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Talia Shire
American actress (born 1946)
relatives = August Coppola (brother)Francis Ford Coppola (brother)Nicolas Cage (nephew)Christopher Coppola (nephew)Sofia Coppola (niece)
Talia is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and academic August Coppola, the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She has three children.
Francis Ford Coppola
American filmmaker
After a 10-year hiatus, Coppola returned to directing with ''Youth Without Youth'' in 2007, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.
Mircea Eliade
Romanian historian of religion, writer and philosopher
He was also interested in philosophy—studying, among others, Socrates, Vasile Conta, and the StoicsMarcus Aurelius and Epictetus, and read works of history—the two Romanian historians who influenced him from early on were Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu and Nicolae Iorga.
Talia Shire
American actress (born 1946)
relatives = August Coppola (brother)Francis Ford Coppola (brother)Nicolas Cage (nephew)Christopher Coppola (nephew)Sofia Coppola (niece)
Talia is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and academic August Coppola, the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She has three children.
Nicolas Cage
His final release of the year was Alan Parker's drama '' Birdy'', in which he starred with Matthew Modine as two close friends and their trauma inflicted by serving in the Vietnam War.
Matthew Modine
American actor and filmmaker (born 1959)
In February 2013, Modine was cast in Ralph Bakshi's animated film '' Last Days of Coney Island'' after coming across the film's Kickstarter campaign online. In 2014, he co-starred with Olivia Williams, Richard Dillane, and Steve Oram in the horror mystery film '' Altar''.
Richard Dillane
British actor|bot=PearBOT 5
He was Wernher von Braun in the BBC television docudrama '' Space Race'', Nero in Howard Brenton's play '' Paul'' at the National Theatre of Great Britain and appeared several times as Stephen Maturin in the BBC radio adaptations of the Patrick O'Brian '' Aubrey–Maturin'' novels and Peter Guillam in three John le Carré adaptations.
Talia Shire
American actress (born 1946)
relatives = August Coppola (brother)Francis Ford Coppola (brother)Nicolas Cage (nephew)Christopher Coppola (nephew)Sofia Coppola (niece)
Talia is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and academic August Coppola, the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She has three children.
Sofia Coppola
American filmmaker and actress
In 1994, she co-founded the clothing line ''Milk Fed'' in Japan, with her friend Stephanie Hayman in cooperation with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.
Kim Gordon
She then had a small role portraying a textile exporter in the 2007 French thriller film '' Boarding Gate'', and in Todd Haynes's ''I'm Not There'' (2007), inspired by the life of Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan
"Desolation Row", backed by acoustic guitar and understated bass, offers the sole exception, with Dylan alluding to figures in Western culture in a song described by Andy Gill as "an 11-minute epic of entropy, which takes the form of a Fellini-esque parade of grotesques and oddities featuring a huge cast of celebrated characters, some historical (Einstein, Nero), some biblical (Noah, Cain and Abel), some fictional (Ophelia, Romeo, Cinderella), some literary (T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound), and some who fit into none of the above categories, notably Dr. Filth and his dubious nurse".
Talia Shire
American actress (born 1946)
spouse = {{marriage|David Shire|1970|1980|end=divorced}}{{marriage|Jack Schwartzman|1980|1994|end=died}}
David Shire
As a pit pianist, Shire played for the original productions of both ''The Fantasticks'' and '' Funny Girl'', eventually serving as Barbra Streisand's accompanist for several years.
Barbra Streisand
American singer and actress (born 1942)
The star in the play was Susan Strasberg, whose acting she wanted to emulate.{{rp|4}} Streisand began spending her spare time in the library, studying the biographies of various stage actresses such as Eleanora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt.
Sarah Bernhardt
This was followed by revivals of her other major successes, including ''Phédre'', ''Theodora'', ''Gismonda'', and ''La Dame aux Camélias'', plus Octave Feuillet's ''Dalila'', Gaston de Wailly's ''Patron Bénic'', and Rostand's ''La Samaritaine,'' a poetic retelling of the story of the Samaritan woman at the well from the Gospel of John.
Samaritan woman at the well
Eventually, having drawn the attention of Emperor Nero, she was brought before him to answer for her faith, suffering many tortures and dying a martyr after being thrown down a dry well.
