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William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar known as Pearly Gates. Gibbons has a bass vocal range, spanning E♭1 to E♭5, one of the widest ranges in rock. He is noted for using an old five peso Mexican coin as a guitar plectrum and use of pinch harmonics in his solos.
Gibbons is a familiar fixture at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, producing studio sessions in the NightBird Recording Studio with actors Billy Bob Thornton and J. P. Shellnutt, along with musicians Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Jed Leiber, Joe "Backbeat" Fazzio, and Dwight Yoakam. Gibbons is also well known for his authentic preparations of Texas-style barbecue and Mexican cuisine and is frequently a guest chef around Hollywood, California serving his famous "Renegade Guacamole".
Actors: William Lim (writer), William Lim (director), William Lim (writer), William Lim (producer), Francis Lim (editor), Chris Liantoro (writer), Heru Wijaya (writer), Hary Senjaya (writer), Riccardo Cartelli (actor), Gary Wibisono (writer),
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Ruth Gordon (actress), Arthur Tovey (actor), William A. Lyon (editor), Harvey Korman (actor), Tuesday Weld (actress), Jack Fier (miscellaneous crew), Hal Baylor (actor), Roddy McDowall (actor), Joseph Mell (actor), Robert Foulk (actor), Max Showalter (actor), Dorothy Hughes (miscellaneous crew), Lola Albright (actress), George Axelrod (director), George Axelrod (writer),
Plot: High-school senior Barbara Ann Greene has a lot to overcome to reach her dreams to be popular, get a job, find a husband, and maybe even be a movie star: she's poor, her parents are divorced, and her mother is a cocktail waitress. Right beside her, though, is her best friend and Svengali, Alan. He helps her get 12 cashmere sweaters, a job in the principal's office, spring break at Balboa, and more. Along the way, the satire bites teen mores, beach-blanket bikini movies, adults in charge, the country-club set, Christian-youth programs, older men's fantasies, and teen girls' innocence. How popular will Barbara Ann become, and what lengths will Alan go to get her there?
Keywords: alcoholism, attempted-murder, automobile, b-girl, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bathtub, beach, black-comedy, boat