The Michael Pitt Handbook - Everything you need to know about Michael Pitt

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Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor and musician. Pitt is best known in film for his role in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers, and in television for his role as Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.

This book is your ultimate resource for Michael Pitt. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Michael Pitt, Dawson's Creek, Finding Forrester, Bully (film), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film), Murder by Numbers, Wonderland (2003 film), The Dreamers (film), The Village (2004 film), The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Jailbait (2004 film), Last Days (film), Delirious (2006 film), The Hawk Is Dying, Silk (2007 film), T Takes, Funny Games (2008 film), Boardwalk Empire.

Sujets

• Biography
• Autobiography

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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• EAN13: 9781743388440
• Langue: English
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Contents

Articles Michael Pitt Dawson's Creek Finding Forrester Bully (film) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film) Murder by Numbers Wonderland (2003 film) The Dreamers (film) The Village (2004 film) The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things Jailbait (2004 film) Last Days (film) Delirious (2006 film) The Hawk Is Dying Silk (2007 film) T Takes Funny Games (2008 film) Boardwalk Empire

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Michael Pitt

Michael Pitt

Born

Michael Pitt

Pitt in 2011 at the Critics Choice Awards.

Occupation

Years active

Michael Carmen Pitt April 10, 1981 West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.

Actor Musician

1998–present

Michael Carmen Pitt(born April 10, 1981) is an American actor and musician. Pitt is best known in film for his role in Bernardo Bertolucci'sThe Dreamers, and in television for his role as Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.

Career Pitt made his off-Broadway debut in 1999 in the playThe Trestle at Pope Lick Creekat the New York Theatre Workshop. A casting agent, whom Pitt mistook as a police officer attempting to arrest him, noticed him and recommended him for a guest role on the television seriesDawson's Creek(he played Henry Parker in 15 episodes between 1999 and 2000). His breakout role as the lover of a transgendered rock star inHedwig and the Angry Inchin 2001 led to supporting roles inBullyand in mainstream Hollywood fare such asMurder by NumbersandThe Village, as well as the lead in Bernardo Bertolucci'sThe Dreamers. He next appeared in Asia Argento'sThe Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and headlined Gus Van Sant'sLast Days, playing a rock star based on Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. He performed all of the songs, which closely resembled Cobain's guitar and singing styles. On set, he met Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, who had been hired by Van Sant to serve as the film's music consultant. The pair formed a close bond, with Moore writing, "[Gus] wanted me to hang out with Michael and talk about his character, and let him be in character. We ended up spending a lot of [1] time together. My daughter Coco still relates to Michael as Blake from Last Days." In 2007 he starred opposite Keira Knightley inSilk, adapted from the novel by Alessandro Baricco. He played the lead role of Herv Joncour, a French silkworm smuggler, who falls in love with a baron's concubine while in Japan. The same year he starred in the romantic comedyDeliriousas a young homeless man who befriends a celebrity

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T Takes

2001

2001

2003

Bully

episode 3.13 "Prodigy"

Funny Games

Pericle il Nero

2008

2008

Lt. William Calley

Paul

Web series

The Guest in Room 113

Rhinoceros Eyes

Petey

John Coleridge

Role

Hi-Life

Finding Forrester

1998

1998

2000

Filmography

2003

2004

Wonderland

Notes

Pitt sang and played guitar in his band Pagoda, whose self-titled debut album has been released by Universal/Fontana/Ecstatic Peace. With the Twins of Evil he performed "Hey Joe," which can be heard inThe Dreamers. He co-starred in the HBO series,Boardwalk Empire(about the rise of Atlantic City during the Prohibition era), with hisDeliriousco-star, Steve Buscemi. Pitt is the face of Prada's Spring/Summer 2012 Men's Collection.

15 Episodes

(uncredited)

Harry Baker

Finton Coin

Blake

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

2006

2006

Donny Semenec

1999 - 2000Dawson's Creek

Pinkville

Even Housewives in Minnesota Have Those Daydreams

Sons of Anarchy

Boardwalk Empire

1999

2003

Law and Order: SVU

2003

2004

The Dreamers

The Village

Michael Pitt

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Yellow Bird

Murder by Numbers

photographer played by Steve Buscemi and falls in love with a pop singer (Alison Lohman). The movie appeared at the Sundance Film Festival. His more recent films include,Funny Games, Michael Haneke's remake of his own 1997 [2] film, alongside Tim Roth and Naomi Watts. Pitt also stars in the crime dramaPericle il Nero, released in 2009.

