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- Hey folks.
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We're trying something
a little different
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tonight on the show
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and I think you're
going to like it.
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I've already seen
it's pretty good.
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It goes a little like this.
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From
A&E this is Biography.
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- She dazzled us a model.
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She shocked us
with our politics.
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She's had more lives
than a bag of alley cats.
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For nearly 30 years
Nina Van Horn.
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Has excited, delighted,
and entranced us.
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And now thanks to the
American Film Academy's
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reissue of the 1973
cult film Foxy Trouble
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Nina has again been
catapulted into the
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periphery of the
media spotlight.
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Comeback week continues
with Nina Van Horn,
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Trouble Be Thy Name.
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- I got your number super pimp.
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- Hey mama.
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I ain't looking for trouble.
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- Too bad, 'cause
trouble just found you.
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Foxy trouble.
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- Life wasn't always catsuits
and glamor for Nina Van Horn.
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Long before the fame.
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There was a little girl who
desperately needed to belong.
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Somewhere, anywhere, everywhere.
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Abandoned by her
biological parents.
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Nina was adopted by Abe
and Dorthy Noodleman.
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Who found her in a feed
trough on their Colby,
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Kansas pig farm.
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Attached was a note.
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It said "simply
allergic to bananas."
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They named the child Claire.
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After an old Bond cat
they thought had died,
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but later resurfaced.
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This only added to
the confusion of around
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the already chaotic
Noodleman household.
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Determined to stand
out from the pack.
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You Claire never missed
an opportunity to perform
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at the town's many barn dances.
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And hog callings.
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Her fresh face look and
compulsive show boating
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finally paid off in the
seventh grade when
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she started to pick
up local modeling jobs.
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As luck would have it
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New York talent scout Sammy
Rivers was passing through
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Kansas when his car broke
down on the outskirts of Colby.
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Sammy used a seed catalog
to open his radiator cap.
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There on the cover was a
young Claire Noodleman.
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- I couldn't take
my eyes off her.
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It was a good minute
before I realized
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I had those third degree
burns on my hand.
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That my friends is how
you know you found a star.
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But Claire's
father, a strict Methodist,
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refused to allow his 12
year old daughter to move
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to the big city with a stranger.
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She would have to
wait until she was 14.
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- One night I told mama I
was going down to the creek
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to help the preacher
with the baptizing.
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But instead I decided to hop
a freight train and head east.
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Unfortunately
the train was headed west.
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She ended up in Reno
where she got her first taste
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of professional show business.
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- She got job at
the local carnival
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running the Tilt A Whirl.
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And then someone
noticed she had 11 toes
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then she started doing two
shows a night in the big tent.
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And that made he happy I think.
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Tired of low wages
and the sexual advances of
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the amazing Honko Claire
finally fond the right train
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and a month later she
was in the Big Apple.
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- The first thing I did
was to change her name.
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I wanted something
exotic and sophisticated.
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So I took Nina from one of
those boats Columbus had
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and Van Horn was
this Danish porn star
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who lived in my building.
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Boom, magic.
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With a new
name and a new wardrobe
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Nina became an overnight
modeling sensation.
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Her relationship the other
models quickly filled the gap
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left by the absence of her
many brothers and sisters.
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Although her new friends
were continually amazed
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at her lack of refinement.
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- A hole bunch of
us young models
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lived in this one apartment.
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And I thought I
was unsophisticated,
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but this was the
first time that,
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Nina had even seen
an ice cube tray.
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But just
like back on the farm,
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Nina wasn't happy
to be one of the crowd.
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She needed to breakout.
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She wouldn't have to wait long.
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It would be a posted
that turned Nina Van Horn
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into a pop culture icon.
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- Cheryl Tiegs was
supposed to do that shoot.
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And Nina offered to give
her a ride out to the beach.
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But when Nina got
to Cheryl's house,
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she found Cheryl
passed out in the garden.
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- Well obviously Cheryl
couldn't do the job
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because her face was swollen
from falling down so much.
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So Nina rushed
off to do it for her.
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Nina's a good friend.
