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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: I WAS A TEENAGE JASON VOORHEES

By | June 2004

Yeah, I was a teenage Jason Voorhees, and until I got caught, beat up or — even worse — recognized, I was going to be out there scaring the s**t out of families and household pets…

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