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Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter. She grew up in North London. Her mother was a music teacher and her father was... an interior designer and a poet. When asked about her ideological background, which influenced her work as a filmmaker, she responds, "I came from an atheist background and an anarchist background, which meant that I grew up in an environment that was full of questions, where nothing could be taken for granted." Potter began making amateur films, at age 14, with an 8mm camera that was given to her by an uncle. She eventually dropped out of school, at age 16, to pursue filmmaking. From 1968-1970 she worked as a kitchen worker and a picture researcher for BBC in order to support herself and her work, after joining the London Film-Makers' Co-op, where she began making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play . She later trained as a dancer and choreographer at the London School of Contemporary Dance, making both film and dance pieces, including Combines , before founding Limited Dance Company with Jacky Lansley.
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Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz... as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support.
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