#Amram Ducovny

[randomfoggytiger]

Fail Better Premium: David's Thoughts (Part X)

Creating a breadcrumb trail with David Duchovny's personal growth.

David: "You said you are ambitious-- um, or, you had ambition. I wonder, I wonder what your ambitions are; and in what fields, in what realms. And how you... how you feel-- 'unfulfilled' is the wrong word, because you seem very grateful and fulfilled in many ways. But, um, with the work you've been able to do. But what is, what is still... what would put you in that 18 year old head space again, that would make you go, 'Ah. I'm challenged all anew. This is a new ambition, this is a place I want to get to, this is a world I want to create.' I mean, not specific project; but, y'know."

Fred: "Doing something immersed in another language where it isn't a gimmick. Where I could, like, disappear into-- something in another language. Disappear into something: American sign language; something in German; something that like... in the way that, like, a lot of pop culture is like, has been changing for so long. Y'know-- like I know Squid Game has already, like, y'know--"

David: "Yeah."

Fred: "--it's been years. But the idea that something in Korean is a huge hit is endlessly fascinating to me. I love that. That, like, now we can... we longer have to take for granted that something has to be in English, y'know."

David: "It's interesting to think back on your roots and on the way you described, y'know, yourself as a child. And, uh. And, and your desire to go to England-- whatever England meant, to be 'English.' It's a very, it's very interesting to me that... that's, that's the ambition-- you want to disappear. It's very interesting that you want to disappear. You know, Samuel Beckett's a writer that I wrote a lot about when I was a student. And he was obviously Irish-- born in Ireland, spoke English-- but he was fluent in French; and he ended up writing in French, and then translating himself into his native tongue English. And he would say he wrote in French because the words were cleaner. They didn't have all the associations from his childhood. Y'know, the words, the words that he grew up with-- I remember my mom saying that, my dad, whatever-- those were all fraught with, with ghosts and echoes and meanings. And French was not. French was something he learned; it was clean. And he felt he could write-- and it just put me in mind of what you were saying, in a way: it's like you could really disappear if you could do something in another language, or through another culture."

(Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV: 1/3, Part IV: 2/3, Part IV: 3/3, Part V: 1/3, Part V: 2/3, Part V: 3/3, Part VI: 1/2, Part VI: 2/2, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX)

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

A Literary Classic of Coney Island Comes to Digital Life - The Brooklyn Ink

Very interesting article about David's father.

When the children were growing up, their father would take them to Coney Island. Daniel recalls that the area is not what it is today.

“When Dave and I were younger, we used to go on the weekends and we’d go-kart,” said Daniel. “We used to play Ski Ball. [Our father was] unbelievable at all those games because he used to work there.”

One fond memory that Laurie holds dear is the nightly ritual that her father would perform for her.

“He sang me, every night, a song by Louis Prima called ‘Robin Hood,’” she said. “And that’s what I sing to my two kids.”

“He had a great eye and ear for detail,” Blauner recalls. “Everything in his writing was keenly-observed, and he was committed to his work. Perhaps above all else, he was a very versatile writer, equally at home and deft writing about the comic, the sad, the sublime, and the downright bizarre.”

“He came home one day in a pair of orange, velvet, corduroy bell-bottom pants,” Varda said while laughing. “And he said, ‘Aren’t they beautiful? I got them from the Planned Parenthood thrift shop.’ I said, ‘Honey, they’re woman’s pants.’ He said, ‘No they’re not!’ but I said, ‘They’ve got the zipper on the side.’ He was naive in that way. He was very one of a kind.”

[maryflowerw]

Interesting quote by Amram Ducovny back in 1997

"When David and I speak, I always ask him the same thing: "When are you going to give me a granddaughter?"

He laughs ... and never gives me an answer."

[seveninfi-blog]

This Biography is about one of the best Actors David Duchovny including his Height, weight, Age & Other Detail…

Biography Of David Duchovny Real Name David Duchovny Profession Actors Nick Name David William Duchovny Nationality American Religion Jewish Personal life of David Duchovny Born on 07 August 1960 Birthday 7th August Age 56 Years Sun Sign Leo Born in Brooklyn Grouping of People Jewish Actors Family Background of David Duchovny Father Amram Ducovny Mother Margaret Ducovny Siblings Laurie Duchovny, Daniel Duchovny Spouse/Partner Ta Leoni (m. 1997-2011) Children Kyd Miller Duchovny, Madelaine West Duchovny Education Princeton University (1982), Collegiate School, Yale University, Grace Church School Net worth $60 million Awards 1996 - Golden Globe Award for Best Performance 2007 - Golden Globe Award for Best Performance 1997 - Satellite Award for Best Actor Personal Fact of David Duchovny

It is difficult to imagine The X-Files without the paranormal-obsessed FBI agent Fox Mulder. The show gained cult status and David Duchovny, who played the character of Mulder, identified with his character even in real life. He quit his Ph.D. at Yale University to pursue a career in film and television.

