Sixties Posts

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R.I.P.
Actress/vocalist Barbara McNair passed away yesterday. This popular performer was a welcome presence on all the top variety, talk, and game shows during the Sixties and Seventies. Though I can’t name one song she was famous for, she had a style that made you take notice whenever she sang. Film buffs remember her as one of the nuns working with Dr. Elvis Presley in Change of Habit (1969), the sultry singer involved with jazz trumpeteer James Darren down Rio way in Jess Franco’s cult mystery film Venus in Furs (1969), and as Sidney Poitier’s wife in They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970) and its sequel.

McNair’s last film was Neon Signs (1996) where she and the lovely Carol Lynley played feuding robbers on a crime spree throughout the Southwest desert in this very entertaining low-budget Thelma and Louise knock-off.

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STARLET ALERT

Seems in the last 2 weeks the Sixties Starlets are out in force. Set those DVRs and TIVOS:

Anjanette Comer is out hammed by Marlon Brando in the western The Appaloosa (AMC, 2/4 @ 2:45am)
Cindy Carol & Jane Wald look on as little genius Billy Mumy picks race horse winners between writing love letters to Brigitte Bardot in Dear Brigitte (AMC, 2/3 @ 7:00am)
Down Miami way gold digger Jill St. John, ice princess Sue Lyon & Lesbian stripper Deanna Lund tangle with Frank Sinatra’s Tony Rome (AMC, 2/8 @ 6:15am)
Juliet Prowse outshines Debbie whats-her-name in The Second Time Around (Fox Movie Channel, 2/9 @10am)
Juliet Prowse & Francine York learn that Hollywood is a sleazy town in The Right Approach (Fox, 2/9 @ noon)
Surrounded by top comics of the day, Dorothy Provine realizes It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (TCM, 2/9 @3:15pm)
Beach babe Deborah Walley goes to the dogs in Benji (TCM, 2/9 @ 6:30pm)
Diane Baker is sent (and hopefully never returns!) to Krakatoa, East of Java (TCM, 2/10 @ 9:15am)

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STARLET ALERT!

Set your DV-Rs and TIVOs as Turner Classic Movies this week serves up a gaggle of Sixties Starlets:

Nancy Kwan enjoys being a girl in Flower Drum Song (Monday 1/29 3:34am)
Judy Tyler is Bop Girl (Monday 1/29 6:00am)
Mary Mitchel and John Cronin Twist Around the Clock (Monday 1/29 9:00am)
Jo Morrow is a princess who gets Juke Box Rhythm (Monday 1/29 1:30pm)
Don’t hate Tuesday Weld and Roberta Shore Because They’re Young (Monday 1/29 5:45pm)
Diane McBain, Susan Oliver, and Linda Rogers are The Caretakers (Friday 2/2 8:00am)
Jill Haworth joins Paul Newman and Sal Mineo on an Exodus (Friday 2/2 1:30pm)
Jill Haworth once again finds herself In Harm’s Way (Sat.2/3 1:45pm)

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FOOT IN MOUTH AWARD

The biggest jerk in all of show business today has to be Isiah Washington of Grey’s Anatomy. Not only did he call co-star T.R. Knight a “faggot” a few months ago he says the word again and lies that he never said called T.R. that on the Golden Globe Awards last Sunday. What makes me mad about this is that though ABC has issued strong statements condemning him, the producers of the show seem to be shrugging it off. See what would have happened if it was reversed and Knight called Washington the N-word and then repeated it on national televison!

I had dinner with T.R. Knight a few months before Grey’s Anantomy premiered as I am friends with his ex-agent. The guy is a sweet gentle soul and doesn’t need to be in the spotlight like this. His appearance on The Ellen DeGeneras Show refutting Washington’s statement proved how sincere he is. I also want to praise Katherine Hiegl (Izzy) who had the guts to stick up for T.R. and went on record against Washington and said that the man should not be allowed to speak in public. LOL Oh, so true.