• American Hot Wax is a 1978 biographical film directed by Floyd Mutrux with a screenplay by John Kaye from a story by John Kaye and Art Linson. The film...
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    HotWax are an English alternative rock trio based in Hastings, consisting of members Tallulah Sim-Savage, Lola Sam, and Alfie Sayers. Tallulah Sim-Savage...
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  • Hot wax may refer to: Hot Wax (album), by Grant Hart, 2009 Hot Wax Records, an American record label HotWax, British rock band "Hotwax", a song by Beck...
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  • Tim McIntire (category American male film actors)
    April 15, 1986) was an American character actor, probably best known for his starring roles as Alan Freed in the film American Hot Wax (1978), as singer George...
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  • Joe Esposito (singer) (category American male singers)
    film soundtracks, such as those of American Hot Wax, Staying Alive, Scarface, The Karate Kid, and Coming to America. Several of his songs have also been...
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    Fran Drescher (category Use American English from September 2022)
    small role in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever and later appeared in American Hot Wax (1978) and Wes Craven's horror film Stranger in Our House (1978). In...
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    Bikini waxing is the removal of pubic hair using a special wax, which can be hot or cold, that adheres to hairs and pulls them out when the wax is removed...
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  • Nora Denney (category 20th-century American actresses)
    Spindle or Mutilate (1971), I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975), American Hot Wax (1978) and Truman (1995). She made her final film appearance in 1999...
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    Laraine Newman (category 20th-century American actresses)
    relationship with Mothersbaugh. Prior to leaving SNL, Newman appeared in American Hot Wax (1978) and did a cameo in Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979). Newman continued...
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    Kenny Vance (category Jay and the Americans members)
    as bass player with fictional group, Otis Day and the Knights) and American Hot Wax with Tim McIntire, Jay Leno, and Fran Drescher. He wrote the theme...
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    Melanie Chartoff (category American sketch comedians)
    For Tomorrow, after which she appeared in the 1978 motion picture American Hot Wax. She first became a nationally known figure on ABC's Fridays, which...
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    Richard Perry (category American people of Jewish descent)
    Also in 1978, Perry played the part of a record producer in the film American Hot Wax, which was based on the life of disc jockey Alan Freed. In the 1990s...
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  • Myra Lewis Williams (category American memoirists)
    Myra Gale Lewis Williams (née Brown; born July 11, 1944) is an American author, best known for her controversial marriage at the age of 13 to rock and...
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    Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added....
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    Cameron Crowe (category 21st-century American non-fiction writers)
    of his career was beginning to wane. He appeared in the 1978 film American Hot Wax, but returned to his writing. Though he would continue to freelance...
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    Moosie Drier (category American male child actors)
    followed this with a prominent role in the Alan Freed screen biography American Hot Wax (1978), in which the adolescent Drier recounts his reaction to Buddy...
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  • Art Linson (category American male screenwriters)
    Art Linson is an American producer, screenwriter, and author. Art Linson has produced movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club,...
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  • Garry Goodrow (category American male film actors)
    Blues (1973), Linda Lovelace for President (1975), Stay Hungry (1976), American Hot Wax (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Escape from Alcatraz...
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  • Brooklyn Dreams (group) (category American soul musical groups)
    with Kenny Vance of Jay and the Americans, as "Professor La Plano and the Planotones" in the 1978 film American Hot Wax. Their sophomore effort Sleepless...
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    Jeff Altman (category Jewish American comedians)
    he appeared as sleazy record promoter Lennie Richfield in the movie American Hot Wax. Altman also had a starring role as the host of the short-lived NBC...
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  • Arnold Johnson (actor) (category African-American male actors)
    Apollo's lawyer A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (1978) as Patient American Hot Wax (1978) as Arnold, Musician in Bar On the Nickel (1980) Honky Tonk Freeway...
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  • Hot Wax Records was a Detroit, Michigan-based record label, created by producers/songwriters Holland–Dozier–Holland (Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and...
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  • Andrea Robinson (singer) (category American voice actresses)
    singing voice of Queen Athena in The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning. American Hot Wax (1978) – Girls Backstage Yogi's First Christmas (1980) (TV) (voice)...
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    Screamin' Jay Hawkins (category American blues singers)
    He appeared in performance (as himself) in the Alan Freed bio-pic American Hot Wax in 1978. Subsequently, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch featured "I Put a Spell...
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    2023, Hot Mulligan signed to Wax Bodega and released their third album, Why Would I Watch. In 2024, touring bassist Jonah Kramer officially joined Hot Mulligan...
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  • Tom Baker (August 23, 1940 – September 2, 1982) was an American actor who starred in the Andy Warhol film I, a Man (1967). He was a close friend of Jim...
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    Bruce Sudano (category American dance musicians)
    Friday soundtrack. The same year, Brooklyn Dreams appeared in the movie American Hot Wax, performing as the Planotones, a group created for the movie with longtime...
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    Jerry Lee Lewis (category Use American English from November 2022)
    Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock...
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    Ruby Wax OBE (née Wachs; born 19 April 1953) is a British-American actress, comedian, writer, television personality, and mental health campaigner. A...
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    Olivia Barash (category American film actresses)
    Olivia Barash (born January 11, 1965) is an American actress. She began her career as a child actor, appearing in television series such as Little House...
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