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- Jeanine Basinger was born on February 3, 1936. She is an actress and producer, known for A Better Way to Die (2000), Party Girl (1995) and Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010).
- Film historian.
- Oversees the Film Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Former students include directors Michael Bay, Jon Turteltaub and Miguel Arteta, writers Akiva Goldsman, Alfredo Septién and Joss Whedon, editor Phil Faroudja, producers Laurence Mark, Shari Springer Berman and many others.
- Has served on the board of the American Film Institute.
- Runs Wesleyan Cinema Archive, which houses papers and film-related materials belonging to Clint Eastwood, Ingrid Bergman and Elia Kazan.
- [on Laurel and Hardy as a quintessential married couple] They bicker, they disagree, they snipe, they challenge, they yell, but if any outside threat arrives in their world, they instantly pull together. In their hearts each know they've found the perfect other.
- In most movies, it's a rule that shortly after people start quoting poetry, something ghastly is going to happen.
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