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The Power List: ALAN BALL

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Screenwriter/Producer/Director, 54

Ball's best known for the steamy scenes in HBO's True Blood. The mind behind the film American Beauty, as well as HBO's blockbuster series Six Feet Under, Ball has managed to bring both uncannily real and endlessly entertaining depictions of gay people to the world.

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