STUNTWOMAN GLORIA FONTENOT TO RACE THE SCORE BAJA 1000!
Posted on November 13, 2007, 1:39 am
By Press Release
Stuntwoman Gloria Fontenot has agreed to join Glacier Bear Racing to race the upcoming 40th TECATE SCORE Baja 1000 from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas. Gloria will join Barbara Terry and Vanina Ickxa to round out a three woman race team. They will contest the race in a Ford F250 sponsored by Shell Oil, Goodyear Tires and Ebay Online in the truck built by Jerry Moskel. The 1296.39 mile race takes place November 10-16th, includes all types of vehicles from motorcycles to four wheelers and is known for it's grueling terrain, unpredictable course and intense competition.
"I'm excited to be given such a great opportunity and look forward to finally experiencing this incredible event from the inside. The team is well prepared and organized so we're going to go out there and see what we can do. Anything can happen in racing, especially in a race like this, but we plan to do our best and have a whole lot of fun." said Gloria, when asked about her recent agreement to race with the team. "Every year, more women take on this event. It's exciting to know that sponsors are willing to support a female team. I can't wait to sink my teeth in and see what we can all accomplish together!"
Gloria has been a stuntwoman for 15 years and performs in film, television and video as a motorcyclist, stunt driver, martial artist, acrobat and SCUBA Divemaster. She gets set on fire and jumps off buildings, but her passion is all about wheels and motors. You've seen her in Spiderman II and III, Evan Almighty, Constantine, Poseidon, The Italian Job, Blade III, Hollywood Homicide, Cradle to the Grade, Charlie's Angels Full Throttle, The Cat in the Hat, Criminal Minds, Weeds, Medium, Nip/Tuck, Planet of the Apes, Deuce Bigalo Male Gigalo, The Animal, The Hot Chick and so many more.
You can also see her in the 2006-2007 Suzuki Car commercials both on motorcycles and in cars. A motorcycle enthusiast she is involved in the women's motorcycle industry, sponsored by Hein Gericke, and is a regular at women's events and track days. She sang the national anthem at the US Open of Supercross at the MGM Grand and the Supercross Finals at Sam Boyd Stadium this year, as well as the last three years.
For more information go to www.gloriafontenot.com, www.myspace.com/glorifontenot/
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I hear a rumor that Glacier Bear Racing is running in the Baja 1000 with Barbara Terry, Vanina Ickx (daughter of F1 driver Jacky Ickx), and Gloria Fontenot among their drivers. Last I heard that there was a problem with inspection involving the roll bar that needed resolved.
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast. You also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor - US comedian & singer (1892 - 1964)
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Femmoto - Womens Only demo days
The Feminine Perspective
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For years I had heard about Femmoto but have fought the concept due to my own mindset that I just wanted to be treated like other riders, male or female being completely irrelevant. I have also struggled to find other women riders who simply love to ride with no ulterior motives or the all-too-tough attitudes that sometimes accompany them. I’ve known other folks who've gone to Femmoto and had a great time. I had also heard of the great prices for a track day ($250 for two-days of riding!) and the fact that dealers bring in fleets of bikes for women to ride on the track; all very enticing but I still refused to attend.
Finally this year I gave in. We planned to attend with some friends who had gone four years prior and loved it! I actually thought I was off the hook when I found out they were pregnant, but even a c-section did not keep her away and save me from my fate.
So despite Femmoto’s confusing and nonsensical website, I gave up and picked up the phone to register. The weekend of the event, we left late Thursday afternoon and drove to Las Vegas with our dog Jake in the back seat and Dave’s track bike in the back of the truck. We arrived late and woke early Friday for Dave's day on the track (day 1 was the only day open to men). Dave and Alex had a great time while Shannon, 7-week old baby Sasha, Jake the dog and I sat around chatting and taking photos. So far, it was just like any other track day other than we didn't know everybody and all the guys were complaining about (or admiring) some 14-year-old girl on a 2-stroke that was passing them all.
Saturday was the "Ladies Only" (no boys allowed) track time with a leave-your-bike-at-home format. We arrived first thing and I ran around getting my "dance card" filled with the bikes I wanted to demo-ride for each session. I rushed around like a mad woman standing in line at Ducati, Honda, Aprilia, and the like getting as many of my want-to ride bikes on my card as possible. While in line I chatted with the other girls about what they wanted to ride, or their experience yesterday on the track. I was amazed and I stood there with my jaw on the floor at the caliber of women attending! They were friendly, outgoing women who simply love to ride. I had found what I did not think was possible.
Then the real fun began, I suited up for my first session out on a Buell. I was surprisingly impressed with the bike and was having a great time on the track. The riders were all very well mannered and I was having an absolute blast! I continued in suit riding the Aprilia Tuono, Aprilia RSV 1000, Honda CBR600RR, and my surprise favorite of the day the Kawasaki Versys.
When not riding we were checking out gear at a multitude of vendor booth's, Femmoto special sales and gathering free stuff! The staff of Femmoto were all wearing the most amazing one piece leather suit made by Hein Gericke’s G-Line. When I inquired, I found out that FemmotoGear.com will be selling them by Spring 2008 and that the Femmoto staff had a huge part in the design; gear by women for women. I can't wait to try them out! Shannon also found some very attractive and affordable leathers to buy and didn't waste any time putting them on for her next demo.
Dave walked around all day with Jake, wearing the poor dog out. But ALL the girls loved our black-and white border-collie cross, and he was quickly elevated to a sort of celebrity status where everyone knew him by name and would love on him anytime he walked past. He really hammed it up and before long he even received a special touch therapy session from someone who was skilled in animal massage (the massage gave him tons more energy and he was back in the game for the rest of the day).
That evening we attended a banquet held in the center of the oval at the Las Vegas Speedway where they had set up a buffet and an open bar. They had tons of giveaways and games and we had a great time. One of the highlights was a Moto-Mate game which was similar to the Newlywed game only with a motorcycle spin to it. We laughed so hard we were in tears over the Harley Davidson/Buell sponsored event featuring four couples also in attendance at Femmoto. We sat with Alex and Shannon but were surprised to see how many others flew in from all over the country, including one couple who came all the way from Maryland.
The event continued on Sunday but we headed home instead. They offered an Off-Road Experience and, of course, demo dirt bikes and demo street rides. MSF was there and they had seminars for those who wanted to attend. On leaving I realized I was wrong to not embrace Femmoto sooner, and we now plan to make it an annual event.
The Masculine Perspective
Femmoto is the best female-specific event of any kind that I've had the pleasure to encounter. Where so many similar events somehow end up degrading to alienating males, Femmoto did an outstanding job of involving the boys while making it clear that this weekend was for the ladies.
