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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
Experimental Artist
Film Director
Film Editor
Painter
Screenwriter
Television Director
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Newport
South Wales
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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