Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn is an American actor who has garnered much success, mostly in film. Born in Minneapolis, MN in 1970, Vaughn started acting in community theater at age seven. After graduating from Illinois’s Lake Forest High School in 1988, Vaughn moved to Hollywood to begin an acting career in earnest, and was cast in the 1993 football drama Rudy. Slowly but subsequently, Vaughn’s career thrived as he landed parts in films such as the Jurassic Park sequel, Lost World, the remake of Psycho, Clay Pigeons, The Cell, and Domestic Disturbance with John Travolta.

Despite Vaughn’s talent in dramatic films, the role that gave him significant acclaim was in the 1996 cult classic Swingers. Vaughn’s portrayal of the arrogant and fast talking Tent Walker proved to be a touchstone characterization that Vaughn would draw from in future successful comedic roles (Old School, Starsky and Hutch, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Be Cool, Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up, and Fred Claus.) His frequent collaboration with Swingers’ writer and actor Jon Favreau as well as the “Frat Packers”, is also a factor in Vaughn’s flourishing career.

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• What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday

  
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  Its Tuesday, so you know what that means - new DVD releases just in time for the Thanksgiving break! Ive already shared some fresh music picks , but here are three movies to add to your Netflix queue for the weekend. Funny People Adam Sandler plays a comedian who tries to turn his life around and befriend a ...
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• Four Christmases

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 506
  The biggest acting achievement in this film is four Oscar winners valiantly managing to hide their embarrassment in appearing in sheer holiday dreck. Its leads are not as successful. Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn cannot manage to disguise their shame and all but skulk through this latest lump of coal in the ...
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• Jumpstart Sets New Charity Record For Reading

  
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  Jumpstart’s Read for the Record 2009 campaign officially set a new record for the world’s largest shared reading experience. On Oct. 8th, adults across the globe read Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar to 2,019,752 children! This year’s campaign shattered the previous record of 688,000, set by ...
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• Box Office Breakdown: A Bloody Good Debut for New Moon

  
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  After months of endless promotion, New Moon finally opened this weekend to monster-sized numbers. But how exactly did the film compare to the other theatrical giants? Despite earning over $142 million since midnight Thursday, the adaptation’s debut still falls behind The Dark Knight ($158.4) and Spider-Man 3 ...
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• This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: November 24, 2009

  
  FilmCrunch — Authority: 434
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• Mixed feelings in Chicago over Oprah end

  
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• More Proof That America is a Racist Country

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 803
  America is an inherently racist country. Oh, sure, we elected a black President (or is this our second black President?  That whole Clinton-as-first-black-President thing always confuses me).  And yes, our biggest sports, TV, music and film stars tend to be black.  And sure our past Secretaries of State, National ...
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• Bad Business

  
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  Drawing by Alfred Hitchcock.PSYCHO of course was very good business, and intended as such. Inspired by the cheap and morbidly cheerful exploiters of William Castle, which were in turn inspired by Hitchcock’s TV show, Hitch wanted to make a film fast and cheap, promote the hell out of it, and make a killing. In ...
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• Four Christmases

  
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  A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. When i saw the trailer of this movie last year, i knew i was going to like it and i told myself that i should really see this. But since i have the worst memory ever, i totally forgot about it until i got my hands on a copy last ...
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• Four Christmases Movie Review–It’s Like Life

  
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  It’s a perfect time for Christmas movies to start coming out, seeing as the decorations have been up in the stores since like September.  And so, we’re tackling Four Christmases today, a movie that shows that sometimes, time with the family is the best gift of all.Even if you don’t notice it at first.This time, ...
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• Greg Olsen’s Charity Concert Attracts Celebrities

  
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  Written by Delinda Lombardo Actor Vince Vaughn was one of the many famous faces in the Chicago crowd last weekend when he attended Greg Olsen’s ‘Shake the Lake Musical Festival’ at Joe’s Bar to benefit the Receptions for Research charity. The event featured performances by country music stars Keith ...
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• Universal’s UK ‘Couples Retreat’ Poster Brings Cries of Racism by Removing Black Actors

  
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  Nothing new here A racially-tinged advertising decision has gone awry for the movie “ Couples Retreat .” Marketers of the Vince Vaughn comedy, which stars four couples in a tropical paradise, removed black actors Faizon Love and Kali Hawk from the promotional poster used in the United Kingdom after the ...
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• Couples Retreat is All White Overseas

  
  Buzz Pirates — Authority: 112
  A racially insensitive decision is spiraling out of control for the U.K. release of the movie Couples Retreat . Notice the serious lack of color between the U.K. poster and the U.S poster. In response to outrage over the move, a Universal spokesman said the altered poster aimed “to simplify the poster to actors ...
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• Vince Vaughn Catches Keith Anderson Concert

  
  CMT Blog — Authority: 590
  Sometimes celebrities seem to dart in and out of concerts without really doing much listening. Its like they are more about the appearance than the actual music. But at Friday nights (Nov. 13) Keith Anderson and David Nail concert in Chicago, Vince Vaughn was there for the music. He was there with his mother and ...
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• In the News :: UK Couples Retreat Poster Drops Black Couple

  
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  Couples Retreat is a comedy about four couples that travel to a tropical island to fix their relationships. So... Why does the UK poster only show three of the couples? A better question might be... Why did the UK poster remove the Black couple from the poster? The UK poster showcases Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, ...
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• Jennifer Aniston Rocks Her Tini Bikini In Mexico (Photos)

  
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  Jennifer Aniston and a bunch of her friends headed down to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico for a little R&R in the sun.  (Jen topless here.)  The destination was the One and Only Palmilla resort.  This is a very high end, ocean front resort.  I was there for a wedding a few years ago and [...]
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• Couples Retreat Poster Outrage?

  
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  There seems to be a lot of blogger outrage about the fact that the African American actors in "Couples Retreat," Faizon Love and Kali Hawk (image via Jeff Wells) have been photoshopped out of the U.K. version of the films poster (see version on the left).Uhh, but it was ok that Love and Hawk were just a marginalized, ...
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• They Forgot The Black Couple

  
  Bunny With Fangs! — Authority: 530
  In the British version of the poster for Vince Vaughn ’s movie, ‘Couple’s Retreat’ the producers left out the black couple. They said it was an effort “‘to simplify the poster to actors who are most recognizable in international markets’.” But after this uproar, the studio has abandoned any future ...
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• Black couple removed from ‘Couples Retreat’ poster in the UK

  
  Cele|bitchy — Authority: 718
  There’s some controversy over differences between the US and UK versions of the poster for the Vince Vaughn movie Couples Retreat . The film was out in America in early October and did very well at the box office, earning $102 million domestically . It seems to have opened in the UK on October 14 , so I’m not ...
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• Scandalous! Black Stars Are Edited Out Of Posters When Marketing In Other Countries

  
  iHipHop — Authority: 152
  This is truly messed up the makers of a hit Hollywood film are at the center of a race controversy after removing two black actors from a poster being used to promote it in Britain and Europe.The American ad for Couples Retreat, a comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Kristin Davis, show all eight principal actors ...
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