sixties

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RADIO DAYS

This Sunday, Feb. 24 I will be a guest on the LA-based radio show Talking Television with Dave White discussing my new book Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood as well as the others I have written. Normally, Talking Television airs on Tuesday nights, but this interview will be recorded this Sunday for a later broadcast over online radio station, KSAV.

Listeners can not only hear the live interview this Sunday, but can pose your own questions via e-mail or phone. Click here for instructions on how to receive the stream and go to the link at the homepage, “KSAV Select” to participate.

On the West Coast, the show will begin at 11:00, the interview starting at 11:30 a.m. If you’re Eastern Standard Time, the show begins at 2:00 and I will join him at 2:30. At 3:00 Gail Gerber will join us for a fifteen minute session where she’ll share stories about Terry Southern, Elvis Presley and Easy Rider from her upcoming memoir Terry Southern and Me: Uneasy Riders in Hollywood.

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QUINN O’HARA

Funniest moments at the Hollywood Collector’s Show was when former 60s starlet Quinn O’Hara stopped by to meet me. One guy exclaimed that he was a big fan of shlock director Larry Buchanan who directed Quinn in the horror opus In the Year 2889. Quinn burst out laughing until she realized that he wasn’t teasing her.

Another guy bought the two books I interviewed Quinn for Drive-in Dream Girls and Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies. As he started to walk away Adam from McFarland said that Quinn and I would autograph them for him. He politely declined. Rude! First time I ever did a book signing and someone said no. I thought it was quite funny.

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PERFECT PETTET

Click here to see a tribute to the lovely 60s starlet Joanna Pettet. She always reminded me of Sharon Tate but with a bit more oomph to her. She was just wonderful as the ill-fated ex-coed in The Group (1966) and as Mata Bond in the original 007 spoof Casino Royale (1967). Joanna was a TV fixture during the 70s (remember Weekend Nun?) but I was mesmorized by her when she played a gorgeous model obsessed by photographer James Farentino in the creepy Night Gallery episode “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes.”

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HOLLYWOOD COLLECTORS SHOW III:
Why I didn’t chat with Carol Lynley

Someone asked since I am such a Carol Lynley fan why I didn’t talk to her. I have interviewed Carol via telephone and met her twice before at these conventions. Sometimes when you meet in person someone you have admired your entire life it is disappointing when the fantasy turns to reality. That is how it was with me. Not saying Carol was rude or mean to me in fact it was the contrary–she was very nice but it wasn’t what I had expected. So for this show I decided to only admire her from a distance. Also she was sitting next to Ernest Borgnine and she constantly had overflow from his long line of fans. Is that a copout excuse? Probably but I did chat with some of the other starlets.