A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Queens, NY
Born:
June 19, 1964
David Barton is a fitness visionary known for his unique gym concepts and his impact on the fitness industry, particularly in New York City. He founded David Barton Gym, TMPL, and most recently, Gym U, each known for its distinctive design and energetic atmosphere. Barton is often credited with making working out cool and creating gyms that blur the lines between fitness and nightlife. He had a small part as the hunky Boy in Chains at the pageant in the film "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar."
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.