The "hospitality business" at Fannie Hathcock's brothel is humming along, and the Born Losers motorcycle gang has left town.
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And it shares with Wilson works like "Balm in Gilead" and "The Hot l Baltimore" an affection for born losers, trying (and failing) to help one another.
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A shrewd businesswoman, Fannie uses the Golden Cherry Motel, across the street, as a dorm for the Born Losers, the "dirty, stinky and mean" biker gang that provides protection for her club.
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Grind just announced a new split with legendary surf guitarist Davie Allan, whose agressive licks adorned the soundtracks of a ton of 60s biker movies like The Wild Angels, Thunder Alley, and The Born Losers.
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Possibly her earliest entry into the biker genre was a bit part in the film Hells Angels on Wheels that starred Adam Roarke and Jack Nicholson. This film was released in 1967. The same year she had a bit part in The Born Losers that starred Tom Laughlin and featured Robert Tessier.Popcorn Time The Born Losers (1967) Around the same time she appeared in the Dennis Hopper directed The Glory Stompers.
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He also worked in production for such films as Premature Burial (1962), The Terror (1963), Medium Cool (1969), Another Nice Mess (1972), and Corman's own The Born Losers (1967).
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The Born Losers (1967) introduced Tom Laughlin's character Billy Jack. Unable to get his Billy Jack script produced, Laughlin wrote and directed The Born Losers to capitalize on the current biker movie trend (which finally allowed him to make Billy Jack in 1971). The story was inspired by news reports of the Hells Angels terrorizing a California community. As a cost-saving measure, a stunt scene of a motorcycle crashing into a pond was taken from co-producer AIP's comedy The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966).
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"Born Losers" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Matthew Good. It was released as the lead single from Good's third solo album, Hospital Music. The song deals with several personal aspects of Good's marriage to his former wife.
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The band continued touring and was on the road for more than 250 days a year, performing with such acts as Fleetwood Mac, Alice Cooper, Poco, Black Oak Arkansas, Cheech & Chong, B.B. King, Three Dog Night, James Gang, and more. The band broke up in 1975. The band's song "Too Much Woman for a Hen Pecked Man" was featured in the soundtrack of the 2013 film, "Natural Born Losers" ("Perdedores Natos").IMDb page for Natural Born Losers Guitarist Michele "Shele" Pinizzotto (born on April 2, 1947 in Artesia, California) died on February 4, 2014, aged 66.
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They borrowed a car and moved to Los Angeles in 1955. They had three children: Frank, Teresa, and Christina. Her daughter Teresa is a fashion designer. Together the couple developed the character of "Billy Jack", who first appeared in the 1967 film The Born Losers.
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The story is a satire of the outlaw biker film genre. It follows two biker gangs, one male and one female. The male biker gang are the "Born Losers". They are good guys with three missions in life: Find the evil, Destroy the evil, and find a really great lite beer.
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Small supporting roles are played by Michael J. Pollard and Gayle Hunnicutt and, according to literature promoting the film, members of the Hells Angels from Venice, California. Members of the Coffin Cheaters motorcycle club also appeared. In 1967 AIP followed this film with Devil's Angels, The Glory Stompers with Dennis Hopper, and The Born Losers.
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Tessier was an accomplished motorcycle rider doing stunts in the circus. These skills helped him secure his first film role in The Born Losers directed by Tom Laughlin. With his shaven head, size and threatening appearance, Tessier went on to play a series of villainous roles on both TV and in film. He later formed a stunt troupe called Stunts Unlimited with director Hal Needham.
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They followed that with Billy Jack in 1971, then The Trial of Billy Jack in 1974, and Billy Jack Goes to Washington in 1976. Taylor and Laughlin played the starring roles in the latter three films. Taylor co- produced both The Born Losers and the 1975 film The Master Gunfighter. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1972.
