No, not a Friendly’s sundae but the 1969 film The Happy Ending that features Tina Louise in a supporting role unhappily married to Dick Shawn airing tonight at 12:45 a.m. on TCM. Directed by Richard Brooks, it stars Jean Simmons (Best Actress nominee) as a wife who walks out on her family to start life anew.
GO DOWNTOWN!
Gail Gerber will be doing a reading from her memoir Trippin’ with Terry Southern, co-written by me, on Monday Feb. 1, 7pm, at the Von Bar on Bleecker Street just off of Bowery. Her friend Darius James, a really cool dude and excellent writer is also on the bill.
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SHE JUST KEEPS ON GOING AND GOING AND GOING…
Former Bond Girl Lana Wood has just completed yet another movie, which is the complete opposite than her recent biblical film. She co-stars with Shawn Rougeron (pictured) and Terence Knox of St. Elsewhere and Tour of Duty fame in the horror suspense flick Renovation. Click here to access the the film’s web site.
TAKE YOUR STINKING PAWS OFF ME!
Afer Tim Burton’s atrocious redo of the original, I never thought Hollywood would monkey around with these films again! Click here to read an update on the remaking of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.