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| Name = Johnny Thunders
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|birthname = Melissa Sagemiller
| Birth_name = John Anthony Genzale, Jr
|birthdate = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1974|6|1}}
| Born = [[July 15]] [[1952]]<br/><small>[[Queens]], [[ New York |NY]], [[USA]]</small>
|birthplace = [[Washington, D.C.]]
| Died = {{Death date and age|1991|4|23|1952|7|15}}<br/><small>[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana|LA]], [[USA]]</small>
| Instrument = [[Guitar]], [[Vocals]]
|height = 5' 6" (1.68 m)
| Genre = [[Rock and roll]], [[punk rock]], [[glam rock]]
| Occupation = [[Musician]], [[Songwriter]]
| Years_active = 1971&ndash;1991
| Label =
| Associated_acts = [[New York Dolls]], [[The Heartbreakers]]
| Notable_instruments = [[Gibson Les Paul Junior]]
[[Gibson Les Paul Special]]
| Other_names = Johnny Jaywalker, The Italian Stallion of Rock and Roll

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'''Johnny Thunders''', born '''John Anthony Genzale, Jr.''' ([[July 15]], [[1952]] - [[April 23]], [[1991]]), was an Italian American [[rock and roll]] [[guitar]]ist, [[singer]] and [[songwriter]].


'''Melissa Sagemiller''' (born June 1, 1974) is an [[United States|American]] [[television]] and [[film]] [[actor|actress]].
Though he disapproved of the term "[[punk rock]]", Thunders is widely recognized as a foundational influence on the genre, particularly for his penetrating guitar sound. [[IGN.com]] ranked him #2 in its "Punk Rock's 10 Mightiest Guitar Gods" list.[http://music.ign.com/articles/895/895015p1.html]

He came to prominence in the early '70s as a member of the [[New York Dolls]], and afterwards became a familiar figure in the [[New York City|New York]] punk scene, both with [[The Heartbreakers]] and as a solo artist.

Thunders struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and died under mysterious circumstances.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Sagemiller was born in [[Washington, D.C.]]; to a political [[activism|activist]] mother and a professional [[American football]] player father, who played in the [[National Football League|NFL]] for the [[New York Giants]] and the [[Washington Redskins]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/19/Melissa-Sagemiller.html|title=Melissa Sagemiller Biography (1974-)|accessdate=2008-07-05|publisher=FilmReference|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756089/bio|title=Melissa Sagemiller (IMDb BIO)|accessdate=2008-07-05|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]}}</ref> She attended [[Georgetown Day School]] there. Her entry into the performing arts was at age 3, when she began studying [[tap dance]], [[ballet]], [[jazz dance]] and [[modern dance]]. She made her stage debut in ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' when she was 9 years old, and soon after she became a regular on her local stage. At 14, however, acting took a backseat to [[model (person)|modeling]] after Sagemiller was scouted by [[Eileen Ford]] in a jewelry shop. She eventually left modeling to take an undergraduate degree in [[Art History]] at [[The University of Virginia]]. Shortly after graduation, she decided to return to acting full-time, and studied at the [[Stella Adler]] Conservatory, [[New York University|NYU]]'s Stonestreet Studio and at [[Michael Howard Studios]]. In July 2006, Sagemiller became engaged to ''[[Sleeper Cell (TV series)|Sleeper Cell]]'' co-star [[Alex Nesic]] after he proposed to her in the [[Southern France|south of France]].
===Early life and career===
Genzale was born [[July 15]], [[1952]], and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY, in a second generation Italian family. As a boy he played [[baseball]] but could not join the Little League as it required the presence of the youth's father.


