Showing posts with label AL PACINO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AL PACINO. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Victoria Gotti Defends Disgraced John Travolta But Would Her Racist Homophobic Dad John Gotti Have Wanted The Actor To Play Him In Planned Biopic


John Travolta

Victoria Gotti, the daughter of the late mobster, John Gotti, has slammed the public regarding negative comments about actor John Travolta. The disgraced actor, currently facing three lawsuits for sexual battery against male masseurs, is being criticized all over the internet for his lustful conduct towards unreceptive strangers.  


John Travolta in drag

Gotti stated yesterday that the public should "leave Travolta with his dignity" regardless of whether the allegations are true (but Travolta surrendered his dignity via unseemly conduct). The Judiciary Report also wonders if John Gotti would have wanted John Travolta to play him in the forthcoming biopic of his life. 


Lindsay Lohan, who was supposed to be apart of the John Gotti biopic and Victoria Gotti

John Gotti was a homophobe and a racist, who was caught on a government tape using racial slurs, such as the n-word. Mobsters are often very proud heterosexuals, with great disdain for homosexuality. I'm sure Gotti would have preferred Al Pacino or Robert Deniro playing him in a movie.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

CHUCK NORRIS IS MOST POPULAR 1940 STAR

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1940 Census: Chuck Norris tops “Class of 1940”

Voted America’s favorite “fantasy relative”

Norris tops “Fantasy Genealogy” poll to find 1940-born Americans we’d most like to discover is a long-lost relative
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Al Pacino Ranked High



Chuck Norris is the most popular American born the year of the 1940 U.S. Census, suggests a national poll done to mark the Government’s release of the 1940 Census records April 2.

The martial artist, actor and action star is the 1940-born American who fellow Americans would most like to discover is along-lost relative, reveals the poll conducted by IBOPE Zogby for genealogy website findmypast.com.



Martin Sheen Made The List




Al Pacino ranks second in the poll and fellow actor Martin Sheen third, while golfer Jack Nicklaus shares fourth place with musician Frank Zappa.

Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic politician, is the top-ranking woman, ahead of Raquel Welch and Dionne Warwick, and the 1940-born American who Democrats would most like to find is related.

But for Americans as a whole, Chuck Norris, America’s tough guy,is the landslide winner, polling over double anyone else.

“One of the joys of genealogy can be unearthing ‘trophy ancestors’ or famous relatives you never knew you had”, says Josh Taylor, genealogist and spokesperson for findmypast.com.

Thanks to the release of the 1940 Census records, many Americans will likely be making just such discoveries over the coming months.

“So, we thought we’d give folks the chance to warm up by picking their own ‘fantasy relative’”, explains Taylor. “You’ve heard of Fantasy Baseball; this is ‘Fantasy Genealogy’.”


What’s more, around 40 million U.S. citizens* – including Barack Obama – share Norris’s Irish roots, which means that many more Americans than currently know it, may, indeed, be some how related to the action star. 1940 yielded not just a U.S. Census but also a bumper crop of great Americans.

Findmypast.com showed over 2,000 Americans a list of the 10 most famous fellow Americans born during 1940 and asked respondents to imagine they were suddenly to find out, via research into their family history, that they were related to one of these famous figures.

The question was: which one of them would they most like one day to find out was their relation?

“Chuck Norris did not just win”, says Taylor. “He pulverized the field. No-one else came close.”

One in five (19%) respondents picked Norris as their fantasy relative, while fewer than one in 10 picked Al Pacino (9%) in second place and Martin Sheen (8%) in third.

Although more men than women chose Norris, the latter was also the first pick of both genders.

“Perhaps everyone wishes they had a bit of ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ in them”, says Taylor, referring to the role made famous by Norris in the hit TV show of that name.

Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris was born March 10, 1940, just three weeks before the 1940 Census was taken on April 1. The 1940 Census records his hometown of Ryan, Oklahoma as having 1,115 residents, of which he may well have been the youngest.

That means that, unlike most of the other famous 1940-born Americans in the findmypast.com poll, he actually appears in the 1940 Census records.

While born in Oklahoma, Norris also has ancestors from states including Tennessee, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

“His ancestry appears to have been a mixture of Irish and Cherokee”, says Taylor. “It’s likely that at least one of his grandparents was of Cherokee descent.

“One of his ancestors was reportedly an Indian agent for William Penn in the first Quaker settlement in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who became unhappy and, according to one source, ‘ran away and lived with the Indians’.”


Photos By: Sare de Boer/Retna