1. Jonathan Trumbull Taplin was born on July 18,1947 and is an American writer, film producer and scholar.
19 Facts About Jonathan Taplin
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Jonathan Taplin was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and has lived in Los Angeles since 1973.
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Jonathan Taplin is chairman of the Board of the Americana Music Foundation.
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Between 1974 and 1996, Jonathan Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until the End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For.
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Jonathan Taplin's films were nominated for Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards and chosen for the Cannes Film Festival six times.
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Jonathan Taplin began working as a part-time tour manager on weekends and school breaks for Albert Grossman Management in the summer of 1965.
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Jonathan Taplin began work for the Jim Kweskin Jug Band while studying at Princeton University.
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Jonathan Taplin managed tours for Judy Collins in 1967 and helped Collins's manager Harold Leventhal produce A Tribute to Woody Guthrie at Carnegie Hall in January 1968; in addition to Collins, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, the concert featured Bob Dylan and The Band in their first live appearance since 1966.
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In early 1973, Jonathan Taplin moved to Los Angeles where he was introduced to a young film editor who had worked on the Woodstock documentary, Martin Scorsese.
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Jonathan Taplin raised US$500,000 independently and Scorsese cast Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro.
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Jonathan Taplin was instrumental in the distribution of Shine when he ran the American division of Pandora.
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In 1996 Jonathan Taplin founded one of the first Internet streaming media companies, Intertainer.
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In January 2004, Jonathan Taplin joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication as an adjunct professor.
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Jonathan Taplin conducts three seminars a year with communication leaders called The Art of The Long View.
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Jonathan Taplin is a member of the Annenberg Research Network for International Communication.
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Jonathan Taplin served on the State of California Broadband Policy Taskforce and the Singapore Government Media Development Authority Advisory Board.
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Jonathan Taplin is the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, which was published in April 2017.
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Jonathan Taplin has two children from his previous marriage to Lesley Gilb: Nicholas Taplin, a recording engineer and Blythe Taplin, a human rights lawyer.
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Jonathan Taplin has another daughter from a previous marriage to actress Rosanna DeSoto: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, a film producer.