Jacob Potter

Frank White

2001

2002

2

Chep

Tommy Gnosis

Gopher

Justin Pendleton

(scenes deleted)

Stuff

Buddy

Randy

Matthew

Fred

Herv Joncour

Toby Grace

Jailbait

The Hawk Is Dying

Silk

2004

2005

2007

Last Days

Delirious

2011

54

Film

2010-2011

2008

2011

Year

James 'Jimmy' Darmody Lead role

(pre-production)

Boy Teen

Henry Parker

Dance Student

Michael Pitt

References [1] "Interview at UKULA by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth" (http:/ /www.ukula.com/TorontoArticle.aspx?SectionID=3&ObjectID=1741& CityID=3). . [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808340/

External links

Michael Pitt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm685856/) at the Internet Movie Database Michael Pitt Online (http://michael-pitt.net/) http://pagodapagoda.com/ (http://pagodapagoda.com/)

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Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek

Genre

Created by

Starring

Opening theme

Composer(s)

Country of origin

No. of seasons

No. of episodes

Executive producer(s)

Location(s)

Camera setup

Running time

Original channel

Original run

Teen drama

Kevin Williamson

James Van Der Beek Katie Holmes Michelle Williams Joshua Jackson Kerr Smith Meredith Monroe Busy Philipps Mary-Margaret Humes John Wesley Shipp Mary Beth Peil Nina Repeta

Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creekintertitle

"I Don't Want to Wait" by Paula Cole in the United States; "Run Like Mad" by Jann Arden internationally

Danny Lux (season 2) Stephen Graziano (season 2) Mark Mothersbaugh (season 3) Adam Fields (vast majority) Dennis McCarthy (season 2, and closing theme that season)

United States

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128 (List of episodes)

Tom Kapinos Greg Prange Paul Stupin Kevin Williamson

Production

Wilmington, North Carolina, various towns

Single-camera

45 minutes

The WB

January 20, 1998–b2003Mya1b,4

Broadcast

External links

[1] Website

Dawson's Creekis an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons. It portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

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Dawson's Creek

Reruns of the show are often seen in Australia on TV1, in Canada on TVtropolis, in Norway on TV3, in Denmark on TV2 Zulu, in the UK on Sony Entertainment Television, in France on TMC, in Greece on Macedonia TV, in Romania on Digi Film, in India on Zee Caf , in Indonesia on TPI and Global TV, in Italy on Italia 1, in Spain on LaOtra, in Lithuania on TV3, in Latin America on Liv, and in the Middle East on MBC4 and on the Orbit - Showtime Network (OSN).

Premise Aimed at a teenage audience, the semi-autobiographical show is based on the small-town childhood of its creator Kevin Williamson. The lead character, Dawson Leery, mirrors Williamson's interests and background. Filmed in Wilmington, Durham, and Southport, North Carolina, the show was set in a small fictional seaside town called Capeside, Massachusetts. It focused on four friends who were in the early part of their sophomore and first year of high school when the series began. The program, part of a new craze for teen-themed movies and television shows in America in the late 1990s, catapulted its leads to stardom and became a defining show for The WB. Dawson's Creekgenerated a high amount of publicity before its debut, with several television critics and consumer watchdog groups expressing concerns about its anticipated "racy" plots and dialogue. The controversy even drove one of the original production companies away from the project, but numerous critics praised it for its realism and intelligent dialogue that included allusions to American television icons such asThe Dick Van Dyke ShowandThe Mary Tyler Moore Show. By the end of its run, the show, its crew, and its young cast had been nominated for numerous awards, winning four of them. The series is known for the verbosity and complexity of the dialogue between its teenage characters—who commonly demonstrate vocabulary and cultural awareness that was criticized as being beyond the scope of the average high school student, yet that is combined with an emotional immaturity and self-absorption reflecting actual teens. This precociousness has been a staple of a number of teenage-themed shows since, notably includingOne Tree Hill(also filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina),The O.C.andGossip Girl.

