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Haley Joel Osment: Sixth Sense
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Oscar-nominated at the age of eleven, Haley Joel Osment was far from a newcomer when he played the sad boy plagued with visions of ghosts in The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis. His career began at the age of four, when he accompanied his father to an audition for a Pizza Hut commercial, and left with the role. The commercial was noticed by Robert Zemeckis, who sought out young Osment and put him in his first movie — Forest Gump, where he played Tom Hanks's non-retarded son. His first leading role came at 8, in Bogus, where he played the orphaned son of a circus performer who is sent to live with Whoopi Goldberg, his no-nonsense aunt.
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Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) charmed the press corps at an early conference promoting his latest film co-starring Willem Defoe. Armed with an easy and infectious laugh, the quick witted Osment spoke of his new film, Edges of the Lord, and his co-stars. All actors are different, he said, you can't compare.
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Actor Haley Joel Osment was charged with drunk driving and marijuana possession after he crashed his 1996 Saturn station wagon while returning home from a Los Angeles concert in July 2006. The 18-year-old Osment, who starred as the boy who saw dead people in "The Sixth Sense," suffered minor injuries in the accident and was briefly hospitalized. Osment, who posed for a mug shot snapped by an L.A. sheriff's deputy, was released from custody after posting a $15,000 bond.
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Everyone knows Haley Joel Osment as the damaged, fearful kid in The Sixth Sense, endlessly persecuted by Bruce Willis. "I see dead people" will surely be quoted back to the little fella till his dying day. Yet, having begun his professional life at the age of 4, Osment has a right to feel peeved that he's known worldwide for just that one role. The Sixth Sense is far from his only smash hit, and his CV is just as long as that of Jude Law, his co-star in Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence. What's more, his box office hit-rate is well in excess of $100 million per movie, only slightly behind that of Harrison Ford. The kid's got something, he reallyhas.
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Osment is set to be arraigned on September 19 in Glendale Superior Court and is expected to surrender voluntarily for booking. The D.A.’s office is seeking bail to be set at $15,000. Osment faces up to six-months in jail if he is convicted. Osment has pretty much fallen by the wayside since being nominated for an Academy Award for his role in M. Night Shyamalan’s hit 1999 movie The Sixth Sense. He made a few other movies that didn’t seem to generate as much media attention as his turn as the boy who sees dead people. Osment has lent his voice to a number of animated feature films including The Jungle Book 2.
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At eleven he starred in The Sixth Sense, leaving director M. Night Shyamalan near speechless when, for a scene requiring him to look disoriented, Osment enthusiastically banged his head against the wall several times before the cameras rolled. By all accounts, he takes his acting very seriously. His subsequent movies include the sweet but sappy Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, the Spielberg-sized science fiction saga Artificial Intelligence: AI with Jude Law, and the sentimental Secondhand Lions with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. The reviews have almost always been kind to Osment, and even in such stinkers as Bogus or The Country Bears with Christopher Walken, where Osment played Beary Barrington.
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