I consider myself a solid A-group track-day rider and have no problem riding with the fast guys. In this case, I was riding with the fast girls. Never in all my years of riding have I been lapped so consistently by amazingly fast and skilled female riders. I'll be honest and say that I did not realize there were many out there. For many males, (even some in attendance the day I rode), it was a real blow to get schooled by "a girl". I'll try to take solice in the fact that one of the girls was AMA fast-gal Jessica Zalusky and super stunt woman Gloria Fontenot who'd you'd recognize from the Suzuki Car/Motorcycle ads that feature motorcycles ralling down canyon roads and drifting the rear tire across the salt flats. In other words, very skilled riders - gender being irrelevant.
Personally, I'd much rather have my proverbial doors blown off by the feminine form in a leather suit than to be overtaken by the best looking guy ever to pull on a leather romper suit. Along that line, the caliber of these female riders was at a level I've rarely ridden around. "Elegant" was the word I kept finding myself using to describe the female riding style I saw. I've had lots of guys faster than me who rode kludgy, abrupt and sloppy. Not the case with these A-group girls whose excellent riding style made me look for ways to smooth out my own riding. For me it was wicked-cool, for boys with delicate ego's this could be a challenge.
Additionally, the riding was very, for lack of a better word, "sportsmanlike". While I was getting passed regularly, there was not one bad pass that I saw. Not one "stuff", not one rider took my line – and there were some very close passes, but all of them were done extremely clean. Now, this is common in most A-group sessions, but the "this is for the ladies - us guys were here as guests" attitude of the weekend encouraged "polite" riding – riding that I much prefer to the "red mist of racing," competitive alternative. Meanwhile, slower the B and C groups varied in speed enough to cater to just about every skill level, without intimidating track newbies.
The event has strong sponsorship that brought in a many vendors allowing for plenty of gear poking, prodding and question asking. Most the bike manufacturers were on-hand allowing attendee's to play with all the new bikes and street demo-rides were available (For $25 for a day-pass) in addition to the track-rides (track rides were only available to girls).
Since I got to talk to a great many of these lady riders while I walked the very flirty Jake the dog, I have to say that I was supremely impressed by the women I got to meet. Strong, capable riders would come off the track, knee-pucks still smoking, hop off the CBR1000RR they had just flogged, then drop to their knee’s to pet and coddle Jake (much to his delight, by the way). In my humble opinion, they exuded the best of femininity.
For more information and to sign up for your own femmoto day, visit femmoto.com.
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My Thoughts as a Mom on Seacamp!
I had been debating on whether to put down my deposit for the 2005 Kidsseacamp in Cuarcao. We couldn't decide whether we wanted to try a new location or take a year off. But after speaking with Emily at Caribbean Adventures/formerly of Kiddseacamp, and found out what a special alumini week they had planned for us "oldtimers" how could I not put in our reservations!
We had such a wonderful time at Curacao last year, we had learned from our first year that one week was not enough and we signed up for a two week stay. We enrolled our daughter, Corley, in the Dolphin Training Program the first week. It was such an incredible experience watching as she put "her" dolphin, Teresa, thru her paces. The way those beautiful animals interact with people is so amazing. I highly recommend any family going to camp, take time to have their own dolphin swim. My swim will always be a treasured memory. Our second week of camp was the diving week. Corley began her junior openwater certification. Getting to dive with her on the final day on the Tugboat dive was such a thrill, seeing how she had learned to operate her equipment, and be a responsible diver made me realize what a wonderful teaching crew they have from Ocean Encounters. All these experiences and so many more from taking a daytrip to Klein Curacao, diving the Mushroom Forest, meeting new friends and renewing friendships made the year before, and of course golfing with Nolo makes it easy to come back.
On another note, it's amazing what a small world we live in. Part of our vacation plans were to bring my older daughter, Sara along with us. She was certified 6 months before she was sent overseas to do a tour in Afghanistan and then Iraq, and she had never gotton to dive in the ocean yet. While we were waiting for her to arrive, my husband Jon overheard a diver talking about her dive buddy who was a paratrooper. Sara is a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, and of course it made me curious. I introduced myself to him, and asked where he was stationed, to make a long story short, his name was Rick MacIntosh and he and Sara had been in Ramadi, Iraq together. This made for quite a reunion later that week when she arrived and an interesting "you'll never guess who I ran into while on vacation" story. The beautiful waters of Curacao made for a very memorable first ocean dive experience for her and she now understands why we are so hooked on Kidsseacamp!
Trish Worthman ( daugther Corley Clark age 11)
Alliance, Nebraska
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Dear Kids Sea Camp,
Last winter, as I was beginning to plan my annual summer dive trip, I encountered some roadblocks. As a single divorced mother of an eight year old boy, I had the problem of making sure he would be cared for, while I was away. His father recently moved out of state and was inaccessible. My parents, 74 and 84, offered to watch my son, but admitted it was becoming more difficult to entertain an active boy for an entire week...especially with no other kids in the neighborhood to play with. When I logged onto the Kids Sea Camp web site, I immediately contacted Margo. I soon received the information packet and knew that I had found the solution to my problem.
When I go on a dive trip, I dive....as much as I can. For me, it's a once a year endeavor that I literally submerge myself in. How could I be a mother and dive at the same time? I decided that attending Kids Sea Camp would provide the answer. By week's end, I had logged thirteen dives, made friends with several other divers and had quality vacation time with my son. While I was diving, my son had great instruction with well planned daily activities. He was well cared for and made friends while at KSC. The additional bonus to KSC Curacao, was having access to the Curacao Sea Aquarium and the dolphin interactions at Dolphin Academy.
Kathleen Durig
Kelvin Durig Buerkle, 8
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From My Perspective as a Parent
We got to Curacao early to spend a little time getting used to the place. My kids, although avid swimmers, had never really felt comfortable in the ocean. Sea Camp changed everything. The first day in Curacao, my kids wouldn't go past where they couldn't touch the bottom of the water. By day two, they were swimming the channel with local kids, back and forth. I was thrilled.
I had spent my whole childhood enjoying the ocean and had always watched Jacques Cousteau and had even got to go to some of his lectures through Cal Tech in California, but after seeing Jaws, I was terrified of getting eaten. Years later, after a really wonderful impromptu snorkeling shark experience with about 50 wonderful leopard sharks, I finally became a SCUBA diver, Rescue diver and then a Divemaster. I finally realized many of my dreams of interaction, observation and the amazing feeling of being in what I think is heaven, that SCUBA Diving has to offer. Well, I thought my kids would never see it that way. They were always nervous because of the shark movies they'd seen, whether we were snorkeling or kayaking. Those days are over now.
