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CASSANDRA JENKINS on Wayne’s World (1992, directed by Penelope Spheeris)

We asked musicians and actors one simple question: “What’s your all-time favorite movie?” For some it’s a classic they discovered in childhood, for others it’s a film that influenced their music or one that found them at just right time later in life. On the following pages there are horrors films watched at too young an age via irresponsible babysitters or while snowed in with friends, and another film that was first viewed while skipping school. And while quite a few artists

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