Sixties Posts

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That Man from U.N.C.L.E.

With the recent release of the entire four seasons of The Man from UNCLE on DVD in one gigantic box set, Robert Vaughn has been making the interview rounds. In the couple of articles I have read, he gushes over his co-stars David McCallum and Leo G. Carroll and some of the big name stars who made guest appaerances. Click here to read one such interview. However, he never mentions any of the nubile starlets he worked with. Funny, because the ones I interviewed had lots of varied things to say about him:

“He was a good actor but wasn’t nice to me. He was very cold and distant.” Chris Noel, Fantasy Femmes

“He was friendly enough but kept to himself…and wasn’t much fun.” Sharyn Hillyer, Film Fatales

“I respected him very much as an actor but he was rather pompous and full of himself.” Kathy Kersh, Film Fatales

“He had…a very tongue-in-cheek polish and too, too suave.” Sue Ane Langdon, Film Fatales

“He is not unpleasant to work with, just aloof.” Barbara Luna, Film Fatales

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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!

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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.