Writer
1933 - 1991
Jerzy Kosiński
Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
Jerzy Nikodem Kosiński , born Józef Lewinkopf, was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. For several decades, Kosinski was famous as a wit, a great raconteur, and a media celebrity. His first three... Read full bio →
Being There
Hal Ashby
1979
2h 10m
7.9
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
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