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Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Ohio, Chris Columbus was first inspired to make movies after seeing "The Godfather" at age 15. After enrolling at NYU film school, he sold his first screenplay (never produced) while a sophomore there. After graduation Columbus tried to sell his fourth script, "Gremlins", with no success, until Steven Spielberg optioned it; Columbus moved to Los Angeles for a year during rewrites on the project in Spielberg's bungalow at Universal. After writing two more scripts for Spielberg, "The Goonies" and "Young Sherlock Holmes", Columbus' own directing career was launched a few years later with "Adventures in Babysitting". He is best known to audiences as the director of the runaway hit "Home Alone", written and produced by John Hughes its sequel "Home Alone 2", and most recently "Mrs. Doubtfire".- Writer
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Cheryl Strayed is the author of #1 New York Times bestseller "Wild" (basis for the motion picture Wild (2014)), the New York Times bestsellers "Tiny Beautiful Things" and "Brave Enough" and the novel "Torch." "Wild" was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. WILD won a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, an Indie Choice Award, an Oregon Book Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and a Midwest Booksellers Choice Award among others. Strayed's writing has appeared in "The Best American Essays," the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, The Missouri Review, The Sun, Tin House, The Rumpus--where she wrote the popular "Dear Sugar" advice column--and elsewhere. Strayed's books have been translated into more than thirty languages around the world. Her book Tiny Beautiful Things was adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos for a play directed by Thomas Kail. Strayed holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband - the documentary filmmaker, Brian Lindstrom - and their two children.- A.M. Columbus was born on 7 September 1927 in Spangler, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). He was married to Irene Columbus. He died on 5 May 2014 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
- Robert Ott Boyle was born on 28 March 1950 in Spangler, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Equalizer (1985), Without a Trace (1983) and Leg Work (1987). He died on 16 May 1989 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Mike Kirkpatrick was born on 7 January 1986 in Spangler, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Eight Ball (2009), Pieces of Talent (2014) and Arcana Six (2018).