| Miss Christine, as pictured on the GTO's
album.
From Pamela Des Barres website:
Miss Christine's Story: She, too was born in San Pedro
of Yugoslav parents. She was a "sickly kid," she says, and
had a "big complex about being skinny." (She is tall and
lean, the type of girl who would have been called "beanpole"
by her schoolmates.) "Pop music brought it all together for me
socially," she said. "It brought people together, it gave me
friends." She says she is the cold, cruel one in the group, but
she's not. She's bright and quite outgoing. She met Zappa when he
returned to LA from New York for a concert, when she was living in
Franzoni's commune. "We talk about groups a lot," she said.
"That's because it's glamourous and because we're very young. If
you have a fave rave in a band, it's like having a soldier in the war;
you write him letters and you worry about him." When Zappa
returned to LA for good, she became his housekeeper and governess to
Moon Unit, Frank's daughter. "Mercy and I sent the Velvet
Underground a dozen roses with our pictures on the back," she
said. "You can't be subtle." Miss Christine loves clothing
and makes all her own, which can only be described as junkshop
harlequin. The night of our interview she was wearing a knitted
patchwork jump suit in a hundred colors, colored pipe cleaners coiled
into her frizzed character; not a bad description."
Miss Christine passed away November 1972, age 24.
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