Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Pleasant Gehman in Hell Town


“PUNK PRINCESS MOVES TO HELL TOWN”

Hollywood, CA—Renowned author, bellydancer, punk rock poet Pleasant Gehman joins the cast of HELL TOWN, a slasher comedy by Steve Balderson (FIRECRACKER) and Elizabeth Spear (ROUNDBALL).

HELL TOWN is a soap-opera styled horror film set in a small American town.  Two families clash over love, fortune, and betrayal; all the while a serial killer offs the football team one-by-one in gruesome and horrifying scenes.  Gehman is cast in the role of the evil nurse.

A Hollywood icon, during the 1970s, Gehman was one of the first punks in Los Angeles, documenting the scene she helped create in her fanzine “Lobotomy.” During the 1980s, she toured across North America fronting her three bands, all of whom released multiple recordings: The Screaming Sirens, The Ringling Sisters and Honk If Yer Horny.  She was also the booker for the seminal Los Angeles clubs Cathay De Grande and Raji’s.

She has written extensively for national and international publications both on hard copy and on the internet, including Rolling Stone, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Spin, Los Angeles Magazine and LA Weekly.

Since the early 1990s, under the stage name Princess Farhana, she has appeared internationally as a professional belly dancer and burlesque performer and teacher. She has danced and acted in numerous motion pictures, in music videos and on television.  She has appeared in many documentaries on belly dance and burlesque, performing and as an interview subject.

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