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Connecting Tim Robbins and Jordan Belfort
Tim Robbins
American actor, filmmaker and musician
After graduation from college in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors' Gang, an experimental theater group, in Los Angeles with actor friends from his college softball team, as well as John Cusack.
John Cusack
American actor, producer, and screenwriter
In Spike Jonze's fantasy film '' Being John Malkovich'' (1999), Cusack played a puppeteer who finds a portal leading into the mind of the eponymous actor, John Malkovich.
Spike Jonze
American actor and filmmaker (born 1969)
Jonze had a small role in Martin Scorsese's 2013 film '' The Wolf of Wall Street'' as a stockbroker who teaches Jordan Belfort (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) the ins and outs of penny stocks.
Tim Robbins
American actor, filmmaker and musician
According to Roger Ebert in early 1996: "With this film he leaps far beyond" ''Bob Roberts'' "and has made that rare thing, a film that is an exercise of philosophy.
Roger Ebert
After Siskel died in 1999, the producers retitled the show ''Roger Ebert & the Movies'' and used rotating co-hosts including Martin Scorsese, A.O. Scott, and Janet Maslin.
His favorite actor was Robert Mitchum, and his favorite actress was Ingrid Bergman. He also considered Buster Keaton, Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese to be his favorite directors.
[He] put television criticism on the map." Martin Scorsese released a statement saying, "The death of Roger Ebert is an incalculable loss for movie culture and for film criticism.
On May 15, 2009, Ebert was honored by the American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival by the renaming of its conference room, "The Roger Ebert Conference Center." Martin Scorsese joined Ebert, and his wife Chaz at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
* ''The Future of The Movies'' (1991), with Gene Siskel - collected interviews with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas about the future of motion pictures and film preservation.
* ''Scorsese by Ebert'' (2008) – covers works by director Martin Scorsese from 1967 to 2008, plus 11 interviews with the director over that period. ({{ISBN|978-0-226-18202-5}})
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker
Scorsese's 2013 film, ''The Wolf of Wall Street'', is an American biographicalblack comedy based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name.
Tim Robbins
American actor, filmmaker and musician
Robbins then starred alongside Morgan Freeman in '' The Shawshank Redemption'' (1994), which was based on Stephen King's novella.
Morgan Freeman
He also appeared in Steven Spielberg's historical epic '' Amistad'' alongside Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, and Matthew McConaughey.
Matthew McConaughey
The film earned McConaughey many acting awards, including the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Drama, and the Academy Award for Best Actor. His co-star Jared Leto won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, making ''Dallas Buyers Club'' the first film since '' Mystic River'' (2003) to win both awards. He was featured in Martin Scorsese's '' The Wolf of Wall Street'' as Mark Hanna, an early boss of Jordan Belfort.
Tim Robbins
American actor, filmmaker and musician
Robbins appeared in '' The Lucky Ones'', with co-star Rachel McAdams as well as ''City of Ember'' (both 2008).
Rachel McAdams
Canadian actress (born 1978)
In 2013, McAdams starred in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy-drama '' About Time'' opposite Domhnall Gleeson.
Richard Curtis
He next wrote and directed ''About Time'', a romantic comedy/drama about time travel and family love. It starred Rachel McAdams, Domhnall Gleeson, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Lydia Wilson and Vanessa Kirby.
Margot Robbie
Robbie's breakthrough came the same year with the role of Naomi Lapaglia, the wife of protagonist Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese's biographical black comedy '' The Wolf of Wall Street''.
