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'''Beverly D'Angelo''' (November 15, 1951) is an American actress. She is best-known as Ellen Griswold in the ''National Lampoon's Vacation'' films. D'Angelo also played a minor role in Woody Allen's ''Annie Hall'' (197), the character Sheila in the film ''Hair'' (1979), country singer Patsy Cline in ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' (1980) and Doris Vinyard, mother of Derek, in ''American History X'' (1998). She also worked as an illustrator for the Hanna-Barbera animation studios.

==Beverly D'Angelo and Frank Zappa==

D'Angelo was a good friend of [[Gail Zappa]].<ref> ''[[Gail Zappa Speaks With Howard Stern]]'', also found here: https://www.afka.net/Articles/1994-02_Tmershi_Duween.htm</ref> D'Angelo also covered ''[[Harder Than Your Husband]]'' on the soundtrack of the film ''Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?''. <ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099342/soundtrack/</ref> <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/You_Are_What_You_Is.html</ref>

'''Frank Zappa:''': ''"(...) "Dwell" is a screenplay. It's extracted from the [[Them Or Us (The Book)|Them Or Us]] book. [p] What I've done is I've put together a 102-page screenplay that I've brought up to date. In fact, I worked on it about five days ago, and made some changes in it. I sent a copy of it to my new agent at ICM [32] to see whether he'll send it around, and then, a couple of days later, Beverly D'Angelo was over here, and we sat around, and we read the whole script. We had a bunch of laughs. She had never seen it before."'' -

'''Den Simms:''': ''"Yeah. I saw here on [Late Night with David] Letterman the other night, where she had said something about ... I wasn't really listening to it, and she said the words "harder than your husband", and I went [Den demonstrates having his attention caught, and whipping his head around to see] ..."''

'''Frank Zappa:''': ''"She sang it in this new film she just did."''

- Quoted from: ''[[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2]]''.

D'Angelo was the narrator of the radio documentary ''Frank Zappa:American Composer'', broadcast on PRI.

D'Angelo was present during the ''Salad Party'' (8 January 1993), attended by [[Johnny "Guitar" Watson]], [[L. Shankar]], [[The Chieftains]], [[Spencer Chrislu]], [[Huun-Huur-Tu]], [[Mike Keneally]], [[Terry Bozzio]], [[Thomas Nordegg]] and [[Matt Groening]]. <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/videography/SaladParty93.html</ref> As Groening and D'Angelo talked, D'Angelo agreed to appear on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', playing the country singer Lurleen Lumpkin in the episode ''Colonel Homer'', incidentally also one of the few episodes Groening directly wrote himself.

According to the liner notes of ''[[Trance-Fusion]]'': during Thanksgiving 1993, when Zappa listed to the final mix of ''[[Trance-Fusion]]'', Beverly D'Angelo was one the people present in the room, listening along.

In the liner notes of ''[[The Yellow Shark]]'', Beverly D'Angelo is one of the many people receiving thanks for their ''very special but no less signficant contributions''. <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/The_Yellow_Shark.html</ref>

She also appeared in the documentary ''[[Zappa (movie)|Zappa]]'' (2020).

==References==
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==External links==
* [[Wikipedia:Beverly D'Angelo]]

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 According to the liner notes of ''[[Trance-Fusion]]'': during Thanksgiving 1993, when Zappa listed to the final mix of ''[[Trance-Fusion]]'', Beverly D'Angelo was one the people present in the room, listening along.
-In the liner notes of ''[[The Yellow Shark]]'', Beverly D'Angelo is one of the many people receiving thanks for their ''very special but no less signficant contributions''.  <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/The_Yellow_Shark.html</ref>
+In the liner notes of ''[[The Yellow Shark]]'', Beverly D'Angelo is one of the many people receiving thanks for their ''very special but no less signficant contributions''.  <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/The_Yellow_Shark.html</ref> and she is also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)|The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>
 She also appeared in the documentary ''[[Zappa (movie)|Zappa]]'' (2020).

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