SING. SING A SONG
Below is cobbled together tribute to sixties icon Tuesday Weld featuring a catchy song from singer Walter Egan released in 1980. Though the song knocks, Sandra Dee, Yvette Mimieux, Carol Lynley who don’t deserve it, and Connie Stevens who does, any song that has these sixties starlets in its lyrics is A-OK by me.
WRITE ON TINA!
Tina Louise long ago proved there was more to her than just slinky Ginger Grant on Gilligan’s Island (the ill-fated, tennis-loving housewife Charmaine in The Stepford Wives or the tough Lesbian prison guard in the TV-movie Nightmare in Badham County, anyone?). Today’s Tina teaches reading to NYC school kids and is a bestselling author of children’s picture books. Below is a preview for her next book.
ON THE RADIO
Click here to access the archives of TV Confidential where you an listen to last week’s interview with Gail Gerber and I discussing Trippin’ with Terry Southern.
THREE, TWO, ONE!
Who ever thought that our beloved sixties starlet Pamela Tiffin would be mentioned in an article in the conservative National Journal? But there she is (along with co-stars the great James Cagney and gorgeous Horst Buchholz) in a tribute piece to one of my favorite comedies of all time, Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961) a satire on the Cold War set in West Berlin just before travel between the eastern and western parts of the city was forbidden.
When our man from Coca-Cola Cagney has to chaperone the boss’ visiting scatterbrained Southern-fried daughter Tiffin who sneaks into East Berlin and marries Communist Buchholz, Cagney famously declares, “I’d rather be in hell with my back broken” as he attempts to turn Buckholtz into a capitailist approved son-in-law.