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Audra Lynn is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for October 2003. Lynn appeared nude in a photo spread... in an Italian edition of Vogue with fellow playmates Pamela Anderson, Tishara Cousino and Karen McDougal in 2004. It was a tennis themed men's fashion spread shot in Las Vegas by photographer David LaChapelle. She also was on the cover of the March 2005 issue of the Italian edition of Rolling Stone magazine. She appeared in an episode of Viva La Bam on MTV. She also appeared in several episodes of E! reality television series, The Girls Next Door. She was a special guest on Frasier in the episode "Freudian Sleep". She has also been on Mad TV, a celebrity week of Family Feud, won a game of Street Smarts for charity, was mentioned by Sum 41 on MTV's Total Request Live due to a shoot that Sum 41 did of her, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Carson Daly, Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Spring Break MTV 2003. In May 2006 she donated her time posing as a non-nude model for a class of student photographers.
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Richard D. Carlson was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter. Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, Carlson graduated from the... University of Minnesota with an M.A. degree, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He later appeared on the Broadway stage in the 1930s after studying and teaching drama in Minnesota. His first film role was in the 1938 David O. Selznick comedy The Young in Heart. He worked as a freelance actor, appearing in many different film studio works, beginning in 1939 when he moved to California. Before the war, he appeared mostly in comedies and dramas, including The Little Foxes and Too Many Girls with Lucille Ball in 1940. Like many actors, Carlson served in World War II, interrupting his acting career. After returning he found it difficult to win new roles, and his future in Hollywood remained in doubt until 1948. In that year, Carlson was cast in two low-budget film noir releases, Behind Locked Doors and The Amazing Mr. X.
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Eddie Cochran , was an American rock and roll pioneer who in his brief career had a small but lasting influence on rock music through his guitar... playing. Cochran's rockabilly songs, such as "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else", and "Summertime Blues", captured teenage frustration and desire in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the words of Lester Bangs, writing in Rolling Stone in 1972, "Eddie may have imitated Elvis vocally even more than a dozen or so other stalwarts of the day such as Conway Twitty, but his influence on pop consciousness of the magnitude of The Beatles and The Who was deep and profound". He experimented with multitracking and overdubbing even on his earliest singles, and was also able to play piano, bass and drums. His image as a sharply dressed, rugged but good looking young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the Fifties rocker, and in death he achieved iconic status. Cochran was born in Minnesota and moved with his family to California in the early 1950s. He was involved with music from an early age, playing in the school band and teaching himself to play blues guitar.
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