in film). ... The Pink Panther is a 2006 comedy film. ... The Pink Panther Deux is a sequel to the 2006 film, The Pink Panther. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ...

Bibliography

• The Jerk (1979) (Written with Carl Gottlieb)
• Cruel Shoes (1979)
• Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for the Floating Lady, Wasp (1996)
• L.A. Story and Roxanne: Two Screenplays (published together in 1997)
• Pure Drivel (1998)
• Eric Fischl : 1970 - 2000 (2000) (Afterword)
• Modern Library Humor and Wit Series (2000) (Introduction and Series Editor)
• Shopgirl (2001)
• Kindly Lent by Their Owner: The Private Collection of Steve Martin (2001)
• The Underpants: A Play (2002)
• The Pleasure of My Company (2003)
• Born Standing Up (2007) (Released November 2007 Biography about his Stand-Up Years)
• The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z (2007) (Released October 2007, Childrens Books featuring Wacky Couplets for each letter, illustrated by Roz Chast)

Cruel Shoes is a collection of mostly-humorous essays and short stories by Steve Martin, and his first published book, and is also the title of one of the pieces therein, a satirical short-short story about a woman in a shoe store. ... Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a play written by Steve Martin in 1993. ... Pure Drivel is a collection of stories by Steve Martin, published in 1998, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker. ... Shopgirl is a 2005 film starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman. ... The Pleasure of My Company is a novel by Steve Martin, first published in 2003, which tells the story of the life of an obsessive compulsive and introverted young man named Daniel Cambridge. ... The Alphabet From A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! is a childrens book aimed at infants and pre-schoolers containing couplets written by comedian, writer, and humorist Steve Martin, with illustrations by The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. ... Roz Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. ...

Discography

• Let's Get Small (1977)
• King Tut (1978, 45 RPM music single)
• A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978)
• Comedy Is Not Pretty! (1979)
• The Steve Martin Brothers (1981)

Lets Get Small (1977) was Steve Martins first album, and a major success. ... King Tut is a 1978 novelty song performed by Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band). ... A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) was Steve Martins second album and greatest success on record. ... Comedy is Not Pretty! (1979) was Steve Martins third album. ... The Steve Martin Brothers (1981) is Steve Martins final comedy album. ... Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. ... Bicentenntial Nigger is a comedy album by the late comedian Richard Pryor. ... The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album was awarded from yearly 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day. ... Lets Get Small (1977) was Steve Martins first album, and a major success. ... A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) was Steve Martins second album and greatest success on record. ... For other persons named Robin Williams, see Robin Williams (disambiguation). ...

References

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