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Jon Voight appeared on Fox & Friends on Fox News to endorse former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the 2008 Republican Party nomination. He attended a Guilani campaign event and said New York City was transformed into a much safer, cleaner and more livable city. He said "God sent an angel, his name was Rudy Giuliani." [9] In another interview in Miami with AventuraUSA.com, Voight said he first met Giuliani "years ago" at a movie premiere in New York City and the main reason for his support was Giuliani's poise in the wake of 9/11. In the interview, Voight revealed he and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton "are friends" and he believes Clinton's chief competitor for the Democratic nod, Barack Obama, hasn't "proved himself in any way yet."
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Jonathan Vincent Voight was born on December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, N.Y., a densely populated town just north of the Bronx, and so close in proximity that it is often referred to as the city's sixth borough. Voight attended the all-boys Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains before enrolling at Catholic University. From there, he moved to Manhattan to study acting. In the years since, Voight has distinguished himself as one of Hollywood's most versatile and accomplished talents, garnering four Academy Award nominations, with one win for Best Actor in the 1978 film, Coming Home. Currently, he can be found pressing the flesh for GOP hopeful and former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. Voight sat down with AventuraUSA.com publisher David Colen over a plate of fried chicken at the food court inside the Stephen P. Clark Center to talk politics, movies, and his cameo in the greatest-television-series-about-nothing that was ever made.
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In 1969, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking Midnight Cowboy, a film that would make his career, establishing him as one of the premier actors of his generation. Voight played Joe Buck, a naïve male hustler from Texas, adrift in New York City. He comes under the tutelage of Dustin Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo, a tubercular petty thief and con artist. The film explored the demimonde of late sixties New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters. Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Herlihy, the film struck a chord with critics. Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the first and only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
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[C]ome 1989, there was Eternity, where Voight played a TV reporter leading a crusade against the evils of corporate America, only to fall for a beautiful model in the pay of a sinister media tycoon. What's worse, he thinks they may have been lovers in an earlier incarnation. It was interesting, challenging, and written by Voight. Then came the Nineties, and another anti-nuke message in Final Warning, the true story of the Chernobyl disaster. He promoted the cause of the Native Americans in The Last Of His Tribe, where he's an anthropologist who discovers the last survivor of California's Yahi tribe (he was Golden Globe nominated for this, as he had been for The Champ). And then there was yet more anti-nuke talk in Rainbow Warrior, about the environmentalists' boat sunk in New Zealand by those damned Frenchies.
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Now a "name" actor, in 1970 Voight went on to join the all-star cast of Mike Nichols' ill-fated adaptation of Catch-22. Adapted by Buck Henry from Joseph Heller's comic anti-war novel, and featuring the acting talents of Voight, Alan Arkin as the main character of John Yossarian, Anthony Perkins, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Richard Benjamin, and Orson Welles, the film failed to connect with either the critics or audiences, despite the film's intentional parallels with the then-raging war in Vietnam. The same year, Voight re-teamed with director Paul Williams to star in The Revolutionary, as a left wing college student struggling with his conscience.
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Synopsis: Directed by Bob Clark, Super Babies: Baby Geniuses 2 follows a new generation of ultra-smart talking toddlers who have landed in the center of a dastardly scheme perpetrated by media mogul Bill Biscane (Jon Voight). With the help of Kahuna (Leo, Myles, and Gerry Fitzgerald); part spy, partRead More
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