Dirk Diggler Story (1988), at the age

Paul Thomas Anderson is an American filmmaker. He has directed ten feature-length films, five short films, twenty three music videos, one documentary, one television episode as a guest segment director, and one theatrical play. He made his directorial debut with the mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), at the age of 18, about a pornographic actor in the 1970s. Anderson followed it five years later with another short film, Cigarettes & Coffee (1993). Anderson wrote and directed the crime film Hard Eight (1996), starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson. The film was well received. Using the basis of The Dirk Diggler Story, Anderson wrote and directed an expansion of the film, Boogie Nights (1997). It stars Mark Wahlberg as an actor in the Golden Age of Porn from the 1970s to the 1980s. The film received acclaim from critics and was a commercial success; at the 70th Academy Awards ceremony, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay.

On 28 January 1989, 26-year-old Lim Lee Tin, a Chinese Singaporean who was often dressed like a male, was found murdered at a Chinese cemetery in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore. The perpetrators were Lim's gambling partner and married housewife Chin Seow Noi, Chin's brother Chin Yaw Kim, and the siblings' friend Ng Kim Heng. The three suspects, who were all Malaysians, were said to have plotted the murder to get rid of Lim, who often harassed Chin Seow Noi for money.

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