Charles Bronson

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Posted by Allan Ford 12 March, 2009 The quad poster for the upcoming drama “Bronson,” has been released. The notorious life of the UK’s “most violent prisoner” serves as the subject of Pusher Trilogy director Nicolas Winding Refn’s brutal biopic. Born Michael Peterson but later renamed by his fight promoter, Charles Bronson’s sole ambition in life was to become famous. Surmising that the fastest means of accomplishing his goal with such limited opportunities was to cultivate a stylized persona as a hardened criminal, the ambitious do-badder embraced a desperate existence of extreme savagery. But who is the real man behind the warped persona? Seeing ... Read Full Story

Charles Bronson, born November 3, 1921. Shuffling this mortal coil on August 30, 2003. Charles Bronson's birth name was Karolis Buchinskis (Charles Dennis Buchinsky), being one of 15 children to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Lipka Tatar ancestry and Lithuanian-American mother. The Buchinkys' lived in the notorious Ehrenfeld, a Pennsylvania coal-mining neighborhood of Scooptown, in the Pittsburgh Tri-State area. His father died when he was only 10, so he worked with his older brothers in the coal mines earning a mere $1 per ton of coal mined in support of his family and a matter of survival. In fact his family was so poor ... Read Full Story

Posted by getz3551 57 minutes ago ( http://newyug.blogspot.com ) View profile Category : Entertainment | Tags : charlie bronson michael peterson tom ha Charlie Bronson, Britain’s most violent prisoner and the antihero of Nicolas Winding Refn’s tour de force, is a man with a calling. He just needed jail time to find it. In 1974, Charlie robs a post office and draws a seven-year sentence. But stone walls do not a prison make. His “hotel room” becomes an incubator for his art, which is violence. Taking a perverse glee in fighting, he’s sent to a mental institution, where, drugged and drooling, he still musters ... Read Full Story

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