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  Home Improvement - Tim Allen
Born in Denver on June 13, and living in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham from the age of 13, Allen was one of seven brothers raised by his mother.
Allen graduated from Western Michigan University in 1975 with a degree in TV production, and went to work as a creative director for a small advertising firm in Detroit.
Allen's role as the host of a fictional cable home improvement show, "Tool Time," is one that he wistfully hopes to recreate in real life someday.
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 Tim Allen
Tim Allen has enjoyed success in a variety of endeavours, as star and producer of the top-rated television show "Home Improvement", author of a #1 bestselling book, and star of his film debut, America's top-grossing The Santa Clause.
Born in Denver, Allen's father died when Tim was only 11 years old, something that the comedian would include in his sitcom by having the same thing occur to his character.
Tim Taylor the character was based on Allen's standup routine: he grunted, loved cars, tools, and sports, and had a man's perspective on life.
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 Tim Allen tops Mamet's 'Redbelt' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
Tim Allen will star in "Redbelt," the mixed martial arts drama David Mamet wrote and will direct for Sony Pictures Classics.
Allen plays a troubled action star with marital problems who meets the master when he is getting pummeled in a street fight.
Allen last starred in "Wild Hogs" and is negotiating to reprise his role in a sequel, and was at the center of a Disney pitch deal for "Yosemite Three."
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 Tim Allen : Actor : TV
Tim Taylor was in his comfort zone when hosting Tool Time but had a tough time exerting his power around his own home.
Tim often found guidance from his eccentric, philosophizing over-the-fence neighbor, Wilson (Earl Hindman), who was always ready with a piece of wisdom or a funny anecdote.
Tim originally envisioned the show as This Old House combined with a Myrna Loy-type wife to a William Powell-type husband from "The Thin Man" movies from the forties.
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  Tim Allen and Courteney Cox Get Their Comic Hero On In Zoom
Tim Allen: It was, I just didn't talk about my sack or anything; I wanted to be Flash.
Tim Allen: Yeah, there really is no end to how fast he can go; the balance of this shifted, skewed a little younger cause the real sci-fi had to have a lot of pipe laid and the studio said it would just get too long.
Tim Allen: It's not cause I'm just sitting here - yes it is. The thing about that I like is when kids, especially boys are a certain age they feel powerless because you don't have any control over your emotions and your testosterone.
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 The Denver Post - Colorado wedding for Tim Allen
Tim Allen arrives with Jane Hajduk to an event on March 16, 2003, iin Los Angeles.
Allen's 17-year-old daughter, Katherine Dick, was among the attendees.
Hadjuk and Allen appeared together earlier this year in the children's action film "Zoom." Allen will be seen in the upcoming "The Santa Clause 3" with Martin Short.
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 Tim Allen at Hollywood.com
Allen reprised his role in 1999's "Toy Story 2" a record-breaking box office smash which was hailed as one of the year's best animated films.
Allen upped the goofball factor for his next family feature, “Zoom” (2006), playing Captain Zoom, the over-the-hill leader of a once-prime group of superheroes called upon to train a new generation in order to save the planet before it’s too late.
Allen moved on to costar in “Wild Hogs” (2007), a big, dumb and hugely successful ensemble comedy about four men (Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy) going through respective mid-life crises who embark on a freewheeling, cross-country motorcycle trip to prove their manhood.
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  Midwest Today: Tim Allen
Tim Allen, undoubtedly the Number One male star currently on television, refers to his brand of comedy as "masculinist." He means to celebrate guyhood without resorting to uncouth gibes at women.
Tim is helped in his quest to be the perfect modern husband by his philosophizing over-the-fence neighbor, Wilson, who's always ready with a funny anecdote to help out his friend.
Allen says he makes "fun of us as men because there is a lot to make fun of, but there is a lot, in a funny way, to be proud of." Besides, he asserts, women can't take criticism like guys can.
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 TheCelebrityCafe.com Bios | Site / Tim Allen
Allen's decision to star in the project proved almost fatal; the typical response for a Grisham adaptation might be enthuiastic (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client) but not so with this turkey.
Allen fared slightly better (though not much) with his first 2006 effort, a remake of Disney's The Shaggy Dog - starring the comedian as a district attorney who becomes the sheepdog of the title after suffering from the bite of a Tibetan canine.
Allen's 2007 releases tentatively include Wild Hogs, a comedy about a bunch of Hell's Angels in which he co-stars with Martin Lawrence and John Travolta], and Amigos, a comedy co-produced by Allen and Todd Garner and starring Allen and George Lopez as a pair of ill-matched in-laws who have to jointly raise a grandson.
