Also with Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu, Cheech Marin, Tom Savini, and Fred Williamson.

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But Slaughter and Rodger got their start in 1989 distributing a Cheech Marin movie called The Shrimp on the Barbie.

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Mr. Madigal moved to Los Angeles in 2003 after winning a role in "The Ortegas, " a Fox TV show that never aired (he played Cheech Marin's son).

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In a TV interview I saw not long ago, Cheech Marin spoke about how he lived near Jonathan Winters and would always see him in the supermarket.

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