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- Ira Newborn was born on December 26, 1949 in New York, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) and 48 Hrs. (1982).
- He worked with legendary filmmaker John Hughes on 5 films, namely Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck between 1984 and 1989.
- Billy took me over to this... little white piano that had eight thousand cigarette burns on the keys, and a whole bunch of keys didn't work at all... Billy told me he played around those keys. And I saw him playing and he didn't just skip the keys, he played around them! And I said 'oh boy...'.
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