Vincent Gallo

Vincent Gallo mini-bio: Vincent Gallo was born in Buffalo, New York on April 11, 1962, a middle child. Both his parents had emigrated from Sicily. He has said that "only real Italians are from Buffalo." After his father kicked him out of the house at the age of 16, Gallo began living in New York City, and from there traveling around most of Europe, only to find himself back in the wild scene of New York under the name, Prince Vince. He has been in many bands: The Plastics, Pork, Bohack, Gray - in which Jean Michel Basquiat was one of his band members, and good friend. He is also good friends with producer Rick Rubin, John Frusciante, and Johnny Ramone, among others. He first began painting, then racing motorcycles, and finally became an actor. His most notable work is Buffalo '66 (1998), an autobiographical film which he wrote, directed and scored. He's been in a band called "Bunny" with Lukas Haas. Even though they are no longer together, Vincent put out his own CD under Warp Records, titled "When". Gallo has modeled, most notably for Calvin Klein. Gallo was going to be in a movie about Charles Manson, playing the man himself, but clashed with the people behind it, something he is notorious for doing. In 2002 he released "Recordings of Music for a Film", which is some of his older music work remastered. A war of words erupted between Gallo and popular critic Roger Ebert in 2003 regarding the latter's negative criticism of The Brown Bunny at the Cannes Film Festival. Ebert wrote that The Brown Bunny was the worst film in the history of Cannes, and Gallo retorted by calling Ebert a "fat pig with the physique of a slave trader." Ebert then responded, paraphrasing a statement once made by Winston Churchill that "although I am fat, one day I will be thin, but Mr. Gallo will still have been the director of The Brown Bunny." Gallo then put a hex on Ebert's colon, cursing the critic with cancer. Roger Ebert then replied that enduring his colonoscopy would be more entertaining than watching The Brown Bunny. Later on, Gallo told Ebert that he had been misquoted, and he had actually wished him cancer of the prostate and not the colon.

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