Late Eazy-E
Born: 7-Sep-1963
Birthplace: Compton, CA
Died: 26-Mar-1995
Location of death: Los Angeles, CAEazy-E" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10">
Cause of death: AIDS
Remains: Buried, Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Rapper
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: N.W.A. member died of AIDS
Eazy-E (a.k.a. Eric Wright) was born in South Central Los Angeles, in the Compton district. He was one of the founding members of the rap group N.W.A., as well as a record producer. He is also the founder of the Ruthless Records company, in which he also produced other rap artists like The D.O.C., and the rap group Above The Law. He debuted with "Boyz-N-The-Hood" which was a revolution song in rap history. During his reign as the lead member of N.W.A., he might have been known to embezzle funds, in which two members (Ice Cube and Dr. Dre) left the group over financial reasons. He fathered seven children, but lived a promiscuous life that resulted in contracting AIDS, which led to his demise in March 1995.
Always wore dark sunglasses
His voice
Wore a black Compton hat
Has a day each year in his name in Compton, Eazy-E day, by order of the mayor.
Has nine children by seven different women.
Played drums and piano competently (though not expertly).
His most famous song "Boyz in the Hood" was never meant to be sung by him. It was intended for an east side group called "HBO" to sing.
He was the unofficial front man of N.W.A., although he had relatively little contribution to the music (all of it being crafted by DJ Yella & Dr. Dre) and even his own lyrics (most of which were written for him by Ice Cube).
N.W.A. was voted the 33rd Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
Was a member of the Kelly Park Compton Crips.
Married the mother of his last two children one week before his death.
Fellow NWA rapper DJ Yella wrote a solo single called "One More Nigga To Go" in dedication to him, and to help raise money for college for his nine kids. Yella reportedly also was the only member of NWA to stay friends with him all the way from beginning to end.
Had his own record label, Ruthless Records.
Paid $2,490 for a plate at the 1991 Republican Senators Inner Circle luncheon.
"I'm not a registered Republican. I'm not even registered to vote. I was just curious, so I went to check it out after they sent me an invitation to the lunch. Some of my friends are saying to me, 'Oh, so you're a Republican now?' But how could I be a Republican when I have a song called 'Fuck Tha Police'? I was surprised when I got the invitation. I guess they sent it to me because I contributed to the City of Hope [medical center]. But at the luncheon -- I wore a black leather suit -- everybody looked at me funny, like, 'What's he doing here?'"
Father: Richard Wright (postal worker)
Mother: Kathie Lolis (school administrator)
Brother: Kenneth
Wife: Tomika Wood (m. 14-Mar-1995)
Girlfriend: Shannon Jones
Girlfriend: Tracy Jernagin
Son: Eric, Jr.
Son: Dominick
Daughter: Erin
N.W.A.
Crips Kelly Park Compton Crips
Risk Factors: AIDS,
CB4 (12-Mar-1993) · Himself
Date of Birth
14 June 1969, Compton, California, USABirth Name
Lorenzo PattersonNickname
Ruthless VillainTrade Mark
Always wears a hat, usually a Compton-hat
Trivia
Former member of pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A.; now a solo artist.
Former member of Kelly Park Compton Crips.
Grew up in East Compton.
NWA members from left is Ice Cube,DR. Dre, Eassy E, DJ Yella and Mc Ren.Samuel L. Jackson
Moja ya sehemu aliyocheza kwenye Movie ya Coming to America.
James Earl Jones
Date of Birth
17 January 1931, Arkabutla, Mississippi, USANickname
Todd (childhood)Height
6' 1½" (1.87 m)Mini Biography
James Earl Jones was born in 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA. At an early age he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred in many films over a 40-year period, beginning with the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Probably best known for his role as Darth Vader (for the voice only, as the man in the Darth Vader suit was David Prowse, whose voice was dubbed because of his British West Country accent). Has appeared on "The Simpsons" (1989) a couple of times and played Mufasa in The Lion King (1994). James Earl Jones returned as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).
Spouse
Cecilia Hart | (15 March 1982 - present) 1 child |
Julienne Marie | (1968 - 1972) (divorced) |
Trade Mark
Famous for his deep authoritative voice, used most famously for impressive roles as leaders like Darth Vader in the Star Wars films and Mufasa in The Lion King (1994)
Unmistakeable contagious laugh
Trivia
Took acting lessons to control his stutter.
He won a Tony in 1969 for "The Great White Hope".
Born at 6:05am.
Son, with Cecilia Hart: Flynn Earl Jones.
Had stuttering problem as a child and said very little as a child; still struggles with the problem and says he has to think about what he says carefully before saying it (impressive, since he is known widely for his voice).
Provided the thunderous voice (uncredited) of the villain, Darth Vader, in the 'Star Wars' film trilogy.
Son of prizefighter-turned-actor Robert Earl Jones, from whom he was (allegedly) estranged long into adulthood. Yet they starred together in a well-received stage revival of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men," as Lennie Small and Crooks, respectively (Kevin Conway also starred in the play, as George Milton).
He's the commanding voice that says "This is CNN".
Graduated from The University of Michigan.
His first time acting was at the Ramsdell Theater in Manistee, Michigan.
Graduated from Kaleva-Norman-Dickson High School in Brethren.
Grew up in the small town of Dublin, Michigan.
