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Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gere’s first marriage was to Cindy Crawford, one of the most successful supermodels of all time.
Richard Gere - Starred in the film 'Hoax';, a portrayal of events leading to the hoax Clifford Irving managed to pull on the world.
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  Richard Gere Biography
The rumour spread that Gere, apparently a closet homosexual and a decadent pervert, had wrapped a gerbil up in masking-tape and slipped it into his anus, in the hope that its struggles to escape (I gotta get OUT of this shit-hole!) would be uniquely pleasurable.
Richard had never been allowed to escape the rumours that sprang up after American Gigolo and, as Crawford had suffered similar accusations, as a couple they were constantly under fire.
Here Gere was well cast as a Dallas gynaecologist who knows everything about women's bodies but nothing about their minds, thus he can't cope with his wife, Farrah Fawcett's breakdown or the problems of his daughters, played by Kate Hudson and Tara Reid.
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/richard_gere_biog.html   (4403 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Richard Gere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gere was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is descended from Mayflower passengers Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster and Francis Cooke.
Gere was married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995.
While Gere is not the first celebrity to be the subject of gerbilling rumors, he has become their most common target, with references to the "Richard Gere gerbil story," appearing frequently in popular film and television.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Gere   (3719 words)

  
 AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Richard Gere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Richard Gere's enormous reserves of charisma are matched only by his generosity of spirit.
Gere was born in Philadelphia, PA, on August 31, 1949.
Gere is also a founding member of the nonprofit Tibet House, which seeks to preserve Tibetan culture.
www.amctv.com /person/detail?CID=3739-1-utc   (683 words)

  
  Richard Gere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gere was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to parents of Jewish-Irish descent.
Gere was married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995.
While Gere is not the first celebrity to be the subject of gerbilling rumors, he has become their most common target, with references to the "Richard Gere gerbil story," appearing frequently in popular film and television.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Gere   (819 words)

  
 Visual Art - Richard Gere
Richard Gere has already conducted 2 trips to Ramallah and Jerusalem in 2003 and 2004, meeting with civil society personalities and artists to learn first hand about the situation in Palestine.
Richard Gere is one of the most prominent American film actors, having appeared in numerous films that have received wide popular and critical acclaim.
Gere’s photographs are striking in their maturity—the work of a serious artist encountering a subject of cultural significance.
www.sakakini.org /visualarts/richard-gere.htm   (415 words)

  
 Richard Gere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Richard Gere has become so emblematic of modern male urbanity that it's hard to believe he grew up in a pastoral farm setting in upstate New York.
Although the film had a lifeless reception, Gere's performance was commendable enough to warrant his casting as a shell-shocked, psychopathic soldier in the World War II drama Baby Blue Marine (1976), but it was his role in American Gigolo (1980) that made him a hot commodity.
Off screen, Gere busied himself with fact-finding trips to Asia or Central America and was generally preoccupied with the exiled Dalai Lama and the state of Tibetan Buddhism.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3124   (517 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: No Mercy: Video: Richard Pearce,Richard Gere,Kim Basinger,Jeroen Krabbé,George Dzundza,Gary ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Richard's wife has left him and he now is divorced, so Kim, who is a white slave of the bad guy, ads more reason for Richard to go after the bad guy.
Richard and Kim along with rest of the cast, seem to be going thru the motions of acting.
Eddie Jillette (Gere) and his best friend and partner Joe Collins (Gary Basaraba in a nice role) are undercover at a car wash and when they blow a drug bust by jumping the gun they get a chance to redeem themselves by pretending to be hitmen.
www.amazon.ca /No-Mercy-Richard-Gere/dp/6302824923   (1494 words)

  
 Richard Gere @ Filmbug
Gere won gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he was philosophy major.
Gere was also the first actor to agree to appear in And The Band Played On, the HBO adaptation of Randy Shilts book about the first five years of AIDS in America.
He is the founder of the Gere Foundation, which contributes to numerous health education and human rights projects and is especially dedicated to promoting awareness of Tibet and her endangered culture.
www.filmbug.com /db/291   (945 words)

