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    AMAZON PRIME DAY SPECIAL

    July 11, 2017 by Tom Lisanti

    For Amazon’s Prime Day the Kindle price for my book Dueling Harlows is $4.99. Price increases every few hours back up to $9.99. Buy it now!

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    SHE SAID WHAT!?!

    June 16, 2017 by Tom Lisanti

    Blonde bombshell Bobbi Shaw on Pajama Party co-star Annette Funicello: “She was kind of standoffish…I felt she was jealous…”

    Diane Bond on Charlton Heston star of The War Lord: “For years I loathed him for copping a feel under the cloak.”

    Read more in my book Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies.

     

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    Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies

    June 4, 2017 by Tom Lisanti

    She said what!?! Talking about the spaghetti western Navajo Joe, Nicoletta Machiavelli commented that her leading man Burt Reynolds “was so snooty that the whole crew couldn’t stand him!” Read more in my book Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies.

    NAVAJO JOE, Nicoletta Machiavelli, 1966
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    BearManor Media Sale

    May 9, 2017 by Tom Lisanti

    Big sale at BearManor Media and great time to buy my book Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies just as the warm drive-in weather is approaching! Ends May 12 at midnight.

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    My friend Nelson Aspen shared this stunning colorized publicity photo of Carol Lynley as Jean Harlow from Magna Pictures’ Harlow (1965). Harlow expert Darrell Rooney commented in my book Dueling Harlows that this was his favorite gown, designed by Nolan Miller, from either Harlow biopics. ... See MoreSee Less

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    Celebrate 51 Years of Ryan's Hope!
    Relive the Emmy-winning soap with Ryan's Hope: An Oral History of Daytime's Groundbreaking Soap—the definitive behind-the-scenes book featuring interviews with the stars, writers and production crew. A must-have for every soap fan! Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.
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    I have been concentrating so much on my soap opera books, that I glossed over these editorial reviews for Dueling Harlows. Better late than never, but thanks, Carolyn, James, and Louise for the kind words.

    Editorial Reviews
    "Full of details and on-and-off screen drama, this book will appeal to film historians and devotees of Hollywood's Golden Age."--Carolyn M. Mulac, Library Journal

    "Dueling Harlows is one of the most interesting and entertaining books about film production, promotion, and distribution that this reviewer has read. Lisanti's skilled writing style, his vast knowledge, and his penchant for detail benefits this truly valuable study that includes exclusive quotes and many revealing surprises."--James L. Neibaur, author of The Mae West Films

    "What a terrific book. Tom Lisanti gives a nonfiction tale the narrative arc, excitment, and tension I associate with a great novel. But its even more compelling because its not fiction. The people are real. The incidents did actually happen. And somehow he lets us see all of it. I got to know a lot of people whose names were familiar but I never met them. Now I feel that I did. That is one of the many pleasures of Tom's writing--he makes these people so available. I loved the book and enjoyed every moment of reading it."--Louise Shaffer, Emmy Award winning actress and author of The Three Miss Margarets: A Novel
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    Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen

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    Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen
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    A Saturday throwback. Sixteen years ago, this month, the late Gail Gerber and I attended the IPPY Awards ceremony here in NYC where we were presented with the Silver Medal for Best Autobiography/ Memoir. ... See MoreSee Less

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    You bet your sweet bippy! I won another Ippy! My Dueling Harlows book received the 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards (the IPPY) for Best Performing Arts book. I took home the bronze and am blown away. It is my second IPPY. The late Gail Gerber and I won the silver back in 2010 for Best Memoir for her book Trippin' with Terry Southern. I have been submitting my books ever since but thought I would never win again. What a nice surprise!

    Special thanks to McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers for publishing the book, Elisabeth Pearson for her copy editing, and all the interviewees including the late Carol Lynley, Lindsay Bloom, Darrell Rooney, Carol Hollenbeck, and Maureen Gaffney Wolfson.
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    Have my tickets for Sunday's showing at MoMA! Hoping it is a pristine print. As a teen fan of Carol Lynley, I did not like The Last Sunset much due to murky prints that aired in syndication but over the years it has grown on me. It has an impressive pedigree being directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Daltron Trumbo. Carol is cute as a pixie and it is great to see her play off two major stars of the era, Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas.

    Read about the making of The Last Sunset with quotes from Carol and her brother Daniel who, with his cat, accompanied his sister on location in my book, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense.
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    The Last Sunset. 1961. Directed by Robert Aldrich | MoMA

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    The Last Sunset. 1961. USA. Directed by Robert Aldrich. Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, based on the novel Sundown at Crazy Horse by Howard Rigsby. With Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph ...
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    In an odd twist of fate, the two stars of the rival 1965 biopics, Harlow, Carroll Baker and Carol Lynley met for the first time in the mid-1990s and became good friends until Lynley passed away in 2019. Shortly after, Carroll met Carol Hollenbeck, who as 1960s starlet Carol Holland had a connection to both Harlow movies, and they became fast friends. Read all about them in my book, Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen from McFarland and Company.. ... See MoreSee Less

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