Gail will be selling copies of her memoir Trippin’ with Terry Southern and autographed photos from her movies. I will be joining her with copies of my new book Dueling Harlows.

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I admired Gazzara and really liked him most in his TV series Run for Your Life and the TV miniseries QB VII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAvlmsq5nYA

King was much less of a household name. He specialized in playing hippie radicals or tough bikers on numerous TV shows such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Land of the Giants, and Then Came Bronson. I always enjoyed seeing him turn up in these parts because he brought a real intensity to them. Stephen pays homage to King’s one season stint on The Young Lawyers (1970-71), which co-starred Judy Pace and Lee. J. Cobb. I would like to add that the Hollywood Foreign Press took note of his splendid work and nominated him for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in TV. He later went behind the camera as director and producer.

TCM Spotlight:  Spring Break

Monday, April 16

8:00 PM            Where the Boys Are (’60)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEsIhloSBwg

10:00 PM           Palm SpringsWeekend (’63)

12:00 AM            Girl Happy (’65)

  2:00 AM            BlueHawaii(’61)

Tuesday, April 17

 8:00 PM            Gidget (’59)

  9:45 PM            Gidget Goes Hawaiian (’61)

11:30 PM            Ride the Wild Surf (’64)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWqIBLzCeM

 1:15 AM            For Those Who Think Young (’64)

Wednesday, April 18

 8:00 PM             The Girls on the Beach (’65)

  9:30 PM             Beach Ball (’65)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXyd1b36adA

11:00 PM            Endless Summer (’66)

12:45 AM             Barefoot Adventure (’60)

Thursday, April 19

 8:00 PM            Beach Party (’63)

10:00 PM           MuscleBeachParty (’64)

11:45 PM           BikiniBeach(’64)

  1:30 AM            Beach Blanket Bingo (’65)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDesGtp-JII

Friday, April 20

 8:00 PM            Ski Party (’65)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZo954DwLhA

10:00 PM            Winter a Go Go (’65)

12:00 AM            Get Yourself a College Girl (’64)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsJWSnlypm4

Francine commented in my book Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema, “I was so Marilyn people would flip if they saw it. I even get to sing a song called ‘I Never Had the Chance to Say Good-Bye.’”). I agree Francine is channeling Marilyn and she looks and sounds eerily like the sex goddess.

He has way too many books to promote, but two that stand out for me, and are on my reading list, are his well-received memoir My Forty-Five Years in Hollywood and How I Escaped Alive and his published screenplay Matricide loosely based on the murder of former Fifties starlet Susan Cabot by her son. Below is video promotion for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt9ZtM61lN0

Either as a sultry brunette or dippy blonde, Suzie Kaye was a talented actress/singer/dancer who made her mark in ‘60s drive-in movies. The petite Kaye, a veteran of many stage productions while growing up in New York City, made her film debut as Rosalia, a Shark girl, in the Academy Award-winning musical West Side Story (1961). She recalled in Drive-in Dream Girls, “Natalie Wood was fine to work with but a little distant. I think she was fearful and a bit uncomfortable being around all these New York dancers. I never had any run-ins with her. Off the set we were gangs through and through. We even played cards separately. We didn’t mix because a lot of us were Method Actors—I know I was.  We just stayed in character most of the time because it made it easier.” She is in the tight striped dress in the “America” number below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2k

As a brunette she went on to play small roles in a few more films including Tammy and the Doctor (1963) with Sandra Dee and the beach-party-in-the-snow Wild Wild Winter (1966) with Gary Clarke and Chris Noel.  Feeling her career needed a boost, Kaye dyed her hair blonde. This seemed to suit her perky personality better, as she went on to work in a string of teenage comedies and musicals including Clambake (1967) with Elvis Presley; It’s a Bikini World (1967) with Tommy Kirk and Deborah Walley; and C’mon, Let’s Live a Little (1967) with Bobby Vee and Jackie DeShannon. Kaye is the cute blonde in teh gold lame bikini in the below clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk8vgSdLrwQ

After smaller roles in the biker flick The Angry Breed (1968) and the comedy The Comic (1969), Kaye was cast as Angel Chernak, one of the early Seventies most memorable daytime vixens, on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. “Angel Chernak was an absolute villainess until she got cancer and then atoned,” remarked Suzie in Drive-in Dream Girls. After a four year run, the soap was cancelled in 1973 and Kaye retired from acting to concentrate on a career in business.

The bad news is that Lana agreed to talk with The Daily Mirror about the “curse” of being a Bond Girl. With that premise, Lana should have known that they were going to concentrate on the negative things in her life and emphasized them they did! Lana was one of my favorite interviews in my first book due to her sense of humor, honesty and frankness. She didn’t edit anything out. I hung out with her in person a few years ago at a celebrity autograph convention in the Memphis area and she was as nice as can be. So if you stumble upon this horrid article please read it with a grain of salt and know the Lana described by the writer is not the Lana we all know.