Slavni rodaci :: Ivan Reitman Traditional Geocache

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Ivan Reitman born on October 27 1946 in Komarno, Slovakia. His concentration camp-survivor parents fled with him to Canada at the age of four after the Communists came to power in Czechoslovakia (after WWII). His nickname Ivanco seems to be related to Ivanko, the typical Slovak diminutive form of the name Ivan.
      After majoring in music at McMasters University, Reitman's first project Columbus of Sex, a 1969 adaptation of the notorious Victorian sex novel My Secret Life, nearly landed him in jail. The film was considered soft porn and deemed out of line according to the new Canada's decency laws. He was convicted, fined $300 and put on probation for a year, despite widespread critical acclaim and support from the arts community. He went on to direct, produce, edit and score the mildly exploitive Foxy Lady (1971), then directed and produced the horror semi-spoof Cannibal Girls (1973). In-between handling the producing chores on several early David Cronenberg movie projects, Reitman produced Doug Henning's 1974 Broadway musical The Magic Show, then he helped elevate John Belushi to film stardom with his spectacularly successful 1978 production National Lampoon's Animal House, doing the same for Bill Murray in his 1979 directorial effort Meatballs, which ended up the biggest-grossing Canadian film of the year.
     After flirting with the Cinema of the Fantastic in his productions Heavy Metal (1981) and Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), Reitman combined fantasy and comedy with his direction of the 1984 cash cow Ghostbusters. Though he has earned his comic stripes as a director, Reitman continues to produce and executive-produce other director's projects, notably the runaway hit Beethoven (1991). However, not every Reitman's project has turned to box-office gold: After helping to give Arnold Schwarzenegger a lighter, more amusing image in Kindergarten Cop (1990), he failed to do same with Sylvester Stallone in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1991). Other of his major Hollywood movies include Legal Eagles, Dave, Fathers' Day, and Six Days Seven Nights.
     Ivan Reitman, as a producer and director, has created many of American cinema's most successful and best loved feature film comedies and has worked with Hollywood's acting elite. His son, Jason Reitman (born in 1977) is also a film director and was nominated in 2007 with Movie " Thank You for Smoking" for 2 Golden Globes in Category Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.
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