sixties

My biggest selling book Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties has been revised and will be available soon in soft cover for $29.95 just in time for holiday shopping. Makes a great gift for that Sixties starlet fan in your life and you know you have one somewhere–check the attic.

The actresses interviewed are Elvis gals: Laurel Goodwin (Girls! Girls! Girls!), cover girl Sue Ane Langdon (Roustabout, Frankie and Johnny), Marlyn Mason (Trouble with Girls), Gail Gilmore aka Gail Gerber (Girl Happy, Harum Scarum), Cynthia Pepper (Kissin’ Cousins), Darlene Tompkins (Blue Hawaii); Cult actresses Lori Williams (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), Beverly Washburn (Spider Baby); plus from the world of beach/biker/spy movies Quinn O’Hara, Donna Loren, Carole Wells, Arlene Martel, Andrea Dromm, Sue Casey, Hilarie Thompson, Sharyn Hillyer, Vitina Marcus, and Luree Holmes. Plus profiles on 30 more Drive-in Dream Girls.

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This being the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movie franchise, Entertainment Weekly dedicated last week’s issue to the film icon with a mini-review of each movie. I was so happy to read this comment about Diamonds Are Forever, “Jill St. John got male moviegoers hot and bothered as the sassy, sex-kitten smuggler Tiffany Case, but we prefer Lana Wood’s Plenty O’Toole.” We certainly do!!! For me, St. John was one of the worst Bond girls ever, right up there with Denise Richards and Halle Berry. I found Jill shrill, not sassy. Lana, in the few scenes she had, totally stole the spotlight away and had me wishing it was Tiffany that disappeared from the movie and not Plenty.

Here in NYC, the IFC Center will be showing all Sean Connery’s Bond movies beginning next month. Click here for further information. Have seen Goldfinger on the big screen, may check out Thunderball. I love me some Luciana Paluzzi as titan-haired assassin Fiona Volpe.

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People listen. Click here to read the original and best (for me) Catwoman’s take on the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises.

Forgot yesterday to add the link below for another interesting Blog post. It is on producer Harry Alan Towers and his wife actress Maria Rohm. She has her own web site and put the article on it. Great site by the way. I never knew this international beauty was married to Towers who produced a lot of exploitation classics usualy on the cheap.

http://www.mariarohm.com/the-two-towerses/