Just Shoot Me! (TV Series)

A&E Biography: Nina Van Horn (2000)

Wendie Malick: Nina Van Horn

Quotes 

• Jerry Hall : Cheryl Tiegs was supposed to do that shoot, and Nina offered to drive her to the beach. But when Nina went to her house, she found Cheryl passed out in the garden.

  Nina Van Horn : [on a 9-1-1 recording]  Oh, man... Um... I'm at Cheryl Tiegs' house, and she is like completely unconscious... Um, I think she fell and hit her head on a shovel...

  Cheryl Tiegs : Nina, please...

  Nina Van Horn : Uh... Hold on, operator.

  [clang] 

• [clip from "Foxy Trouble"] 

  Bernie Casey : Hey, mama. I ain't lookin' for trouble.

  Nina Van Horn : Too bad, 'cause Trouble just found you.

  [shoots him] 

  Nina Van Horn : Foxy Trouble.

• [clip from "Foxy Trouble"; Foxy is a stewardess] 

  Nina Van Horn : Hello, sir. May I offer you a drink?

  Bernie Casey : Yeah. How about a tall glass of... white chocolate?

  Nina Van Horn : That's not available... until we land. Anything else?

  Bernie Casey : Yeah, I'll have an order of airplane... to go.

  [pulls out a gun] 

  Nina Van Horn : Sorry, soul brother, we don't do take-out.

  [disarms him with karate chops, does a somersault and takes the gun] 

  Bernie Casey : Damn! You ain't no stewardess. You're Foxy Trouble.

  Nina Van Horn : That's the name my mama gave me.

  Bernie Casey : That's a mighty big gun for such a little lady.

  [takes out a knife] 

  Nina Van Horn : I'm gonna ask you to return to your seat.

  [shoots him dead] 

  Nina Van Horn : Would anybody else want anything?

• Harry Smith : But Claire's father was a strict Methodist, and did not approve of her daughter going to the big city with a stranger. So Nina had to wait... until she was fourteen.

  Nina Van Horn : I told my father I was going to the creek to help the minister with a baptism. Then I hopped a train east.

  Harry Smith : Unfortunately, the train she hopped was headed west, and Claire ended up in Reno, and had her first taste of show business.

  Dennis Finch : She was working at a traveling carnival operating the Tilt-A-Whirl, until somebody noticed she had eleven toes, so she started doing two shows a night in the big tent. That made her happy, I think.

  Harry Smith : Tired of low pay, and the sexual advances of the Great Honko, Claire eventually found the right train and wound up in the Big Apple, and the glamorous world of modeling.

• Nina Van Horn : You know when you testify against people, you find out who your real friends are. Some of those jerks said some pretty hurtful things about me as they were being led out of the courtroom. And I didn't need that kind of static, you know? Not then.

• Don Henley : She kept asking me to use more of her voice. You want to hear her voice?

  Nina Van Horn : [on tape, singing off key]  What's that time, what is the time? Tick-tick-tock, it's party o'clock!...

  Don Henley : You tell me.