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John Paul Pinette ( ; March 23, 1964 – April 5, 2014) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and Broadway performer. He toured the comedy club circuit beginning in the 1980s and appeared in cinema and on television. Besides stand-up Pinette did various impressions, among them Michael Jackson, The Chipmunks, Elvis Presley, Gollum from ''The Lord of the Rings'', Hervé Villechaize (Tattoo from ''Fantasy Island''), an Ewok, actor Marlon Brando (notably Brando's role in ''The Godfather)'', as well as a range of regional accents. He occasionally sang in his stand-up routines, working in songs such as "Over the Rainbow" from ''The Wizard of Oz'', "Will You Be There" from ''Free Willy'', and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina". Early life Pinette was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 23, 1964, the son of Robert Pinette Sr. (1929–1988) and Louise Pitre (Petrie) (1927–1982). His mother was of Acadian ancestry, with both her parents from New Brunswick, Canada. He graduated from Ma ...
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Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ...
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