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Tim Sullivan is an American film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter. His interest in film began as a teenager when he landed a job as a production assistant on the 1983 cult horror film Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn. Sullivan majored in film studies at New York University, and... his first writer/director/producer credit was the short A Christmas Treat , for which he won Fangoria magazine's Short Film Search Award. While attending NYU, Sulivan wrote the music news for MTV. After graduating, he worked as a production assistant on such award winning films as Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Coming To America, and The Godfather III. Throughout his career Sullivan has worn many hats, including acting. Much like Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan, he has cast himself for roles in his own films. He was production manager for the independent films If Looks Could Kill and America Exposed, and produced New Line Cinema's Detroit Rock City which starred Edward Furlong and James DeBello.
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Timothy Daniel Sullivan was a New York politician who controlled Manhattan's Bowery and Lower East Side districts as a prominent figure within Tammany Hall. He was euphemistically known as "Dry Dollar", as the "Big Feller", and, later, as "Big Tim" . During the late 19th and early 20th centuries,... he controlled much of the city's criminal activities between 14th Street and the Battery in New York City. He is credited as being one of the earliest ward representatives to use his position to enable the activities of criminal street gangs. Born to Daniel O. Sullivan and Catherine Connelly , immigrants from Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland in the slum of Five Points. Daniel Sullivan, a Union veteran of the American Civil War, died of Typhus in October 1867 at the age of thirty-six leaving his wife to care for four children. Catherine remarried in 1870 to an immigrant, alcoholic laborer named Lawrence Mulligan, eventually having six more children. At the age of eight, Sullivan began shining shoes and selling newspapers on Park Row in lower Manhattan.
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