A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
René Elizondo, Jr.
Birthplace:
Durango, Mexico
Born:
July 16, 1962
Born in Durango, Mexico, Elizondo and Jackson met in the mid-1980s while he was back up dancer to Janet's older sister Latoya Jackson. Elizondo and Jackson married secretly in 1991. Elizondo directed her videos for "That's the Way Love Goes", "Again", and "Together Again" (Deeper Remix) and was a songwriter on The Velvet Rope. It is his hands that cover Jackson's breasts on the cover of the September 1993 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, the expanded cover art of her janet. album. René also appeared in Jackson's "Come Back to Me" video in 1990 from her album Rhythm Nation (1989). Elizondo was heavily involved in Jackson's business affairs, but the two fell out as marital partners. Following their divorce, Elizondo sued Jackson for spousal support.
Director:
2004 Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos
Executive Producer:
1989 Rhythm Nation 1814
2004 Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos
Producer:
1989 Rhythm Nation 1814
2004 Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos
2022 People Like You
Writer:
1989 Rhythm Nation 1814
2004 Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos
2022 People Like You
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.