Jonathan Demme: 1944 - 2017
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For good reason, several of pop music’s greatest visionaries — Neil Young, David Byrne, Bruce Springsteen, the Pretenders — turned to filmmaker Jonathan Demme when they wanted to put their work on a big screen.
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Jonathan Demme, the Academy Award-winning director of “The Silence of the Lambs,” died Wednesday at age 73.
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Presented with Thomas Harris’ bestselling novel “The Silence of the Lambs,” most Hollywood directors would have been primarily enticed by the lurid appeal of its serial killers, Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter and “Buffalo Bill.”
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“Philadelphia,” directed by Jonathan Demme, who died Wednesday, was the first major studio release to address the AIDS crisis and won Oscars for Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen in 1994.
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Jonathan Demme, the Academy Award-winning director of “The Silence of the Lambs,” died Wednesday at age 73.
