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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Pauly Shore (1968 - ) Comedian Also: Actor Born: February 1, 1968, Hollywood, CA Education: Beverly Hills High School A wildly goofy, deliberately obnoxious standup comedian, Shore shot to fame on MTV, and later moved his established weasel persona into features. The son of comic Sammy Shore, who opened for Elvis Presley in Las Vegas in the 1960s and 70s, and Mitzi Shore, the powerful and influential owner of L.A.'s The Comedy Store, Shore grew up surrounded by comics. At 19, he began trying to tickle funny bones himself, both at his mother's and other clubs. Shore also guested on TV in 21 Jump Street and had small feature roles in FOR KEEPS (1988) and 18 AGAIN! (1988). His trademarked kinky curly hair and his emerging man-child image, horny and eager to talk crudely about sex, yet also geeky and airheaded, attracted attention. It especially appealed to teens, who identified with an underachieving nerd yet imitated and admired an already congealed style they also saw as cool. MTV proved to be the perfect arena for Shore's image, his popular Totally Pauly first aired during afternoons, but during summers expanded its time slot and moved to midnight. Shore's core audience, young grads uncertain of their futures, loved his hysterical espousal of whatever he found maa-jor, buuuddy. His breakthrough film came with the surprise hit ($40 million domestically) HOMBRE DE CALIFORNIA (1992), as one of two pals who find a prehistoric man and try to acclimatize him to the 90s, thus proving just how unevolved they are themselves. Shore subsequently bounded into his own film vehicles, showcasing his fish out of water antics in MI FUTURO YERNO (1993), in which his patented L.A. boy must take to the farm, and IN THE ARMY NOW (1994), where Shore joins up and gets his trademarked hairdo shaved off. The box office dip of these two vehicles was noticeable but slight, suggesting a solid profitmaking system for Shore's films, whose costs have been modest. JURY DUTY (1995), with Shore disrupting the legal system, and BIO-DOME (1996), in which he and a pal (Stephen Baldwin) stumble into an experimental man-made ecosystem, though, marked a sizable decline in popularity. For a time, Shore had other things to contend with, including the suicide of his girlfriend, porn star Shannon Savannah Wilsey, after she injured her face in a car crash. The comic has retrenched, though, returning regularly to his home base on TV, continuing to perform live and making a more serious comedy with the low-budget indie THE CURSE OF INFERNO.
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