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Jamie DeWolf (born October 28, 1977) is an American filmmaker, writer, slam poet, spoken word artist, and showman from Oakland, California.〔 DeWolf is best known for his work as a filmmaker for Youth Speaks Bigger Picture Project, with the performance trio The Suicide Kings, hosting the monthly ''Tourettes Without Regrets'' at the Oakland Metro OperaHouse, and for his work as a producer and performer on NPR's ''Snap Judgment''. DeWolf has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry, 60 Minutes, UPN, Inside Edition, and CBS. DeWolf directed, wrote and starred in the feature film ''Smoked. The Movie'' (2012). He is also the great-grandson of author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and an outspoken critic of the Church of Scientology. In 2000 he hosted the first ever anti-Scientology summit in Clearwater, Florida, which he continues to attend, and was a keynote speaker at the first international conference in Dublin, Ireland. ==Early life== DeWolf was born in Eureka. California, and as a teen raised baptist in the towns of Vallejo and Benicia, California. He was a “hardcore Christian kid” who hoped to become a Baptist minister; he would regularly hand out pamphlets on street corners. At the age of six, he was handed a book titled The Kingdom of the Cults by his pastor. The book referred to contemporary religious movements, and one stuck out: Scientology, founded by DeWolf's own great grandfather, L. Ron Hubbard. Since that point, DeWolf was fascinated with his ancestor's legacy, reading his books, and citing Hubbard's legacy as his inspiration to become an artist “I remember idolising L Ron as a kid, and I remember asking my mom all the time why couldn’t I meet him,” admits DeWolf. “I didn’t know at that point that he had created a religion, I just knew when I went into a bookstore I could find books by him – he was evidence to me that you could be a writer simply by your will alone. Outside of this man running this crazy church and brainwashing millions of people, at the same time he was just another family member,” As a teen, DeWolf was often sent to the school psychiatrist for what he was writing. "A lot of it was just too macabre, in retrospect. But I realized, even when I was a Christian kid, that a lot of what drew me into Christianity—and what they were certainly exploiting—was my fascination with demonology and the apocalypse, the Antichrist and the Whore of Babylon." He was enrolled in Christian School in 6th grade, and was expelled for a controversial underground zine he started there. He was sent back to public school, and again sent to the school psychologist for his writing and eventually expelled from high school. He was kicked out of two creative writing classes in community college, also for his writing. "Depressed, he composed an eight chapter suicide note that he wanted to publish, and then, in dramatic form, kill himself. He began to go to open mic nights and read portions of this suicide note to an audience. After reading it, DeWolf was always asked not to return." DeWolf started reading at open mics in 1997. Frequently rejected from stages for his controversial material, he eventually moved to poetry slam and started his own show. "I started in Vallejo and Benicia so I have a lot of love for people who just completely are defiant in the space of small towns who create a space for people to speak and to create an open forum. It's like flame throwers for moths. There's a lot of magic that can happen with that. It certainly changed my life." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jamie DeWolf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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