My son, who really had an aversion to studying, read his SCUBA cerfication book nightly with an enthusiasm I had never seen. He worked hard, and his instructor, Steve, worked with those kids in amazing ways. Every day, I saw a personal and intellectual growth in both kids, that I could never have imagined. The best part is, they were just having fun and had no idea what huge obstacles they were overcoming from what I knew of them in the past.
I have to say, that the most exciting day for me and my husband was the day we dove with them for the first time. I dove with Megan, as she wasn't old enough for open water certification but got her confined water certification. She actually showed me around the "In Ocean Acquarium" and knew what animals hung out where, what their personalities and tendencies were and how to interact with them. She took me to all the different areas so that I could experience all her new friends: The friendly stingrays, the enormous Jew Fish, and the Blow Fish who just loved to hover right in front of your mask all the time. We laughed and giggled underwater at all their personalities as if it was the most natural thing in the world. She monitored me and my air as if she had to make sure I would be OK in her newly found playground. It was great!!!
My husband went with Micheal on his open water dive. My son had done it. He was certified. He could go out off of the rocks with his equipment, make good decisions about the current and depth, was really good at boyancy, and was a natural at looking out for others. There he was in the open ocean, loving and appreciating it's vast amazing beauty with respect and awe, just as I had always dreamed he would get to do. He's always been like me, feeling close to animals and nature. I used to try and describe to the kids the amazing and beautiful experiences I've had as a diver, how it feels to lay on the sandy ocean floor and look up through the kelp with the sun shining through, how it feels to play copycat with the sea lions and the things to do and not to do so that you can enjoy being a guest in their world. Now when me and Micael talk about it, he gets that same look, that one only divers know and share.
This wasn't something available when I was a child. We could only watch that occasional Jacques Cousteau special and dream of what it might be like. But now, both me and my children have a world of exploration, beauty and heaven to explore together. It would be impossible to describe the feeling, as a parent, that I have, every time I think about the joy on their faces at their own accomplishment, and at the relationships, both human and animal that they developed through Kids Sea Camp. We're going again, for two weeks, to do different programs. My kids, who love piles of presents under the tree, were ecstatic when I asked them if it was OK if we did a really small Christmas so that we could go to Sea Camp instead.
Nothing in the world has given them what Sea Camp gave them, and we are so fortunate that we have the opportunity in today's world to give our kids this gift that will start them on a path that will last a lifetime. I am so grateful to Margo for having this dream for her and her kids and making this program a reality for those of us who see the great value in it but never really thought it was a possibility. Not only is it a fun thing to do, but it makes a huge change in the children and the parents who have done this. Our lives will never be the same and we have been truly blessed by the experience.
Gloria Fontenot (parent Micheal and Megan Marshall) KSC Curacao
Emerging Trends in the Women's Market
Feb 19, 2007
Dealer Expo News
Women's motorcycling apparel made a big splash in 2006 with lots of new styles and colors. Women riders were excited to start seeing some fashionable and functional gear for them. Now for 2007, we're seeing some key trends emerging from the women's market here at Dealer Expo.
The first trend: women want a jacket that works both on and off the bike. "We're offering colors that allow women to jump off their bike and go to a restaurant and not look like they're riding a motorcycle," says Mike Salvatore, apparel merchandising manager for Tucker Rocky's FirstGear brand. FirstGear (booth 101) has a new cropped leather jacket called the Betty that comes in soft pink, soft blue and ivory with orange piping. "The ideal jacket has all the function built into it, without being able to tell it does." See related article Super G Launches
Parts Unlimited's Icon (booth 1936) line is going after the same market with its flashy styles. "A lot of passengers are women with their husbands or boyfriends where it may be their first time on a motorcycle. They're wearing whatever leather fashion jacket they have," says Brenda Trumbo, sales and marketing manager for Icon V-twin. "We want those girls to have the designer look they're used to having from department stores, but with all the protection." Icon's introducing a new mesh jacket for 2007 in true Icon fashion decorated with glitter stars.
Versatility in apparel also means the garments can cross the lines of the different motorcycling genres. "With our denim products we've seen them cut across all different motorcycle segments," says Richard Kimes, national marketing manager with Helmet House (booth 3001). "Cruiser people really like them, and a lot of sportbike people are buying them as a secondary ride around town jacket because they're just plain comfortable off the bike." Kimes is hoping Helmet House's new women's Cortech DSX Denim jacket will be just as big a hit with women as the men's denim jacket was with male riders when it was introduced a year ago.
Another trend allows a woman to outfit herself in gear entirely from one manufacturer. In the past, the limited availability of riding apparel forced women to wear a jacket from one company, pants from another and gloves form yet another. "The future for women in motorcycling is giving them complete head to toe coverage so they have their helmet, the jacket, chaps or pants, boots and gloves. We're giving that to women with the Icon line.
The Dirt
Girlyz (booth 5615) is the only company making women's gear exclusively for motocross and ATV riding. The 5-year-old company continues to make improvements to its jerseys and pants and at Dealer Expo, the Vision race line was being modeled by Gloria Fontenot, a motocross rider and stuntwoman. The pants feature an improved knee area so it works with knee braces better. New leather on the inside of the knees grips the bike better. Refinements to the jersey include a slimmer fit and a lined V-neckline — all meant to improve fit and comfort for the active women motocross rider.
For women who watch on the sidelines but still want to feel like part of the "in" crowd, Dirty Girls launched their new Dirty Girl jacket, hat and boy beater tanks at Dealer Expo. Check them out at booth 5615.
— Genevieve Schmitt
Still willing to take the fall
By Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — This is the summer of the stunt. Keanu Reeves flies. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu race motorcycles. Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett crash a convertible. Paul Walker drives a car through a barricaded street and onto a yacht. Arnold Schwarzenegger annihilates anything in his way.
Joel Abrecht, left, and "Mad" Mike Jones pull a stunt in Full Throttle.
Or so it seems.
Stunts are supposed to push the limits of the imagination and believability. From John Wayne movies with doubles doing saloon fights, to the James Bond franchise with gadgets galore, to Jackie Chan films filled with his incredible kicks and flips, stunts make us gasp.
Falling down for the job
Of about 6,600 stunt performers who are registered with the Screen Actors Guild, slightly fewer than 1,000 earned more than $25,000 last year.
Basic minimum SAG pay for a stunt performer is $2,525 a week, but most beef up their paychecks by doing specialty stunts. And stunt performers, stunt coordinators and second-unit directors, who oversee all stunts on a movie, often negotiate higher salaries. A core group of 200 to 300 support themselves and their families doing stunt work, with incomes ranging from $40,000 to $700,000 a year. Part of the money comes from residuals.
