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ADOPTION

By: Kenji


A.I: Artficial Intelligence

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(from) To an Adopted Child

“Never forget for a single minute
You didn’t grow under my heart
But in it.”

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Missing from the site:

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

This list is intended as a resource for anyone interested in the subject, which i think is quite important, as it deals with issues of identity, loss, search, institutions, wider conditions, social and inter-national attitudes. I’ve included informal as well as formal adoptions here.

Suggestions welcome

Adoptees:
Carl-Theodor Dreyer
Ray Liotta
Marilyn Monroe
Michael Bay
Priscilla Presley
Ingrid Bergman (looked after by aunt and uncle after parents’ deaths)
Naomi Kawase (by her grandmother)
Anna Magnani
Stan Brakhage
Peter Finch
George Cole
Jack Nicholson (by grandparents, believing them his parents)
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Krishna (fostered to prevent his being killed)
Jesus Christ (by Joseph)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
Jesse Jackson
Crazy Horse
Edgar Allen Poe
Nelson Mandela
Edgar Allen Poe (fostered not formally adopted by a merchant when orphaned)
Debbie Harry
William the Conqueror
Aristotle
Ella Fitzgerald
Joseph Conrad (by family)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Moses
Marshall Tito
Eric Clapton (by grandparents)
Leo Tolstoy
John James Audubon
Roman Abramovic
Dalai Lamas (by monks)
Mike Tyson (raised in institution then guardianship)

Adopters:
Steven Spielberg
Shimizu Hiroshi
Mia Farrow
Sharon Stone
Julie Andrews
Jane Fonda
Henry Fonda
Diane Keaton
Bette Davis
Paul Newman
Harpo Marx
Walt Disney
Michelle Pfeiffer
Isabella Rossellini
Jane Russell
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Alexander the Great
Madonna

Other adoptees/adopters in the film world please

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Citizen Kane

 

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WhatsUpWill

9Jun12

The Kid with a Bike is the probably the best movie about adoption I have ever seen. :')

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    Kenji

    9Jun12

    Thanks for this- i've been wanting to see it, without knowing the plot.

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Kenji

28Sep10

ha, of course, why not?

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Flying Dutchman

27Sep10

Great subject for a list. How about Citizen Kane?

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Kenji

14Aug10

Thanks, i wasn't aware of The Orphan of Anyang. I'm surprised there doesn't seem much interest in this subject

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