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ASolo ago

Personal life[edit]

Korine was born in Bolinas, California and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Eve and Sol Korine.[3] His father was a tapdancer and produced documentaries for PBS in the 1970s about an "array of colorful Southern characters"; he would take Korine to carnivals and circuses[4] and taught him how to use a Bolex camera.[5] As a child, Korine watched movies with his father, who rented Buster Keaton films and took him to see Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) in the theater. Korine reminisces, "I knew there was a poetry in cinema that I had never seen before that was so powerful."[6][7] As a child, Korine changed his name from "Harmony" and went by "Harmful," as he thought it made him sound tougher when he got in fights.[8] Korine spent his childhood in Nashville, attending Hillsboro High School before moving to New York City to live with his grandmother.[1] Korine also spent some time living with his parents in a commune, which helped to inspire the commune setting of Mister Lonely.[9] As a teenager, Korine frequented revival theaters, watching classic films by John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Alan Clarke. In an interview with Bruce LaBruce, Korine briefly mentioned that he studied Business Administration in college. Other sources[who?] state that he studied Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for one semester before dropping out to pursue a career as a professional skateboarder.

Korine met Chloë Sevigny in Washington Square Park in New York City during her senior year of high school in 1993.[10][11] The two became close friends, which resulted in her being cast in the low-budget independent film Kids (1995).[12][13] They had a relationship that ended in the early 2000s. He is now married to actress Rachel (Simon) Korine, with whom he has one child, Lefty Bell Korine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Korine

Raised in Jewish family from Nashville, Tennessee with a tapdancing father that would take him to carnivals and circuses? Oye.

No wonder this:

Harmony Korine on Letterman 1997

Joe10jo ago

No fucking way!! I went to Hillsboro High School!!!

ASolo ago

No shit. I found it quite odd that a Jewish person rose to such prominence in Hollywood coming from such a bumfuck part of the country.

Joe10jo ago

Yeah so bumfuck half of Hwood’s moved to it.

ASolo ago

No insult on you intended btw. However, the country-western genre of entertainment has really got this country in a mindfuck and has always been a hub of human trafficking.