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In 1965, Laughlin told the Milwaukee Sentinel that he planned to make a film on the life of a noted Catholic priest, Father William DuBay. However, the picture did not get past the planning stages. Two years later, in 1967, he wrote, directed (as T. C. Frank), and starred in the motorcycle-gang exploitation film The Born Losers. This was the first picture in which the character of Billy Jack appeared.
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She plans to create a new generation of fearless independent women by kidnapping baby girls and taking them to the woods to be raised by wolves. Male babies are sold on the black market. In the inevitable clash, the leader of the "Woman of the Wolf" must choose between the attraction she feels for the leader of the Born Losers, and the culmination of her allegedly feminist ideals. Mark Holton also appeared in the film.
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It was a box-office hit. After The Born Losers, Laughlin was set to begin a film project with backing from such figures as Marlon Brando, Jack Lemmon, Candice Bergen, and director Robert Wise. The movie was to be a documentary on the issues facing African Americans in the 1960s and would have focused greatly on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. followed by a discussion of race. However, the film was never made.
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He followed this up with the sequel to The Born Losers, Billy Jack, in 1971. American International Pictures initially agreed to distribute the picture, but after viewing it, the studio refused to release the film unless many of the political references – as well as frontal nudity – were cut. This led the Laughlins to withhold the sound reels of the movie, which in effect made it a silent film. Eventually, Laughlin made a distribution deal with Warner Bros.
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Born Losers is a 1967 American outlaw biker film.Gary A. Smith, The American International Pictures Video Guide, McFarland 2009 p 32 The film introduced Tom Laughlin as the half-Indian Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack. Since 1954 Laughlin had been trying to produce his Billy Jack script about discrimination toward American Indians. In the 1960s he decided to introduce the Billy Jack character in a quickly written script designed to capitalize on the then-popular trend in motorcycle gang movies.
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Cappe's most notable acting role is that of Derek Sanders, a role that he began in a series of The Good Witch TV movies before reprising the role on the television series. In 2007, he appeared in the winning video for Matthew Good's song "Born Losers". Cappe's most notable hosting positions are on the Food Network's Carnival Eats, and the W Network's The Bachelorette Canada, a job he received thanks in part to a tweet he made expressing his excitement for the upcoming show and asking if they needed a host.
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Russell made her first movie appearance in a number of years in Fate Is the Hunter (1964), in which she was seen as herself performing for the USO in a flashback sequence. She was second-billed in two Westerns, Johnny Reno (1966) and Waco (1966), and starred in Cauliflower Cupids, filmed in 1966 but not released until 1970. She had a character role in The Born Losers (1967) and Darker Than Amber (1970). In 1971, Russell starred in the musical drama Company, making her debut on Broadway in the role of Joanne, succeeding Elaine Stritch.
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The album's first single "Born Losers" was also a success, peaking at #27 on the Canadian Hot 100. Hospital Music was additionally influenced by Good's proximity to Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, just blocks away from his Gastown loft. The opening sound bites in both "Girl Wedged Under the Front of a Firebird" and album-opener "Champions of Nothing" feature men narrating snippets of their experience from the impoverished neighbourhood. Hospital Music debuted at the top of the Canadian albums chart, Good's first number one album since Beautiful Midnight.
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In 2015, Dollanganger opened for American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey alongside Grimes at a concert in Toronto. Grimes later announced the creation of Eerie Organization, claiming to have started the collaborative to put out Dollanganger's album, Natural Born Losers, stating "It's a crime against humanity for this music not to be heard". In October and November 2015, Dollanganger was a supporting musician in Grimes' Rhinestone Cowgirls Tour. In March 2016, her song "Chapel" was featured in episode 14 of the sixth season of the television series The Walking Dead, titled "Twice as Far".
