Paul Thomas Anderson
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12/31/1969
Studio City, CA |
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| Attended NYU film school for only two days; dropped out because one professor panned Terminator 2, while another gave him a C on an assignment he copied from a David Mamet work. |
| Made The Dirk Diggler Story, the forerunner to Boogie Nights, when he was a senior in high school. |
| Father was voice-over actor Ernie Anderson, best known for narrating The Love Boat (ABC, 1977-86). |
| As a child, engaged his friends in a pie-making contest and filmed it. The resulting pies were so bad they ended up having the family's Shetland pony sample them. |
| Once worked as a production assistant on a children's game show called Quiz Kid Challenge. |
| Father gave him a Betamax camera when he was 12; he and his friends used it to make amateur films. |
