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Date : Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:35:21 PST The New York Times December 15, 2009 Tuesday Late Edition - Final Val Avery, 85, Tough-Guy Actor in Movies By WILLIAM GRIMES Val Avery, whose craggy features and threatening aura ensured him nearly 50 years of work playing tough guys on both sides of the law in dozens of television series and films like ''Hud,'' ...

A frequent collaborator with former AFI co-student David Lynch, Frederick Elmes has supplied a dreamy, super-realistic visual style to four of Lynch's features, including "Eraserhead" and more recently, "Wild at Heart" . Raised in New Jersey, he became interested in photography when he was lent a Leica camera by his father.

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The son of Sicilian immigrants, Ben Gazzara grew up on New York City's tough Lower East Side in a cold-water flat with the bathtub in the kitchen, speaking Italian as his first language.

Gus , Harry , and Archie are long time best friends, living in the suburbs of New York.

I'm still trying to figure out whether it was a good thing to get into John Cassavetes' cinematic canon by starting off with "Husbands." Maybe I should've dipped into the late actor-filmmaker's more universally hailed movies, the ones that cemented his status as a pioneer of independent cinema: "Faces," "A Woman Under the Influence," "The Killing ...

As a director, John Cassavetes isn't as famous as Steven Spielberg or George Lucas.

MY SISTER'S KEEPER Director: Nick Cassavetes Running time: 109 minutes *** SOMETIMES it's hard to believe Nick Cassavetes is the son of John Cassavetes.