Sagemiller appeared on the ''Movieline Magazine'' in August 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movieline.standard8media.com/features/dushku.shtml|title="Hype"|accessdate=August 2008|last=Maynard|first=Kevin|work=Volume 12, Issue 11|publisher=Movieline Magazine|pages=20|language=English}}</ref> In November 2001, Sagemiller appeared in the [[Gear (magazine)|Gear]] magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mopublishing.com/gear1101.htm|title="Front"|accessdate=November 2001|last=Martin|first=Michael|publisher=[[Gear (magazine)]]|pages=22-23|language=English}}</ref> She is right now starring as Michelle Ernhardt in the [[Turner Network Television|TNT]] series ''[[Raising the Bar (TV series)|Raising the Bar]].
Under the name "Johnny Volume", Genzale began performing music at Quintano High School with "Johnny and the Jaywalkers".


==Filmography==
In 1968 he started going to the [[Fillmore East]] on weekends and later a West Village bar on Bleecker Street, Nobodys. He got a job as a salesclerk at Da Nazz leather shop on Bleecker. It was on Bleecker Street that he met future Dolls Arthur Kane and Billy Murcia. He joined their band, "Actress", which eventually became the New York Dolls when David Johannsen and Sylvain Sylvain joined in 1971. At this time John Genzale renamed himself Johnny Thunders, after a comic book of the same name.
* ''[[Raising the Bar (TV series)|Raising the Bar]]'' (10 episodes, [[2008 in television|2008]]) .... Michelle Ernhardt

* ''[[Phys Ed Trauma Tales]]'' ([[2008 in film|2008]]) ([[Direct-to-video|V]]) .... Herself
They recorded two critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful albums, ''The New York Dolls'' and ''Too Much Too Soon''. The band was managed, for a short time, by [[Malcolm McLaren]] and was an inspiration for the [[Sex Pistols]].
* ''[[Pick Up the Pace: Making Mr. Woodcock]]'' ([[2008 in film|2008]]) ([[Direct-to-video|V]]) .... Herself

* ''[[Mr. Woodcock]]'' ([[2007 in film|2007]]) .... Tracy
In 1975 the original line-up for the Dolls broke up. Their early recordings are still in print today and continue to influence young bands with their trash/glam/punk attitude.
* ''[[Sleeper Cell (TV series)|Sleeper Cell]]'' (17 episodes, [[2005 in television|2005]]-[[2006 in television|2006]]) .... Gayle Bishop

* ''[[The Guardian (2006 film)|The Guardian]]'' ([[2006 in film|2006]]) .... Emily Thomas
===Post-New York Dolls===
* ''[[Without a Trace]]'' (1 episode, ''When Darkness Falls'', [[2005 in television|2005]]) .... Carmen Kuskowski
He formed [[The Heartbreakers]] with Dolls drummer [[Jerry Nolan]], and [[Television (band)|Television]] bassist [[Richard Hell]]. Ex-Demons guitarist Walter Lure was soon added. After Hell unsuccessfully tried to usurp Johnny's place as lead singer, he left to form [[The Voidoids|Richard Hell and the Voidoids]]. Hell was replaced by Billy Rath.
* ''[[Life on the Ledge]]'' ([[2005 in film|2005]]) .... Claire

* ''[[Standing Still (film)|Standing Still]]'' ([[2005 in film|2005]]) .... Samantha
With Thunders leading the band, the Heartbreakers toured America and [[UK|Britain]], releasing one official album, ''[[L.A.M.F.]]'', in 1977. The group relocated to the UK, where their popularity was significantly greater than it was in the U.S., particularly among punk bands.
* ''[[The Clearing]]'' ([[2004 in film|2004]]) .... Jill Hayes

* ''[[Love Object]]'' ([[2003 in film|2003]]) .... Lisa Bellmer
In late 1979 Thunders began performing in a band called Gang War. Other members included John Morgan, Ron Cooke, Philippe Marcade and former [[MC5]] guitarist [[Wayne Kramer]]. They recorded several demos and performed live several times before disbanding, with [[Zodiac Records]] releasing an EP in 1987. Bootlegs of their demos and live performances are circulating; One semi-official live/studio vinyl only LP was released on Zodiac in 1990, credited to Thunders and Kramer and titled ''Gang War''.
* ''[[Sorority Boys]]'' ([[2002 in film|2002]]) .... Leah