How safe is the industry? According to California's Office for Safety and Health Administration, in a report covering January 1998 to May 2003, there were only two deaths involved with motion picture production. Cal/OSHA also reports that in the past five years, there have been 20 hospitalized injuries and six non-hospitalized injuries.
Most stunt workers buy health insurance through the Screen Actors Guild; a basic policy generally pays $400 a week in disability. Many buy supplemental policies. Stunt man Chris Tuck says a typical policy costs about $10,000 a year and will pay $25,000 a month if a stunt person is injured.
For years, no movie company would insure legendary martial artist Jackie Chan, who insisted on doing his own stunts. He paid all his stunt men and their medical bills when needed. For the first time, he used stunt doubles for last year's The Tuxedo.
In recent years, stunts have grown even more fantastic; most in the industry say the turning point was 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which took martial arts stunts to new heights.
To keep up in a filmmaking world that's increasingly computer-driven —The Hulk monster is completely CG — the stunt world is evolving, too.
Tough stunt doubles who used to fall into cardboard boxes, for example, now fall using elaborate rigging systems and airbags. Safer methods for lighting people on fire have been developed.
"The intrusion of computer-generated images and the whole world of visual effects has created a whole new world of stunt work," says veteran stuntman Terry Leonard, second-unit director/stunt coordinator for 2 Fast 2 Furious, opening today. "Producers are asking me for more. We're reaching for more."
So while filmmakers push the envelope with computer-doctored footage, stunt people are pushing the envelope with their expertise and daring, insisting the industry not leave them behind. And always pushing to keep it looking real.
Perpetuating the myth
For years, stunt doubles were the unknown, unsung risk-takers of movies. Now, that's changing.
"There's more brains than brawn in stunt work today," says producer Gale Anne Hurd, who has made 22 action movies. Her newest, The Hulk, which opens June 20, employed dozens of stunt performers, even though the Hulk himself is a figment of the computer. "He's 15 feet tall, and he's green," she says. "If we could have found an actor that size, we would have."
She avows, "I don't believe any human should ever be replaced by a computer."
For much of his 37 years in the business, Leonard wouldn't talk about doubling for anyone. "In the old days, you never went on the set in the clothes of the actor you were doubling. It's a courtesy you gave the actor." He adds, "You wanted to perpetuate the myth."
Then, as he was doubling Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark, doing the famous hand-over-hand, under-the car scene, a TV special was made about it, and Leonard was interviewed. Once the special aired, he suddenly started getting recognized in airports.
Actors have long wanted to perpetuate the myth, too.
Paul Walker told Oprah Winfrey that he did all his own stunts on The Fast and the Furious two years ago, which Chris Tuck, Walker's stunt double, found amusing. Tuck was the one making the jump from the speeding car to the speeding semi — one of the most dangerous of his career. But he doesn't mind Walker, an accomplished driver who does a lot of his own driving in 2 Fast 2 Furious, claiming credit. "I totally understand it. Maybe it'll get him another job, and it might get me one, too."
A stunt person is like an actor, living job to job. And it's not always fun: Chad Stahelski, Keanu Reeves' double in the Matrix films, says he only really thought about a career change when a film called for him to be buried alive. And Gloria Fontenot, who doubled Drew Barrymore in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, realizes now that sitting just about a foot away from an unrestrained mountain lion for a movie stunt was probably tempting fate a little too much.
But all stunt performers say the business is about safety.
In 1980, stunt woman Heidi von Beltz was left paralyzed from a stunt car crash on the set of Cannonball Run. Two years later Vic Morrow and two children died in a helicopter accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Since then, stricter safety standards have been put into effect; the Screen Actors Guild does much of the policing, sending representatives to sets and keeping updated on safety regulations.
"My biggest stunt is driving to work every morning," says Tuck, 32. He says the industry is "constantly getting safer." According to California's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, only two movie production deaths were investigated in the past five years.
Red-carpet action
At Sunday's Taurus World Stunt Awards, a check was given to the widow of Harry O'Connor, known throughout the community as one of the best in skydiving-related stunts. He died in April 2002 at age 45 while filming a stunt in Prague for the movie XXX. The stunt involved parasailing under a bridge. He had performed it several times and was doing one more take. But he wound up being just a fraction of an inch off, however, and it cost him his life.
The night was sort of the Oscars for stunt people, executive-produced by veteran Don Mischer, hosted by Dennis Hopper, and taped to air Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the USA Network.
At one point, Hopper lit himself on fire in a comedy sketch. To present an award, Michelle Rodriguez rode in on the back of a Army Jeep. In another bit, it appeared that Jennifer Garner zoomed in on a zip line from the rooftop of a nearby building at the Paramount studios lot and through a brick wall.
"They weren't kidding when they told me my entrance would be smashing," the Alias star said. Then Garner brought out her "better half," as she said, introducing her stunt double (for Alias and Daredevil), Shauna Duggins, who was the one on the zip line. Garner, however, actually went through the (fake) wall.
Harrison Ford got an honorary award for being an action movie star. Arnold Schwarznegger, who presented, poked fun at himself, saying he almost didn't make it because he was injured on the set of Terminator 3. "I severely strained my back trying to deliver more than two lines of dialogue," he said. The stunt folks cracked up at that.
The general feeling in the community is that actors are good at what they do and should do it; stunt people should handle the stunts.
But that's not always what happens. Director Ron Shelton recently said in an interview with W magazine that as soon as he said "Action!" on the upcoming movie Hollywood Homicide, Harrison Ford would shove the stunt double out of the way and charge into the shot. Ford has always said that's the fun part of making movies — the running and jumping and falling down, even though it has meant surgeries to his knees and back.
Kristanna Loken, who plays the villianness in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, spent eight months preparing for her role as a killing machine to look like a real killing machine.
"The whole objective of the Terminator characters is that they're not humans. You're doing things not humanly possible and making it look effortless. I had to do a lot of running with my mouth closed, for example." And she adds, "The whole thing with Terminator is they didn't want it to be martial artsy, any kind of Hong Kong phooey stuff. They wanted it to be like bulldozers going at it, that kind of explosive huge energy."
That same focus on keeping it real is why Thomas Jane is training now with four Navy SEALs for next year's The Punisher. Every day he goes to Huntington Beach to learn basic weapons training.
"The stuff on the wires and all that crazy dancing that was done so well in Crouching Tiger is beautiful, but it's not very real world. We're kind of going back to old-fashioned days — serious hand-to-hand combat without all the trickery and dancing."
