sixties

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HE’LL MONSTER MASH NO MORE

Bobby “Boris” Pickett passed away last week. He is best known for his smash 1962 dance classic “The Monster Mash,” which got all the teens up on the dance floor at Halloween time. But Bobby was also an actor. I interviewed him for my Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies book where he told me wonderful anecdotes about the making of It’s a Bikini World with Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley and Drive-in Dream Girls Suzie Kaye and Lori Williams.

Check out this cool montage featuring Bobby singing his #1 hit.

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VRROOOM, VRROOOM!

Set those DV-Rs for April 28 at 2:15AM on TCM for the Russ Meyer cult camp classic, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! one of my favorite films of all time.

Tura Satana, Lori Williams, and Haji play go-go dancing, fast-driving, ass-kicking Glamazons who don’t take any shit from men. After desposing of a conceited hot rodder and taking his bimbo girlfriend hostage, the cleavage-enhanced trio come upon an old geezer and his dumb ass muscle-bound son who supposedly have hidden thousands of dollars in their house. Tura and Haji want to get their greedy hands on the loot while Lori wants to get her hands on the muscle stud. Plans go awry when a second son shows up and figures out these gals ain’t no ladies.

Check out this short preview clip on YouTube.

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DEANNA LUND

As a child my favorite TV show was Land of the Giants. From producer Irwin Allen who had previously gave us Lost in Space and Time Tunnel, it was about seven intergalatic castaways stranded on a planet where everything is 10 times their size. Being a seven year old when the show began, I was mesmerized by the special effects and by the gorgeous redhead who wore the coolest miniskirt outfits, Deanna Lund and also by that hunk Gary Conway (pictured here with Deanna but that is another story). She was the first Sixties Starlet that had an effect on me.

Check out this great clip with her and the rest of the cast from the episode “Shell Game” on YouTube.

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A TOAST TO TINA!

Before Tina Louise became stranded on Gilligan’s Island , she tried to carve out a dramatic career in Hollywood. She won a Golden Globe Award for her movie debut in God’s Little Acre, and went on to appear in a string of less-than-successful dramas opposite Richard Widmark, Robert Taylor, and Robert Ryan. Disenchanted with the roles being offered her (she turned down Operation Petticoat and Li’l Abner) she hightailed it to Europe. Check out this wonderful CLIP of Tina at the Cannes Film Festival where she once again proves she was one of the sexiest Sirens of the Sixties and that there was more to her than just playing Ginger Grant.