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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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