The 27th was Tarantino's birthday  






... and as usual the Writer's Almanac ran a birthday salute that was filled with errors, just as they did last August for R. Crumb's birthday. See if you can spot all the inaccuracies below:

It's the birthday of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, (books by this author) born in Knoxville, Tennessee (1963). He grew up in Los Angeles, where he went to a movie-house that showed kung-fu movies. As a teenager he worked as an usher in a porno theater, then spent 5 years as a clerk in a video store. "We'd get off work, close up the store, then sit around and watch movies all night." In 1990, with producer John Langley, a customer of his video store, he scraped together $1.5 million to make his first feature film, Reservoir Dogs (1992). 

 

Posted: Mon - March 28, 2005 at 12:10 PM          

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