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Sam Fuller: New York
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At AvalonBay, Mr. Fuller was the chief executive responsible for overseeing a nationwide team, managing all aspects of the Company's development and construction activity throughout the country. Mr. Fuller joined the Northeast Group of Trammell Crow Residential ("TCR") in 1989 and was the partner responsible for overseeing the development and acquisition of multifamily opportunities throughout Connecticut and New York. He was part of the group that took two divisions of TCR public in 1993 to become Avalon Properties, Inc., which later merged with Bay Apartments in 1998, to become AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Throughout his tenure with AvalonBay, and its predecessor companies, the company grew to become the third largest multi-family REIT in the country with a portfolio of 148 communities containing 42,000 apartments now worth over $9 Billion. Since going public in November 1993, Mr. Fuller's team built over 19,000 apartment homes and redeveloped over 13,000 others. Under Mr. Fuller's leadership the AvalonBay development and construction team became one of the leading developers and builders in the multifamily industry. In March 2005 Mr. Fuller accepted, on behalf of AvalonBay, The 2005 Development Firm of the Year Award given by the National Association of Homebuilders.
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Fuller's favourite film was Park Row a story of American journalism. Zanuck had wanted to turn it into a musical that Fuller refused to do.[2] Instead Fuller started his own production company with his profits to make the film on his own. Park Row was a labour of love to Fuller as a tribute to the journalists he knew as a newsboy. His flourishes of style on a very low budget lead many critics to call the film Fuller's version of Citizen Kane.
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The story is tight and it is brutal, but it's more; Fuller had the old newsman's sense of everyday life and unthinkable actions and how they intertwine. The book stinks of hot metal and printers' ink; it honours the callous heroism of the hack; you learn the workings of an autopsy and the timetable of a Bowery hobo's day while you sweat out the plot.
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The only hitch was that Fuller's new wife, Mae Scriven, already had a husband – the legendary comedian, Buster Keaton. The fact that Keaton had wed Scriven by accident (or so he claimed), during an "alcoholic blackout", didn't change the legality of the situation. Fuller was so appalled that he quickly annulled the marriage.
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