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- Weeks later when
I finally woke up
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and learned to eat
with a fork again,
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I heard rumors that Nina was
responsible for my accident.
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So I went to see a hypnotist
to get my memory back.
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Well it didn't work.
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But at the time I did recall
a separate incident where
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she tried to run me
over with a moped.
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No one really knows
what happened in the garden
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behind Cheryl Tieg's house.
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But what is know is Nina Van
Horn's Jungle Beach poster
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was the biggest seller of 1969.
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- It was easy to see
why it was a smash.
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The photographer had captured
what we professionals call
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golden moment.
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Everything ended
together perfectly.
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The lighting the
subtle shift in colors.
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The depth of feel.
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Plus you could see a nipple.
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Her new found
popularity immediately launched her
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into all the elusive circles.
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She became a regular at
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the Kennedy Compound
in Hyannis Port.
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Yes Nina was living the
life she had always wanted.
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Surrounded by the
rich and powerful,
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she was becoming rich
and powerful herself.
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But something was missing.
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She ate for a family of her own.
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Fortunately modeling all day
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left her evenings free to marry.
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In a lot of ways I
think Nina was looking
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for a kind of husband figure.
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- I've been to a lot
of weddings in my life.
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And most of them
have been Nina's.
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I think Nina likes getting
married more than being married.
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Well who doesn't?
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I mean I don't.
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Still searching
for a place to belong,
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Nina attached herself to
the flower power movement.
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Making all the
stops along the way.
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Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock
and finally Altamont.
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- Sociologically speaking.
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Altamont was the
even that brought closer
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if you will to the
Age of Aquarius.
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Interesting footnote, it as
Nina who told Mick Jagger
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to hire the Hells Angels
to do the security.
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So one could say that Nina
Van Horn was the women
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who opened the tool box
that held the hammer that
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drove the nail into the
coffin that was the 60's.
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The 60's may
have been finished,
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but Nina was just
getting started.
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Little did she know she
was headed for trouble.
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Foxy trouble.
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We now return to A&E's
Biography of Nina Van Horn.
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As America transitioned
from the psychedelic 60's
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to the cynical 70's,
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Nina Van Horn made
her own transition.
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From top model to movie star.
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- Hello sir, may I offer
you something to drink?
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- Yeah how about a tall
class of white chocolate?
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- That's not available,
until we land.
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Anything else?
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- Yeah, one order of airplane.
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To go.
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- Sorry soul brother
we don't do take out.
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- Damn.
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You ain't no stewardess.
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You Foxy Trouble.
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- That's the name
my mama gave me.
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- That's a mighty big gun.
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For such a little lady.
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- I'm going to have to ask
you to return to your seat.
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Would anybody
else like anything?
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- You know it's funny
how life imitates art.
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Now Nina and I did it
for a year after that movie.
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But she ended up
shooting me for real in
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the parking lot of a taco stand.
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And I can't recall what
we were fighting about.
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And I believe that's the
last time I saw the bitch.
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- I convinced Dean Martin
to have the wrap party
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for Foxy Trouble on his
houseboat in the marina.
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Nina never left.
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She just hung around for
the next couple of months.
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You know washing
boats, telling fish stories.
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Then she started saying
she was Dino's daughter.
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Signing her name Nina Martin.
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Well she obviously needed help.
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So Dean had me and Flip
Wilson drive her up to Oxnard
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and leave her at the navy base.
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Dean loved the service.
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Nina's
spirit was crushed.
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And it showed on the set of
the sequel to Foxy Trouble.
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A Cup Full of Trouble.
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- Five hours and I
was shooting at anyone
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who's going to hit the street.
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Hit the streets.
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Streets.
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Cut.
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Shortly
after this take, - Huh.
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Nina stole
the director's Camaro
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and fled to Mexico
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with gal pal Jerry Hall in tow.
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There she fell into a coma
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and was declared legally
dead for eight minutes.
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She collapsed in the
middle of a bar called
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Senior Frogs.
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Luckily I was
dating Brand F pilot.
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Who flew her over the
border to San Antonio.