Origins and reception Kevin Williamson, a native of the small coastal town of Oriental, North Carolina, was approached in 1995 by producer Paul Stupin to write a pilot for a television series. Stupin, who as a Fox Network executive had brought Beverly Hills, 90210to the air, sought out Williamson after having read his script for the slasher filmScream—a knowing, witty work about high school students. Initially offered to Fox, the network turned it down. The WB, however, was eagerly looking for programming to fill its new Tuesday night lineup. Williamson said "I pitched it as Some Kind of Wonderful, meetsPump Up the Volume, meetsJames at 15, meetsMy So-Called Life, meetsLittle House on the Prairie". The show's lead character and main protagonist, Dawson Leery, was based on Williamson himself: obsessed with movies and platonically sharing his bed with the girl down the creek. Procter & Gamble Productions (the company behind such daytime dramas asGuiding LightandAs the World Turns) was an original co-producer of the series. The company, however, sold its interest in the show three months before the premiere when printed stories surfaced about the racy dialogue and risqu plot lines. John Kiesewetter, television columnist forThe Cincinnati Enquirerwrote, "As much as I want to love the show—the cool kids, charming New England setting, and stunning cinematography—I can't get past the consuming preoccupation with sex, sex, sex." Syndicated columnist John Leo said the show should be called "When Parents Cringe," and went on to write "The first episode contains a good deal of chatter about breasts, genitalia, masturbation, and penis size. Then the title and credits come on and the story begins." Tom Shales, ofThe Washington Postcommented that creator Kevin Williamson was "the most overrated wunderkind in Hollywood" and "what he's brilliant at is pandering." In his defense, Williamson denied this was his intention, stating that "I never set out to make something provocative and racy". The Parents Television Council proclaimed the show the single worst program of the 1997–1998 season, a title the Council would also award it for the 1998–1999 season. The Council also cited it the fourth worst show in

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Dawson's Creek

Regular Seasons

1–6

1–6

1–6

Character

Meredith Monroe

Actor

Mary Beth Peil

Busy Philipps

Nina Repeta

1–4

6

2–4

2–6

1–4

Evelyn "Grams" Ryan 1–6

1–4

James Van Der Beek

Dawson Leery

Cast and characters

Season overview

Regular cast

5

2

2

–

5–6

–

5

5–6

–

–

–

1–6

Recurring Seasons

Jack McPhee

Kerr Smith

Katie Holmes

Andie McPhee

Joey Potter

Pacey Witter

Kerr Smith and Meredith Monroe were added to the cast during the show's second season in recurring capacities until they were promoted to full-time series regulars during the show's third season. Monroe later left the series

Michelle Williams

Joshua Jackson

While never a huge ratings success among the general television population,Dawson's Creekdid very well with the younger demographic it targeted and became a defining show for the WB Network. (The first season's highest ranked episode was the finale, which was fifty-ninth, while the second highest rated was the second episode, scoring so well only because there was no programming on the other networks, which were carrying President Clinton's State of the Union address in the midst of the Lewinsky scandal.)

Jen Lindley

The show was especially popular in Australia where it rated #1 in its timeslot for every episode covering seasons one to four. Both of its soundtrack albums,Songs From Dawson's Creek(1999) andSongs From Dawson's Creek— Volume 2(2001), reached #1 on the Australian Album Chart and were certified Platinum.

2000–2001. However, on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, the National Organization for Women offered an endorsement, deeming it one of the least sexually exploitive shows on the air. For every scathing review there was a glowing one:Varietywrote that it was "an addictive drama with considerable heart...the teenage equivalent of a Woody Allen movie—a kind of 'Deconstructing Puberty'".The Atlanta Journal-Constitutioncalled it "a teen's dream".The Dayton Daily Newslisted Capeside as a television town they'd most like to live in.The Seattle Timesdeclared it the best show of the 1997–1998 season.The New York Timesheadlined its review: "Young, Handsome, and Clueless inPeyton Place". That was precisely the sort of allusion real teenagers weren't likely to get, let alone make, but the show's punchy dialogue was full of them. Dawson calls his mother's co-anchor "Ted Baxter" and refers to his parents as "Rob and Laura Petrie". He responds to his principal's request for a film glorifying the football team as belonging to "the Leni Riefenstahl approach to filmmaking." Jen says her parents followed "the Ho Chi Minh school of parenting." The verbiage was high-flying too: star Michelle Williams confessed in interviews that she had to consult her dictionary when she read the scripts.

Despite the title being named after James Van Der Beek's character, Katie Holmes is the only cast member who appeared in all 128 episodes. Van Der Beek's character, along with Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams, did not appear in a handful of episodes during the show's final two seasons.

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Bessie Potter

Audrey Liddell

Mary-Margaret Humes Gail Leery

Mitch Leery

John Wesley Shipp