Vincent Gallo - Biography

Last Editor: themoorefourplus				Vincent Gallo Biography -   Name : Vincent Gallo Profession : Actor Date of birth : 11 April 1962 Place of birth : Buffalo, New York, USA Birth name : Vincent Vito Gallo Nickname : Vinnie Vince Height : 5' 11"

Vincent Gallo Trivia -

Known for his outspoken views and the outspoken way of speaking them out. Announced engagement to New York writer Bethany Ritz. [April 1999] Attended Sweet Home Central Schools, New York. [1979] He writes for a magazine called Sound Practices. Has over 5700 videotapes. Called off engagement to writer Bethany Ritz. [April 2000] Is a big music enthusiast. Is often quoted as saying he owns over 15,000 albums. Was in an experimental noise band called Gray with New York artist Jean Michel Basquiat in the early 1980s. They played at all the most popular punk rock/new wave clubs in the city, including Max's Kansas City, CBGB's, and one (now famous) night at the Mudd Club. They broke up soon after and Basquiat became famous. Childhood idol: Chris Squire, bass player of Yes. Released an album (titled "When") on the Warp label in 2001. He composed, performed and produced all the music on the record. Parents emigrated from Sicily. Co-founded the NYC Breakers. Son of Janet Gallo and Vincent Gallo Sr. Was a hip-hop breakdancer in the early '80s as evidenced in the DVD "Graffiti Rock". Was engaged to Italian actress Asia Argento in 1998. Italian-American. Divides his time between Los Angeles and NYC. During his late teens he fled to Europe alone and ended up spending a year traveling around France, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Denmark and Italy. The Italian rock band Timoria named the song "Vincent Gallo Blues" after him.

Vincent Gallo Detailed Biography -

Vincent Gallo (born in Buffalo, New York on April 11, 1962) is an Italian American movie actor and director starring in a number of independent movies. Gallo is also a recognized painter, model, alternative musician, motorcycle racer and breakdancer. Gallo is known for his outspoken and highly-quotable views and claims, once saying "I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite". In 2003, he aggressively defended his conservative Republican politics to French journalists during the US invasion of Iraq. On his personal website, as well as in several interviews, specifically a March 2002 interview with USA Today, Gallo claimed that certain races are "inferior" and defended such racist views on the basis that the darker the color of a person's skin, the less intelligent that person is. Many of his supporters state that such assertions are merely publicity stunts. Vincent Gallo has modelled for Calvin Klein, been photographed by Richard Avedon, and was in a rock band with Lukas Haas. He has directed two films, Buffalo 66 and The Brown Bunny. The latter was controversial as it contained a scene in which actress Chloë Sevigny performs real fellatio on Gallo. Gallo formed his first musical group in 1971. This band was called The Blue Mood. He played bass guitar in this band and sang. From that time forward he has been involved with numerous music groups that have embraced a number of musical styles. To date, he has released four albums, plus several singles. A war of words erupted between Gallo and popular critic Roger Ebert in 2003 regarding the latter's negative criticism of The Brown Bunny at the Cannes Film Festival. Ebert wrote that The Brown Bunny was the worst film in the history of Cannes, and Gallo retorted by calling Ebert a "fat pig with the physique of a slave trader." Ebert then responded, paraphrasing a statement once made by Winston Churchill that "although I am fat, one day I will be thin, but Mr. Gallo will still have been the director of The Brown Bunny." Gallo then put a hex on Ebert's colon, cursing the critic with cancer. Roger Ebert then replied that he would rather watch the film of his colonoscopy than The Brown Bunny. Later on, Gallo told Ebert that he had been misquoted, and he had actually wished him cancer of the prostate and not the colon. [citation needed] A shorter, re-edited version of the film played later in 2004 at the Toronto International Film Festival (although it still retained the controversial sex scene). While not receiving the highest praise, neither did it garner the same level of derision as the Cannes version, and on the August 28, 2004 episode of Ebert & Roeper, Roger Ebert gave the new version of the film a thumbs-up. In a column published at about the same time, Ebert reported that he and Gallo had made peace. Ironically, the outrage and hysteria surrounding The Brown Bunny meant it ended up being the most talked-about film of the festival—even more so than the eventual Palme d'Or winner, Gus van Sant's Elephant, and Lars von Trier's highly anticipated Dogville—creating a mystique that some thought might enhance its likelihood of securing major U.S. distribution. This did not happen, however, and the $10 million film was a box office turkey, grossing less than $400,000 U.S. The film was not given wide release in North America, and was issued on DVD there in August 2005.