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 Tim Allen Pictures, Biography, Filmography, Awards, Wallpapers
Allen and his wife have reached a divorce settlement, avoiding a trial that was to have begun Thursday -- Laura Deibel, who married Allen in 1984, filed for a legal separation in 1999 in Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences; the couple share custody of their 13-year-old daughter.
Tim was arrested for dealing drugs in 1978 and spent two years in prison, when he was released, Tim had a new outlook on life and in 1979, Tim started his stand-up comedy career at the Comedy Castle in Detroit (on a dare from a friend), he hasn't looked back since.
Tim then went on to star in the Disney hit film, Jungle 2 Jungle, which was released in March of 1997 and in November of 1997 Tim was seen starring in Universal Pictures' For Richer Or Poorer with Kirstie Alley.
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 Tim Allen
Tim Allen (born June 13, 1953) is an American comedian and actor.
He was born Timothy Allen Dick in Denver, Colorado.
He grew up in suburban Detroit, Michigan and attended Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, where he was arrested and consequently sent to prison for drug offences.
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 Tim Allen
Born Tim Allen Dick in Denver, Colorado, Allen has claimed that his personality was shaped by his easily-mocked surname--self-deprecation became his only defense in the face of the persistent taunting of his peers.
Allen first took to the comedy stage on a dare by one of his friends, and found he had a talent for eliciting guffaws.
Allen declined proffered roles in the series Turner & Hootch and The Dead Poets Society, in which he would have recreated for the small screen characters made popular on the big screen by Tom Hanks and Robin Williams.
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Allen was arrested and given a second breathalyzer test at the station.
Allen, who was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, was released to his attorney on a $100 bond just before midnight the same night.
Allen's attorney, Michael Novak of the Troy law firm Cox, Hodgman and Jiarmarco, would not comment on the arrest but said Allen's arraignment was completed by mail.
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 Tim Allen Profile, Gossip, News, and Picture at MovieFilmStar.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tim Allen may have a hit with the current movie THE SANTA CLAUSE 2, but he hasn't abandoned the ABC sitcom lineup that launched his career -- Variety reports that he'll return to the home of his HOME IMPROVEMENT with a new sitcom he's producing.
Allen says working on his new movie THE SANTA CLAUSE 2 wasn't all fun and games - he says that playing two different Santas to hundreds of screaming kids who were elves was not fun and he also thinks crew members had to pour water on one youngster to get her to shut up.
Tim was arrested for dealing drugs in 1978 and spent two years in prison, when he was released, Tim had a new outlook on life and in 1979, Tim started his stand-up comedy career at the Comedy Castle in Detroit (on a dare from a friend), he hasn't looked back since.
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 Tim Allen information - Search.com
Timothy Allen Dick (born June 13, 1953 in Denver, Colorado) is an American comedian and actor best known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement and his roles in Disney films, such as The Santa Clause and Toy Story.
Allen was married to Laura Diebel from April 7, 1984 until their divorce in 2003; they have a daughter, Kady, born in 1989.
On October 2, 1978, Allen was arrested with an accomplice at an airport in Kalamazoo, Michigan while possessing 1.4 pounds of cocaine.
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 Tim Allen - AskTheBrain.com
Tim, one of Allen's partners came with to help with the field care and take part in the long drag.
Tim Allen : Is this mainly the tropical cone shells that have been used for this rather than the cold water cone snails?
Tim Allen : So are you breeding up little snails in the lab, or.
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 Tim Allen speaks for International Speakers Bureau   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born Tim Allen Dick in Denver, Colorado, Allen has claimed that his personality was shaped by his easily-mocked surname--self-deprecation became his only defense in the face of the persistent taunting of his peers.
Allen first took to the comedy stage on a dare by one of his friends, and found he had a talent for eliciting guffaws.
Allen declined proffered roles in the series Turner & Hootch and The Dead Poets Society, in which he would have recreated for the small screen characters made popular on the big screen by Tom Hanks and Robin Williams.
www.internationalspeakers.com /speakers/ISBB-553SWQ/Tim_Allen   (802 words)

  
 Entertainfo - Tim Allen
Tim wuchs zunächst in Colorado auf, nach dem Tod seines Vaters 1964 und der Wiederheirat seiner Mutter zwei Jahre später zog er mit seiner Familie nach Birmingham (Michigan), einem Vorort von Detroit.