It's scarier, he says. "Stylized violence is a way of stepping away from violence and making it palatable. With our movie, we inject a sense of here's what happens when it really goes down."
Jane will spend months training. How much will he do himself?
"I've done a few action films now, and it's very popular to try to do all the stunts yourself — until the insurance company steps in and says no. No film is going to ever go beyond that." If any actor is unable to work and production has to shut down, money is lost.
But even during non-stunt filming, actors get hurt. Halle Berry broke her arm recently on the set of Gothika. Carrie-Anne Moss broke her leg while training for The Matrix Reloaded. On the HBO movie 61*, Jane says he broke his hand playing baseball.
On the set of Deep BlueSea, he developed a double hernia after he had to do a big jump in a scene in which a laboratory is flooded. But he didn't tell anyone until filming was over. He walked around with the injury for six months because he didn't want to lose out on his first big action film.
Actors want to do the daredevil stuff if they can. It's usually a part of their character — and it's challenging and fun.
Jane points to the classic scene in The Great Escape in which Steve McQueen jumps over the fence on a motorcycle. "He was aching to do it. They absolutely refused to let him do it. For years he told people he did it. And he looked so cool doing it!" In fact, it was a stunt man named Bud Eakins.
And even though there is so much amazing motorcycling in Charlie's Angels that it was subtitled Full Throttle, Tuck, the stunt coordinator, says, "None of the actresses were ever on a running motorcycle."
Real motocross champions did much of the racing; stunt women doubled for the three stars.
"I grew up playing cowboys and Indians. Now kids are growing up with computer games, so they're used to seeing the computer images," says 2 Fast 2 Furious' Leonard. "But I think people will always want to see what's real."
Femmoto Instructor
Name: Gloria Fontenot
Profession: Professional Stuntwoman in movies, TV and Commercials. Marketing and Development Coordinator for Girlyz Clothing Company and women’s pro motocross team.
Hometown: La Crescenta, California
Education: Some College, Business, Acting, Stunts, SCUBA Divemaster
Hobbies: Riding Motorcycles, Martial Arts, Gymnastics, SCUBA, Women’s Racing
Current Bikes: Two Honda 600F4i’s, one track, one street, Yamaha YZ250F, Honda NSR80, HondaXR100. And then the kids bikes…RM85, XR70, XR50.
Best Advice: Train hard, Eat right, be disciplined in your life and you will gain the rewards. If you don’t stay in shape it will bite you. Stay within your own personal limits and be careful who you listen to.
Recent Highlights: Gloria can be seen stunt driving and riding motorcycles in multiple Suzuki Commercials this year and last, recently rode a Time Warner Commercial, crashed a car in Weeds, rode in the 2007 Harley Davidson Dealer Video. This summer you can seen her in theaters in Spiderman III and Evan Almighty. Gloria also works as team manager for the professional women’s motocross race team at Girlyz Clothing Company in addition to her marketing and development position, PR and race reports. Involved as a guest speaker or teacher for women’s riding events for dealers and private clubs and works for Fastrack Riders track day events.
Gloria Fontenot - Professional StuntWoman
Gloria Fontenot started her career with her first commercial at the age of 6.
She performed professionally through her entire childhood and teenage years as a singer and actress in over 100 films, television shows and commercials, seven Disney Albums, and a solo album. Seven years of Ballet, including performing with the New York Ballet as a child led her into competitive gymnastics where she found a new love for more aggressive sports and athletics.
Gloria started her stunt career using her background as a gymnast and her lifetime of professional entertainment experience. Although initially a gymnast/martial artist, she is also a SCUBA Divemaster. Her passion for Road Bikes, trick riding, motocross and car work have brought a whole new dimension to an already successful career.
She has been a member of the Screen Actor's Guild and AFTRA since the age of six. She is a founding Member of V10 Women Stunt Professionals and a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Taurus World Stunt Awards.
Gloria comes from a family of entertainers. Her uncle, Cubby O'Brien was an original Mouseketeer and is now a drummer on Broadway. Both Grandfathers were also professional musicians. Gloria is a mother of two children who have also performed in their first movies, Michael, in "Bad Santa" and Megan in "The Hulk".
Currently, Gloria has a CD available on cdbaby.com called "Fantasy", which she also wrote and produced. She recently sang the track for the opening song at THE TEEN CHOICE AWARDS.
Gloria also sang the NATIONAL ANTHEM at the SUPERCROSS FINALS at Sam Boyd Stadium (May '07) and for the US OPEN at the MGM GRAND (Oct. '07).
She can be seen in movies such as "Blade III" (motorcycles for Jessica Biele), "Constantine" and "Fun With Dick and Jane". Gloria was in the Italian Job as Handsome Rob's Motorcycle Policewomen and in Charlie's Angels II on the supercross team. She can be seen stunt driving in "The Cat In The Hat," and "Cradle to the Grave" as well. Her latest motorcycle work can be seen on NIP/TUCK.
Gloria was an instructor at the FEMMOTO MOTORCYCLE EVENT at the LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, Oct. 2007.
Velvet Fist - Hollywood Stuntwoman Gloria O'Brien Fontenot
Making it in the Tough World of Burns, Fights and Stunts
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They crash cars, catch fire, ride bikes, fall from buildings and double for some of the most beautiful women in the movies - welcome to the world of Hollywood stuntwomen.
“Doing stunts isn’t glamorous, and it isn’t easy. All I want is to always strive to be just a little better, just a little smarter and just a little more prepared. That’s where I really get the satisfaction. What we do is a calculated risk - we don’t just go hurl ourselves out into danger”.
Meet Jessica Biel and Drew Barrymore - or rather, the person who doubled for them and did their motorbike stunt work - Irish-American stuntwoman Gloria O’Brien Fontenot. As well as her work in Blade III and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, she has worked in Constantine, The Italian Job, Spiderman 2, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Scream 3, doubling for Jenny McCarthy, Maria Bello and even Gwen Stefani in the No Doubt video “Ex-Girlfriend” along the way.
One of the founding members of the V10 Women Stunt Professionals, Gloria recently spoke to The Irish Herald about the industry, her Irish ancestry - “My Dad is part Irish, also German and American Indian. As with most Americans, we’re pretty mixed a few generations down” - and her career, which has been largely based in Los Angeles.
“I live in Riverside, California - lots of sunshine – and I was born and raised in the suburbs of the LA area. It’s all I’ve ever known. I started show business when I was six and did my first commercial. I had all the training and lessons at music, dance, 7 years of ballet and competed gymnastics. Stunts is kinda the “hybrid” of being raised in the business but really having my passion in sports”.