* ''[[Soul Survivors]]'' ([[2001 in film|2001]]) .... Cassie
Thunders recorded a number of solo albums beginning with ''[[So Alone]]'' in 1978. The notoriously drug-fueled recording sessions featured a core band of Thunders, bassist [[Phil Lynott]], drummer [[Paul Cook]], and guitarist [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]], with guest appearances from [[Chrissie Hynde]], [[Steve Marriott]], [[Walter Lure]], [[Billy Rath]], and [[Peter Perrett]] of [[The Only Ones]]. After its release, Thunders and [[Sex Pistols]] bassist [[Sid Vicious]] played in the Living Dead for a short time. The CD version of the album contains four bonus tracks, including the single "Dead or Alive".
* ''[[Get Over It (film)|Get Over It]]'' ([[2001 in film|2001]]) .... Allison McAllister

* ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' (1 episode, ''[[Russian Love Poem]]'', [[2000 in television|2000]]) .... Becky Sorenson
During the early 1980s, Thunders re-formed The Heartbreakers for various tours; the group recorded their final album in 1984.

In 1985, he released ''Que Sera Sera'', a collection of new songs that showed he could still perform convincingly. Three years later he recorded ''Copy Cats'', an album of rock and [[rhythm & blues|R&B]] covers with vocalist Patti Palladin.

Thunders kept performing and recording until his death in 1991, but problems with [[heroin addiction]] kept his output and song writing sporadic during the 1980s. These bands would be formed ''[[ad hoc]]'', using Jerry Nolan as a mainstay.

His final recording was a cover of "Born to Lose" with German punk rock band [[Die Toten Hosen]], recorded 36 hours before his death.

===Death===
Many rumors surround Thunders' death at the St. Peter House in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] in April 1991. He apparently died of drug-related causes, but it has been speculated that it was the result of foul play. According to the autobiography ''Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones'', [[Dee Dee Ramone]] took a call in [[New York]] the next day from [[Stevie Klasson]], Johnny's rhythm guitar player. "They told me that Johnny had gotten mixed up with some bastards... who ripped him off for his methadone supply. They had given him LSD and then murdered him. He had gotten a pretty large supply of methadone in England, so he could travel and stay away from those creeps - the drug dealers, Thunders imitators, and losers like that."<ref>''Lobotomy: Surviving The Ramones'', pages 232-3)</ref>

What is known for certain is that Johnny's room (no. 37) was ransacked and most of his possessions were missing (passport, makeup, clothes). [[Rigor mortis]] had set in with his body positioned in an unnatural state, described by eyewitnesses as "like a pretzel", underneath a coffee table. Friends and acquaintances acknowledge he had not been using heroin for some time, relying on his methadone prescriptions. The police did not open a criminal investigation.

Singer [[Willy DeVille]], who lived next door to the hotel in which Thunders died, described his death this way:
:I don't know how the word got out that I lived next door, but all of a sudden the phone started ringing and ringing. ''Rolling Stone'' was calling, the ''Village Voice'' called, his family called, and then his guitar player called. I felt bad for all of them. It was a tragic end, and I mean, he went out in a blaze of glory, ha ha ha, so I thought I might as well make it look real good, you know, out of respect, so I just told everybody that when Johnny died he was laying down on the floor with his guitar in his hands. I made that up. When he came out of the St. Peter's Guest House, rigor mortis had set in to such an extent that his body was in a U shape. When you're laying on the floor in a fetal position, doubled over - well, when the body bag came out, it was in a U. It was pretty awful.<ref>From ''Please Kill Me by Legs,'' a documentary by McNeil and Gillian McCain. Quoted at [http://elvispelvis.com/heroin.htm Fuller Up Dead Musician Directory: Heroin.]</ref>

An autopsy was conducted by the New Orleans coroner, but served only to compound the mysteries. According to Thunders' biographer [[Nina Antonia]] as posted on the [[Jungle Records]] web site, the level of drugs found in his system was not fatal.[http://www.jungle-records.demon.co.uk/bands/johnnyt_intro.htm] And according to the book "Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon" by [[Pamela Des Barres]] who interviewed Thunders' sister Marion, the autopsy confirmed evidence of advanced leukemia, which would explain the decline in Thunders' appearance in the final year of his life. [http://www.thunders.ca/print/rb.htm] This also sheds light on the interview in [[Lech Kowalski]]'s documentary "Born To Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie", where Thunders' sister Mary-Ann's husband says, "Only Johnny knew how sick he really was."