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In 1953 The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando, was the first film about a motorcycle gang. A string of low-budget juvenile delinquent films featuring hot-rods and motorcycles followed in the 1950s. The success of American International Pictures' The Wild Angels in 1966 ignited a more robust trend that continued into the early 1970s. Other biker films include Motorpsycho (1965), Hells Angels on Wheels (1967), The Born Losers (1967), Angels from Hell (1968), Easy Rider (1969), Satan's Sadists (1969), Naked Angels (1969), The Sidehackers (1969), Nam's Angels (1970), and C.C. and Company (1970).
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Rumors have stated that the melody in "Blues' Theme" was stolen from Louie Shelton's guitar lick in "Last Train to Clarksville", but "Last Train to Clarksville" was recorded on July 25, 1966 and The Wild Angels debuted in the theaters on July 20, 1966. Davie Allan & the Arrows went on to record a number of other soundtracks for similar AIP films over the next few years, like Devil's Angels, Thunder Alley, and The Born Losers, as well as several studio albums. All contained quality material, but none would prove as successful as “Blues' Theme”.
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The Born Losers is also significant for its social criticism and portrayal of the biker gang as a force of pure, unredeemable evil. Here, for the first time, a lone hero stands up to, and ultimately defeats, the gang. Prior to this, the majority of the films in this genre imitated The Wild One with a sympathetic gang member (the reluctant leader or a new member) who ultimately rejects the outlaw biker lifestyle. Prime examples are the Fonda character in The Wild Angels, Jack Nicholson in Hells Angels on Wheels (1967), and Joe Namath in C.C. and Company (1970).
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Billy Jack is introduced as an enigmatic, half-Indian Vietnam veteran who shuns society, taking refuge in the peaceful solitude of the California Central Coast mountains. His troubles begin when he descends from this unspoiled setting and drives into a small beach town named Big Rock (Morro Bay). A minor traffic accident in which a motorist hits a motorcyclist results in a savage beating by members of the Born Losers Motorcycle Club. The horrified bystanders (including Laughlin's wife, Delores Taylor, and their two children in cameo roles) are too afraid to help or be involved in any way.
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During this time, AIP also produced or distributed most of Corman's horror films, such as X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes. In 1966, the studio released The Wild Angels starring Peter Fonda, based loosely on the real-life exploits of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. This film ushered in AIP's most successful year and kicked off a subgenre of motorcycle gang films that lasted almost 10 years and included Devil's Angels, The Glory Stompers with Dennis Hopper, and The Born Losers—the film that introduced the Billy Jack character. In 1968, AIP launched a $22 million film program.
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The Vietnam veteran has been depicted in fiction and film of variable quality. A major theme is the difficulties of soldiers readjusting from combat to civilian life. This theme had occasionally been explored in the context of World War Two in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and The Men (1950). However, films featuring Vietnam veterans constitute a much larger genre.Michael Parris (1987) "The American Film Industry and Vietnam" in History Today Volume 37: 19–26 The first appearance of a Vietnam veteran in film seems to be The Born Losers (1967) featuring Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack.
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Billy Jack is a 1971 Western action drama independent film, the second of four films centering on a character of the same name which began with the movie The Born Losers (1967), played by Tom Laughlin, who directed and co-wrote the script. Filming began in Prescott, Arizona, in the fall of 1969, but the movie was not completed until 1971. Original filming location credits which were left out originally include: Plaza Santa Fe NM, Bandelier Indian Reservation NM, and Taos NM. American International Pictures pulled out, halting filming. 20th Century-Fox came forward and filming eventually resumed but when that studio refused to distribute the film, Warner Bros.
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Wellman was born in Los Angeles, California, and is the son of actress Dorothy Wellman (née Coonan) and director William A. Wellman, about whose life and career he has talked in a number of interviews. His sister is actress Cissy Wellman. Wellman played the main character, David Michaels, in the last two of four Christian movies based on The Book of Revelation, Image of the Best and The Prodigal Planet. He played the beatnik biker, Child, in the first Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) movie "The Born Losers" and then other characters in followup Billy Jack movies, "Trial of" and "The Return of Billy Jack".
