George H. Gallo Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
George Gallo Jr (born 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, painter and musician.He is best known for writing Midnight Run and 29th Street, and is an accomplished painter in the style of the Pennsylvania Impressionists. In 1990, he won the coveted Arts for the Parks award, and has had three one-man exhibitions in New York City.In 2010, he wrote and directed the film Middle Men starring Luke Wilson.He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Eventually, I came to understand that all of the arts are intertwined. That composition in painting is the same as structure in storytelling; that characters are the same as colors; that colors are the same as chords in music.
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Besides being a talented painter, he is also an accomplished saxophone player who was in both the marching band as well as a jazz ensemble in his hometown of Port Chester, New York.
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From Mamaroneck, New York, he moved to California with less than $800 in his pocket
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He also paints landscapes in the style of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, has won the coveted Arts For The Parks Award in 1990, and has had three one-man exhibitions in New York City.
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Originally attended college to become a Graphic Arts major. After seeing Martin Scorsese's film Mean Streets (1973), he was inspired to become a Film major instead. When the school informed him that he couldn't switch majors without repeating his first year's studies, he decided to drop out and ended up writing his first film, Wise Guys (1986), which took five years to get produced.
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Wrote a draft of an unproduced fictional Three Stooges movie in the early 80s, which involved the boys as pest exterminators who get pitted against a middle-eastern dictator named General Roberto "Bob" Alou, when they are mistaken for secret agents.
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