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Apr 24, 2009 · The friendship between Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles Times columnist, and Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless musician, has inspired newspaper columns, a book and now a movie. In 2008, Lopez joined Fresh Air...
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The Soloist is a 2009 drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The plot is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless. The film was released in theaters on April 24, 2009.
Jan 15, 2018 · The life of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, 65, is the true story behind the 2009 film, The Soloist, staring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The 65-year-old is a musical prodigy who can play...
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Apr 15, 2023 · Yes, ‘The Soloist’ is based on a true story. The screenplay was written by Susannah Grant based on Steve Lopez’s ‘The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music,’ which in turn is based on the columns the journalist wrote about Nathaniel Ayers when they first met each other.
Apr 23, 2009 · "The Soloist," based on a true story, tells how Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez, played by Robert Downey Jr., discovered the homeless Ayers and helped the former music prodigy, who...
Apr 22, 2009 · Based on a true story, it stars Jamie Foxx as Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless man who was once a musical prodigy, and Robert Downey Jr. as Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles Times columnist who writes a column about him, bonds with him, makes him famous, becomes discouraged by the man's mental illness and -- what?
Apr 24, 2009 · The Soloist is the true story of Lopez's discovery of, and fitful friendship with, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a homeless, schizophrenic cello player. Lopez first meets Ayers at a...
