Sixties Posts

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ROBERT ALTMAN

Legendary director Robert Altman passed away this week. Check out this wonderfully written tribute by my friend Shaun Chang.

Altman began as a TV director and one of his early assignments was to direct an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled “The Young One” starring Carol Lynley as a sweet and not-so sweet teen with an overly protective auntie whom she lives with. When the old lady prohibits Lynley from seeing teenage biker Vince Edwards she turns up dead. All fingers point to Edwards but turns out that Lynley killed her and framed him.

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GREGORY HARRISON

To my surprise and delight I received emails from one of my fav actors Gregory Harrison the former star of TV’s Trapper John, M.D. and that classic TV-movie For Ladies Only. He is a real nice guy and remembered that I wrote to him sometime ago requesting an interview for my surf movie book at the time it was going to cover movies up to the present. Scroll down to very bottom on right and click the post titled “No more morning afters…” to read his comments. You can also check out his web site.

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STARLETS WE HATE

Sixties actress Diane Baker’s trolls are at it again. They have written a profile about her on Wikepedia making her out to be some sort of great thespian–we know otherwise. Talk about fiction–they describe her as having “a stylish, elegant, intelligent aura.” I describe her as sleep-inducing zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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CINEMA RETRO

Check out the fabulous new issue of Cinema Retro on selected newsstands now. It contains wonderful articles on Casino Royale featuring interviews with ’60s starlets Barbara Bouchet and Caroline Munro; Hang ’em High; The Man from UNCLE movie One of Our Spies Is Missing; an interview with Michael York; and a piece on Elvis Presley and his starlets written by moi. It covers 1960 to 1964 and contains comments and anecdotes from starlets Darlene Tompkins, Laurel Goodwin, Cynthia Pepper, Lori Williams, Joan Staley, and Drive-in Dream Girl cover girl Sue Ane Langdon. Part II will be in the next issue released in January.