MAKING MR RIGHT SEXY SCENE ANDROID
Right (1987), a poorly received science-fiction romance about an android played by John Malkovich.Ĭoncurrently, Magnuson developed an underground following as lead vocalist of the band Bongwater, formed in 1985 with producer-musician Mark Kramer. Magnuson went on to star in Seidelman's Making Mr. Prominence Ī fixture of the Manhattan downtown club scene of the 1980s, Magnuson gained attention with her role as a snarky cigarette girl in director Susan Seidelman's 1985 independent film hit Desperately Seeking Susan, which also helped launch the acting career of singer Madonna. Club 57 was known for its theme nights such as Reggae Miniature Golf and Model World of Glue Night. It became a center of a world that included Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, and many others from New York's budding graffiti and downtown scenes. In the late '70s and early '80s, Magnuson ran Club 57, located in the basement of the Polish National church. Magnuson made her film debut in the 1982 film Vortex. I was just this little hick from West Virginia and I was meeting a celebrity, an icon, somebody who had made it. I honestly can't remember the exact moment but I know I was dazzled. I met him in 1978 when I got to New York City and was hanging out at CBGB. I immediately started hanging out at all the clubs that he hung out in, and I wanted to go to the places that I'd seen on television. I watched An American Family alone in the kitchen and none of my other family members were interested in it, and I was fascinated, as everybody my age was, by Lance, and I really think that's what got me there. In an interview for the 2002 WETA-TV PBS special Lance Loud! A Death in An American Family, Magnuson credited the idea of Lance Loud - a member of an all-American family filmed day-in/day-out for the landmark PBS documentary An American Family, who came out as gay during the course of that documentary miniseries - with inspiring her to leave West Virginia for New York: Later, in 1987, Magnuson fronted the satirical faux- heavy metal band Vulcan Death Grip. She created such characters as Anoushka, a Soviet lounge singer, wearing a wig backwards and singing mock-Russian lyrics to pop music standards, and separately sang in an all-girl percussion group, Pulsallama, whose 1982 single "The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body" was a housewife's lament of a spouse who appears to be possessed. After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she moved to New York City and was a DJ and performer at Club 57 and the Mudd Club in Manhattan around 1979 through the early 1980s.
She attended Holz Elementary and George Washington High School in Charleston. She had a brother, Bobby, who died in 1988 of complications from AIDS. Magnuson was born in Charleston, West Virginia, to a journalist mother and a lawyer father.
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