In a 1994 [[Melody Maker]] interview Thunders' manager [[Mick Webster]] described the efforts of his family, "We keep asking the New Orleans police to re-investigate, but they haven’t been particularly friendly. They seemed to think that this was just another [[junkie]] who had wandered into town and died. They simply weren’t interested." Marion claims that the original police report is largely missing and Webster further explains that the Coroner who conducted the autopsy was fired for falsifying a report in another case.

Thunders was survived by his ex-wife Julie and four children, sons John Genzale, Vito Genzale, Dino Genzale, and daughter Jamie Genzale.[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DF133CF936A15757C0A967958260] His oldest son Vito is serving a prison sentence in the [[Great Meadows Correctional Facility]] in New York for drug dealing, having completed a previous sentence in [[Attica]].[http://nysdocslookup.docs.state.ny.us/GCA00P00/WIQ2/WINQ120].

==Discography==
{{see also|New_York_Dolls#Discography|l1=New York Dolls Discography|The_Heartbreakers#Discography|l2=The Heartbreakers Discography}}
===Studio Albums===
*[[So Alone]] - (1978)
*[[Diary of a Lover]] - (1982)
*In Cold Blood - (1983)
*Hurt Me - (1984)
*Que Sera Sera - (1985)
*Copy Cats - (1988)

===Official Live Albums & Compilations===

*[[The New Too Much Junkie Business]] - (1983)
*[[Stations of the Cross]] - (1987)
*[[Bootlegging the Bootleggers]] - (1990)
*Live in Japan - (1991)
*Have Faith - (1992)
*[[Saddest Vacation Act. 1]] - (1993)
*[[Saddest Vacation Act. 2]] - (1993)
*[[Chinese Rocks: The Ultimate Thunders Live Collection]] - (1993)
*[[Add Water & Stir]] - (1994)
*The Studio Bootlegs - (1996)
*[[Belfast Rocks]] - (1997)
*[[Born Too Loose: The Best Of Johnny Thunders]] - (1999)
*Live at Leeds - (1999)
*Play with Fire - (2000)
*Endless Party - (2000)
*Panic on the Sunset Strip - (2000)
*[[Live & Wasted: Unplugged 1990]] - (2001)
*Eve of Destruction - (2005)

===Official Singles & EPs===
*"Dead or Alive" 7" - (1978)
*"You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" 7" & 12" - (1978)
*"In Cold Blood" 7" - (1983)
*"Hurt Me" 7" - (1984)
*"Crawfish 7" & 12" - (1985)
*"Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)" 7" & 12" - (1988)

===Unofficial / Bootleg Albums===

*[[Hey Man Where Is My Guitar]]- (1983)
*Pipeline- (1983)
*[[So All Alone]] - (1983)
*[[Wanted: Dead or Alive Reward $10]] - (1983)
*[[Cosa Nostra Never Sleeps]] - (1984)
*Play with Fire - (1984)
*[[There's a LIttle Bit of Whore in Every Girl]] - (1984)
*[[Schneckentaenze]] - (1985)
*[[Lucky Strikes Back]] - (1987)
*[[Johnny on the Rocks]] - (1996)
*Live Crisis - (1996)
*[[Fuck Off Marquee]] - (1997)
*[[Countdown Love (Demos & Unreleased Live)]] - (1999)
*The Party Ain't Over Yet - (2005)

