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Yahoo Serious (born 27 July 1953), born Greg Pead (name-change by deed poll in 1980), is an Australian film actor, director and score composer. He is best known for his 1988 comedy ''Young Einstein''. He also created ''Reckless Kelly'' in 1993 and ''Mr. Accident'' in 2000. Serious writes, directs, produces, stars in, and has composed the scores for his movies. ==Early life and career== Yahoo Serious was born in Cardiff, City of Lake Macquarie in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia. He went to Glendale East Public School and Cardiff High School, then worked as a tyre fitter to pay for his tuition at the National Art School in Sydney. After being expelled, Serious co-wrote, co-produced, and directed his first film at age 21, a documentary called ''Coaltown'' which explored the social and political history of coal mining. The following year, his television series ''Lifestyle'' won the Australian Penguin Award for Best Educational Documentary. In 1988, Serious co-wrote, produced, and directed ''Young Einstein'', an intentionally inaccurate movie portraying Albert Einstein as a young farmer in Tasmania who derives the formula E=mc² while trying to discover a means of creating beer bubbles, splitting the lager atom in the process. After leaving the apple isle for Sydney on the mainland to patent his discovery, he goes on to develop rock music and surfing, romances Marie Curie, and saves Paris from an atomic bomb. The film's popularity propelled Serious to stardom. In 1993, Serious released his next film, ''Reckless Kelly'', a satire about a modern descendant of the notorious Australian bank robber Ned Kelly who also becomes a movie star in Hollywood. While ''Reckless Kelly'' was a hit in Australia, it failed outside of the country and ended Serious's bid for mainstream international popularity. In 2000, Yahoo Serious released his third film ''Mr. Accident'', about the most accident-prone man in the world. Like ''Reckless Kelly'', the film was not a commercial success. Yahoo Serious received an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle in 1996. Serious was a guest celebrity for the opening of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He is a director of The Kokoda Track Foundation. 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「Yahoo Serious」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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