  
 Richard Gere St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Actor Richard Gere has evolved from a typically brash young leading man, whose career was based primarily on his sexy good looks, into a devoted Buddhist and champion of oppressed people.
Gere has also published a book of photographs he has taken of Tibetans,; Pilgrim, the proceeds of which were donated to the cause of Tibetan autonomy.
Gere's sense of universal responsibility has also extended to his taking up the cause of oppressed Central American refugees by lobbying Congress on their behalf in 1986, and launching an AIDS awareness program in India, for which he received a Harvard Award in 1997.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200450   (589 words)

  
 Richard Gere at Hollywood.com
Gere continued to act steadily in movies, though for a stretch his films were less than remarkable.
Gere fared much better under the direction of Robert Altman in the seriocomic "Dr. T and the Women" (2000), playing a handsome gynecologist who seems beset by the many demanding women – including his wife, daughters, office staff and patients – in his life.
Gere was perfectly believable as a man who lures females into his orbit, yet fails to understand what drives them; nevertheless, it was one of Altman's entertaining but trifling efforts and never lured a large audience.
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Richard_Gere/197866   (2941 words)

  
 Shambhala Sun - Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Richard Gere: They had all the romance of a good novel, so you could really bury yourself in them, but at the same time, they offered the possibility that you could live here and be free at the same time.
Richard Gere: I'm a little hesitant to talk about this because, one, I don't claim to know much, and two, being a celebrity these things get quoted out of context and sometimes it's not beneficial.
Richard Gere: In film, we're playing with something that literally fragments reality, and being aware of the fragmentation of time and space I think lends itself to the practice, to loosening the mind.
www.shambhalasun.com /Archives/Features/1999/May99/gere.htm   (4209 words)

  
 Richard Gere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Richard Gere will be back in movie theaters this November in, "Bee Season," a drama in which he is cast as a father.
Gere's sojourn into paranormal mystery research in "The Mothman Prophecies" opens the door to a universe of multiple possibilities extant on the Earth surface where the laws of classroom physics don't apply.
Gere's cameo role greatly contributes to a favorite, later Kurosawa film, "Rhapsody In August." The Master's script is a probe crafted to penetrate directly to our shared vulnerable points.
www.thediviningnation.com /rg.htm   (1647 words)

  
 The Books: Pilgrim by Richard Gere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Richard Gere has for many years found his spiritual source and guidance in Tibetan Buddhism; he has one of the most outspoken defenders of the Tibetan people.
In this, his first book, Gere is publishing images which represent a journey both physical and spiritual.
Gere's photographs are striking in their maturity - the work of a serious artist encountering a subject of cultural significance.
www.twbookmark.com /books/40/0821223224/index.html   (239 words)

  
 HELLO! Profiles
Richard Gere couldn't be much further from the stereotype of a Hollywood star.
Richard doggedly refused to answer questions on the matter, arguing that to do so would suggest that it mattered.
Richard's career has been characterised by its dramatic highs and lows, and it is perhaps because of his ambivalence to fame and its trappings that he has taken risks many actors would shy away from.
www.hellomagazine.com /profiles/richardgere   (776 words)

  
 Tibetan Center
Gere Foundation is a non-profit tax-exempt organization incorporated under section 501(c)(3) in the United States.
It was established by Richard Gere to provide philanthropic assistance to the causes and groups whose work represents the humanitarian goals that he has long supported.
Primarily, the Gere Foundation contributes directly to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan community-in-exile to aid in the cultural, religious, health and educational survival of the Tibetan people.
www.thetibetcenter.org /gere.html   (142 words)

  
 Richard Gere , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
Gere won gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he was philosophy major.
Gere was also the first actor to agree to appear in And The Band Played On, the HBO adaptation of Randy Shilts book about the first five years of AIDS in America.
He is the founder of the Gere Foundation, which contributes to numerous health education and human rights projects and is especially dedicated to promoting awareness of Tibet and her endangered culture.
www.starglimpse.com /celebs/pages/richard_gere/richard_gere.shtml   (1422 words)