===Unofficial / Bootleg Singles & EPs===
*Proud to Be Pirate EP - (1983)
*Ain't Superstitious 7" - (1987)
*Critic's Choice 7" - (1992)
*Daddy Rollin' Stone 7" - (1996)
*Life Goes On 7" - (1996)
*Countdown Love 7" - (1997)
*The Fireball EP - (1999)
*The Thunderbolt EP - (1999)
*It's Great When You're Straight, Yeah EP - (2000)

==Trivia==
{{Trivia|date=October 2007}}
* The stage name ''Johnny Thunders'' was reputedly inspired by a song titled "Johnny Thunder" about a villainous [[motorcyclist|biker]] character written by [[Ray Davies]] and recorded in 1968 by [[The Kinks]] for their ''[[The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society|Village Green Preservation Society]]'' concept album.
* Johnny Thunders originally went under the stage names of Johnny Jaywalk and Johnny Volume.
* Johnny Thunders played guest guitar on a track on Japanese glam rock band [[Ziggy]]'s album ''Hot Lips''.
* Johnny Thunder is the name of the main character in the [[Legoland]] adventure ''Revenge of the Aztec Queen''

*"You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" and a live cover version of "''Pipeline''" have been used in the closing credits of ''[[The Sopranos]]''. The former also featured prominently in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s 1999 film ''[[Bringing Out the Dead]]''.
*"You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory", the song title was taken from a line from the television sitcom, ''[[The Honeymooners]]'', starring Jackie Gleason. He spoke it to his TV wife, Alice.

===Musical tributes===
Thunders has had numerous bands paying tribute or mentioning him in their songs, while he was alive and after his death.
*[[The Clash]] mentioned Thunders in the lyric from their song "[[Super Black Market Clash|City Of The Dead]]", singing "'Don't you know where to cop?'/That's what New York Johnny said/'You should get to know your town/Just like I know mine.'"

*Recently, Gibson.com ranked Thunders #2 on its "Punk Rock's 10 Mightiest Guitar Gods" list.[http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/punk-rocks-10-mightiest/]

*Then-[[Guns N' Roses]] bassist [[Duff McKagan]] wrote the song "So Fine", which was dedicated to Thunders. The song appears on the album ''[[Use Your Illusion II]]''. Also, in 1993, Guns N' Roses covered Thunders' song "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" on their cover album, ''[["The Spaghetti Incident?"]]'', with McKagan performing vocals.

*[[Willy DeVille]] wrote a song called "Chemical Warfare" which appeared on his 1992 album ''[[Backstreets of Desire]]''. "Chemical Warfare" was dedicated to Johnny Thunders with whom DeVille shared a long-time friendship. DeVille was first to arrive at the hotel the day of Johnny's death.

*At their reunion shows, the New York Dolls have been performing "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory", with member [[Sylvain Sylvain]] singing the lead vocal and sometimes changing the title lyric to "I can't put my arms around you, Johnny."

*On the [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]] double album, ''[[Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus]]'', Johnny Thunders is mentioned in the song "There She Goes my Beautiful World".

*English rock band the [[Dogs D'Amour]] released a song about Thunders titled "Johnny Silvers" on their ''[[...More Unchartered Heights of Disgrace]]'' album.

*[[The Replacements]] included a song about Johnny Thunders, "Johnny's Gonna Die", on their first album.

*[[Alex Chilton]] in his song "Bangkok" sings the lines "I'm not living on Chinese rocks, I'm in Bangkok." A small tribute and allusion to Johnny Thunders.

*[[Die Toten Hosen]] paid tribute to Johnny Thunders by including the line "So lange Johnny Thunders lebt, so lang bleib ich ein Punk" ("As long as Johnny Thunders lives I'll stay a punk") in their song "Wort zum Sonntag". After his death Die Toten Hosen changed the lyrics to "Hey, Johnny kannst du uns grad' seh'n, wir vergessen dich nicht - wir werden überall von dir erzählen damit dein Name ewig weiterlebt." ("Hey, Johnny can you see us right now, we won't forget you - we'll tell everywhere about you for your name 'll live on eternally.")

