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Friday, 19 June 2015

Hal Ashby, 1929-1988 (American film director and editor)

* Hal Ashby is associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He won the 1968 Oscar for Best Editing for the mystery drama In the Heat of the Night (1967) starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates.

Mercury (ruler of Ashby's Ascendant and his cinematic, angular Neptune-Sun conjunction) is conjunct Mars and opposite Uranus. His biography is subtitled "Life of a Hollywood Rebel" and he directed several acclaimed and popular films "about outsiders and adventurers traversing the pathways of life." These films include the off-beat romance Harold and Maude (1971), the social satires Shampoo (1975) and Being There (1979), and the Vietnam War drama Coming Home (1978) starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, both in Academy Award-winning performances.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: William Hal Ashby, 2 September 1929, 00:10 (12:10 AM) MST (+7), Ogden, Utah, USA (41n13, 111w58). ASC: 28 Gemini. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson (University Press of Kentucky, 2009), pp. 2+6: "I was born in Ogden, Utah ... Born at ten minutes past midnight on September 2, 1929."

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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Kim Fowley (American record producer, singer, impresario, songwriter, musician, filmmaker, radio actor)

* Kim Fowley is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and for managing the all-female rock band The Runaways in the 1970s. He has the very musical and female combination of Venus in Cancer in the 4th House (at the apex of a Cardinal T-square involving an opposition of the ruling Moon and Jupiter). Fowley has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll" and as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream." His tight T-square involves Mars in the last degree of Capricorn opposite Pluto in the first degree of Leo, all square Saturn in the first degree of Taurus. There's enough tension in that pattern alone to make for a very driven and compelling personality, not to mention Pluto conjunct Sun (his autobiography is called Lord of Garbage).

His website: www.kimfowley.net

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

* Read more about Kim Fowley's fascinating life at his very long Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Kim Vincent Fowley, 21 July 1939, 21:46 (9:46 pm) PST (+8), Los Angeles, California, USA (34n03, 118w14). ASC: 25 Pisces. RR: A/B (from him in an autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Kim Fowley, Lord of Garbage (New York: Kicks, 2012): "July 21, 1939. That was the day . . . KIM FOWLEY—Kim Vincent Fowley—did show up, kicking and screaming, ejected at precisely 9:46 PM from the loins of debutante-cum-starlet Shelby Payne, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Los Angeles. Shelby's first child. Doug Fowley's first son."

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Michael Moore (American filmmaker, author, social critic, and political activist)

* Michael Moore ― the award-winning in-depth documentary filmmaker ― has truth-seeking Uranus in the fact-digging Scorpio decan of history-oriented Cancer in the 12th house of cinema.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Michael Francis Moore(born April 23, 1954) is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His films Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Sicko (2007) also placed in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries, and the former won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth.

Moore's written and cinematic works criticize globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Michael Francis Moore, 23 April 1954, 12:45 (12:45 p.m.), Flint, Michigan, USA (43n00, 83w41). ASC: 16 Leo. RR: A (from mother's memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Michael Moore, Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life (London: Penguin, 2011): "Deafeningly close thunder exploded, and the lightning continued to flash into the unit. I looked at the clock: 12:45 a.m. For some reason, with all that was going on, it occurred to me that I was born at 12:45 (but in the p.m.). How did I know this? For every year of my adult life, no matter where I was, at exactly 12:45 p.m., my mother would call me to tell me this was the moment she gave birth to me." NB: Previously Astrodatabank quoted same timed data from birth certificate given by Moore's sister Ann/e (?) to Kasandra Green, a student of astrologer Edith Hathaway. Moore's statement confirms this data, straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

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Saturday, 15 June 2013

Ingmar Bergman, 1918–2007 (Swedish director, writer and producer for stage & screen)

* Ingmar Bergman ― described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera" ― had the artistic Sun rising and ruling cinematic Neptune in conjunction with Mercury and Saturn in masterly Leo. Furthermore, his Ascendant and unaspected Sun were in the Piscean decan and duad of Cancer while Neptune ruled his Pisces MC.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential film directors of all time. He directed over sixty films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television, most of which he also wrote. He also directed over one hundred and seventy plays. Among his company of actors were Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in the landscape of Sweden. His major subjects were death, illness, faith, betrayal, bleakness and insanity.

