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Jewel Shepard
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Since her days in the cradle, Jewel dreamed to be a grade “A” movie star. In the early 80s when she first arrived in Hollywood she suppoeted herself by working at several Los Angeles strip clubs. She got about as far as a few dozen grade "B" (or lower) movies viewed on late night TV by either die-hard fans or insomniacs. Some of her films -- Raw Force, The Junkman, Going Undercover, Scanner Cop II. In Goldmine she got a chance to work with Sopranos star, Joey Pantoliano, Rock Star (and member of the Mega-group The Eagles) Timothy B. Schmidt, and the actor best known for his eerie depiction of Charles Manson in Helter-Skelter, Steve Railsback.
Later Jewel decided to become a writer, knowing full well that she was fighting an uphill battle to get folks to take the star of Hollywood Hot Tubs (and its even-better sequel, Hollywood Hot Tubs II) seriously. She started by polling her fellow B-Movie Queens, interviewing stars of the past and present to create the definitive book on the subject, Invasion of the B-Girls. Her first book was a smash. It sold like crazy, still sells and even got purchased by Dick Clark as the basis for a not-yet-filmed-but-she's-still-hoping "A" movie. Better still, it prompted a demand for her second book -- an autobiography entitled, If I'm So Famous, How Come Nobody’s Ever Heard of Me? -- and brought her offers to write for magazines, including Premiere, Cosmopolitan, Details and many others.
It was Premiere that especially grabbed up her writing, saving her from getting whipped in any more bad movies. Today, she divides her time between more articles for magazines, special features for the Associated Press and a couple of secret projects. Recently, she was back in front of the camera and not in some crummy movie with an over-heated producer, and lots of bad acting. She appeared opposite William Macy in the soon-to-be released film, The Cooler, also starring Alec Baldwin. |
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