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Western Civilization Volume C: Since 1789

Jackson J. Spielvogel

Best-selling book WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping st...

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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Christina Applegate mentioned this movie, which had a girl in it who wanted to continue modeling and acting. Applegate said she drew inspiration from this character for her role in Married With Children, wanting to represent the kind of rock and roll, sluddy girls who were popular at the time.

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And there was a girl in there who just won Miss Guysare's and they were asking her what she was going to do next and she says "Miss Guysare's, yeah I'm gonna continue with my modeling and my actressin...

— Episode: Christina Applegate

Episode: Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate mentioned this movie, which had a girl in it who wanted to continue modeling and acting. Applegate said she drew inspiration from this character for her role in Married With Children, wanting to represent the kind of rock and roll, sluddy girls who were popular at the time.

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And there was a girl in there who just won Miss Guysare's and they were asking her what she was going to do next and she says "Miss Guysare's, yeah I'm gonna continue with my modeling and my actressing."

And she had on, you know, the little like, her dress and Kelly Bundy was a totally different character before that she was like biker chick and, you know, during the years and no one saw it. She was like a little biker chick, kind of tough, kind of stuff and I was like "No, we need to represent this, what this is going on right now in the zeitgeist like these girls like these rock sluddy girls and I was like "Let's go, let's do it"."

And we went the next day to Melrose to get like a bunch of those little dresses that I had never put something on like that in my life because I was a hippie, I loved Janice Joplin and The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. I was totally not that guy and low and behold, that's where the character came from.

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