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2 unusual facts about coming of age


Coming of age

In the traditional faith of the Yoruba people of West Africa and the myriad of New World religions that it subsequently birthed, men and women are often initiated to the service of one of the hundreds of subsidiary spirits that serve the Orisha Olodumare, the group's conception of the Almighty God.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

It is a coming-of-age story that tracks Berkman's difficult loss of his youthful sentimental idealism as he struggles with the physical and psychological conditions of prison life, at times bringing him to the verge of suicide.


Babyji

Set in 1980s Delhi, India, it recounts the coming of age and the sexual adventures and fantasies of a 16-year-old bespectacled schoolgirl, the only child of a Brahmin family.

Calvin Marshall

Calvin Marshall is a 2009 coming of age-comedy film written and directed by Gary Lundgren and starring Alex Frost as the title character, a determined but talentless college baseball player, and Steve Zahn as his coach.

David Gordon Green

Green's films, which are usually coming-of-age tales set in small rural towns, have been categorized as belonging to the Southern Gothic tradition.

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Welcome to the Dollhouse is a 1995 American independent coming of age comedy film.


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15 Años

Quinceañera, a Latino-American party where they celebrate the coming of age of a 15 year old girl

1981–82 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland

The Ella brothers, Steve Williams, Simon Poidevin, Andrew Slack, Brendan Moon, Michael Hawker and Roger Gould all in this 1981-82 tour gave a preview of great days ahead and of Australia's eventual coming of age as a world-class rugby nation.

Angela Menzies-Wills

Angela Menzies-Wills is an Australian Actress from Melbourne known for roles in films such as Fantasm Comes Again, Felicity, Leonora,Pacific Banana and Coming Of Age.

Buffalo Boys

Buffalo Boys is the first feature film from director Ray Guarnieri, and has won several awards at film festivals in the northeast including “Best Coming of Age Film” at the 2013 Manhattan Film Festival, as well as “Best Crime Drama” at the 2013 International Indie Gathering Film Festival in Cleveland, Ohio.

Coming of Age in Samoa

Since its first publication, Coming of Age in Samoa was the most widely read book in the field of anthropology, until Napoleon Chagnon's "Yanomamö: The Fierce People" took the lead in sales.

Craig Richard Nelson

This led to a long career in film and television, including three Robert Altman films, A Wedding, 3 Women, and Quintet and an important role in the cult coming-of-age comedy My Bodyguard, as well as a reoccurring role as drama teacher Mr. Spacek on the 1980s television show Square Pegs.

Cyr Myrddin, the Coming of Age of Merlin

Cyr Myrddin, The Coming of Age of Merlin is a novel originally published in hardcover in 1979 and written by Michael de Angelo.

Eva Gram Schjoldager

In 1981, Shjoldager received international attention for her leading role as the bullied schoolgirl, Elin, in Nils Malmros's coming-of-age drama Tree of Knowledge (Kundskabens træ).

Gabrielle Kurlander

During the 2008-2009 Castillo Theatre season, she co-directed the musical Coming of Age in Korea with the dancer/choreographer Desmond Richardson.

Gonzalo Lira

His first Spanish language novel was Tomáh Errázurih, a highly experimental coming-of-age story published in 1998.

Honey in the Horn

It is about the coming of age of an orphan boy named Clay Calvert, but it is also the about the trials of the pioneers who came to Oregon following the American Dream.

How Soon Is Never

If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom era, your main concerns include one or more of the following: a rainbow assortment of Polo shirts worn with the collar flipped up, K-Swiss tennis shoes, a new cable channel called MTV, and Top 40 radio.

Ian Mune

One of his best-loved films is the 1991 'coming of age' drama The End of the Golden Weather, a film version of Bruce Mason's play, written by Mune and Mason.

Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C.

IFFP meets most Sundays during the school year at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, Maryland, providing dual-faith religious education for over 150 children through a Sunday School for pre-school through eighth grade, a "Coming of Age" program for 7th and 8th graders, and a teen group.

Jasmine Simhalan

In the summer of 2000, Simhalan both choreographed for and performed in the award winning production, Coming of Age, directed by Keith Khan.

Jeremy Sumpter

He completed filming roles in the coming-of-age comedy Calvin Marshall, the family comedy You're So Cupid, Soul Surfer and Death And Cremation.

John Dillwyn Llewelyn

Upon coming of age he inherited his maternal grandfather John Llewelyn's estates of Penllergaer and Ynysygerwn, near Swansea, and assumed the additional surname of Llewelyn.

John Somerville, 4th Lord Somerville

The historian only found one charter signed by John at Edinburgh in 1510 connected with his coming-of-age, and assumes the Lord spent most of his life at Cowthally Castle near Carnwath.