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No offense but I
have little rule of thumb
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where Mexico's concerned.
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Dinner table si,
operating table no.
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I've often asked Nina
about that incident.
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But she doesn't
like to talk about it.
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Which is funny because
she'll go on and on
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about the time she chocked
on her beads at Mardi Gras
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and was legally
dead for five minutes.
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Nina was alive.
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But it looked like her
movie career was dead.
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However, a certain young
director thought differently.
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Well Redford dragged
me to this revival theater
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to see this movie I'd
never heard of called
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Foxy Trouble.
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You know he's the world's
biggest Bernie Casey fan.
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Anyways the seats
were uncomfortable,
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the popcorn was stale
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and the guy next to
me had some kind of
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a breathing machine
or something,
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but as soon as Nina
strutted out with that big gun
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none of that mattered.
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I couldn't look and
I could not look.
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She was beauty traffic accident.
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Pollock
called in some favors.
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And landed Nina the lead
in a regional production of
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Ibsen's A Doll's House.
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- Sydney begged me
to go see Van Horn
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in some rinky-dink
playhouse in La Hoya.
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Long story short I
went, and she stunk.
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She was hopped up on
everything from cocaine to butane.
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After the show she
was a little down so
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I tried to cheer her up.
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Did I marry her the next day?
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You bet your ass I did.
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- Oh for the first two
weeks Bob and I were like
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newlyweds.
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But then we
began to drift apart.
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And by the end of the month
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we were two very
different people.
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Once again alone
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and looking for
some find of family.
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Nina sought out an organization
that would satisfy her need
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for order and a
sense of purpose.
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The Symbionese Liberation Army.
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She was with them during
their notorious crime spree.
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Until their finally
showdown with police
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in the streets of
South-Central Los Angeles.
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- Oh in many ways the
shootout was very tragic.
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Now on the plus side I
did get some TV time.
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You know an agent saw me
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and I started to
get a few bookings.
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But Nina's chaotic existence
over the last two years
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had left her in no
condition to resume
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the pressured filled
life of a celebrity.
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A fact that became all too
clear during an ill fated stint
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hosting a local TV morning show.
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- It sure is.
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The spicer the nicer.
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- What you're added
even more cayenne pepper.
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- Uh you bet.
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As they say in old Lebanon,
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I never met a
cayenne I didn't like.
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There we go how's that.
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Hmm, boy that looks good.
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- What the hell am I doing here?
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- Hmm we're making some sauce.
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- I used to be somebody.
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I hate this show.
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- What?
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- I hate the Midwest.
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I hate this kind of stupid food.
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I just, I can't do it.
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- Alright.
- Anymore.
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- Well be right back.
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- Do you hear me
I just can't do it.
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- It was the craziest thing.
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She kept calling me Daddy
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and saying it was
Christmas morning.
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Time for me to die.
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Nina Van Horn
was more than happy
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to say goodbye to the 70's.
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Unfortunately the
80's lay dead ahead.
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We now return to A&E's
Biography of Nina Van Horn.
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After her humiliating
emotional collapse
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on television,
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and a brief stay in
an upstate New York
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recuperation facility,
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Nina was determined to
find meaning in her life.
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She found it in disco.
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Manhattan's famous
nightclub Studio 54
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became Nina's new
home away from home.
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- Studio 54.
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54 is life.
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Isn't it?
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Until
one fateful night,
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when she was the subject
of a random purse check.
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Hey Truman soot over.
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Alright don't touch my hair.
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Bastards.
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Not up
for more hard time,
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Nina cut a deal with prosecutors
which lead to the closing
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of Studio 54 and
lengthy jail sentences
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for many of her close friends.
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- You know when you
testify against people
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you find out who
your real friends are.
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Some of those jerks said some
pretty hurtful thins about me
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as they were being
led out of the courtroom.
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And I didn't need
that kind of static.
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You know.
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Not then, I mean.
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Not when I knew that there
were plenty of people on
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the west coast who would
be damn glad to see me.
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- Nina Van Horn single
handedly broke up the Eagles.
