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The Late Bloomer (2016) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Toni Morrison published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, at age 40 as a single mom.
- Dorothy Allison was 42 when Bastard Out of Carolina came out.
- George Eliot published her first novel at 40.
- Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn at age 49.
- 162 VOTES. Alan Rickman. Alan Rickman occupied at least two strong areas of film: as a villain, and as the thinking woman’s romantic lead.
- 120 VOTES. Ian McKellen. Ian McKellen, in a similar fashion to Malcolm McDowell, has a voice that loiters in the north of England between bursts of received pronunciation.
- 139 VOTES. Samuel L. Jackson. Samuel L. Jackson toiled away during the 1970s as a New York theater actor - notably in a couple of August Wilson plays, one of which (The Piano Lesson) was in more recent years revived by his actor/director wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, on Broadway.
- 116 VOTES. Patrick Stewart. For 16 years, in addition to being a pop-up actor in British television dramas, Yorkshireman Patrick Stewart was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Late Bloomer is part garden philosophy and part on-the-ground strategies and tips from the author and expert gardeners across the U.S. With color photos on almost every page, this inviting and practical book is organized around the four tenets of the Late Bloomer philosophy: Simplicity. Beauty and Harmony. Comfort and Ease.
- St. Lynn's Press
- Alan Rickman. When Die Hard made Alan Rickman famous, he was 42 years old. Rickman wasn't always well-known on screen for the many roles he portrayed. However, he was well known and respected for his theatrical parts until he was 42 years old and took on the character of Hans Gruber for 1988's Die Hard.
- Morgan Freeman. When Morgan Freeman was 52 years old, he had his breakthrough year. Before 1989, when he rose to fame for his parts in films like Glory then Driving Miss Daisy, the last of which garnered him a nomination for the Oscar for best actor, Freeman had been toiling as an actor for years with varying degrees of success.
- Susan Boyle. A professionally educated but ineffective vocalist, Susan Boyle depleted her earned money by purchasing produced recordings to submit to record labels and talent events.
- Liam Neeson. Neeson won arthouse notoriety for critically acclaimed but underappreciated films like The Mission in the 1980s. It wasn't till Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List in 1993 that he rose to fame.
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P.S. Most of the books mentioned, quoted, or referred to in the story are real. However, one is not -- The Late Bloomer by Leon Friedman may have "reviews" on book sites, but it doesn't really exist! Just goes to show that Gabrielle Zevin's writing skills can make a reader want to read The Late Bloomer.
“I fell deep into the postapocalyptic and addictively complex world of The Late Bloomer and didn’t want it to end. Not only is it a wonderful, binge-able story, but the voice of the central character had me hooked from the beginning, and Kevin March became a person I cared about, thought about, even after the last page was finished.”