Johnny Got His Gun

In the Italian anti-war comic strip Sturmtruppen, a young soldier called "Sigfrid Von Nibelunghen", who voluntarily enlisted before coming of age due to the pro-war propaganda he was subject to at school, suffers the same fate as Joe Bonham.

Ketley Canal

His father managed the works at Coalbrookdale from 1763 to 1768, following the death of Abraham Darby II and the coming of age of his son, Abraham Darby III.

Larry Clamage

He has written, directed and produced a wide variety of notable documentaries, including Carl Hancock Rux, Coming of Age and The Lost Boys: The Journey to Freedom, both recipients of CINE Golden Eagle Awards.

Lee Cormie

Cormie dialed down the intensity a few dozen notches (and connected with material more commonly associated with his age bracket) as the lead actor alongside Daniel Radcliffe in the evocative Aussie coming-of-age picture December Boys (2007).

Line Arlien-Søborg

In 1981, Arlien-Søborg first received attention for her role as the conniving schoolgirl, Anne-Mette, in Nils Malmros's coming-of-age drama Tree of Knowledge (Kundskabens træ).

Michael McGruther

In 2001, Extra Life, a drama about coming-of-age in the digital world; in 2004, Arthur C. Clarke's prophetic novel Prelude to Space; and in 2005, Blood Son, based on the 1951 short story by legendary science fiction and horror writer Richard Matheson.

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy is a coming of age film, complete with suspense, drama, comedic relief and Civil War references.

Perks

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a 1999 coming-of-age epistolary novel by Stephen Chbosky; also refers to the film adaptation.

Random Family

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx is a 2003 narrative non-fiction study of urban life by American writer Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.

Rose Rosenblatt

A coming of age story of a teenage girl in Lubbock, Texas who transforms from a conservative, abstinence until marriage pledging Southern Baptist to a Democratic feminist and supporter of gay rights.

Sam's Son

Like Landon's TV film The Loneliest Runner it is loosely based on Landon's early life, and follows the coming-of-age story of a young man who, embarrassed by his large ears, grows his hair long (covering them), later coming to believe that this gives him athletic prowess as a javelin thrower (much like Samson of the Old Testament).

Sir Thomas Aston Clifford-Constable, 2nd Baronet

On his coming of age in 1828 Thomas inherited not only Tixall Hall, the family seat, but also Burton Constable Hall and an estate at Wycliffe, County Durham.

Starts Friday

Initially written in 2000 for HBO's first season of Project Greenlight, Starts Friday is the brainchild of a former movie theater projectionist and film school graduate who assembled a $500 shooting budget, some unknown actors from Milwaukee, a makeshift crew, and an interesting assortment of East Side Milwaukee locations for this coming-of-age, stoner comedy.

Terenci Moix

An annual literature prize, bearing his name, the Terenci Moix Fundación Arena de Narrativa Gay y Lésbica has been instituted; won most recently by the Anglo-Spanish novelist Rafael Peñas Cruz for his coming-of-age work "Charlie".

The Brat Pack Years

The group of "Brat Pack" actors and actresses, which included Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall and Andrew McCarthy, have all appeared in one or more teen oriented coming-of-age films, such as The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink.

The Doe Boy

Set in 1984 in the heart of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, The Doe Boy tells the coming of age story of Hunter (James Duval), a young man of mixed heritage who is also a haemophiliac.

The Gospel According to Larry

The Gospel According to Larry is a "coming of age" political, romantic teen novel by Janet Tashjian that explores anti-consumerism.

The Little Traitor

Starring Alfred Molina and featuring Theodore Bikel, this is a coming of age tale of the unlikely bond between a kind British soldier and a spirited Jewish boy set against the backdrop of the birth of the State of Israel.

Three Rivers Film Festival

Festival sidebars for 2012 included Polish Cinema, Women Filmmakers and Coming-of-Age films and had major sponsorships from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Art Institute, Avis, and Kodak.

Walter Sparrow

His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, with Sparrow playing key roles in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as the blinded retainer Duncan, 1993's The Secret Garden as gruff gardener Ben Weatherstaff, and the 1995 American coming-of-age film Now and Then as tragic drifter 'Crazy Pete'.

Whole New Thing

Filmed entirely on location in Mahone Bay and Halifax, Nova Scotia, during winter and over the course of 15 days, the film is an unconventional coming-of-age narrative of a 13 year old boy, Emerson Thorsen (played by Aaron Webber).

XIX Tactical Air Command

Wilt, Alan F. (Alan F. Wilt) (1985), Coming of Age: XIX Tac's Roles During The 1944 Dash Across France, Air University Review, March-April 1985