User:Hystorical11/Ted Quinn

Ted Quinn  (born November 12, 1958 in La Porte, Indiana) is an artist and cultural activist, the President of Morongo Basin Cultural Arts Council, host of the Local Music Showcase on z 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, songwriter/musician, writer, and former child actor who first was known as the Bayer Aspirin Boy in television commercials in the early 1960's, in which he improvised the familiar catch-phrase, "Mothers are like that. Yeah, they are." He has appeared in films ranging from "Madame X," "The Ballad of Josie" and "The Witching," as the son of actors Lana Turner, Doris Day and Orson Welles, respectively, and more recently in the PBS-aired documentary, "Nowhere Now: The Ballad of Joshua Tree." His life story is featured in the book, "Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon." After spending his youth as an actor in Hollywood, and playing in bands Telekin and Ministry of Fools in his twenties, Quinn became a part of the emerging arts scene in Joshua Tree, after moving to the desert town in 1993 with fellow musicians Tony Mason and Fred Drake, who founded the recording studio, Rancho de la Luna. As a journalist, Quinn wrote for the revived Los Angeles Free Press in the mid-2000's. Quinn has recorded five solo albums and has appeared on "Desert Sessions 5 & 6" performing his composition, "Going to a Hanging."