Forman

American

[fawr-muhn, fohr-] / ˈfɔr mən, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

Milos Jan Tomas Forman, 1932–2018, U.S. film director, born in the former Czechoslovakia.

Forman British

/ ˈfɔːmən /

noun

Miloš (ˈmiːləʊʃ). born 1932, Czech film director working in the USA. since 1968. His films include One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976), Amadeus (1985), and The People vs Larry Flynt (1996)

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Miloš Forman’s 1984 film version was lavished with Oscars, further cementing the work’s place in public consciousness.

From Los Angeles Times

Dr. Todd Forman is a practicing physician who went to Harvard, taught at USC, and played sax with Sublime.

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Also, the inventive, nonliteral staging by director Zack Winokur, choreographer Pam Tanowitz, co-set designers Mimi Lien and Jack Forman and lighting designer John Torres is astonishing to look at but not always intelligible.

From The Wall Street Journal

Most ingenious of all are the soap bubbles, devised by Mr. Forman, an MIT doctoral student, that drift around the stage as whirling snow.

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The theaters’ owners, the Decurion Corp., which is controlled by the Forman family, have said they remain committed to redeveloping the property, though no timeline has been announced.

From Los Angeles Times

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