Sixties Posts

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SOCK IT TO ME!

Happy Belated Birthday to Judy Carne of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. This petite auburn-haired Brit became famous for her Sock-It-To-Me bit where usually bikini-clad with her body painted with far-out slogans she would get dowsed by a bucket of water. I also loved her on the one season sitcom Love on a Rooftop with Peter Duell. Judy had a rough time of it in the Eighties and Nineties due to a drug addiction and let’s hope she is still clean and sober. Check out this mod clip of Judy with Arte Johnson in a takeoff on Laugh-In for Sears.

Busty, bug-eyed blonde Joy Harmon also celebrated a recent birthday. You can read about her infamous car scene from the classic Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke in my upcoming article for Cinema Retro magazine. Joy will also be featured in my new book, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood.

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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.