Gloria’s uncle was Cubby O’Brien, who was an original “Mousekateer” and is now a drummer on Broadway. Both her grandfathers were also professional musicians, and Gloria has two children, Michael and Megan, who have already acted in movies:
An Interview with Gloria O'Brien Fontenot
Helmet Hair Magazine.com is thrilled to introduce stuntwoman extraordinaire, Gloria O’Brien Fontenot—a rider with heart, soul and lots of panache. Gloria can be seen in the upcoming movies “Blade III” (motorcycles for Jessica Biele) “Constantine” and “Fun with Dick and Jane.”
Gloria and fellow stuntwoman, Darlene Williams, founded the V-10 Stunt Team to support other stuntwomen and improve the quality of their abilities, and work in the stunt community with the goal of commitment to individualism and freedom of career pursuit. Along with being a multi-talented stuntwoman, Gloria shares insight on balancing life, being a mother of two (which is daring in itself) and her career. We caught up with Gloria to uncover what inspires her to harness the spirit of motorcycling.
HH: At what point in your life did you realize that, "Hey, I want to be a stuntwoman."
GOF: I spent my whole childhood working as a singer and an actress, however I also did Ballet for seven years and gymnastics. I competed in gymnastics and that was my real passion. It never even occurred to me that the career of being a stuntwoman existed until I was at LA Valley College working out at the gymnastic gym and met other ex-competitive gymnasts-turned stunt professionals. It took a few years of training with other stunt people and learning many of the different skills and modifying my gymnastic abilities into stunt skills to get established. Most of the first few years of my career were in the fields of acrobatics and martial arts since those were my original specialties. I also became a SCUBA Dive master and did underwater stunts and safety. I didn't get introduced to any of the motorcycle sports until 1999 when I first went to a motocross track with the guy I was dating at the time. I had never seen anything like it. I went to watch him a few times, then decided that I wasn't going to sit around and watch anymore, it was time to try it. Since I started so late in life at motorcycles, it has taken a lot of time and hard work to become even adequate. I felt like a fish out of water for a very long time. I describe my first few years of riding as sheer terror. If I hadn't loved it so much, I never would have kept doing it.
HH: Guessing you are a product of the 80's, there were so few (known) motorcycle stuntwomen that existed during that decade, so what exactly was your inspiration to get involved in such extreme, two wheeled stunts?
GOF: I wasn't allowed to watch much TV or movies, just perform in them, so I didn't grow up thinking anything about stunts. When I first saw motocross in 1999, I started riding just because it was fun. I started in motocross and only did that for the first few years. Subsequently though, stunt guys that knew I was riding and would be at the tracks started to hire or recommend me here or there for things they thought I could do. My first "motorcycle job" was on VIP doubling Natalie Cigliuti (guest actress) for a week for riding a street bike. The second one ended up being a job on a low budget movie filming deep in the jungles of Jamaica. I had only been riding for 6 months and had just gotten over a severed achilles and the surgical repair that put it back together (a gymnastic injury). I had to do a head on, near miss with a Mac truck with a passenger on the back of my bike, and then some riding around and then, crash the bike with the passenger and fall down a hill. Of course, it was a really old scooter type with very bad controls, old street tires on wet clay type dirt, which actually made some things easier and some things harder. It wasn't built for the dirt hills and the wet clay surfaces we were riding on and we were slipping all over the place. We were also in sandals and skirts! The Mac truck didn't have brakes and so they had it going up hill and us going down hill so they could get it to stop at the end of each take and run behind the wheels and put blocks so it wouldn't slide backwards down the hill.. This is the kind of stuff you have to deal with sometimes. I remember one take on the head on - near miss where my passenger and I, (Dorinda Moore who doubles one of the girls on Charmed) watched the bumper of the Mac Truck literally pass less than one inch from our knees against the bike.
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Femmoto 2007
Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover
By Alfonse “Fonzie” Palaima, Oct. 12, 2007, Photography by Alfonse Palaima
lo-band | hi-bandLas Vegas isn’t always the hot desert you think of, and this past weekend proved it when the Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosted the annual Femmoto event: a female-only trackday and bike-demo opportunity. Just as that bright sun appears to be hot and warm, the rider blazing through Turn 3 of the Outside Classic Course might not be the “guy” you think it is.
Looks can be deceiving, and despite the cold windy morning on Saturday, the girls of Femmoto suited up and got the job done with style and grace. By mid-afternoon, the wind had stopped and the girls’ dance cards were only partially complete, as this year’s event spanned two women-only demo riding days for the first time. This six-year-old event is organized by the ultra-friendly Bonnie Strawser and Monte Lutz of SportbikeTrackTime.com.
The motorcycle spirit lives within the ladies at Femmoto 2007.
Just $250 bought a two-day pass to ride fleets of demo bikes, so it’s no surprise Femmoto 2007 attracted its largest crowd ever.
“I am not a backrest.” Indeed!
Canadian Kahuna Kawasaki rider, Vicki Schouten, led the girls around the proper lines, in proper form.
I went to Vegas to support the girls and bring back the story. I was also there to take any and all girls to dinner at the end of the day and maybe hold an umbrella once in a while. It’s rare that the motorcycle industry turns its spotlight toward the female persuasion with such intensity, even more rare towards any sort of track riding of a demo fleet. That’s what makes Femmoto so special. If there was a demo day for men that included the manufacturer spread that this event does, sales might double on sportbikes overnight. So might the crash rate of the demo fleet, unfortunately.
Piling on Layers and Piling on the OEMs
In the chilling wind of Saturday morning, female riders of every skill level we’re treated to the max. Because Femmoto is a demo-only trackday, attendees didn’t need to transport their motorcycles to the track. They didn’t even need to bring a motorcycle endorsement, as MSF-certification classes were available thanks to Discover Today's Motorcycling. The ultimate Fly-n-Ride!
This year’s sponsor list grew to nine OEMs to include Honda, Kawasaki, Harley-Davidson, Buell, Suzuki, Kymco, Ducati, Hyosung and Aprilia and a half-dozen vendors displaying their women’s riding gear and products.
Femmoto has grown every year. The first year entertained only 53 riders and hosted three manufacturers. In 2007 there were 500 participants riding two full days with two additional days for mixed-gender sessions. Femmoto is here to stay and shouldn’t be missed by any female rider or wanna-be rider.
The next step I can see for the growing woman rider event is to have a second date in the East for those not willing or able to make the trip to the West Coast, though no such event is planned as of this writing.