After a few average movies, he finally gained popularity with The X-Files; a horror-drama show. The series gave him a big break and he was idolized by viewers and pop-culture enthusiasts. Agent Mulder’s character gave him such fame that the actor could not find better work which would give him the same appreciation and popularity.

Finally, after quitting the show, he worked in a number of films and television series and even tried his hand at direction with House of D. However, he did not gain the same commercial success. He was finally noticed again for his role as Hank Moody in the TV series, Californication. The show, following the life of a womanizing writer, became an instant hit with its unusual humour and his brilliant acting won him a prestigious award.

This Biography Written By 7infi.com

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Fail Better Premium: David's Thoughts (Part XIII, 1/2)

Creating a breadcrumb trail with David Duchovny's personal growth.

"Alright, uh. Just some thoughts. Barely awake here. It's a Sunday-- it's a nice Sunday. Um.

"Yeah, post Griffin Dunne. I really enjoyed that conversation. I really like Griffin. I really liked his book.

"One thing I'd wanted to talk to him about is.... I've been reading a lot about late bloomers-- uh, like the late bloomer hypothesis-- and the idea that our education system, or the way we educate, is not geared at all towards late bloomers. It's geared towards kids who succeed within our education system right away. But that late bloomers are qualitatively different learners than... early bloomers? I don't know what you'd call, um, the other kids. Y'know, it's a way of looking at kids who aren't succeeding in the framework of education right away, that their talents and their strengths are yet to be found, are yet to be matured into. I'm a late bloomer across the board; uh, so it interests me. Then again, I did well in school; so you wouldn't have looked at me and said, 'That kid is going to find his way later.' Um. I'm thinking more the kids... now, who don't seem to have that in them right away; and they have to forge their own paths. (This is one of the things the article said about late bloomers.) And that's very difficult. And obviously if you're forging your own path, it's going to be fraught with failure.

"And, um. What I wanted to ask Griffin-- and that I didn't...." [Struggles, sighs.] "I'm really happy with the conversation; but there's always going to be things that... you didn't ask. Um. Was, is this the beginning of a blooming? Or is this a one-off? Y'know, obviously, a memoir is a one-off. I guess you can write more than one memoir; but he's sixty-seven, sixty-eight. And so, it's, it's hard to imagine in twenty years he's going to write another memoir, whatever. It's not about that: does he want to write fiction? I mean, he is a writer now. Does he want to continue writing, and in what vein? Like, what is this 'bloom', now? Um. Yeah. So. I wanted to get into that, um.

"And you can only imagine that there was a lot of failure in the past. Y'know, a lot of attempts-- or a lot of non-attempts-- at finding the voice. Uh, and that's what I would have asked Griffin: did you consider yourself a writer all this time that you weren't writing? Because I did-- I considered myself a writer the entire time of my life that I wasn't writing. But was that a lie, at that point, that I told myself? ...Was I scared to, um, see if it was true or not? Yeah, probably that.

"Um. There's also the way we mirror each other, Griffin and I: is that our fathers, our writer parents, died before we tried to write. I guess I wrote a couple X-File teleplays before my dad died. But I wonder if there was a sense in which we didn't want to compete in our fathers' chosen fields for fear... for either fear: for fear we were worse than them, and for fear that we were better than them, y'know. There's the whole Oedipal struggle that you're told about-- that you want to vanquish the 'father', kill him spiritually or, or in some way so that you can become 'the man', 'a man'. But I think there's also something very tender in sons that doesn't want to wanna outdo their fathers. Was I afraid that if I was gonna write-- that if that did well, too-- then my father would be unhappy? Uh, I know as a father, me, I want nothing more than for my kids to... outdo me, outdo me, outdo me, please. Y'know. You don't have to! I'm not putting that pressure on you. But nothing would make me happier than seeing my kids be better than me at everything. Um, when I look around though, I'm not sure I see... I see that, as a... as a worldview.

"Um, so, I didn't ask Griffin about that. Uh, for better or for worse: for fear of not measuring up to 'the father' or for fear of over measuring 'the father.' 'Da fahzyah', as they say in one of the Austin Powers movies, I think.

(Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV: 1/3, Part IV: 2/3, Part IV: 3/3, Part V: 1/3, Part V: 2/3, Part V: 3/3, Part VI: 1/2, Part VI: 2/2, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI,Part XII: 1/2, Part XII: 2/2)

[maryflowerw]

Ahahaa whoops. I was going to say that it's actually not Duchovny traits but Duchovny s mother's traits. Oh now I'm confusing myself. I guess what I'm trying to say is these cousins would be from Meg's side of the family right? Not Mr. Amram Ducovny's

Aha