Cynthia Jean Jackson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jean Lindamood Jennings is editor of the automotive blog JeanKnowsCars.com and former president and editor of Automobile Magazine. She edited the 1998 Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings. She is noted for her expressive headware.Jennings has been writing about cars and the car business for more than thirty years, having learned about cars at the kitchen table from her father, who was editor of Automotive News. At age eighteen, she bought a used car, painted it yellow, installed a toplight and a meter, and joined the Yellow Cab Company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as an owner/operator. Five years later, Jennings went to Chrysler’s test track, where she worked as a test driver, welder, and mechanic in the impact lab.In 1980, she was hired as a writer at Car and Driver magazine, and in 1985 she left to help establish Automobile Magazine as its first executive editor. She became Editor in Chief in 2000 and President in 2006.Jennings has won awards for her feature writing, her car reviews, and her monthly Automobile Magazine column, “Vile Gossip,” including the 2007 Ken Purdy Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism.Jennings has the experience, sensibility, and personality to connect with women and give them voice in the male-dominated automotive space. This is the reason she started the website JeanKnowsCars.com, which has a uniquely personal take on buying, owning, living with, and enjoying cars for people who don’t read specialized auto-enthusiast publications. As she puts it, “I know the secret car-guy handshake, so you don’t need to.”Jennings was the subject of a Susan Orlean profile in The New Yorker, appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and was Good Morning America’s automotive correspondent from 1994 to 2000. Jennings is a regular on-air contributor to broadcast media including Fox Business Network; CNBC’s Closing Bell, Squawk Box, Behind the Wheel, and Power Lunch; MSNBC; CBS’s This Morning and Evening News, and CNN’s American Morning and Headline News.Jennings lives in Michigan with her husband, Tim.
[reflecting on her career in porn in the 1970's] It was a strange time of my life. It seems a long time ago. I stayed in New York after I got divorced from Joe [Joe Spinell], and did some modeling and had my own business, Alexandra's Body Massage. I moved back to Florida in the late 1980's and became a nurse.
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[on playing the lead in The Defiance of Good (1975)] I guess I was excited to be the star, even if it was in a strange film like "Defiance." I liked acting, and the attention. The part needed me to be a crazy which was fun.
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[on Fred J. Lincoln] Fred, I remember as being a nice guy. I felt safe with him. I stayed with him for a while. I partied like crazy.
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[on acting in hardcore movies in the 1970's] I liked being in front of the camera. Growing up I'd done a few plays and musicals in Fort Lauderdale so it was no big deal.
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She became seriously involved with Jason Russell, which led to the end of his marriage to Tina Hall. Tina then fell into deep depression and alcoholism which led to her early death at age 32.
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Resides outside Miami, Florida. [2003]
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Jean attended Broward Junior College in Florida.
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In early 1975 Jean was engaged to marry actor/producer Jason Russell.
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According to distributor Micky Zaffarano, Jean had signed a release prior to filming The Defiance of Good (1975) giving her age as 23. Later, when he scheduled personal appearances, she broke down and told him that she was only 17.
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Jean is an ex-cheerleader, a former pre-med student and the granddaughter of a Baptist minister.
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Jean's divorced parents are Charles Lamar Jackson and Jean Denovan Jennings from whom the daughter took her professional name.
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