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Logline A Double Life unveils the gripping true story of Stephen Bingham, a lawyer accused of passing a gun to prisoners’ rights leader George Jackson in 1971. Forced into a life on the run, Bingham spends 13 years underground, eluding capture while fiercely determined to clear his name.
Short Synopsis A Double Life unveils the gripping true story of Stephen Bingham, a lawyer accused of passing a gun to prisoners’ rights leader George Jackson in 1971. Forced into a life on the run, Bingham spends 13 years underground, eluding capture while fiercely determined to clear his name. Through a mesmerizing blend of firsthand accounts, rare archival materials, and poignant interviews, the story traces Bingham’s astonishing odyssey. As he battles inner demons, seeks new meaning and love, and navigates a world of danger, the film sheds light on his unwavering quest for justice and redemption against all odds.
This film is as much about Steve/Robert as it is about his times. The turbulent era of civil rights, student rebellion, and state surveillance forms the backdrop of a personal story of a man who managed to remain focused on his values and ideals through multiple disruptions and tragedies. The story is told through the multiple perspectives of his friends and colleagues in both the US and France, as well as family members both alive and dead. It is also a generational story, of the tensions that arise when worldviews collide between parents and their children, mirroring wider divides in the society at large. And it is a love story, of Steve and Françoise, who had to make a choice to risk everything. To tell this complex story spanning eras and continents, the narrative weaves back and forth between present and past, through a combination of verité treatments and archival, to unveil a drama of racial injustice, state surveillance, family jealousi es and political divides.
The film has a lyrical quality when Steve and others are reflecting about the times, the decisions, the challenges and the obstacles that have to be confronted after 13 years of a life on the run. Walking in the Vincennes forest in Paris, Steve learns to say his given name again. Paul Harris, part of Steve’s legal defense team, reflects on why people are willing to risk everything to return home as we drive through a dark tunnel, taking us into the heart of complex decision-making.
This is a story that needs to be told. It is powerfully relevant in the present era of social unrest and activism, when we as a nation are struggling to come to terms with the truth of our own dark past. In this contemporary climate, we have much to learn from the life stories of people like Stephen Bingham. It is not only a film of his times, it is a film for our times.
Angelina Jolie (August 23, 2014 – April 13, 2019) (divorced, 6 children) Jennifer Aniston (July 29, 2000 – October 2, 2005) (divorced)
QUOTES:
[on what keeps him humble] You know, I telephoned my grandparents the other day, and my grandfather said to me, “We saw your movie.” “Which one?”. I said, and he shouted, “Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?”. I thought that was just classic. I mean, if that doesn’t keep your feet on the ground, what would?
I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
[Time magazine, October 13, 1997] You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a f—ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment. Basically, when you whittle everything away, I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols. I’ll tell you who my favorite actress is, Dianne Wiest, and you wouldn’t call her a sex symbol. Dianne Wiest is, to me, the most beautiful woman on the screen. [when asked by Conan O’Brien how he got into character as stoner Floyd in True Romance (1993)] I’m a method actor.
[on winning the Best Director Oscar for Saving Private Ryan (1998)]: Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?
Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: Seven Samurai (1954), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).
[on friend Joan Crawford]: She is five feet four, but she looks six feet on the screen. In a two-shot with anyone, even Gable, (Clark Gable), your eyes fix on her. She is imperious, yet with a childlike sparkle. She is haughty, yet tender. She has no great range as an actress, yet within the range she can perform better than any of her contemporaries. I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again. I would love to see the British film industry get back on its feet again.
I don’t drink coffee. I’ve never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That’s something you probably don’t know about me. I’ve hated the taste since I was a kid.
I dream for a living.
I’d rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Died May 26, 2022 · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (heart and respiratory complications)
Birth name Raymond Allen Liotta
QUOTES:
Something Wild (1986) was my first movie. I was in an acting class and on a soap opera for three-and-a-half years in New York – I moved to L.A. at 25 and nothing was really going on for like a five-year period. I was still in acting class, I was in class all through Goodfellas (1990) actually, and I talked to some of the guys and they said, “Are you up for this movie, Something Wild?” and I said, “No.” But I decided I really wanted to be up for it even though [Jonathan] Demme had already narrowed it down to three people. I’d been to college with Melanie Griffith’s then-husband Steven Bauer and I called her up and said, “y’know, can you get me in and I felt weird about it, but here I am, thirty years old and I haven’t done anything yet and I’d read the script and felt like I could do that as well as anyone out there so why not me?” She got me in, she insisted that Jonathan see me, and it just worked out with me.
“Nothing. It’s just make-believe. I don’t think it’s good to personalize it. If you do, it’s limiting. The actors that do personalize it are the ones that always seem the same in every movie they do. I don’t really look at it in any kind of deep psychological way that I learn something about myself. Aside from taking up the acting challenges, I’m really glad I took on the challenge of playing Sinatra, as scary as it was. I learned somewhat about myself – that I could do it and I knew what was bothering me – the fears that I had.” – On what he learns about himself through the characters he plays.
I wasn’t crazy about the way things were going. I wanted to be a little more proactive with my career instead of waiting for something to come to me, so I formed a production company with my wife [Michelle Grace] and a partner, Diane Nabatoff, and changed agents – I really just wanted to clean house and start fresh. The first script I got was Narc (2002) and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a 70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn’t anticipate the ending. I wanted to go that way and really get proactive with my career – take some control in it and redirect it in a direction that I liked.
Born December 18, 1980 · Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
Birth name Christina Maria Aguilera
Spouse Jordan Bratman (November 19, 2005 – April 15, 2011) (divorced, 1 child)
QUOTES:
[on Eminem’s lyrics in “The Real Slim Shady” which contained sexual references about her] It’s disgusting and offensive and above all it’s not true.
[on singing the remake of “Lady Marmalade” with P!nk, Mya and Lil’ Kim] It’s the closest I ever got to being in a girl group.
I like to be edgy, I like to be different. I’m a little bit of rebel.
[After winning an MTV Award for the video, “Lady Marmalade”, shared with singers Mya, P!nk and Lil’ Kim] The big hair paid off!
It’s funny how society places such strict standards upon young blonde females. We’re supposed to play the clean-cut view the public wants of us. But I am not your little cookie-cutter virgin.
It’s human nature to have a sexual side.
I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it’s important to embrace it and get down! The female body is something that’s so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not dis other women for being proud of theirs!
You can take it or leave it, but I’m not going to change, not for anyone.
Spouse Tom Cruise (November 18, 2006 – August 20, 2012) (divorced, 1 child)
QUOTES:
It’s important to try to be creative. I paint, and my mom is going to teach me how to make clothes. I think people should have passions.
My family always keeps me in check. I have three older sisters, and they work their butts off. They’re all very supportive of my career, but I know what’s really important is kids and family.
I felt so proud to be having a baby and so excited. And I felt closer to other women – to my sisters, to my mom. I felt empowered, like, ‘I’ve given birth. I did it! There’s nothing I can’t handle. I’ve really enjoyed this time that I have taken to be with Suri as well as the challenges of the first couple of months: feeding and pumping, learning to decipher what each cry means – is she hungry? Is she tired? Does she need a fresh diaper? – and figuring out how to really help her.
We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams really do come true.
