- Born
- Birth nameTimothy James Nasson
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Tim Nasson was born on June 7, 1971. He grew up in Somerville, MA, moving to Boston's Back Bay in 1993. He launched the movie website Wild About Movies in 2004.
The first in his autobiographical trilogy, which begins with The Boy With No Blood, (about his childhood and being raised in the Jehovah's Witness cult) and ends with My Life In First, arrives in 2023.
Beginning at the age of 17 he traveled from Boston to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11 or 181 almost every other weekend for three decades - to interview celebrities for their upcoming theatrical movie releases - and stayed at the Four Seasons @ Beverly Hills while there.
He became friends with many of the celebrities he interviewed. Until 2019, his interviews were syndicated to some of the largest newspapers and magazines in America, including The Chicago Sun-Times, The Windy City Times, Bay Area Reporter, HX, Bay Windows and the Boston area daily papers, The Patriot Ledger, The Middlesex News and The News-Times in Connecticut. As of 2019 his features appear in Boston Globe Media Partners and elsewhere.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Is a film historian, with an encyclopedic knowledge of all 70s, 80s and 90s movies, with an emphasis on 80s movies of all genres.
- Favorite Disney animated movies: 101 Dalmatians, Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, The Fox And The Hound, Beauty And The Beast.
- Was never carded to see an R-Rated movie, even though he began seeing them by himself at the age of 14 at the Sack Cinemas Assembly Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, and Sack Cinemas Copley Place in Boston in 1986.
- First celebrity interview was Julia Roberts for the movie Mystic Pizza, in 1988. No other press in Boston were interested in interviewing her, so Tim did for his high school newspaper. They sat together at Arnie's, a restaurant in Copley Place that now houses Legal Seafoods.
- Was able to interview these dearly departed for some of their best offerings (mostly in person at the Four Seasons @ Beverly Hills), for the daily newspapers The Patriot Ledger, The Tab and Boston Metro, as well as Boston Globe Media Partners: Betty White (for The Golden Girls: Season 1 DVD release in 2004 and a Boston Globe feature in 2020); Paul Walker (for The Skulls, The Fast and the Furious, Timeline); Richard Donner (for Timeline); Heath Ledger (for A Knight's Tale, The Patriot, Brokeback Mountain); Larry McMurtry (for Brokeback Mountain); Wes Craven (for Music of the Heart); Orson Bean (for Being John Malkovich); John Frankenheimer for (Reindeer Games); Robert Altman (for Cookie's Fortune); Fred Willard (for A Mighty Wind); Joel Schumacher (for Falling Down, 8 MM); Peter O'Toole (for Troy); John Schlessinger (for Cold Comfort Farm); Garry Shandling (for What Planet Are You From?); Nora Ephron (for Lucky Numbers); Robert Forester (for Jackie Brown); John Singleton (for Shaft, Baby Boy, Four Brothers); Bill Paxton (for Twister); Dennis Farina (for That Old Feeling); Harold Ramis (for Orange County, Analyze This, Analyze That); Steve Irwin (for Crocodile Hunter); Franco Zeffirelli (for Tea With Mussolini); Paul Newman (for Where The Money Is); Sydney Pollack (for The Firm, Random Hearts); Mike Nichols (for What Planet Are You From?); Robin Williams (What Dreams May Come, Good Will Hunting); Brittany Murphy (for Girl, Interrupted and Riding In Cars with Boys); Doris Roberts (for Everybody Loves Raymond); Lynn Redgrave (for Shine); Patricia Neal (for Cookie's Fortune); Ulu Grosbard (for The Deep End of the Ocean); Philip Seymour Hoffman (for Capote); Jonathan Demme (for The Manchurian Candidate 2004); James Gandolfini (for The Mexican); Marianne Sägebrecht (for Rosalie Goes Shopping); Krzysztof Kieslowski (for Three Colors: Red); Katrin Cartlidge (for Breaking The Waves); Lady Chablis (for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil); David Foster Wallace (for the novel Infinite Jest); Herb Ritts (for Herb Ritts: Work); Anne Heche (Psycho), Sally Kellerman (for Night Club).
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