A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Jalen R. 'JStyles' Testerman
Born:
May 30, 2001
Jalen's passion and ambition to become a breakdancer began after watching the 2004 movie, You Got Served. Although only 4-years-old at the time, he taught himself how to headspin. The headspin remains his signature dance move. In his early years of dancing, he has performed on the Maury Povich Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and various NBA basketball games. He has appeared in The Seattle Times and numerous Seattle Sonics promos; including ads in The Seattle Post Intelligencer andNBA Seattle Sonics season tickets. Jalen has also appeared on Nickelodeon’s Fresh Beat Band Season 1 and in 2009, he was an invited competitor for Korea’s “Star Kings” TV show and Germany’s World Vision charity event. In 2011, he was invited to perform at a Christmas event in Hong Kong. His first movie role as a dancer was in the 2010 movie, “Step Up 3-D.” That was soon followed by his role as “Jose Jr.” in the 2011 Adam Sandler movie “Jack and Jill.” He was also featured in Justin Bieber’s, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” music video. The video is a lead in to the 2011 movie, “Arthur Christmas.” Jalen has also appeared in multiple dance tutorials on Disney’s “Shake It Up” and as “Little Six” in commercials for Six Flags theme parks. Jalen is currently the youngest member of MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” Season 2 winners, Super Cr3w. He appeared on the Season 5 Champions for Charity show with the rest of the crewmembers. Although breakdancing is his first passion, he also enjoys soccer, basketball, football, gymnastics, and just being a kid. He has black hair and brown eyes.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
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:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
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.