
Birthday:
06-24-1935
Deathday:
08-05-2020 (85 years)
Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
Pete Hamill was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime."
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Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Act like Additional Voices
event2005
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The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.
One Fine Day
Act like Frank Burroughs
event1996 star_border 6.4
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Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.
From Corleone to Brooklyn
Act like Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
event1979 star_border 6.2
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Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
The Insider
Act like NY Times Reporter
event1999 star_border 7.4
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A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Exposed
Act like Guest at Party
event1983 star_border 4.8
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Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
Act like Self
event2005 star_border 8
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A story of violence, love, sex, politics and media centered around the life of Griffith, a six-time world welterweight champion.
If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent
Act like Self
event2013 star_border 7.6
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The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.
King of New York
Act like Pete Hamill
event1990 star_border 6.7
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A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Act like Self
event2018 star_border 7.2
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Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, celebrating the acclaimed journalists and the city they loved.
Home
event2006 star_border 8.6
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Young Irish immigrant, Alan Cooke contemplates the great metropolis New York City, and the very meaning of home itself. A vivid moving and poetic portrayal of life in contemporary New York featuring a host of celebrities, native New Yorkers and immigrants via candid interviews.
Badge 373
event1973 star_border 5.5
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When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.
Prohibition
Act like Self - Historian (3 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.9
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The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.4
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Yellow Handkerchief
Writer (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 6.3
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A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Nightside
Writer (1 ep.)
event1973
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The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and on the prowl. In the pilot episode, Carmine manages to rescue Smitty's night club from being demolition and manages to resurrect a fading star's acting career.
Doc
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 6.2
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Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has been clashing with the Clanton gang. Tensions between Earp and the Clantons rise until their infamous final showdown brings it to a head.
Snow in August
Novel (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6.8
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When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.
The Neon Empire
Writer (1 ep.)
event1989
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New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
Split Images
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1992
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A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe her.
Flesh & Blood
Novel (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 5
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A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
The Gift
Novel (1 ep.)
event1979
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A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.
Laguna Heat
Writer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 4.5
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Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
The Yellow Handkerchief
Short Story (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.3
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Set in Hokkaido, revolving around an ex-convict named Shima Yusaku (Abe) who has just been released from prison. Along with two young strangers that he meets, he sets out on a journey back to where his wife is, uncertain of what awaits him. Horikita Maki (22) and Hamada Gaku (23) will play the two strangers (originally played by Momoi Kaori and Takeda Tetsuya), while Natsukawa Yui will play the wife (originally Baisho Chieko).
Liberty
Writer (1 ep.)
event1986
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Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
French Connection II
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 6.8
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"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
The Yellow Handkerchief
Short Story (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6.8
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The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.
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