He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 film Love Liza, in which Philip starred.

In 2002, however, Hoffman starred as a widower coping with his wife's suicide in Love Liza, for which his brother, Gordy Hoffman, wrote the screenplay.

Gordy is the older brother of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the son of Marilyn O ' Connor, a judge in Rochester, New York.

Gordy Hoffman is the founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition -- widely considered one of the best screenplay competitions for finding and fostering undiscovered writing talent.

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The couple had two children, daughter Tamla Robinson ( b. 1969 ) and son Berry Robinson ( b. 1968 ), named after Motown's first label and Berry Gordy respectively.

" Nowhere to Run " is a 1965 pop single, b / w " Motoring ", by Martha and the Vandellas for the Gordy ( Motown ) label and is one of the group's signature songs.

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** Motown Records founded by Berry Gordy, Jr.

Later that year he began work on Mahogany ( 1975 ), starring Diana Ross, but was fired by Motown head Berry Gordy shortly after production began.

Gordy took over direction himself.

File: Lillian Carter. gif | Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter, mother of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, was born and raised in Richland.

Gordy, who said, " My concern is that people don ’ t get off their royal behinds.

Broken Bow was mentioned in the movie Gordy, with a glimpse of the ' Broken Bow ' stockyards which was completely fabricated to make the community look like a ghost town.

In 1960, the group disbanded after Harvey Fuqua moved from Chicago to Detroit after starting a musical partnership with Gwen Gordy of the Gordy family.

Following these moves, Berry Gordy sought him out after he sought interest in buying and absorbing Harvey Records, to which Marvin was now working for.

Gaye had performed by himself at a Christmas party in Gordy's home after Gwen Gordy and Harvey Fuqua invited him.

After asking Fuqua to make a deal to get Gaye out of Fuqua's contract, Fuqua sold 50 % of his interest in the singer's contract to Gordy, who assigned Gaye to Motown's Tamla label shortly afterwards.

Emboldened by its success, Gaye spent ten days recording the What's Going On album after Gordy gave him an ultimatum of completing the album by the end of that March.

Though the album's subject matter again led to Gordy advising to Gaye of its potential of damaging his core fan base, Motown issued the album that May.

In December 1978, after over two years without a studio release, Gaye issued the personal Here, My Dear album, inspired by the fallout of his first marriage to Anna Gordy.

On April 8, 1964, Gaye married Anna Gordy, the first marriage for both, following a three-year courtship.

The son was actually born from an arrangement set up by the Gordy family between Gaye and Anna's niece Denise Gordy, after it was determined that Anna and her sisters weren't able to naturally conceive.

The couple filed for legal separation in 1973, with Gordy filing for divorce two years later.

Despite this, however, Gaye and Gordy maintained a relationship until Gaye's death in 1984.

One night, during the late 1960s, Gaye attempted suicide with a handgun presumably from a bad acid trip, and was stopped from this attempt by Berry Gordy.

His ex-wife Anna Gordy and their son accepted on his behalf.

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The Marvin Gaye version was placed on his 1968 album In the Groove, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys, and Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single in October 1968, when it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969 and became for a time the biggest hit single on the Motown label.

Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter ( August 15, 1898 – October 30, 1983 ) was the mother of former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.

Michael Hayes made his debut at the Sportatorium on Saturday, October 16, 1982 and Terry Gordy made his debut at the Sportatorium two weeks later, on October 30, 1982.

A different song with the same title was written by Robert Gordy and recorded in 1963 by Carolyn Crawford ; it was released as Motown 1050 B in October 1963.

After earning only $ 3. 19 for his production success, Gordy was told by Robinson to form his own label, which Gordy did, forming Tamla Records in 1959.

In 1964, The Contours recorded a second album for Motown entitled The Contours: Can You Dance ( Gordy 910 ).

The label was cofounded in 1964 by the label's primary songwriter Eddie Singleton along with wife, Raynoma Gordy Singleton ( who also previously cofounded the legendary Motown Records label with ex-husband, Berry Gordy ).

Rockwell ( born Kennedy William Gordy on March 15, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan ) is an R & B performer who was signed to the Motown label.

" My Girl " is a 1964 song recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy ( Motown ) label which became a number one hit in 1965.

Gordy was often the focal point of Gaye's early hits, including " Stubborn Kind of Fellow ", " Pride & Joy " and " You Are a Wonderful One ", the latter song released right around the time Gaye and Gordy married in April of 1964.

" The Way You Do the Things You Do " is a 1964 hit single by The Temptations for the Gordy ( Motown ) label.

After working as a freelance choreographer for The Miracles, Atkins was hired by Berry Gordy to work as a Motown choreographer in 1964, and set about developing the routines that would later become the trademark moves of other Motown acts like The Supremes, The Temptations ( Atkins was also featured in the video for their hit single " Lady Soul "), The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & The Pips and others.