sixties

STARLET SPOTTING

Tonight I was hanging out at The Player’s Club, a writers’ private club in NYC, with my friends Lee Pfieffer, the publisher of Cinema Retro magazine, and fellow writer David Savage. As David and I (and my beau Ern) were leaving whom do we pass on the staircase but Tina Louise! David stopped and said hello to her (while I gawked) and told Tina, looking glam in her cocktail dress, that they had a met once before at a party a few years ago. Tina seemed very sincere when she apologized for not recalling. The poor girl gets a bad rap for being difficult but tonight she was charming!

I REALLY AM A SCHOLAR!!!

One week after that reviewer called me a “starlet scholar” I was contacted by my publisher with news that a professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington is teaching a spring course called “The History of Surfing” and is using my book Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies as a required text. Who would of ever thunk it that my starlets, surfer boys and I would be studied in the halls of academia. Pretty cool, if I do say so myself.

Also Cinebeats‘ review of Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood was briefly mentioned on the popular Blog Green Cine Daily. Click here and scroll down to the middle.