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MATT DILLON

Matt Dillon

I wasn’t a crazy super fan of Matt Dillon as a kid, but I did like the movies he was in. I’m proud of the actor he has become. I’ve been there from the beginning and feel I kind of have the right to be proud of him. He started out as a teen idol and kind of a pretty boy. I remember seeing him on a talk show and he came off as not very intelligent. But he looked good with his shirt off, so there’s that.

Matt Dillon was born in New York on February 18, 1964. Talent scouts discovered him while he was cutting math class in middle school. I LOVE math! I would have never cut math class. It was history class that I liked to cut. It’s stupid. Who cares. It already happened. Anyway, the scouts found Matt in a corridor at school and approached him. He was a dick to them but ended up being cast in the movie Over the Edge. The moral of the story kids is “Be a dick and come out on top”.

Matt Dillon Trivia

Jazzy Matt

Doing research for this blog has given me newfound respect for Matt Dillon. I love the fact that he’s into jazz. I read an interview where he mentioned Fats Navarro and Clifford Brown. Most people don’t know anything about these jazz trumpeters. (Clifford Brown is one of my heroes.)

Matt realizes that he has some holes in his education due to the fact that he dropped out of high school (and wasn’t a great student when he did go to school). I think he’s like me in that he reads and learns about things that he’s interested in. He may not be educated in the conventional way, but he is an educated man.

Matt Dillon is one of the few teen idols from my era who is still going strong. Leif Garrett is addicted to heroin. Scott Baio is on Twitter pissing people off. Corey Haim is dead. Ralph Macchio tried to be a dancer. Like I said earlier, I’m very proud of the actor that Matt Dillon has become…and he’s way cool because he’s into Clifford Brown.

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