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As part of the film's promotion, Bong Soo Han, who was in charge of the martial arts choreography for the film, toured the United States giving hapkido demonstrations. The Born Losers was reissued in 1974 and earned more than twice as much as it had in its original release. The second sequel, The Trial of Billy Jack, released in late 1974, was a huge box-office hit, while not registering as quite as big a critical success. It is notable for its casting of Native American icons such as Sacheen Littlefeather and Rolling Thunder, as well as its strong criticism of the Kent State shootings.
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However, Laughlin's unique promotion of the film was its real legacy. Unlike most films of the era, which opened in only a few cities before gradually spreading across the country, The Trial of Billy Jack opened in cities nationwide on the same day and commercials were broadcast for it during the national news. This promotion forever changed the way films are marketed and has been called "the first blockbuster." Laughlin had been in dispute with AIP and reached a settlement in 1974, agreeing to pay them $2 million, including $500,000 from The Born Losers reissue and $250,00 for AIP's percentage share of The Trial of Billy Jack.
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The last third of the film is Green Beret expertise in a commando mission to abduct a North Vietnamese General who has been seduced by the sister-in-law of an ARVN Special Forces Colonel (played by Jack Soo). The climax is a superb demonstration of combatives by former-Tarzan Mike Henry killing a horde of Viet Cong who attack him, even impaling one on a low tree branch. The martial arts inspired many film producers. Tom Laughlin made a highly profitable American International Pictures film called The Born Losers (1967) featuring Billy Jack, a half-American Indian former Green Beret Vietnam War veteran using his martial arts on a motorcycle gang.
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The shoot began in September 1965.Tom Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959–1969, McFarland 2005, p282-294 Aron Kincaid, who was forced to participate in the film under his long-term contract with AIP, was supposed to perform two musical numbers, but these scenes were dropped. After filming was completed, a number of the cast went to the Golden Oak Ranch to film the opening number, Bikini Party in a Haunted House, sung by Kincaid and Piccola Pupa. The stunt scene of Eric Von Zipper crashing his motorcycle into a pond was used again in the first Billy Jack film, The Born Losers (1967), also produced by AIP.
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The label, a subsidiary of Geffen Records, released the following albums: The Bomboras - Head Shrinkin' Fun; The Ghastly Ones - A-Haunting We Will Go-Go; Halloween Hootenanny - Various Artists; Rob Zombie Presents Words and Music from "Frankenstein." Rob Zombie Presents: Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures Arguably Zombie-a-go-go's most well-known album is the compilation "Halloween Hootenanny." Artists featured on this record include: Rob Zombie, Reverend Horton Heat, The Bomboras, Southern Culture On The Skids, Satan's Pilgrims, Frenchy, Rocket From The Crypt, The Amazing (Royal) Crowns, Los Straitjackets, Swingin Neckbreakers, the Phantom Surfers, Deadbolt, Dead Elvi, The Born Losers, The Legendary Invisible Men, Davie Allan, The Ghastly Ones, and television horror host Zacherle.
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As a freshman at San Fernando Valley State College, while working in the practice rooms of the Department of Music, Curb wrote the song "You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda (Go Little Honda)" which the company selected for its ad campaign. Dropping out of college in 1963 at the age of 19, Curb formed his first record company, Sidewalk Records (a predecessor of Curb Records) and helped launch the careers of West Coast rock and roll artists such as the Stone Poneys (featuring Linda Ronstadt), The Arrows (featuring Davie Allan) and the Electric Flag (featuring Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles). Curb scored the music for the short film Skaterdater (1965), as well as The Wild Angels (1966), Thunder Alley (1967), Devil's Angels (1967), The Born Losers (1967) (the first of the Billy Jack films), Maryjane (1968), The Wild Racers (1968), The Savage Seven (1968), The Big Bounce (1969), The Sidehackers (1969) and Black Water Gold (1970). In 1969, he merged his company with MGM Records and became president of both MGM Records and Verve Records.
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