Birth nameMarvin Lee Aday Birth information27 September 1947, Dallas, Texas, USA BioMeat Loaf was born in Texas, and moved to Los Angeles in 1967 to play in local bands and appear in musicals such as "Hair" and "As You Like It". He made his film debut with a memorable role in cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). In 1977, he and lyricist Jim Steinman released an operatic rock album called "Bat Out Of Hell", the record was huge and has sold 35,000,000 copies worldwide. However, the tour promoting the album took a toll on Meat's voice and left him unable to sing on the follow-up record "Bad For Good". Meat Loaf stayed in the dark through the eighties doing 4 records which never got any airplay or chart position in the US. Meat Loaf appeared in films Out of Bounds (1986) as a Pilot, and The Squeeze (1987) with Michael Keaton. But after getting back together with Steinman, they delivered a powerful sequel "Bat Out Of Hell II" which went to #1 in the US and UK. Bat II has now sold an excess of 20,000,000 copies. His TV credits include the Soldier being held prisoner in Vietnam in "Lightning Force" (1991), a mad Doctor who invents a serum to keep zombies from deteriorating in "Monsters" (1988) and a slick Landlord of a restaurant who ends up on the menu in HBO series "Tales from the Crypt" (1989). Meat Loaf has also appeared in Crazy in Alabama (1999) and Fight Club (1999).

Meat Loaf is to star in a children's TV program. The 61-year-old rocker will be featured in an episode of new 13-part U.K. TV series "Bookaboo" - which is aimed at helping children learn to read - where he will read a book to a rock star puppy who has to hear "a story a day or he just can't play."
Meat Loaf - who will read 'The Lamb Who Came for Dinner' on the show - offered tips for adults planning to tell their kids stories, saying: "You need to have fun with reading, you need to be a little animated and if it's scary make them shiver under the covers. If it's friendly and happy make them feel fuzzy and warm."
Meat Loaf - real name Marvin Lee Aday - raised two daughters, Pearl and Amanda, with his ex-wife Leslie.
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Best Picture:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire

We said it earlier in our Oscar night rundown: It was the best picture of 2008. And isn't this really what it's all about? The Academy gets it wrong a lot, but this year, they were dead-on. Incidentally, our own prediction that this would sweep in its nine categories fell just one short, losing Best Sound Editing. But as Meat Loaf kind of said once, eight out of nine ain't bad.
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Indie moviemaker Don Adams gave Fango the exclusive first look at the updated trailer (with additional zombie action) and some photos from Dozers, his latest collaboration with fellow writer/director/producer Harry James Picardi. You can see them all below the cut.

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Dozers is the third feature on which the duo have teamed on those three key positions, after 2001’s Vengeance Of The Dead and 2002’s Jigsaw; they’ve also edited numerous flicks for Charles Band and David DeCoteau. “A few years ago, our homeless-zombie script Urban Decay was shot [by director Harry Basil] with Dean Cain,

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