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Marin graduated from Bishop Alemany High School and then studied at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge), where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. In a 2017 NPR interview, Marin attributed the nickname to his uncle: "I came home from the hospital, I was like a couple days old or something, my uncle came over and he looked in the crib and he said, 'Ay, parece un chicharrón.' Looks like a little chicharrón, you know?"

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Marin's nickname "Cheech" is short for "chicharron", a fried pork skin that is a popular snack and an ingredient in Mexican cuisine. He speaks some Spanish and uses it in his movies, but he is not fluent. Marin was born with a cleft lip, which was repaired. Marin was born in Los Angeles, California, to Mexican American parents, Oscar Marin, a policeman in the LAPD, and his wife Elsa (neé Meza), a secretary.

Funds are being raised for a Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry.Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin (born July 13, 1946) is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, writer and activist who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. has offered to give the collection a permanent home for the public to enjoy. After taking it on national tours, an art museum in Riverside, Calif. Marin is also an avid collector of Chicano art, capturing what he described as a 360-degree view of Chicano cultural experience over the course of more than 40 years. Despite a cast that Marin said included Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken and Rob Riggle, a family comedy with the working title “Replacing Grandpa” is in limbo because it was a Harvey Weinstein production. One of Marin’s most recent film roles might not see the light of day. I know the cop lifestyle very well,” he said. “My dad was a cop for 30 years in the LAPD.

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You just don’t know what middle of the road is.’ Who’s laughing now?”īesides eight Cheech and Chong movies, Marin’s larger acting body of work includes roles like Inspector Joe Dominguez on the TV series “Nash Bridges” (with Don Johnson), one of the hyenas in the original animated version of “The Lion King,” Ramon in the Disney/Pixar “Cars” movies, Quentin Tarantino’s “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Tin Cup” (with Kevin Costner), the “Spy Kids” movies and Officer Salino in “Christmas with the Kranks.” We used to say: ‘What if marijuana is good for you? We are middle of the road stoners. “We kept predicting (it would be legalized). “There’s no segment of society that marijuana doesn’t cut through … Republican, Democrat, independent, ‘I don’t give a (expletive),” he said. Chong’s wife, Shelby, begins the shows with a 20-minute warm-up, introduces Marin and Chong and they take audience questions.Ī universally illegal drug nationwide during the peak of Cheech and Chong’s popularity, marijuana remains the central theme of their counterculture comedy, even though the criminality of cannabis has since been diminished.

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Marin described the new Cheech and Chong show as having a lot of songs, plus “greatest hits” routines. On their nine albums, music was a key vehicle for Cheech and Chong’s humor in the ’70s and ’80s, and that tradition continues. “He was another one of those gone too soon.” ‘What?’,” he said describing how blindsided he was by the news. “(Cheech and Chong) were stepping on stage when somebody came up and said Jim had died in a plane crash.