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Boy On A String: From Cast-Off Kid to Filmmaker Through the Magic of Dreams

Boy On A String: From Cast-Off Kid to Filmmaker Through the Magic of Dreams

Jacoby, Joseph
Scorsese, Martin

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Biographies GeneralGeneral DramaGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 1734178558
ISBN13: 9781734178555
Publisher: Gambit Publishing Group(tm)
Published: Jun 18 2020
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

JOSEPH JACOBY, Director-Screenwriter-Producer-Novelist, and NYU Film School classmate of Martin Scorsese, began his career as a writer-creator of game shows and as a professional puppeteer. Jacoby, who went on to become a pioneering filmmaker, has until now never revealed that most of his early years were spent as a ward of the state. He survived a childhood shadowed by his mother's unpredictable and dangerous behavior, which forced friends to commit her. Jacoby then grew up in seven foster homes in Brooklyn, and two institutions.Yet, propelled by the power of his dreams, Jacoby went on to realize his passion for the moving image and made his first theatrcial motion picture at the age of twenty-seven.

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