I’VE BEEN SLIMED
Click here to read about the upcoming rare screening in Los Angeles on Sunday Nov. 8 of the cult sci-fi movie, The Green Slime (1969). I have never seen it but based on the poster alone and stills of the lovely Luciana Paluzzi with her ’60s mod hair style and futuristic costumes it is now on my must see list.
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!
Click here to read the New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure cover story on the recent Hollywood Show in Burbank that I posted about last week. It is very fair-minded and doesn’t mock the celebrities who attend selling autographed photos of themselves from their heyday.
One actress mentioned is Drive-in Dream Girl Beverly Washburn of Old Yeller and Spider Baby fame. She is one of the sweetest starlets I ever interviewed and now has written her autobiography titled, Reel Tears: The Beverly Washburn Story.
OVER MY DEAD BODY!
Click here to read an entertaining article on movie posters as wall art that really hits close to home for me. My partner and I bought a coop together 2 years ago and though I don’t live there full-time we have been forever negotiating what movie memorabilia and film posters I can hang on the wall. My next assignment is to take digital snapshots of my posters so he can choose. I am holding firm with The Poseidon Adventure and we’ll see what others I can get up there. Needless to say, I have a lot of posters of Carol Lynley movies and my partner is not a fan. Sacrilege!
R.I.P.
Contrary to popular belief, I am not familiar with every single 60s starlet who flickered by on the big and small screens. One such actress is Collin Wilcox (pictured on right with Suzy Parker), who died from brain cancer on October 21, 2009. I only know the name from her appearance in the classic Twilight Zone episode, “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” with Suzy Parker and Pamela Austin and her co-starring role with Tisha Sterling in the cult movie The Name of the Game Is Kill (1968) with Jack Lord, Susan Strasberg, and female impersonator, T.C. Jones.
Recalling the movie, Tisha remarked in Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema:
“I worked with Jack Lord prior to working with him on this movie. Jack was really weird but he was a terrific fellow. He lived in the same building that I lived in. He was a very serious guy. He was always kind to me and looked after me like a father. Jack was also a very good artist and had a lovely wife who took care of him. Susan Strasberg was a Method actress so her technique would drive Jack crazy. T. C. Jones played our father. He was nice but also a bit strange. Collin Wilcox, on the other hand, was wonderful! We stayed friends for years after doing this movie. She introduced me to a macrobiotic diet. We lived close by to each other in Topanga Canyon.”
Though it was sad to hear of Collin Wilcox’s passing, it is nice that her obituary made the New York Times where I learned she had a small role in my favorite Jaws movie, Jaws 2. But a better read is an interview she gave to The Classic TV Blog in March of this year.
