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Lyle Lovett

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Composer (Music Score), Actor, Featured Music, Songwriter
Born:
November 1, 1957
Biography:With his giraffe-like countenance and unusually tall haircut, American musician/actor "Lyle Lovett" may look like the archetypal rube, but don't be fooled: he is well educated (he earned journalism and foreign language degrees from Texas A&M), extremely articulate, and highly disciplined. Achieving his first big success in the mid-1980s, Lovett successfully straddled two musical forms on the verge of renewed popularity, folk-rock and country. Lovett also proved himself an adept actor with important roles in three "Robert Altman" films, "The Player" (1992), "Short Cuts" (1993), and "Ready to Wear" (1994), a reputation he has sustained in a handful of TV guest star shots. Lovett found himself the reluctant recipient of gaudy publicity hype in 1993 when he married movie superstar "Julia Roberts", a union that disintegrated (thanks in no small part to incessant and intrusive press coverage) less than two... Full Biography
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Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts attend the opening night of the New York Film Festival at Avery Fisher...
Lyle Lovett, Ray Price and Willie Nelson: Three different eras of country share the stage in this...
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15048_MC_00005.JPG Singer Lyle Lovett on stage during Ellen's Really Big Show at The Comedy Festival...
15048_MC_00024.JPG Singer Lyle Lovett on stage during Ellen's Really Big Show at The Comedy Festival...
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