Bergman was active for more than six decades. In 1976, his career was seriously threatened as the result of a botched criminal investigation for alleged income tax evasion. Outraged, Bergman suspended a number of pending productions, closed his studios, and went into self-imposed exile in West Germany for eight years.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ernst Ingmar Bergman, 14 July 1918, 03:00 (3 a.m.) CET (-1), Uppsala, Sweden (59n52, 17e38). ASC: 20 Cancer. RR: A/B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Ingmar Bergman, Sunday's Children. 1993. Trans. Joan Tate. (New York: Arcade, 1994), p. 44, giving his birth data in the character of Pu: "On the fourteenth of July, 1918, I was born at 3 o'clock in the morning."

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Monday, 10 June 2013

Brassaï, 1899-1984 (Hungarian photographer, sculptor, filmmaker)

* Brassaï ― the Transylvanian photographer who achieved fame with his first monograph Paris de nuit (Paris by Night), a collection of his dark images ― had an unaspected conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon in Scorpio.

George Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (9 September 1899 — 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World Wars. In the early 21st century, the discovery of more than 200 letters and hundreds of drawings and other items from the period 1940–1984 has provided scholars with material for understanding his later life and career.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Halász Gyula, 9 September 1899, 21:00 (9 p.m.) (-1:44:24), Brassó, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary, (now Brasov, Romania) (45n39, 25e37). ASC: 26 Taurus. RR: A/B (quoted from him in his autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Marja Warehime, Brassai: Images of Culture and the Surrealist Observer (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), p. 140: "Brassai's own experience provided him with events that had a certain formal consistency: 'I was born in Transylvania on the ninth of September 1899 at 9:00 in the evening,' he wrote in 'Memories of my Childhood.'"

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Thursday, 28 March 2013

Stefan Lorant (Filmmaker, photojournalist, author)

* Stefan Lorant's mother wrote in her Jewish prayer book: 'Stefan our Son born 1901, February 22nd, 6.00 a.m. God's Blessing should accompany his dear life.'

Stefan (Istvan) Lorant (February 22, 1901 in Budapest, Hungary - November 14, 1997 in Rochester, Minnesota) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.

After completing high school in his native Hungary in 1919, Lorant moved to Germany, where he made his mark in films and photojournalism. His first film, The Life of Mozart, established him as a filmmaker, and he went on to make 14 films in Vienna and Berlin, some of which he wrote, directed, and photographed. He claimed to have given Marlene Dietrich her first film test, and though he rejected her for the part, they remained lifelong friends. Lorant's abilities in writing and still photography led to the editorship of the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, one of Germany's finest picture magazines.

Opposed to Adolf Hitler, Lorant was imprisoned right after Hitler came to power. Released after six months, he made his way to England, where he wrote I Was Hitler's Prisoner, a memoir that sold out many printings. He edited the Weekly Illustrated, a popular British picture magazine, then founded Lilliput, made famous by his clever picture juxtapositions, as in Neville Chamberlain versus the llama. On October 1, 1938, Lorant co-founded with publisher Sir Edward G. Hulton the first great British picture magazine, Picture Post. During this time, Lorant published a Picture Post Special about the United States.

Failing to obtain British citizenship, Lorant moved to Lenox, Massachusetts in July 1940, where he lived the remainder of his life. Tom Hopkinson succeeded Lorant as editor of Picture Post.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

A mutual reception between Mercury in Pisces and Neptune in Gemini could not be more apt for the "godfather of photojournalism."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 22 February 1901, 06:00 (6 a.m.) CET (-1), Budapest, Hungary (47n30, 19e05). ASC: 13 Aquarius. RR=AA (from mother's prayer book). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Michael Hallett, Stefan Lorant: Godfather of Photojournalism (Scarecrow Press, 2006), pp. 4 & 14: "I [Stefan] was born in Budapest." & "Stefan's mother made the following handwritten entries in Hungarian in her Jewish prayer book: 'Stefan our Son born 1901, February 22nd, 6.00 a.m. God's Blessing should accompany his dear life. Our Son Imre born 1902, October 3rd, 7.00 pm. The eternal's blessing should be with him during his long life. Our Son George born 1905, September 3rd, 11.00 a.m. He should develop in mind and strength to become a smart man to bring us maximum happiness.'"

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