Sportbiketracktime’s 2007 Femmoto event included a ROK (Riders fo Kawasaki) trackday on Thursday and a “Femmoto & Friends” mixed-gender trackday on Friday the 5th of October, in order to appease the males of the riding couples out there. If you weren’t in town before the weekend and still wanted to get your ride on something, the OEMs offered street rides for an additional fee. Bored gentlemen in the pits – or ladies – could sign up for street rides on the bikes not typically run alongside sportier motorcycles on the track such as the Harley-Davidson Springer and the new Kawasaki Concours 14.
While Buell was on hand for the track-riding sessions, promoting everything from the Blast to the Ulysses, Harley-Davidson served up some free ice cream and had seminars for attendees on topics like picking up fallen motorcycles and how to properly choose a helmet for your head shape and size. Karen Davidson, daughter of the legendary Willy G. Davidson and Creative Director for Harley-Davidson Merchandise, was also on hand to welcome the girls to motorcycling with signatures, photographs and conversations.
Hi, Gloria, this track stuff is easy, isn’t it? Let’s jump over a car or something dangerous, shall we?
Those wanting to feel a bit of the pace of a Daytona 200 winner got to take some two-up laps with Attack Kawasaki rider Steve Rapp.
Riders and guests bid on the autographed-by-Rossi size small AGV Helmet. Closing the auction at the banquet Saturday night, the helmet along with a set of tires and a helmet fetched $1500 – a bargain, we’d say!
See you next year!
In the pits you could have found any level of motorcycle rider, from newbie to AMA pro. Sally Lawrence was there with the MSF certification course, teaching a two-day class, giving women riders their first miles and licensing permits.
Also in attendance were some racers that helped show the girls the fast lines around the circuit. Kawasaki Team Green rider and AMA Formula Xtreme Championship pro racer Jessica Zaluski was there again this year to lead the girls around the track and give riding tips wherever necessary. You don’t see that too often, folks. Imagine going to a trackday and casually riding in your session was Jake Zemke, offering you tips on form and line. You wish! I wish!
Stuffed in the middle of the experience scale between racers and general public, are the celebrity folk that ride - like magazine editors, television and movie stars and musicians.
Gloria Fontenot is one of them, and she’s a Hollywood stunt woman! Not stunts with a ‘z’ but stunts as in she falls out of buildings for a living. Gloria’s been riding for nearly 10 years and came out to support the cause. Starting out in 1999 on some dirt riding and racing the “A Day In the Dirt” event that same year, she’s a tough cookie! (She enjoys long walks on the beach and does her own cliff diving in this scenario.) You’d recognize her from Charlie’s Angels 2 (disguised as Drew Barrymore) or from the Suzuki Boulevard and automobile combo commercial. She’s also a singer and is performing the National Anthem at tonight’s U.S. Open Supercross race in Las Vegas. Talented, beautiful and can ride a motorcycle: I think I found the main nerve, the epicenter of awesome!
Speed Dating
Gloria Fontenot was just one of the girls on the all-female instructor staff at the event. Girls only – with one exception. The only boy allowed on the track was Attack Kawasaki’s Steve Rapp. Steve was on hand to give the attending girls perhaps their most thrilling ride ever – two-up sessions ran through the weekend, putting both the fear and the excitement of more throttle into every lucky girl after spending 10 minutes with Steve.
Closer to home, Motorcycle.com ex-editors nearly outnumbered the current MO editorial staff. Both Johnnie B and Sean Alexander were in attendance. Sean assisted in getting the audience set up with Kawasaki demo bikes this year, while the only thing I saw JB doing was schmoozing. Way to go, buddy!
The real stars this past weekend, however, are those that traveled from around the nation to attend the event. It’s the girls walking away with huge smiles on their faces, they’re the winners. And now perhaps they’re addled with the same wants as the boys – a Tuono/ZX/Ducati in our garages at home – or maybe they already came to Femmoto with that desire. Gimme Gimme.
With more riding miles under their belts, their overall experience was accompanied by the satisfaction of also supporting many charitable organizations - some that help women specifically, and some that benefit Mother Earth. A portion of the entry fees we donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and estimations over the weekend put another $10,000 in the pockets of the charities.
Some people go to Las Vegas to gamble, others to work. Most come to escape their normal life, and Femmoto falls into that category. With a veritable who’s who in female motorcycling, along with a trackday tailor-fit to women riders, you can come to Vegas for the riding and meet all your riding heroes in one place. Come to meet your old friends, come to make new friends.
“Trackdays are like playing the slots here in Vegas,” stated Femmoto attendee Allie Lock of Southern California. “Play safe in this life and you’ll go a long way. Stay away from the table games and higher stakes riding, like racing, and we’ll ride a lot longer together.”
Moderation is the key to long life. Kudos to all that came out to Femmoto 2007 to learn and ride!
For more information on next year’s event, or women’s riding apparel, please visit the Femmoto link below.
