C’MON GET HAPPY!

Never one of my favorite early 1970s Friday night ABC comedies because it was too sappy for me even at the ripe old age of 10 (I preferred Room 222, The Odd Couple and Love, American Style), The Partridge Family is heading back to TV – albeit in a drastically revised version.

The sitcom, which centered on a group of kids including David Cassidy, Susan Dey, and Danny Bonaduce who recruit their mom Shirley Jones to play in a rock band, will be dramatically re-envisioned. According to writer Jeff Rake, who is prepping the script, “The new version will reflect what seems to me to be the more realistic family band scenario these days: a struggling, sort of well-meaning mom pimping her kids in order to create a wholesome-slash-sexy cash cow.” “Pimping her kids?” Now that sounds cool. For more click here.

QUEENS OF THE LESBOS?

Fiery Tina Louise and handsome Kerwin Matthews both fled Hollywood for Europe in the early Sixties for different reasons. Tina, tired of not being offered dramatic roles, thought she get better parts and Kerwin was tired of being passed over for roles due to being gay. They wound up paired as lovers in Sappho – Venus of Lesbos released as The Warrior Empress in the U.S. Rarely shown on TV in America and still not available on DVD, below is a clip. Louise and Matthews’ earnest acting raise this above the typical peplums produced in Italy at the time.

LUSCIOUS LUNA

Click here to view the web site for a new glossy color magazine called Daeida Magazine. It is published by David Ybarra and celebrates Hollywood’s past–right up my alley. Featured in the second issue are interviews accompanied by gorgeous photos of Film Fatale BarBara Luna and Hollywood hunk Tab Hunter. Order a copy now. I am!