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Vincent Gallo

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  1. #001

    Vincent Gallo is a major music enthusiast. He owns more than 30,000 vinyl albums and has the largest collection of vintage hi-fi and audio equipment in the United States.

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    Vincent Gallo is a close friend of Johnny Ramone, Rick Rubin, PJ Harvey, John Frusciante, Lukas Haas, Val Kilmer and Anna Sui.

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    In his late teens, Vincent Gallo ran away to Europe alone and eventually spent a year traveling through France, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Denmark and Italy.

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    Vincent Gallo owns more than 7,500 video cassettes, laserdiscs, DVDs and film prints.

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  5. #005

    In 1998, Vincent Gallo became engaged to the Italian actress Asia Argento.

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    In the early 1980s, Vincent Gallo was in an experimental noise band called Gray with the New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. They played at the city's most popular punk rock/new wave clubs, including a night at Max's Kansas City, CBGB's and the Mudd Club (now famous). They soon split up, Basquiat became famous, and a few years later Gallo would become famous too.

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  7. #007

    The Italian rock band Timoria named a song after him: "Vincent Gallo Blues". Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) named a song after him: "Mr. Gallo".

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  8. #008

    In 2001, Vincent Gallo released an album titled "When" on the Warp label. He composed, performed and produced all of the music on the album himself.

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    Vincent Gallo dropped out of Sweet Home Central Schools in New York.

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    Vincent Gallo's childhood idol is Chris Squire, the bass guitarist of Yes.

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    Vincent Gallo lives in downtown Los Angeles. Over the past 24 months, he has written, directed and produced three films, two of them at the 67th Venice Film Festival and both of those in competition. At that festival, Gallo won the Best Actor award. Mr. Gallo is currently set to appear in an Italian film titled The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012).

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    Vincent Gallo writes for a magazine called Sound Practices.

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  13. #013

    Vincent Gallo is the son of Genevieve Gallo and Vincenzo Vito Gallo.

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  14. #014

    Vincent Gallo's engagement to the writer Bethany Ritz was called off.

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  15. #015

    Vincent Gallo is one of the founders of the NYC Breakers.

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    Vincent Gallo splits his time between Los Angeles and NYC.

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  17. #017

    Vincent Gallo was originally going to play Tony Childress/Jesus in Abel Ferrara's film Mary (2005).

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  18. #018

    Vincent Gallo is working on his second directorial film, The Brown Bunny (2003). He lives in NYC and L.A.

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  19. #019

    Vincent Gallo is known for his multiple talents (filmmaker, actor, writer, musician, sound engineer, motorcycle racer) as well as for his highly conceptual and outspoken views and the radical, funny and original way he expresses them. He is a completely original, one-of-a-kind person.

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  20. #020

    Vincent Gallo's engagement to New York writer Bethany Ritz was announced.

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