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11 Dec, 1991

Hook

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Spielberg directs directs this film about Peter Pan as an adult. When his children are kidnapped by the vengeful Captain Hook, Pan must return to Nevernever land and try to save them. Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman star as Pan and Hook.

I think it’s a film I failed on. I should have told more of the Peter Pan story. And not allowing Robin to be funny was a mistake.

Hook (1991) Trailer

25 Nov, 1991

Cody Alan Williams born

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Williams’s third child and second son, Cody Alan, is born. The second child of Williams and second wife Marsha Garces, his sister, Zelda Williams, is two years older and a half-brother, Zachary Williams, is eight years his senior. On raising him and his siblings:

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe— I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids.

15 Nov, 1991

Shailene Woodley born in California

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Shailene Dianne Woodley is born in San Bernadino County, California. Her mother Lori, nee Victor, is a middle school counseler. Her father, Lonnie, works as a school principal and then a family therapist. She is raised in California’s Simi Valley with her younger brother, Tanner. She suffers scoliosis when she is young, and says this helps her to become resilient. Her parents are divorced, but the family remains close.

We’re like a big Greek family, but we’re not Greek.

8 Nov, 1991

Meets Mother Teresa

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On South African cricket team’s tour of India, Rice meets Mother Teresa. He later writes:

I was very concerned that the media were going to knock her over as they pushed for position to take this photo. What an amazing woman because the people that she had there did not know where their next grail of rice was coming from.

26 Aug, 1991

Dylan O’Brien born in New York

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Dylan O’Brien is born in New York City. His parents are Lisa (née Rhodes) and Patrick O’Brien. His sister Julia is a year older. The family live in New Jersey and later move to Hermosa Beach, Calif.

My dad’s a camera operator in the industry and my mom was an actress when she was young and she had an acting school when I was a little kid so I’ve always been around the industry. My parents let me watch all the movies so I’m a movie geek.

1991

Becomes AU adjunct professor

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Bond becomes distinguished adjunct professor of government at American University’s School of Public Affairs. He teaches more than 500 students in an honors course focusing on the oral history of the civil rights movement, and an advanced study of the politics of civil rights.

After teaching at many fine schools, the students I am closest to are those I met and taught at SPA. We have developed lasting and continuing relationships.

May 1991

Parents divorce

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After splitting up in June, 1990, Roof’s parents finalize their divorce due to financial issues. Judge:

The Court inquired as to the possibility of reconciliation between the parties, but concluded that such was not possible.

5 Nov, 1990

Meir Kahane shot and killed age 58

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Kahane is shot and killed by an assassin following his delivery of a speech to a Jewish group at the New York Marriott East Side hotel in Manhattan. As he greets fans he is approached by a man from the crowd who shoots him at close range with a .357- caliber pistol. Although the assassin is attired as a religious Jew, he is actually an Egyptian-born Muslim American named El Sayyid Nosair.

14 Oct, 1990

Guerrero, Lara marry

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Guerrero marries Lara in a private ceremony in an undisclosed location attended only by family and close friends. The pair met while Eddie was performing in Mexico, Texas and California organizations.

15 Aug, 1990

Jennifer Lawrence born in Louisville, Kentucky

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Lawrence is born to Karen and Gary Lawrence in Louisville, Kentucky. She has two brothers, Ben and Blaine, whom she is always telling stories about from when the three of them were kids. Her parents have also stated that when she was younger, she used to watch a lot of television, but not as a normal child would, but she would get up on her knees and really study what was happening on the screen. They believe that that was were she honed her skills to become an actress.

In seventh grade, Lawrence was voted as “Most Talkative”.

Jennifer Lawrence's Brothers (Korean sub)

1990

Graduates USC

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Ferrell graduates from the University of Southern California with a degree in sports broadcasting. He is a member of the fraternity Delta Tau Delta. Ferrell says his time at the school prepared him for a life in comedy:

It’s not like you have a source or a confidante you can bounce ideas off of when it comes to comedy. You really just have to believe it. In a way, my time here at school was a stage.

May 1990

Drops out of college

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Walker drops out of college a year before graduating and leaves in good standing.

During my senior year at Marquette University, I was offered a full-time job at the American Red Cross. I thought I would squeeze in a course here or there and finish things off in a year or two, but then Tonette and I got married. Next thing you know, you’re putting all your extra time and money into your kids.

15 Apr, 1990

Emma Watson born in Paris

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Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is born in Paris to parents Jacqueline and Chris Watson, both of whom are lawyers. After her parents divorce when she is 5, she and her brother, Alex, moved to Oxford to live her their mother. From the age of 6, Emma knew she wanted to become an actress and trained for a number of years at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theater Arts where she studied singing, dancing, and acting.  She wins 1st prize in a school poetry recital, The Daisy Pratt poetry competition, when she was 7.

My parents have a very academic mind, they see my actress career as a normal profession, and that has helped me, they are very normal and balanced people, they work hard, I inherited from them the work ethic.