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Michael Joseph John Berry Jr. (born 1964) is a British actor, best known for portraying the Irish sailor Twigg in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
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Paul and Michael Berrow are British record label owners, who were once nightclub owners and the managers of Duran Duran.
In the late 1970s the father of Paul and Michael Berrow owned a number of small clubs around Birmingham and bequeathed the Rum Runner nightclub to his sons. Looking for inspiration they went on a fact finding trip to New York City and visited Studio 54. The brothers who are described as very creative came back revitalised with a mission to try and bring the excitement of the Manhattan dance scene to Birmingham's Broad Street, with the refurbished Rum Runner opening during 1979.
When a newly-formed group of musicians called Duran Duran walked into the Rum Runner one day in early 1980 with a demo tape, there was an instant mutual appeal between the Berrows and the band. They offered Duran Duran a place to rehearse and play gigs. A few months later they signed as the managers of the band. The Berrows and the band then formed the Tritec Music Company (named after the triangular-themed bar inside the club). The label used the Rum Runner office upstairs from the club as its official address.
Michael mortgaged his house to send Duran Duran as a supporting act for Hazel O'Connor's Megahype Tour of the UK in 1980, which led to the band's signing with EMI in December that year. Five years of extraordinary success followed, during which the band and the managers grew exceedingly wealthy.
is the yacht the Berrows co-owned with Simon Le Bon, which competed in the Whitbread Round the World Race. On August 10th, 1985, Drum lost her keel in the midst of a practice race -- called the Fastnet -- when gale force winds capsized the ship with all three owners on board. Le Bon was trapped under the upturned hull with five other crew members. Thankfully, all were rescued. Drum eventually did get her chance in the Whitbread, but only after extensive salvage and refurbishment. That months-long trek, along with the perilous drama of the Fastnet, were documented in the video, Drum - The Journey Of A Lifetime.
In 2006 Paul and Michael Berrow attended a crew reunion dinner and to race the yacht once more to raise awareness for the RNLI.
In 1992 the Berrows formed Wandering Star Media with Marcello Anciano, and bought the rights for Modesty Blaise, a highly prized newspaper script character. Within a week they had made a deal with Miramax film company, and Anciano and the Berrows produced the film My Name Is Modesty, directed by Scott Spiegel and starring Alexandra Staden. Quentin Tarantino joined the filming as an executive producer.
In 2001, the brothers started a record label and recording studio in Devon called Wandering Star Records. The record company is now located at Market Place, Blandford Forum in Dorset and have signed various bands including Meeky Rosie.
Also in 2001, Paul and Michael co-produced the movie Angel of Death (a.k.a Semana Santa), directed by Pepe Danquart, and release in France 12th June 2002. The film is about a killer, set in Seville during the masked Easter celebrations.
2008 saw another big budget action-adventure film, Solomon Kane, based on the pulp magazine character of the same name, created in 1928 by Robert E. Howard. Written and directed by M. J. Bassett. The film stars James Purefoy in the title role, and also stars Pete Postlethwaite and Max von Sydow. Von Sydow's film The Seventh Seal (1957) was also a minor inspiration for this film. Despite obtaining the rights in 1997, filming did not begin until January 2008, entirely on location in the Czech Republic. The movie was released in 2009, and received positive reviews similar to contemporaries Outlander, The 13th Warrior, Reign of Fire and King Arthur.
More recently, Paul Berrow moved to the small Italian/Sicilian island of Lipari, with his wife, where they bought an idyllic beach-front home in Pecorini A Mare. Here he still works for the entertainment industry in a semi-retired capacity, and also enjoys preparing freshly caught squid, cooking, sailing, and enjoying island life. His instagram nam...
Michael Joseph John Berry, Jr. (born 1964 in Oxford, England) is a British actor known for portraying characters in well known films such as the Irish sailor Twigg in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the man who kidnapped Julia Meade in Mission: Impossible III, Daniel the Bull in Where the Wild Things Are and Vladi in The ...
Jun 22, 2023 · Jeff Thomas was inducted into Duran Duran after Andy Wickett’s exit. He was previously a vocalist for The Scent Organs and a friend of Roger Taylor. However, after the group became a Rum Runner resident band, Alan Curtis left the team. Around this time, Paul and Michael Berrow, the owners of Rum Runner, became the band’s managers.
May 18, 2020 · The band's first managers were actually the Rum Runner's owners, Paul and Michael Berrow, and Duran Duran became a sort of house band for the club, performing at night and working the rest of the time.
Jul 18, 2023 · The best pic, shown here at the top, has sat in DD’s album page at Facebook since 2015, unforgivably dated wrongly to 12 March 1980, months before Le Bon joined the band. A second pic was also posted by DD at Facebook in 2018 on the correct anniversary of the debut.
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Joseph Lee Burrow (born December 10, 1996) is an American football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and LSU Tigers. As a senior at LSU in 2020, Burrow won the Heisman Trophy and the College Football Playoff National Championship.