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She was crashing
at Joe Walsh's house.
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And he used to bring
her to recording sessions.
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He didn't want to leave
her alone in his house
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because, well she
would steal things.
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In the studio she
used to try to sneak in
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and play tambourine
and do background vocals.
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We couldn't get rid of her.
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So finally we just
said, to hell with it.
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Let's all of solo.
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Inspired by the
Eagles and fueled by new over
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the counter smart
drugs, Nina set out on
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a solo singing
career of her own.
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♪ What's time ♪ What is the time
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♪ Tic tic toc it's party o'clock
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♪ It's quarter to two
- Wait cut, cut, cut.
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Don, the trumpets are flat.
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Or sharp.
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Can I just, can I get a tab?
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- What a nightmare.
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She kept fighting me
to use more of her voice.
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You want to hear her voice?
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♪ What's the time
♪ What is the time
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♪ Tic tic toc it's party o'clock
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♪ Sweet party You tell me.
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Despite dismal
reviews and meager sales,
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Nina's music did manage
to touch a few lives.
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- I first hear Sweet
Party Time when
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i was a teenager in
Albany, New York.
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I was training for a major
local ice skating competition
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and as soon as I heard
Nina's song, whoa.
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I knew I no longer wanted to
use the theme from Ghostbusters
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as my accompanying music.
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Of course in my routine,
I continue to fight ghosts.
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'Cause it was already
part of my closer.
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And it killed.
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Her singing
career a hazy memory
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and no jobs on the horizon,
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Nina disappeared off
the pop culture map.
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No single moment
defined her absence from
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the public consciousnesses
more succinctly that this one.
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On the popular American
game show Wheel of Fortune.
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Do you want
to solve the puzzle?
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- Nina Van
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Hoon?
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- Oh it was horrible I
mean, eventually we just had
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to stop tap and give
the contestants luggage
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and send them home.
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We had less trouble
with the word vichyssoise.
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Her back
against the wall,
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Nina made ends meet by
taking a series of low paying
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anonymous modeling assignments.
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The most humiliating of
these was reappearance
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on the cover of the
catalog that started it all.
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Blumgarten's.
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Only this time instead of cash.
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She was paid in seeds.
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Then while playing a
mermaid at a boat show,
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a chance meeting with an
old friend changed her life.
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- Sure Nina was a
little down on her luck
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when I hired her here at Blush.
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It's a great story actually
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I don't remember
all the details,
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But it's in my autobiography,
Don't Back Down.
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Now available everywhere.
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- She's clearly not a
trained journalist like I am
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with a masters
degree from Columbia.
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But she brings a
unique perspective
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and life experience to Blush.
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For instance some of
the layout we've done.
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Models driving cabs
in their underwear.
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Models going to church
in their underwear.
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That's pure Nina.
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They don't teach
you that at Columbia.
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Or at Stanford.
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Which is where I did
my undergraduate work.
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Yes the little girl
from the sees catalog
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had finally blossomed
as the successful
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and influential fashion
editor to Blush magazine
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top designers continually
seek her approval.
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And more importantly
she found the family
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she had always longed for.
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So from foundling to farm girl,
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to model to actress,
to singer, to felon,
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and all points between,
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Nina Van Horn like the
cat she was named after
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has truly lived nine lives.
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- One word to describe Nina.
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Timeless.
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- Client.
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- Gallows-esque.
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- Backseat drive.
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- Destructive.
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No vibrant.
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Is there a word that
means both those things?
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I bet the German have one.
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- High strung.
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- Bipolar.
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- Chinatown.
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- Spooky.
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- Soulmate, I mean roommate.
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- Tall.
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- Lover.
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- Life continues to be exciting
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and unpredictable
for Nina Van Horn.
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Last night at a
signing of the new DVD
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re-release of Foxy Trouble,
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Nina was reunited with
her costar Bernie Casey.
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Ironically as they
posed for publicity stills,
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Nina accidentally shot
him in the shoulder with
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what she thought
was a cigarette lighter.
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For Biography, I'm Harry Smith.
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