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As a kid, Tim loved Pixie Sticks. He would open them up and even pour it in a 12-ounce bottle of coke.
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Tim quit alcohol altogether in 1998, when he entered a rehabilitation clinic in California.
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Tim is very interested in quantum physics.
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Tim auctioned off his prized 1955 Chevy Novad on eBay for the September 11th/Twin Towers fund.
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Tim is actively involved in the national YMCA and played a huge role in the refurbishing of the organization's facility in Hollywood.
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Tim has loved creating art since he was kid. Allen took several art classes in school.
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Tim compared the ending of his long-lasting sitcom, Home Improvement to the finale of Seinfeld and the retirement of the NBA's great Michael Jordan.
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Tim says the comedians that make him laugh the most are Victor Borge, Jonathan Winters, and Richard Pryor.
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2008 was the first time Tim produced, directed, and starred in the same film. He did so in Crazy on the Outside.
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In 1998, Tim Allen received an honorary degree and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Western Michigan University, his alma mater.
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In one week of 1994, Tim Allen starred in the #1 rated television show, Home Improvement, and the #1 box office smash hit movie, The Santa Clause. Not only that, but his novel, Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man, was America's top selling book.
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Tim and his current wife, Jane Hajduk, were wed in front of three generations of their families.
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Tim wrote his first book, Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man, in 1994.
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Tim's performance in Home Improvement led him to his winning of the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Television Perform eight years in a row, starting in 1992.
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His show, Home Improvement, was based on an half-hour special on the Showtime Channel he hosted called Men are Pigs.
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Tim dropped his original last name, Dick, when producers of a talk show he worked for told him they were uncomfortable flashing his name on the screen.
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Tim took a job as a creative director for an advertising firm in Detroit after he graduated from Western Michigan University.
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While attending Western Michigan University, Tim was active with WIDR, the university's student radio station.
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In college, Tim split his minor with Philosophy and Design.
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Tim was his school's class clown.
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Tim developed his first passion for cars in high school, when he started drag racing down Woodward Avenue in Birmingham, Michigan.
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In 1995, Tim Allen won a Golden Globe award for best performance by an actor in a TV series in Home Improvement.
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Patricia Richardson, who played Tim's wife on Home Improvement, has said numerous times that when the series first started, she never, ever expected Tim to be such a good actor. Richardson had some prejudices against stand-up comics like Tim, and she feared that he wouldn't work well with her at all, but she gladly admits that he proved her wrong. They have maintained a good friendship since the show ended, and Tim even once said that he wished he could work with her on every future project that he did.
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Tim recently purchased the former site of the Shady Trails camp on Lake Michigan for an estimated 2 million dollars.
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Tim played golf in the American Heart Association's Hollywood Branch Celebrity Classic held May 19, 1997 at the North Ranch Country Club in Thousand Oaks, CA.
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He formed Boxing Cat Productions to work in graphic arts, design and commercial production in 1984.
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He has his own racing team named Tim Allen/Saleen RRRRacing.
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His father was Gerald Dick, a real-estate salesman.
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He attended Western Michigan University and graduated with a degree in Television Production in 1975.
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His mother was Martha Dick, a community-service worker.
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He attended Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Michigan.
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His mother got remarried to her high school sweetheart and she moved her six kids to join his three in Birmingham, Michigan.
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His favorite subject in high school was shop class.
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He developed his own signature line of power tools, manufactured by Ryodi in 1996.
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His father was killed in an auto accident in 1964.
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Tim was one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive, 2006. He is found in the "Hooray for Gray!" section.
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Tim Allen was married to Laura Diebel from 1984 until 2003. He then married Jane Hajduk in October of 2006 and they are still married.
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Tim Allen wrote two books around the time he did Home Improvement. They are Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man and I'm Not Really Here.
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He was offered 1 million dollars per episode to do Home Improvement for one more season. He thought about it, but eventually said no.
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He got a star on the Hollywood walk of fame on November 19, 2004.
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Salary:
Joe Somebody (2001) $12,000,000
Toy Story 2 (1999) $5,000,000
Toy Story (1995) $50,000
Home Improvement (1991) $1,250,000/episode (1998-1999 season)
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His standup routine consisted of jokes comparing the differences between men and women. This theme continued on his TV show Home Improvement (1991).
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He was a member of Toastmasters.
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His comedy career started on a dare from a friend at the 'Comedy Castle' in Detroit.
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His character in Big Trouble (2002) is a composite of humor columnist Dave Barry. The movie is adapted from one of Dave Barry's humor books.
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Tim Taylor, Allen's character on Home Improvement (1991), was ranked #20 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
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During the run of Home Improvement (1991), Tim was often sent shirts and sweaters by various colleges to wear on the air, and he did.
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He has a daughter, Katherine (Kady) Dick, 17, (b. 1989).
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His ex-wife, Laura, is the CEO for Tim Allen Signature Tools.
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Paid $2 million for 26 acres of Michigan campground with the intention of keeping it in its natural, undeveloped state.
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Tim has nine brothers and sisters.
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Spent 28 months in jail after being arrested for attempted drug-dealing in 1978.
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He started out doing stand-up comedy.
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He was arrested in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, for drunk driving. [24 May 1997]
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Tim was at the 67th Annual Academy Awards. He presented "Best Short Film" and "Best Live Action."
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Tim played the small role of the Baggage Handler in the movie Tropical Snow.
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Tim is left handed.
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Tim Allen is 5'11" tall.
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His character "Tim Taylor" in Home Improvement really reflects Tim Allen in real life.