Links:
http://www.femmoto.com/
http://sportbiketracktime.com/
http://www.supersarah.net/
http://www.ontrackforacure.org/
http://www.wimausa.org/
http://roadracinggirl.com/ Jessica Zalusky
http://www.motorcycles.org/ Discover Today's Motorcycling
http://www.komen.org/
http://www.myspace.com/gloriafontenot
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Stunts:
2000s
1990s
1970s
Spider-Man 3 (2007) (stunt double: Bryce Dallas Howard)
... aka Spider-Man 3: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
Her Best Move (2007) (stunts)
Death Row (2006) (TV) (stunts)
... aka Haunted Prison (USA: cable TV title)
Peaceful Warrior (2006) (utility stunts)
Poseidon (2006) (stunt performer)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) (fight stunts)
... aka Alternative Career (Philippines: English title)
... aka Fun with Dick & Jane (USA: poster title)
Dirty (2005) (stunts) (as Gloria O'Brien-Fontenot)
Voodoo Moon (2005) (TV) (stunts)
Constantine (2005) (stunts) (as Gloria O'Brien-Fontenot)
... aka Constantine (Germany)
"Point Pleasant" (2005) TV Series (stunt double) (unknown episodes)
"Criminal Minds" (2005) TV Series (stunt double) (unknown episodes)
Blade: Trinity (2004) (assistant stunt coordinator: motorcycles) (stunt double: Jessica Biel, Motorcycles)
"Gana la verde" (2004) TV Series (stunt rigger)
Spider-Man 2 (2004) (utility stunts)
... aka Spider-Man 2.1 (USA: recut version)
... aka Spider-Man 2: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
New York Minute (2004/I) (stunts)
The Cat in the Hat (2003) (second unit stunt double: Kelly Preston) (as Gloria O'Brien-Fontenot)
... aka Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (USA: complete title)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (stunt double: Drew Barrymore, Supercross Team)
Hollywood Homicide (2003) (utility stunts: N.D. and Driving) (uncredited)
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003) (TV) (stunt policewoman)
The Italian Job (2003) (stunts: motorcycle cop) (uncredited)
... aka Braquage à l'italienne (France)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) (stunt driver)
The Hot Chick (2002) (stunt double: Alex Holden)
100 Mile Rule (2002) (stunt double: Maria Bello) (as Gloria O'Brien-Fontenot)
They Shoot Divas, Don't They? (2002) (TV) (stunts) (as Gloria O'Brien-Fontenot)
"Firefly" (2002) TV Series (stunts) (unknown episodes)
... aka Firefly: The Series (USA)
"Fastlane" (2002) TV Series (stunt double: tiffani theissen) (unknown episodes)
Ghosts of Mars (2001) (utility stunts) (uncredited)
... aka John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (USA: complete title)
Planet of the Apes (2001) (stunts: Human)
"Primetime Glick" (2001) TV Series (stunt double: jan hooks) (unknown episodes)
The Animal (2001) (stunts) (as Gloria O'Brien-Fontenot)
Ritual (2001/I) (stunts) (as Gloria O'Brien-Fontenot)
... aka Tales from the Crypt Presents: Revelation (USA)
... aka Tales from the Crypt Presents: Voodoo (Philippines: English title)
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000) (V) (stunt double: Julie Benz) (uncredited) (stunts)
The Alternate (2000) (stunt double: Brooke Theiss)
... aka Agent of Death (USA: video box title)
What Planet Are You From? (2000) (stunt stewardess) (uncredited)
Scream 3 (2000) (stunt double: Jenny McCarthy) (uncredited) (stunts)
"18 Wheels of Justice" (2000) TV Series (stunt double: sandra ferguson) (unknown episodes)
"I Spike" (2000) TV Series (stunts)
"Sheena" (2000) TV Series (stunt double: gina lee nolin) (unknown episodes)
American Adventure (2000) (TV) (stunts)
... aka National Lampoon's American Adventure (USA: complete title)
"Angel" (1999) TV Series (stunt double) (unknown episodes)
... aka Angel: The Series (USA)
"Roswell" (1999) TV Series (stunt double: kathleen topolsky) (unknown episodes)
... aka Roswell High (UK) (USA: working title)
"Action" (1999) TV Series (stunt double: reagan) (unknown episodes)
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) (stunt double: Gail O'Grady)
"V.I.P." (1998) TV Series (stunt double: jill st. marks / natalie cigliuti) (unknown episodes)
... aka V.I.P. - Die Bodyguards (Germany)
"The Love Boat: The Next Wave" (1998) TV Series (stunt double: nicole nietsch) (unknown episodes)
"Brimstone" (1998) TV Series (stunt double: alexandra powers / ashe/teri polo) (unknown episodes)
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) TV Series (stunt double: sunday / tara) (unknown episodes) (stunts) (unknown episodes)
... aka BtVS (USA: promotional abbreviation)
... aka Buffy
... aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Series
"ER" (1994) TV Series (stunt double: alex kingston) (unknown episodes)
"The Young and the Restless" (1973) TV Series (stunt double: melody thomas, 1999) (unknown episodes)
... aka Y&R (USA: promotional abbreviation)
Actress:
2000s
1990s
The Courier (2007) .... Wheeling Bar Girl #1
The Italian Job (2003) (as Gloria Fontenot) .... Handsome Rob's Policewoman
... aka Braquage à l'italienne (France)
Ground Zero (2000) .... Stratton
... aka California Quake (USA: DVD title)
"Get Real" .... Linda McDonough (1 episode, 2000)
- Falling from Grace (2000) TV Episode (uncredited) .... Linda McDonough
68 (1999) (TV) .... Student Protestor
Miscellaneous Crew:
Wild Wild West (1999) (boat wrangler)
Gloria Fontenot Website Genre/Tags: URBAN/R&B: R&B Pop Crossoverm Popm Gloria Fontenot combines a multitude of talents and moods in this extremely sexy, versatile combination of songs that show her range, her ability to sing the best of ballads and the funnest of pop/R&B and Rap crossover songs. Gloria's performances o [+]
Gloria Fontenot combines a multitude of talents and moods in this extremely sexy, versatile combination of songs that show her range, her ability to sing the best of ballads and the funnest of pop/R&B and Rap crossover songs. Gloria's performances of her versatile moods and creations are creative and alluring. Combining her talents with Xavier Marshall, Brad Timmer, Rapper "Blue" and Shane Rogers, she explores more dimensions and breaks out from her previously more Pop/R&B adventures. Mena' takes her into the world of the slow sexy raps of the Ashanti/Ja Rule feel, but with a live track, and controversial subject matter. The deep vibe nand musical mood painting created on Goodbye Black Cloud by her and Brad Timmer, is eerie, beautiful, heartfelt and sobering, and will keep you listening over and over. If you like to just have a good time and dance to some great beats, there is certainly some fun to be had on Fantasy, Juz Gettin' My Groove On and Bloodhunt. Still holding strong is the very popular ballad Say A Prayer, which continues to chart over and over again on independent artist web sites around the world. This song is dedicated to those around the world who are oppressed, and Gloria is donating 10% of all proceeds from this song to various charities to help the status of women, children and those injured by oppression and war. This album pushes the envelope of sexy and controversial but also delivers some very strong messages.
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Gloria Fontenot combines a multitude of talents and moods in this extremely sexy, versatile combination of songs that show her range, her ability to sing the best of ballads and the funnest of pop/R&B and Rap crossover songs. Gloria's performances of her versatile moods and creations are creative and alluring. Combining her talents with Xavier Marshall, Brad Timmer, Rapper "Blue" and Shane Rogers, she explores more dimensions and breaks out from her previously more Pop/R&B adventures. Mena' takes her into the world of the slow sexy raps of the Ashanti/Ja Rule feel, but with a live track, and controversial subject matter. The deep vibe nand musical mood painting created on Goodbye Black Cloud by her and Brad Timmer, is eerie, beautiful, heartfelt and sobering, and will keep you listening over and over. If you like to just have a good time and dance to some great beats, there is certainly some fun to be had on Fantasy, Juz Gettin' My Groove On and Bloodhunt. Still holding strong is the very popular ballad Say A Prayer, which continues to chart over and over again on independent artist web sites around the world. This song is dedicated to those around the world who are oppressed, and Gloria is donating 10% of all proceeds from this song to various charities to help the status of women, children and those injured by oppression and war. This album pushes the envelope of sexy and controversial but also delivers some very strong messages.
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"Say A Prayer" blew me away - very moving - heartfelt emotion
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