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Heidi Van Horne

Do I really have to have a headline?

About Me

Actress/Filmmaker/Pin Up model and generally crazy lil' Texas chick somehow marooned in LA. (for a decade now!! *%^$#%!)

Wanna ask me how to get started as a PinUp? Click this link:

"What is Success?... Success is when your NO means NO and your YES means YES, and you can stand by your word 'cuz your word is your balls... lose one, you're losin' 'em all..." -Xzibit

My Interests

working on my websites- www.heidivanhorne.com, www.pinupplayingcards.com, www.HVHphoto.com; hanging out with my man and our puppy, taking pin up photos, writing scripts, making movies on a shoestring budget with friends, car club, shows and kustom kulture events, shopping for shoes and clothes (when I actually have $!), and acting on big budget paid projects so i can afford to do the no-budg ones.

I'd like to meet:

Who I want to meet - ALL of you on my new profile!!!:Who I'm PSYCHED to meet here: fans, old friends, other cool chicks, fellow pin up gals and film/tv/stage actresses, Retro Pin Up & hot rod photographers, Lingerie and shoe desginers who want to give away stuff (he he he), fellow indie filmmakers, anyone who wants to cast me in a SAG role for film/tv/commercial, guys and girls who love mine and others' pin up art, other car club folks and vintage lovers
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Who I'd like to meet if its really them- David LaChapelle, Susan Sarandon, Janeane Garafolo, Tina Fey, Pam Anderson, Carmen Elektra (she's really funny in this indie movie called "Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human"), Winona Ryder, Cindy Lauper, Jennifer Coolidge, Gwen Stefani (well, again, I met her in '92), Illeana Douglas, Lili Taylor, Angelina Jolie, Kevin Smith, John Waters, and Bettie Page
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To ADD ME to your TOP FRIENDS, please use email address heidi [at] heidivanhorne.com

Music:

Large Lump Sum

for the love of Heidi...

Love Equals Death

Know The Score - Florida Hardcore

Firecrackers - Great Rock&Roll from France

Dynamite! Magazine Compilation #51

X!! And more X! I studied musical theater and grew up on early 80's punk, so it could go in any direction, really. MOTOWN, Country, Punk, Rap, Ska/Oi, Showtunes... Faves include- Sharon Jones and the DAP KINGS, Desmond Dekker, Social D, Pixies, Madness, Patsy Cline, Ani DiFranco, the soundtrack to NINE, Xanadu, ANDREWS SISTERS, NOFX & vandals, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Devil Doll, Otis Redding, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, And more X!

Movies:

my work:

Angels Die Slowly
(coming in 2008)

The Master Plan


Mad Fabricator's Society DVD Volume 2

Dazed and Confused Graveyard Diary Clean At the End of the Day

Xanadu, Heathers, European Vacation, Vacation, Seems Like Old Times, Friday, Goonies, Office Space, Supertroopers, On the Waterfront, From Here to Eternity, Jackie Brown, Swingers, Dogma, Mean Girls, Orange County, The Outsiders, Happy Gilmore, Fletch, Zoolander, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Thelma & Louise, Pulp Fiction, SLC Punk, Dancer Texas Population 81, Blues Brothers, Decline of the Western Civlization, Snow White, Aladdin, Grease, Grease 2 (no, really), Dirty Dancing, Memphis Belle, Adventures in Babysitting, School of Rock, Mermaids, Stuck on You, Shaun of the Dead, Connie and Carla, The Sting

Television:

my work:
Finding GreenUltimate Green MachinesThe O.C.ERThe InsideDead Last Gilmore Girls
SIMPSONS! also guilty pleasure crappy TV- I like to laugh at maury paternity tests (you are NOT the father) god bless DVR... Law & Order (all series- RIP, Lenny!!), Sex & the City, Da Ali G show, ANTM (yeah, I said it, what?) WEEDS, EXTRAS, My Name is Earl, Entourage, Sifl & Olly, Wonder Showzen, 24, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, I Love Lucy, Facts of Life, Three's Company, The Muppet Show, Beavis & Butthead, Ren & Stimpy, The Young Ones, Iconoclasts, Discovery's PLANET EARTH!!!

Books:

my work:
Hot Rod Pin Ups by David Perry/Motorbooks Inc. Modern Vixens by Octavio Arizala/Goliath Press How to Be a Dominant Diva from Avalon Press
Deadbeat Magazine
Las Vegas Magazine
Bachelor Pad Magazine PREMIERE ISSUE

Barracuda Magazine
Rockabilly Monthly Magazine
Dynamite! Magazine

Auto Turbo Magazine

scripts magazines & trade papers
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, anything by Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Bukowski, Catcher in the Rye, The Sneetches by Dr. Suess (social commentary at its best, people!), the Harry Potter books, The Outsiders, Under the Black Flag, The Pirate's Own Book, Women Pirates, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, The Great Gatsby, Dude, Where's My Country?

Heroes:

wow... no one alone, but about a zillion people factor in somehow- PJ Soles, Bettie Page, Exene Cervenka, Anne Bonny & Mary Read (pirates), Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Bridget Bardot, Janis Joplin, Winona Ryder, Patsy Cline, Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Parker Posey, Charlies' Angels (Esp Jaclyn Smith), Janet & Chrissy, Wonder Woman, Snow White, Gloria Steinham & Angelyne (sorry, it was too funny to NOT put their names together, such irony...), Angelina Jolie, I Dream of Jeannie's evil dark-haired cousin Serena... and my folks- throw that mess of people together, blend in some Texas-bred love and East coast snap, and you get ME.
people I've met in the past few years who have become heroes to me, as well- Heidi Minx, Bo Huff, Bunny Yeager

My Blog

me on Monster Garage.com

hey guys!  So, last Friday night I went to Bob's Big Boy in Burbank with my truck and my friend Kat Kartel to do a little interview for Monster Garage.com before meeting up with my car club gals....
Posted by Heidi Van Horne on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:10:00 PST

How to be a Pin Up... *updated*

Alrighty!  I seem to get TONS of emails every day from women & girls who want to do pin up asking me how to get started.  I used to reply to each one with a long note and lots of in...
Posted by Heidi Van Horne on Tue, 09 May 2006 04:29:00 PST

Orato.com feature on me!

Hey ya'll!Check it out...  I just did an interview for Orato.com, and you can check it out now!  A very cool site with first-hand stories from all over about interesting peeps.  Click o...
Posted by Heidi Van Horne on Fri, 18 May 2007 12:16:00 PST

Indie Film I'm in seeking Investors $$$ *updated!*

Hello all-I am starring in a low budget independent film that is still seeking investors.  If you are interested in investing in the production, please contact me directly at heidi {at} heidivanh...
Posted by Heidi Van Horne on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:08:00 PST

my article, "Power to the Pin Up"

Last year I wrote an article about my work as a pinup- how I got started, my DIY aproach, what inspired me, how it is affected by my feminist point of view, where I plan to go with it, and how I have ...
Posted by Heidi Van Horne on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:51:00 PST

dorky 14 year old Heidi in Dazed & Confused

yeah, I'm a dork, whatever...  check out the new default pic- Its of me and Parker Posey on the set of "Dazed & Confused" in 1991.  Yeah, I have glasses and squinty eyes (nothin's c...
Posted by Heidi Van Horne on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:08:00 PST

emails and comments and stuff (oh my!)

hey folks... I used to have a little disclaimer on here about emails and stuff, and since I seem to be getting more and more of the same issues coming up, I wanted to post it again- First off, I want ...
Posted by Heidi Van Horne on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:56:00 PST