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Tom Shadyac Biography
Tom Shadyac is an American director, screenwriter, producer, author and former adjunct professor of communication at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College. He was the youngest joke-writer ever and comedian Bob Hope, they are both known widely for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty.
In 2010, he departed from comedic work to write, direct, and narrate his documentary film I Am, in which he explores his abandonment of a materialistic lifestyle following a bicycle accident three years earlier. In 2011 he participated in the Conference on World Affairs. In 2015, he began teaching film at the University of Colorado Boulder, beginning with that year’s Spring semester, Shadyac now teaches film at the University of Memphis.
Tom Shadyac Age
Tom Shadyac was born on December 11, 1958 in Falls Church, Virginia, United States. He is 60 years old as of 2018.
Tom Shadyac Height
Tom Shadyac stands at a height of 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Tom Shadyac Net worth
Tom Shadyac is also a businessman who owns several businesses which earns him alot of income, has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million dollars.
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Tom Shadyac Family
Tom Shadyac was born in Falls Church, Virginia to Julie and Richard Shadyac, a lawyer. His mother was of Lebanese descent, while his father was of half-Irish and half-Lebanese ancestry. His mother died of cancer in 1998, who had become a semi-quadriplegic and spent much of her life in a wheelchair. His father, Richard C. Shadyac, Sr., is a Washington D.C. attorney, who was a longtime friend of comedian, actor and TV producer Danny Thomas.
Tom Shadyac Education
Tom Shadyac attended J. E. B. Stuart High School in Falls Church, where he had played basketball, and participated in the Key Club, and made the Junior National and National Honor Societies. He was included in the now-defunct “Who’s Who Among High School Students” website and book, prior to his graduation in 1976.
He learned as a pre-law student at the University of Virginia, he produced a poster entitled “Are You a Preppie?” from where he Borrowed the style from National Lampoon magazine, which is based on large number of preppies in Charlottesville and nearby Richmond, Virginia, the poster preceded the more well-known The Official Preppy Handbook. He graduated from UVA in 1981, and later received his master’s degree in film from the UCLA Film School in 1989, after completing the critically acclaimed short film Tom, Dick and Harry.
Tom Shadyac Wife
Tom Shadyac is married to Jennifer Barker in 1997 but they eventually divorced.
Tom Shadyac Injury
Tom Shadyac suffered post-concussion syndrome after a bicycle accident in Virginia, and experienced a prolonged period of acute headaches and hyper-sensitivity to light and noise. The injury followed the cumulative effects of previous mild head injuries Shadyac had suffered from surfing, mountain biking and playing basketball. He was forced to sleep in a darkest house due to a constant ringing in his ears that lasted beyond six-month period, and his treating doctors were unable to determine if and when the ringing would cease.
He later explained: “I felt suicidal at points. It was a disaster.” Following his eventual recovery from the 2007 accident, Shadyac sold the bulk of his possessions, donated significant amounts of money, opened a homeless shelter in Charlottesville, Virginia and made a key donation to an initiative in Telluride, Colorado to set aside a natural area at the town’s entrance.
He sold his 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m2) in Los Angeles mansion and moved into the exclusive Paradise Cove trailer park in Malibu, California. He soughted to reorient and simplify his life he removed himself from the film industry and wrote about his experience in Life’s Operating Manual. When he was later asked if his change of direction would have occurred if he had not experienced the concussion, Shadyac replied:
Tom Shadyac Director, screenwriter, producer and author
Shadyac briefly acted during the 1980s, appearing in an episode of Magnum, P.I. and in the 1987 film Jocks. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective was Shadyac’s first major film and featured an up-and-coming Jim Carrey, described by Shadyac as “The only white guy in Living Color.” Following Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Shadyac attained a prominent status in Hollywood and received frequent offers from significant figures in the comedy industry, keen to collaborate with him. He frequently cast Carrey in lead roles and his hit films with Carrey include Bruce Almighty and Liar Liar.
Examples of other his films include his collaboration with Eddie Murphy on The Nutty Professor movie series; Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams; Dragonfly with Kevin Costner; and Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty with Steve Carell. He was also the executive producer of the ABC TV series 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. In 2011 documentary he had follows in the aftermath when he suffered from bicycle accident from there he had a significant injuries, he interviews scientists, religious leaders, environmentalists and philosophers, including David Suzuki, Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Lynne McTaggart, Elisabet Sahtouris, Howard Zinn and Thom Hartmann.
The film asks two central questions: What’s Wrong With the World? and What Can We Do About it? The film is about “Human connectedness, happiness, and the human spirit,” and explores Shadyac’s personal journey, “The nature of humanity” and the “World’s ever-growing addiction to materialism.” The film received a twenty-minute standing ovation at its premiere screening.
Tom Shadyac Author
In 2013, Shadyac published a book entitled Life’s Operating Manual and appeared on HBO’s live broadcast show Real Time with Bill Maher as part of the promotional campaign. The book was published by Hay House on April 30, 2013 and in his review for the New York Journal of Books, Martin A. David states: Many, if not most, of Mr. Shadyac’s elucidations are mundane truisms. But this absolutely does not discredit them … Books like his are frequently read by people who already understand the messages contained but desire booster shots of energizing inspirations.
He was Preaching to the choir about bad thing, and the preacher has to do something more to keep the choir awake. Tom Shadyac’s view had need to keep the world from continuing on its downward spiral would have carried more gravitas had he said it better and with more convincing clarity. It would, indeed, be helpful if a how-to book for existence were available.
Tom Shadyac Teaching
Tom Shadyac is a former adjunct professor of communication at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College. In 2011 he was a participant in the Conference on World Affairs. In 2015, Shadyac began teaching film at the University of Colorado Boulder, beginning with that year’s Spring semester,he now teaches film at the University of Memphis.
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Tom Shadyac Movies
From 1984-1998
- Magnum, P.I.
- Jocks
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- The Nutty Professor
- Liar Liar
- Patch Adams
From 2000-2012
- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
- Dragonfly
- Bruce Almighty
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
- Evan Almighty
- Finding Kind
- Happy
- I Am
- Full Scale
- Brian Banks
Tom Shadyac Tv Shows
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
- The Nutty Professor (1996)
- Liar Liar (1997)
- Patch Adams (1998)
- Dragonfly (2002)
- Bruce Almighty (2003)
- Evan Almighty (2007)
- I Am (2010)
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