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June. Ron. Tim. Together they were the Ormond Organization, a Nashville mother-father son trio who cranked out a wild bunch of movies, from Lash LaRue westerns to the stripper-gore-musical outrage The Exotic Ones, then finally... Baptist extravaganzas. The Ormonds plunged into every area of showbiz, from vaudeville to drive-in movies to Christian filmmaking. They did it all on a shoestring - by themselves, with no studio to back them. Theirs was a glittery world like no other. Populated by inebriated cowboys... spook-show mentalists... non-acting country stars... UFO testifiers... men in gorilla suits... egocentric magicians... fire-breathing, mud-wrestling ex-strippers... sweaty preachers... rockabilly monsters... pint-sized evangelists. Not to mention a con artist or ten. At the height of their frenzied career Ron and June experienced a spiritual awakening after their private plane crashed on the way to a premiere. The Ormonds turned their back on secular show business to make a ser

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"Jimmy McDonough is a biographer and journalist. He has written biographies of Neil Young, Tammy Wynette, Al Green, Russ Meyer and Andy Milligan. TIME magazine declared his Milligan biography The Ghastly One ""a masterpiece"" and John Waters repeatedly names it one of his all-time favorites. McDonough has also authored profiles on Jimmy Scott, Gary Stewart, Hubert Selby, Jr. and Link Wray."

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