Callers using Bell Atlantic pay phones often hear Jones's voice assuring them "Welcome to Bell Atlantic", just before a female voice asks for a calling card number.
Was once an Army officer after college.
His "death" was announced during a live broadcast of an NBA playoff game in April of 1998. The deceased was actually James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King.
He received the John F. Kennedy Centre Honour in December 2002.
Narrated the documentary Black Indians: An American Story (2001) , which explores issues of racial identity between the mixed-descent peoples of both Native American and African American heritage. Jones himself is a Black Indian.
Announced the forty-fifth greatest movie villain of all time by Maxim Magazine's "Fifty Greatest Movie Villains of all Time" list for his character of Darth Vader in Star Wars (1977).
Co-starred with Madge Sinclair five times.
Has won two Tony Awards: in 1969, as Best Actor (Dramatic), for "The Great White Hope", a role he recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version of the same title, The Great White Hope (1970) and in 1987, as Best Actor (Play), for August Wilson's "Fences".
In the original Star Wars trilogy, he and Billy Dee Williams were the only black actors to play major roles. One of Billy Dee Williams's other roles was the title role in Scott Joplin (1977) (TV). Scott Joplin's ragtime music was used as the score for The Sting (1973), which features James's father, Robert Earl Jones.
Known for his humility, he declined to have his name appear on the credits of both Star Wars (1977) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), claiming that he felt his contribution wasn't significant enough to warrant a credit. He did agree to have his name appear of the credits of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
Appears in Robots (2005) with Stanley Tucci. In a television biopic of Peter Sellers, Stanley Tucci played Stanley Kubrick, who directed Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), which was also Jones's first film.
He was the first established celebrity to appear on the series "Sesame Street" (1969).
On October 8, 2002 appeared along with Theo Lion from PBS's "Between the Lions" (1999) before the House Education Reform Subcommittee to explain the importance of supporting literacy programs.
Is of African-American, American Indian and Irish ancestry. His paternal great-great-grandmother, Parthenia Connolly, was a native of Ireland who worked as an indentured servant. She married a former slave named Brice. Because Brice had no surname of his own, he took his wife's name Connolly. His maternal grandmother, Maggie Anderson, was part Choctaw Indian. He also has Cherokee ancestry.
His parents, Ruth Connolly and Robert Earl Jones, separated just before he was born. He was raised by his maternal grandparents.
To help get over his stuttering, he would write poetry, and his schoolteachers would let him read it in front of the class.
On June 15th 2005, he was forced to leave the Broadway revival of On Golden Pond (1981) due to a bout of pneumonia.
While in college, was a member of the Pershing Rifles, Co. M-3, a collegiate fraternal organizations for members of the school's ROTC program. Other members of this organization include Colin Powell and G. Gordon Liddy.
Has appeared in two films with Madge Sinclair where they play the main character's parents. In Coming to America (1988), they play the mother and father of Eddie Murphy's character, Hakeem. In The Lion King (1994), they play the mother and father of Simba. In Coming to America (1988), he appears with Samuel L. Jackson, who also appears with him in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), in which James Earl Jones voices Darth Vader, the father of original trilogy hero Luke Skywalker. In The Lion King (1994), Jones' character is named Mufasa. In Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), Darth Vader is severely injured on the planet Mustafar, which necessitates the synthesized voice Jones provides.
He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1992 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
His vocal performance of Darth Vader is ranked #84 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
His father-in-law's favorite movie is Gunga Din (1939).
Is a member of the National Rifle Assocation of America (NRA).
Brother: Matthew Earl Jones.
According to Jones, when George Lucas was trying to cast the voice of Darth Vader, his immediate idea was to cast Orson Welles. However, he felt that Welles was too well-known for the role. So instead he looked for an actor with a deep voice, "like Orson Welles", which is how he got the role.
A Norwegian rock band has named themselves after him: James Earl Jones Barbershop Explosion!.
Is a US Army veteran and former member of the 75th Rangers Regiment.
He used to use "Darth Vader" as his handle on his CB radio but stopped when it was freaking people out.
First African American actor to play the "President of the United States" on film in The Man (1972) (TV).
Personal Quotes
[from "James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences" page 360]: My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.
If you take a villain like Thulsa Doom or Darth Vader and have fun with it, that destroys the credibility of the character.
When I read that part in the script where it said, "Luke, I am your father", I thought, "He's lying. I have to see how they carry this lie out".
[on the Iraq war]: All people have to be prepared. If we are going to be the police, we also have to be the guardians. We can no longer play games. I was not against the war in Bosnia. I was against it taking so long. I was not against the war in Somalia. Again, it took too long, and we didn't finish the job. We should've stayed and finished the job. About this pending war, I just think we should've finished that war the first time.
[on the terrible stutter he suffered from as a young man]: One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.
"I have to look for film or TV work. If the great roles aren't around -- and they usually aren't -- then I try to pick projects which will at least take me to interesting locations. To the best of my abilities, I give them Academy Award caliber performances. I can't put down any jobs that help me pay my bills. The problem is most of the movies and TV shows I've been in haven't given me much to do or say."
SalaryComing to America (1988) | $900,000 |
Star Wars (1977) | $9,000 |
Where Are They Now
(October 2003) Lives in Millbrook, New York.
(September 2006) Lives in Pawling, New York.
(December 2009) In London, UK playing "Big Daddy" in 'Tennessee Williams (I)'' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Novello Theatre.
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