sixties

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BI-NEWMAN

There is a new book out about Paul Newman proclaiming the super star was bi-sexual. Click here to read more. I always take these accusations years after a star has died with a grain of salt. But even if he did dabble with men, ho -hum, who cares.

I’ve always thought Newman was one of Hollywood’s most handsomest leading men. Of his 60s films, my favorites are Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hud, and Harper due to his pairing with sultry Pamela Tiffin. I think they played off each other very well as evidenced by the clip below.

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A DIFFERENT TYPE OF CRUISE

In 1975, two of my favorite actresses, Carol Lynley and Anjanette Comer, co-starred together in an exciting TV-movie white water river rafting adventure called Death Stalk, a sort of Deliverance rip-off.

A bunch of escaped convicts led by virile Vic Morrow stumble upon vacationing rafters Vince Edwards and his wife Comer and his boozy boss Robert Webber with his much younger wife Lynley while camped. The cons steal their canoes and wives and make run for it down river. Sounds typical, and it is, but there is a twist as supposedly happily married Comer falls for Morrow while spoiled trophy wife Lynley fights off her abductors to get back to her husband.

Death Stalk was suppose to originally air around Thanksgiving 1974 but NBC pulled the plug on it because it deemed it too adult for the holiday season (there is a scene of an attempted rape of Lynley by Neville Brand) and moved it to a January 1975 broadcast.

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COME ABOARD–CELESTE IS EXPECTING YOU!

Click here to read about the Elvis Cruise to set sail in November from Tampa, Florida to Cozumel, Mexico. Besides the Elvis impersonators and tribute musicians, passengers will include former Elvis Presley co-stars Fantasy Femmes Celeste Yarnall from Live a Little, Love a Little and Chris Noel from Girl Happy; and Drive-in Dream Girl Cynthia Pepper from Kissin’ Cousins. I’m all shook up just thinking about it!

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IT’S ELVIS! IT’S GAIL GERBER! IT’S HARUM SCARUM!

When TCM broadcast its marathon of Elvis Presley movies last week Harum Scarum (1965) was curiously not aired even though it was a Turner owned MGM production. So to make up for this slight of, below is the trailer and a clip of Gail Gerber (in yellow), Brenda Benet (in blue) and Wilda Taylor (in green) in their dancing solo number. Gail recalls making the movie in her memoir Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember available now.