*The [[Murder City Devils]] named a song "Johnny Thunders" on their album ''Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts''.

*Iggy Pop wrote a tribute song for Johnny entitled "Look Away" on the album ''[[Naughty Little Doggie]]''. It also involves his love affair with Sable Starr.

* "Everything I Wanted" by Australian band Wallspace features the line "Don't you wish you had a name like Johnny Thunder".

* Spanish label Munster Records released ''Again ... This One's For Johnny'' in 2001, a tribute record which includes bands as [[Ramones]], [[Ronnie Spector]], [[Nikki Sudden]] or [[Atom Rhumba]]

* Vic Godard & the Subway Sect had a single titled "Johnny Thunders" which was released in September 1992 by Rough Trade records.

* Slaughter & the Dogs had a track titled "Johnny T" allegedly about Thunders which was the b-side to their single "Dame to Blame".

* In the "Call of the Yeti" episode of "The Mighty Boosh" Naboo tells Vince "Vince, you're a punk, stay punk! Think of Johnny Thunders, Mick and Keith!" when they are threatened to be raped by Hippy yetis.

*[[Paul Westerberg]] released an album in August 2008 entitled "49:00" which contains a track about Johnny entitled "Devil Raised A Good Boy".


==References==
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==External links==
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* {{imdb name|id=0756089|name=Melissa Sagemiller}}
*[http://chatterbox.freeforumboard.net/index.htm The Johnny Thunders 'Chatterbox' Fan Forum]
*[http://www.pandora.com/stations/08508a9b2b1d662f1a5412d96962d1b1be65aaf34da7c82c The Official 'Chatterbox Forum' Pandora Radio Station]
*[http://www.nyrock.com/thunders.htm Article from NY Rock Magazine]
*[http://www.thunders.ca/ Johnny Thunders Cyber Lounge (not updated since 2001)]
*[http://www.johnnythunders.info Johnny Thunders info - Diary-based site]
*[http://www.angelsinexile.i12.com/thunders/html/index.htm Johnny Thunders - Lonely Planet Boy]
*[http://www.webtribe.net/~giaco/johnnythunders/index.html Johnny Thunders in England]
*[http://tomwatson.typepad.com/tom_watson/2004/02/johnny_thunders.html Johnny Thunders Best]
*{{imdb name | id=0862089 | name=Johnny Thunders}}
*{{imdb title|id=0218057|title=Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie}}


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Melissa Sagemiller
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Melissa Sagemiller
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Melissa Sagemiller (born June 1, 1974) is an American television and film actress.

Biography

Sagemiller was born in Washington, D.C.; to a political activist mother and a professional American football player father, who played in the NFL for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins.[1][2] She attended Georgetown Day School there. Her entry into the performing arts was at age 3, when she began studying tap dance, ballet, jazz dance and modern dance. She made her stage debut in To Kill a Mockingbird when she was 9 years old, and soon after she became a regular on her local stage. At 14, however, acting took a backseat to modeling after Sagemiller was scouted by Eileen Ford in a jewelry shop. She eventually left modeling to take an undergraduate degree in Art History at The University of Virginia. Shortly after graduation, she decided to return to acting full-time, and studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory, NYU's Stonestreet Studio and at Michael Howard Studios. In July 2006, Sagemiller became engaged to Sleeper Cell co-star Alex Nesic after he proposed to her in the south of France.

Sagemiller appeared on the Movieline Magazine in August 2001.[3] In November 2001, Sagemiller appeared in the Gear magazine.[4] She is right now starring as Michelle Ernhardt in the TNT series Raising the Bar.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Melissa Sagemiller Biography (1974-)". FilmReference. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  2. ^ "Melissa Sagemiller (IMDb BIO)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  3. ^ Maynard, Kevin. ""Hype"". Volume 12, Issue 11. Movieline Magazine. p. 20. Retrieved August 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ Martin, Michael. ""Front"". Gear (magazine). pp. 22–23. Retrieved November 2001. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

External links

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