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Melanie Graham came to Hollywood all by herself in the mid-1970's and forged a career in Show Business. She's smart and tough and very, very funny. I got to know her by sharing driving duties with her and Wren Rolison on a road trip from D.C. through the South and out to California in 1980.

In the 80's, Melanie became a member of The Groundlings Improv Group and her show, "Just Like The Pom Pom Girls" was an enormous hit that I must have seen over a dozen times. Melanie wrote and starred in this Groundling's production and her performance in it ranks among my favorite comedy creations. It was later made into a film titled "A Sinful Life" with Anita

Morris starring in the role Melanie created on stage.

Melanie directs "Cooking With Gas" every Thursday night at The Groundlings (the FX network bought it for television and calls it "Instant Comedy") and works for MTV as a story editor on "Road Rules".

When the photograph above was taken on June 15,1990, Miss Graham was listening to Sinead O'Connor's "I am Stretched On Your Grave". As the late Moon Shadix remarked after meeting her at his home in Alabama in 1980, "That little red-headed woman sure is funny. She's mean, but she's funny".

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