Seine auch im TV ausgestrahlte Show "Tim Allen: Men are pigs" erweckte das Interesse des Disney-Konzerns; hieraus wurde die Fernseh-Sitcom Hör mal wer da hämmert (Home Improvement) entwickelt, die in den USA mit grossem Erfolg von 1991 bis 1999 lief und auch in Deutschland populär ist.
Tim Allen verkörpert darin den selbsternannten "Heimwerkerkönig" Tim Taylor, der in seiner Werkzeugsendung mit diversen selbstverschuldeten Katastrophen konfrontiert wird und auch zu Hause gegen seine Frau Jill (Patricia Richardson) und seine drei Söhne meist den Kürzeren zieht.
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 Tim Allen
Long before Tim Allen picked up any tools, he was born into a large family of six brothers and three sisters in Denver, Colorado.
Allen has claimed that his personality was shaped by his easily-mocked surname (Dick): self-depreciation became his only defense in the face of the persistent taunting of his peers.
Allen and his wife were divorced in March 2003 after 20 years of marriage.
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 Tim Allen Height - how tall
Tim was on Leno last night and Leno looked about a half inch to an inch taller but i would have to say a half inch
Tim Allen is not 5'11" Karn is 5'8" and on Home Improvement Tim Allen is less then an inch taller...
Tim is another one who is hard to pin down, cause he often wears cowboy boots.
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 Tim Allen Page
Tim's wife and daughter are going away on a camping trip, and Tim is left at home with their dog, Spot.
Tim Allen has won six People's Choice Awards for his television show Home Improvement, and he was twice nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
Tim Allen was in Daytona on the st Feb Apparently, he and Craig Nelson of "Coach" competed in the "Rolex 24"-- a race that tests endurance and skill.
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 Tim Allen
On 2 October 1978, Tim Allen Dick was arrested in Detroit for possession of a pound and a half of cocaine.
Allen reportedly fingered at least 21 co-conspirators, and in exchange, he was sentenced to just five years under the more lenient (at that time) federal law.
Also in 1997, Allen was in an auto accident in Studio City, California, and injured a 72-year-old retired librarian named Henry Armstrong.
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 Tim Allen - The Huffington Post
Tim Allen, who oversees the newspaper's political, business, health, education and environmental coverage, is a first cousin to the...
Allen will be presented with the Rodney Dangerfield Legacy Award at this year's UCLA Medical Center Visionary Ball in Beverly Hills.
US actors John Travolta, centre, Tim Allen, right, and Ray Liotta pose as they arrive at a cinema in London for the UK premiere of their film 'Wild Hogs', Wednesday, March 28, 2007.
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 Tim Allen, Comedian, tim allen
Born Tim Allen Dick in Denver, Colorado, Allen has claimed that his personality was shaped by his easily-mocked surname - self-deprecation became his only defense in the face of the persistent taunting of his peers.
Allen first took to the comedy stage on a dare by one of his friends, and found he had a talent for eliciting guffaws.
Anticipating forensic scrutiny of his past by the media, Allen stepped forward and revealed that, from 1980 to 1983, he had served a federal prison term for possession and distribution of narcotics.
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Ask comedian Tim Allen where the inspiration for his manifesto on male improvement came from, and he says, "I just stood up on stage one night in Akron, Ohio, and started talking about my garage and tools and that whole thing.
Allen graduated from Western Michigan University in 1975 with a degree in TV production, and went to work as a creative director for a small advertising firm in Detroit.
Other television work includes appearances on five cable specials: "Tim Allen: Men Are Pigs," "Comedy Club All-Stars II," "Tim Allen Rewires America," "Comedy Club All-Stars VII," which he hosted; and "Just For Laughs Festival," for which he won a 1990 ACE Award as Best Performer in a Comedy Special.
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 Tim Allen (I)
Tim Allen: Men Are Pigs (1991) (TV) (executive producer)
Tim Allen: Men Are Pigs (1991) (TV) (writer)
Tim Allen Presents: A User's Guide to 'Home Improvement' (2003) (TV) (also archive footage)....
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 Tim Allen - Academic staff - Who's who - DESTIN - LSE
Dr Tim Allen has expertise in the fields of complex emergencies, ethnic conflict, forced migration, local conception of health and healing, East Africa (especially Sudan, Uganda and Kenya), development aid and agencies and ethics of aid.
Tim Allen and Jean Seaton eds, The Media of conflict: war reporting and representations of ethnic violence, Zed Press, 1999, 312 pages
T Allen and D Weinhold, Dropping the debt for the new millennium: is it such a good idea?, Journal of International Development, August 2000, pages 857-876.
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