The theme song to the film is "Beautiful Girl" by singer Pete Droge. His heart, however, is captured by a young girl who is only thirteen but an "old soul" (played by Natalie Portman).
Kevin Spacey tipped a glass to his late friend at the 59th Golden Globe Awards on Januto a full house of film and television professionals, in tribute to Demme.īeautiful Girls (1996) is a film directed by Ted Demme and starring Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Mira Sorvino, Annabeth Gish, Timothy Hutton, Lauren Holly, Natalie Portman, Martha Plimpton, Michael Rapaport and Rosie O'Donnell.Ī piano player (played by Timothy Hutton), at a crossroads in his life, returns to his hometown for a high school reunion, where he finds that his classmates are not very successful in life either, especially not in love. After his death, his wife, Amanda Scheer Demme, opened “celebrity” bars in Hollywood, including "Teddy's" at the Roosevelt Hotel - not named after her late husband, but rather the former president.
On January 13, 2002, while playing a game of basketball, Demme collapsed and died of a heart attack which may have been related to cocaine later found in his system during an autopsy. Max Perlich in Beautiful Girls and Blow, andĪdam LeFevre in The Ref and Beautiful Girls. Noah Emmerich in Beautiful Girls, Monument Ave., Life, and (a cut scene in) Blow, Other actors he frequently used included: Leary also worked as producer on the film Blow. The most frequently used of these was Denis Leary, who he directed as a lead or star in No Cure for Cancer, The Ref, Denis Leary: Lock 'n Load, and Monument Ave. Over the course of his career, he established a group of actors that he chose to work with on more than one occasion. His best known films were The Ref, starring Leary and Kevin Spacey, and Blow which featured Johnny Depp as George Jung (a high-profile drug dealer during the 1970s). His career had modest beginnings - starting as a production assistant at MTV, he later created the cable network's seminal hip-hop show Yo! MTV Raps and directed other projects for them, including the infamous black-and-white rants starring then-unknown chain-smoking comedian Denis Leary. He was the nephew of movie producer and director Jonathan Demme. He grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School. Ted Demme (Octo– January 13, 2002), born in New York, New York, was an American film director and producer.
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