Imagine having Tom Cruise play your life story in a movie, and ending up on stage in Hollywood celebrating the movie's two Oscars? All Ron Kovic had to do to achieve this fantasy was serve three tours of duty in Vietnam, get paralyzed for life by combat wounds, and write a best-selling book about it all. A war veteran turned antiwar-activist, Kovic...
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Movies
One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern, Postcards from the Edge, Born on the Fourth of July, Operation Last Patrol
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.
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Fact
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His nephew, Adam Kovic, is part of a YouTube gaming collective called Funhaus.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 135, pages 224-228. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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He and director Oliver Stone wrote much of the script together at a cafe in Venice, CA.
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He gave Tom Cruise his Bronze star as a birthday present in 1990.
$1 Million