  
 Richard Gere
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Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American Golden Globe Award-winning actor who first rose to fame with his roles in the films 'American Gigolo' and 'An Officer and a Gentleman.' He has since gone on to star in movies such as 'Pretty Woman,' 'First Knight,' 'Primal Fear' and 'Chicago.'
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 Richard Gere - Biography
Gere fared much better under the direction of Robert Altman in the seriocomic "Dr. T and the Women" (2000), playing a handsome gynecologist who seems beset by the many demanding women-including his wife, daughters, office staff and patients-in his life.
Gere was perfectly believable as a man who lures females into his orbit, yet fails to understand what drives them; nevertheless, it was one of Altman's entertaining but trifling efforts and never lured a large audience.
Gere next got to display his oft-ignored musical talents in the much-anticipated movie version of the musical "Chicago." At the same time, he also married his companion of seven years and the mother of his son, actress Carey Lowell.
www.biggeststars.com /r/richard-gere-biography.html   (1444 words)

  
 Richard Gere
Richard Gere published his first collection of fl and white photographs, aptly titled, PILGRIM, in October of 1997.
The promotion on PILGRIM reads:Actor Richard Gere has for many years found his spiritual source and guidance in Tibetan Buddhism; he has been a champion of the effort to preserve the Tibetans’ culture and one of their most outspoken defenders.
Richard Gere writes: "The story of Milarepa and his teacher, Marpa, is one of the most profound spiritual relationships in world literature.
donnakova.tripod.com /film/rg.html   (709 words)

  
 Cinema Confidential News: 11/18/05 - INTERVIEW: Richard Gere on "Bee Season"
RICHARD: I talked to a lot of writers, rabbis, thinkers, and spokespersons – some that I knew before, some that I met during the process.
RICHARD: Every piece of serious work as a letter to the universe somehow, and the letter to the universe from this was mysterious, all encompassing, very generous, and this yearning that we all have, to reconnect to this fix that there is a large universe.
RICHARD: The way she works…she apologized to me at the beginning saying, “It’s not going to be easy for you” because she’s pretty much the character all the time.
www.cinecon.com /news.php?id=0511181   (867 words)

  
 What's Going On: Richard Gere's Story
Richard Gere is internationally known both as a leading film actor and an involved, dedicated social activist and philanthropist.
Gere is committed to the ongoing search for a cure for AIDS and is especially concerned about the spread of AIDS in India and the lack of care facilities for Indian people living with HIV/AIDS.
Gere is also engaged in a broader effort to help galvanize action to address the AIDS epidemic in India.
www.un.org /works/goingon/mongolia/richard_story.html   (375 words)

  
 Richard Gere News - Topix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function 'transgressed all limits of vulgarity,' media reports said.
Hollywood actor Richard Gere, left, hugs and kisses Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty during and event for HIV-AIDS awareness in New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 15, 2007.
Gere is ideally cast in "The Hoax," building on the smug wiliness of his prancing defense attorney in "Chicago" to play a different sort of...
www.topix.net /who/richard-gere   (582 words)

  
 On Richard Gere
Gere makes it look right, and you can bet women in the audience are picking up on all those small movements and expressions, the ones that convey caring, tenderness, connection, passion.
Richard Gere tends to exhibit an inherent, obvious sexuality and sensuality.
He has established the Richard Gere Foundation, which recently awarded a grant to the SABRE organization to buy and donate 17,000 books to schools for Tibetan refugees.
www.milams.com /gerereflect.htm   (3913 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Halle Berry, Richard Gere To Receive Pudding Pot
Richard Gere, the star of “Pretty Woman,” and Halle Berry, a longtime favorite for prettiest woman in the world, were named Man and Woman of the Year today by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
A supporter of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan autonomy, Gere is a practicing Buddhist and founder of the Gere Foundation, which aspires to “assist the cultural survival of the Tibetan people through health, technological and educational projects,” according to the organization’s website.
Gere will be roasted by Burke and her co-producer, Ashley A. Zalta ‘07.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=510934   (577 words)

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