November 6, 2008 by matthewmcconaughey
Men’s sport (called We Are Marshall), Joseph McGinty movie created in 2006. Advocates of the crash, the plane in 1970, which killed the entire football team. In the short time fans of Marshall University agree to create a new team, which honor the death of their colleagues.
We Are Marshall won a Truly Moving Picture Award in 2006 as a movie, which can lead to tears, laughter and something that could change the ESPY Awards and was nominated in the category of best sports movie
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August 29, 2008 by matthewmcconaughey
McConaughey’s reputation was battered somewhat thanks to an arrest on minor drug charges in 1999; responding to noise complaints, Austin police found the actor naked and stoned, playing bongo drums in his home at 3 a.m. During that same period, McConaughey embarked on treks to Mali and the Amazon, then took roles in movies like Edtv (1999), U-571 (2000), The Wedding Planner (2001), Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001), and Reign of Fire (2002). His career began an upward trajectory again after his appearance in the 2003 romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
He then starred in the adventure movie Sahara (2005), and traveled all over the country in an Airstream trailer to promote it.
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July 1, 2008 by matthewmcconaughey
The youngest son of a gas station owner, who ran an oil pipe supply business and mother – substitute school teacher, Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, but grew up in Longview, Texas where he graduated from the local High School (1988). Showing little interest in his father’s oil business, which his two brothers later joined, Matthew was longing for a change of scenery, and spent a year in Australia, washing dishes and shoveling chicken manure. Back to the States, he attended the University of Texas in Austin, originally wishing to be a lawyer. But, when he discovered an inspirational Og Mandino book “The Greatest Salesman in the World” before one of his final exams, he suddenly knew he had to change his major from law to film. He began his acting career in 1991, appearing in student films and commercials in Texas and directed short films as Chicano Chariots (1992). Once, in his hotel bar in Austin, he met the casting director and producer Don Phillips, who introduced him to director Richard Linklater for his next project. At first, Linklater thought Matthew was too handsome to play the role of a guy chasing high school girls in his coming-of-age drama Dazed and Confused (1993), but cast him after Matthew grew out his hair and mustache. His character was initially in three scenes but the role grew to more than 300 lines as Linklater encouraged him to do some improvisations. In 1995, he starred in The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994), playing a mad bloodthirsty sadistic killer, opposite RenĂ©e Zellweger. Shortly thereafter moving to L.A., Matthew became a sensation with his performances in two high-profile 1996 films Lone Star (1996), where he portrayed killing suspected sheriff and in the film adaptation of John Grisham’s novel A Time to Kill (1996), where he played an idealistic young lawyer opposite Sandra Bullock and Kevin Spacey. The actor was soon being hailed as one of the industry’s hottest young leading man inspiring comparisons to actor Paul Newman. His following performances were Robert Zemeckis’ Contact (1997) with Jodie Foster (the film was finished just before the death of the great astronomer and popularizer of space science Carl Sagan) and Steven Spielberg’s Amistad (1997), a fact-based 1839 story about the rebellious African slaves. In 1998, he teamed again with Richard Linklater as one of the bank-robbing brothers in The Newton Boys (1998), set in Matthew’s birthplace, Uvalde, Texas. During this time, he also wrote, directed and starred in the 20-minute short The Rebel (1998). Later, in Jonathan Mostow’s U-571 (2000), McConaughey portrayed the officer Lt. Tyler in a WW II story of a daring mission of American submariners, trying to capture the Enigma cipher machine. Matthew also took a part in comedies such as The Wedding Planner (2001), opposite Jennifer Lopez and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) in which he co-starred with Kate Hudson. His most interesting role was playing Denton Van Zan, an American warrior and dragons hunter in the futuristic thriller Reign of Fire (2002), where he co-starred with another young actor, Christian Bale.
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July 1, 2008 by matthewmcconaughey
On October 24, 1999, McConaughey was arrested at his home in Austin, Texas on charges of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. The police were responding to a 2:30 a.m. noise disturbance call. According to police reports, McConaughey was dancing around naked and playing bongo drums with a friend, actor Cole Hauser, a co-actor in Dazed and Confused (1993).[9] The drug charges were dropped, but McConaughey plead guilty for violating the city’s noise ordinance and paid a USD $50 fine.
McConaughey rescued various pets, including cats, dogs and hamsters, that were stranded after the flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina. In 2006 in Sherman Oaks, California, he rescued a cat from two youths who had doused the animal in hairspray and were attempting to light it on fire.
McConaughey’s personal life is the subject of media attention. He has dated actresses Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Salli Richardson, and Penelope Cruz.
He is currently dating Brazilian model Camila Alves. On January 15, 2008, McConaughey announced on his website that he and Alves are expecting a baby, due in late June/early July.
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