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Jason Bateman: Hogan Family
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Shortly after Jason Bateman was born in Rye, New York, his family moved to Boston, where they lived for four years. They spent another four years in Salt Lake City before finally settling down in California.
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Jason Bateman loves working on sitcoms, and he’ll freely admit it. And why not? He’s grown up on them – whether they be recognizable series, short-lived, or personal favorites, Jason Bateman knows what works for him. He had a taste of Hollywood since childhood, as his father Kent was a producer and director in his own right, and his sister Justine (Mallory from “Family Ties”) inherited the entertaining bug as well.
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Bateman had begun acting at age ten when he accompanied a friend to an audition for an educational film. Asked by the director to read for the part, he landed the lead. TV commercials followed as well as a 1981-82 stint in a recurring role on the long-running "Little House on the Prairie", as an orphan adopted by Michael Landon. After the cancellation of "It's Your Move", Bateman kept busy in guest shots and TV-movies until landing the role of the eldest son of Valerie Harper on the popular and resilient family sitcom "Valerie/Valerie's Family/The Hogan Family" (NBC, 1986-90; CBS, 1990-91). More naturalistic and less distinctive than his previous sitcom roles, the series provided Bateman with a comfortable, if unremarkable, berth during the bulk of his adolescence.
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Riding high in 1987, Jason roared onto screen in “Teen Wolf Too,” produced by his father Kent. The movie flopped, and with the end of “The Hogan Family” in 1991, it marked a new era for Bateman. The 90s were nothing like the previous decade for the still young actor – how could it be, since in some circles it’s been called The Bateman Years, at least in the realm of television family comedies. He guest starred on fleeting, forgettable shows and closed the decade as Jesse Travis in “Love Stinks,” a film directed by a “Full House” contributing writer, director, and theme song composer called Jeff Franklin.
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Bateman has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife, actress Amanda Anka (daughter of singer Paul Anka). They wed in Malibu, California, in 2003. Their first child, Francesca Nora Bateman, was born in Los Angeles on October 28, 2006. The Batemans reside in Los Angeles, California.
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Bateman stated that Hurowitz is “slowly coming around” and that the idea is not “dead in the water”. Since current striking writers are not allowed to work on anything they are being paid for, Bateman is pushing Hurowitz to revisit the Bluth family in his down time. Add onto this the fact that other AD star Michael Cera is having a red hot year with the breakout hit Superbad and current buzzworthy film Juno (which ... stars Bateman). There just might be more of a demand for Michael, Gob, George Michael, Tobias, Maeby, Lucille, George, Lindsay and Buster than when the last episode of the show aired some 22 months ago.
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