So it became topless improv, hippie burlesque. As they worked out their routines, they figured out that their aesthetic was to take everyday situations and exaggerate them. In Up in Smoke , Cheech peeing in the hamper was a true story. And the scene where he wakes up with all the kids around him, blaring the television, that was from when Cheech stayed with my first wife and the family. He would sleep on the couch and every morning my kids would turn on the TV real loud.
They refined their material on the road, and, according to Marin, worked more than days a year. Record producer Lou Adler, who worked with the Mamas and the Papas and co-owned the Roxy venue featured in Up in Smoke , spotted their act and offered to put out albums of their bits. When the time came to make the movie, it was Adler who worked as a producer attempting to sell it to prospective studios.
Somebody over at Paramount understood it. I ended up financing it myself and they paid me back. It had a smattering of dialogue. But it was mostly a roadmap. Cheech and Chong eventually concocted a zany narrative where Pedro meets Man and they go to Tijuana to pick up a van constructed from marijuana.
As they try to smuggle it across the border, they witlessly evade a narcotics unit led by a Sgt. Stedenko actor Stacy Keach and make their way to a battle of the bands. Throughout the picture, they included hilarious glimpses into their real lives. He was bumming for money. That really sucked. Was he a good lighting tech? I took some really good acid this afternoon.
For some of the other roles, they looked to their funny friends. Their friend, June Fairchild, played a cokehead partygoer who snorted three lines of Ajax that made her do what sounds like an impression of Donald Duck imploding, and they cast other buddies as extras in the party scenes.
He also continued his voiceover work, with parts in Cars and Beverly Hills Chihuahua , and had a recurring role as the father of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the popular TV drama Lost. In , Cheech and Chong reunited for the "Light Up America" tour, for which they reprised their famous stoner personas. They followed that with their "Get it Legal" tour, proving that their subversive brand of humor remained relevant long after the counter-culture movement that spawned it had passed.
Marin began collecting art around the time he embarked on his solo career, and, today, owns what is considered to be the largest private collection of Chicano art in the world.
Seeking to bring exposure to unheralded artists, he formed the "Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge" exhibition, which toured several major American cities from to He currently serves on the boards of the Smithsonian Latino Center and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and has been honored for his work with the Latino community.
When not devoting energy to creative and humanitarian projects, Marin enjoys spending time on the golf course. He married his third wife, Natasha, in August , and has three children from previous marriages. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
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Republican politician Rick Perry was governor of Texas from until He ran two failed bids for the White House in and , before becoming U. They broke from their typical stoner comedy movies to release the lesser-known Corsican Brothers in , only to return to form with Get Out of My Room in But the duo would part ways soon afterward. They'd continue several other projects independently, from acting to writing to producing what may or may not have been pretty cool but illegal at the time drug paraphernalia according to the federal officials who raided Chong's glass company.
They'd go on to reunite in the s and tour the country doing sketch and musical comedy. Now, whether you're born in East L. The story follows the aptly named Anthony Stoner Chong , an unemployed, well, stoner who aspires to be a drummer. When his strict parents threaten to ship him off to military school, he leaves home to find his way in the world.
Along the way, he meets Pedro De Pacas Marin and the two form a quick friendship thanks to their similar interests, one of which being marijuana. The two find themselves arrested for possession, only to be let off on a technicality.
Hijinks ensue, including being accidentally deported to Tijuana, drug smuggling, and an epic Battle of the Bands finale in which everyone gets high thanks to a van funneling marijuana smoke into the venue.
The movie has a cult following that still exists today despite being over 40 years old. After Cheech loses his job in the movie industry, the two go to try to collect unemployment from Cheech's girlfriend, Donna Evelyn Guerrero. However, thanks to their habit of causing trouble, they end up being kicked out of the welfare office and go in search of alternative income. The plot of this film goes even farther off the rails than the first, dipping into alien abductions with the interesting addition of "space coke" to spice up the duo's usual high antics.
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