B-Sides: Pumpkinhead Meets the President’s Half-Brother
Steve Barton
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Many past American Presidents have had issues with family members causing embarrassing headlines, but only one ex-President’s troublemaking half-brother can lay claim to having co-starred in and performed the title song to a Pumpkinhead movie.
While William Jefferson Clinton was serving as the 42nd President of the United States, his half-brother, nicknamed “Headache” by the Secret Service, was trying to jumpstart a showbiz career. Roger Clinton managed to parlay his lounge act into a series of small TV guest starring roles, and the nadir of his Hollywood career was playing “Mayor Bubba” in the 1994 direct-to-video sequel Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings.
In addition to his supporting role, he also crooned the film’s theme song “Just Like You” that sounds a little too mellow for a backwoods horror flick about selling your soul to Satan in order to unleash an enormous hellbeast that inflicts murderous revenge against those that have wronged you.
So, while Pumpkinhead terrorizes Ami Dolenz, Soleil Moon Frye, Hill Harper, Andrew Robinson, Linnea Quigley, and Kane Hodder, do enjoy the low soul stylings of Roger Clinton. Ya might even get a hankerin’ to drink a can of Billy Beer while doing so.
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