HERE ON GILLIGAN’S ISLE!

I have always been a big fan of Tina Louise ever since I was a kid and would watch her coo and strut as the stranded “movie star” on Gilligan’s Island. But I, like many others, was extremely annoyed with her when she refused to participate in the Gilligan’s Island reunion TV-movie in the late 70s. Though you can’t fault a working actress with a daughter to support for trying to get as much money as possible, Tina should have swallowed her pride, taken the offered cash, and done the movie for her fans. Not having her in it (Judith Baldwin took over as Ginger) damaged the movie completely. and ruined the experience for this fan.

But a few years later in the mid-eighties, the entire cast finally did reunite albeit for a charity event. See below:

STARLETS GONE MAD III

To be fair to Faye Dunaway and Diane Baker, every starlet has her moments while giving interviews. Tuesday Weld was forever publicly blaming her poor choices in her personal life and her wild behavior on her mother.

During an interview with columnist Earl Wilson, Carol Lynley called her Poseidon Adventure co-star Red Buttons the c-word and threatened to punch Shelley Winters in the nose for forgetting her name on a TV talk show.

Sue Lyon who became famous due to playing Lolita years later ranted and railed to any reporter that would listen that the movie and Hollywood ruined her life

And Yvette Mimieux in an interview with the Saturday Evening Post refused to talk about her male co-stars because she found most of them to be “egotistical, conceited and have no minds.” She then went on to add, “I like stories about me, just me.” Hmmmmm.

AND THE WINNER IS…

Marlyn Mason! Congratulations to Marlyn for winning the Best Actress prize at the Bend Film Festival for her performance in Model Rules. Below are pictures of her posing in front of the movie’s poster ad and her holding the award with the film’s director Ray Robison.

You can read a lot more about Marlyn Mason in my books Film Fatales and Drive-in Dream Girls.

STARLETS GONE MAD II.

For years Tippi Hedren has commented on how Alfred Hitchcock who made her a star when he chose her for the female lead in The Birds and Marnie had a sick fasination with her and then hindered her career. To Tippi’s credit, she railed against the director while he was alive.

Now her Marnie co-star Diane Baker has entered the fray with an out-of-the-blue relevation about her experience with Hitchcock. Probably jealous of the attention her more famous co-star was receiving, Baker lets loose with this story. Click here to read her remarks and decide for yourself if you believe her.