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Billy Crystal
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor Born: March 14, 1947 in Long Beach, Long Island, NY Biography:The son of a jazz concert producer, "Billy Crystal" grew up in the company of such music legends as "Billie Holiday", "Pee Wee Russell", and Eddy Condon. His mind made up by age five, Crystal knew he wanted to become a performer -- not in music but in baseball or comedy. As he later explained to TV Guide, he chose comedy "because God made me short" -- though from all reports he is one of the best ball players in show business.
Learning how to make people laugh by studying the works of past masters Laurel and Hardy, "Ernie Kovacs", and "Jonathan Winters", Crystal began making the club rounds at 16. He was sidetracked briefly by New York University's film school, where he studied to be a director under "Martin Scorsese", but upon graduation it was back to comedy when Crystal formed his own troupe, 3's Company. On his own, he developed into an "observational" comic, humor based on his own experiences... Full Biography
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