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Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966), usually credited as C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and film director. He starred in the films The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis and in The Hitcher as Jim Halsey. He has appeared in Soul Man, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, Gettysburg, H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stopped and Gods and Generals. Howell was born in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles to Christopher N. and Candice Howell. He has three siblings. His father worked as a stunt coordinator and rodeo performer. He played the role of the Red Knight in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King. As a young boy, Howell wanted to be a stuntman and was a child stunt performer. He was also a rodeo star. When Howell was young, his parents divorced. Howell graduated from Saugus High School in 1984. In 1982, Howell made his film debut as Tyler in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 15 in 1981, Howell was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983). Howell played the lead role of Ponyboy Curtis, "the soulful tagalong greaser through whose eyes we see the events of the 1960s-set film unfold." Based on S.E. Hinton's bestselling 1967 novel of the same name,the coming-of-age film went on to become a cult classic. Howell's portrayal of Ponyboy was his breakthrough role, and it earned him a Young Artist Award. In 1984, Howell and his Outsiders co-star Patrick Swayze reunited for Grandview, U.S.A. and Red Dawn. Howell also had a pivotal role in Tank (1984). In 1985, he starred in Secret Admirer. After filming The Outsiders, Howell co-starred in his own television series Two Marriages, which ended after four episodes, but letters of support got it back on air. He later expressed disappointment in the series. Howell was one of two final actors in the running for the lead role of Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985); the other was Eric Stoltz. Ultimately, Michael J. Fox was cast as Marty after Stoltz was deemed wrong for the part. In 1986, Howell was a hitchhiker's target in the film The Hitcher. He also starred in the sequel, which was released in 2003. In 1986, Howell starred in Soul Man, a film in which Howell appears in Blackface. Rounding out the 1980s , Howell played the young Arturo Toscanini in Franco Zeffirelli's 1988 film Young Toscanini.
C. Thomas Howell
Vince Russo
for Vince Russo in Riviera Rendezvous
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The French Riviera sparkled under a golden sun as Jack Callahan arrived in Nice hoping for a quiet getaway. Across the Côte d’Azur, Milo “Sugar” Romano, a sharp-witted former con artist, was plotting a daring heist: a legendary jewel called The Sapphire of Saint-Tropez, displayed at a glamorous Riviera gala. To pull it off, he enlisted Vince Russo and Leo “Lucky” Moretti, master gamblers and drivers. Henri Taboureau, a lovable, absent-minded French mechanic, restores a vintage yacht. Fate or pure chaos swept him into the unfolding schemes, his bungled repairs inadvertently thwarting and aiding the would-be thieves alike. In the midst of it all, Forrest King, a legendary Riviera thief in golden years, prepared to charm his way through the gala for a final heist, oblivious to the competition closing in from every direction. Rico Blaze, a flamboyant celebrity host, broadcast the gala live, his antics unintentionally complicating the thieves’ plans. Jack found himself falling for Clara Bellemont, a sophisticated heiress with secrets of her own, while Henri’s clumsy antics triggered a series of misunderstandings, flirtations, and accidental heroics. Near arrests, mistaken identities, and comical mishaps unfolded on the Riviera’s sun-drenched streets. Late at night in Monte Carlo, all schemes collided. In a dazzling scenes of clever escapes, speedboat chases, and last-minute improvisations, Jack and Clara finally slipped away aboard a restored vintage speedboat, the jewel safe.
