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Julie Meadows is a former American pornographic actress who became a writer, web designer and documentarian after retiring from performing. She was... active in the industry from 1998–2004 and is sometimes said to resemble the actress Julia Stiles. Born in Texarkana, Texas, Meadows has three sisters. She married at the age of 17 and gave birth to a son just after their one-year anniversary. She met the film director Michael Raven while dancing in Dallas. She moved to Los Angeles, California six months later where she began working in adult films in 1998. Her first film was Ed Powers’ Dirty Debutantes 94. Meadows was a contract performer for VCA for two years, before leaving in January 2003. She retired from the adult industry in 2004; she later stated her reason for retiring was that she was no longer interested in making movies. In March 2010, Meadows appeared in a Public Service Announcement for the Free Speech Coalition on the topic of internet piracy of adult content, directed by Michael Whiteacre.
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Jonathan Patrick Lamas is an American author, writer, and producer. In addition to his contributions as an automotive journalist for various... automotive publications, he is known for such books as Out On My Own and Sanctuary of Expression. He is also known for his musical contributions as vocalist and guitarist of several Los Angeles bands. In 2005, Lamas played a bit part in the independent film Mute, directed by Melissa Joan Hart.
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Harrison D. Nelson Jr. known as Peppermint Harris, was an American rhythm and blues and jump blues singer and guitarist. Originally from Texarkana,... Texas, he first recorded in Houston, as Peppermint Nelson, in the late 1940s, accompanied by his friend Lightnin' Hopkins. He then made further recordings including "Raining In My Heart" for a record label run by Bob Shad, who allegedly forgot Nelson's name and released them as by Peppermint Harris. In 1951 he moved to Modern Records in Los Angeles, California, and had his biggest R&B hit with "I Got Loaded", which reached number one on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart in November that year. However, later releases on various small Southern California labels were less successful. He later recorded in Shreveport, Louisiana, and worked in Sacramento and New Jersey, before recording a final album on the Home Cooking label in 1995. He died in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1999, at the age of 73.
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Otis Williams is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he has also acted as a sporadic songwriter and record producer. Williams... co-founded the Motown vocal group The Temptations in early 1960 as The Elgins, a group in which he continues to perform. Williams is the group's only surviving original member. Williams was born in Texarkana, Texas, to Otis Miles and Hazel Louise Williams, an unmarried couple who separated shortly after their son's birth. As a child, he went by "Otis Miles, Jr." until learning Williams was his legal last name. While Williams was still a toddler, his mother married and moved to Detroit, Michigan, leaving the boy to be raised by both of his grandmothers in Texarkana. Williams' mother moved him to Detroit when he was ten years old, where he lived with his mother and his stepfather, Edgar Little. Williams became interested in music as a teenager. He loved music and put together a number of singing groups, among them Otis Williams and the Siberians, the El Domingoes and the Distants.
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Molly Caitlyn Quinn is an American actress whose works have included theatre, film, and television. Quinn is of Irish descent and was born in... Texarkana, Texas. She began taking weekly acting lessons from retired director and producer Martin Beck after performing in her community's performance of The Nutcracker at age six. In the sixth grade, she auditioned at the Young Actors Studio where she performed for the programs' director, Linda Seto, as well as representatives from the Osbrink Talent Agency. After six months of "intensive [acting] training", Quinn signed a contract with the Osbrink agency. Subsequently, she signed with Management 360.
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Chris Bachand is a film actor.