STARLETS ON THE GO-GO

Drive-in Dream Girl Gail Gerber returns to the big screen after almost a 35 year absence playing a wheel-chair bound crazy old woman in Lucky Days. It was written by Angelica Torn (daughter of Rip Torn and Geraldine Page) who stars as a depressed woman seeking freedom from an abusive boyfriend and family during the last days of Coney Island as we know it before the developers get their hands on it. Co-starring are Luke Zarzecki, Will Patton, Rip Torn, and Anne Jackson. Click here to see the trailer.

Fantasy Femme Lana Wood as been busy lately making movies and now guest stars in a TV pilot called Divas of Novella. She plays “Zeld” in this proposed sci-fi series about 4 women convicts from an intergalatic prison colony who have to unite to stop a long dormant male society from rising to take domination over their star system. Click here for the official web site.

Wicked, Wicked

Set those DVRs for overnight Friday June 6 at 2AM. Turner Classic Movies has once again dug into its vaults for a cult classic and dug out the rarely aired Wicked, Wicked (1973). A slasher movie ahead of its time, it is about a psychotic hotel worker with a penchant for donning a mask and killing nubile long-haired blondes. Randy Roberts who went on to briefly play “Chuck Cunningham” on TV’s Happy Days is the maniac, Edd “Kookie” Byrnes is a lifeguard, and the blondes in peril include Fantasy Femme Diane McBain and Tiffany Bolling. It was directed by Richard L. Bare who was best known at the time for directing epiosdes of Green Acres and filmed in Duo-Vision a split screen process where as the ads proclaimed, “See the hunter, see the hunted – both at the same time!”

GOING TO A-GO-GO

If you love that mid-sixties sound of Herb Albert, Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, etc. check out the groovy vibes of The SG Sound. Composer Steve Greaves, a really cool cat as you can see, calls his music “Space Age Pop and Go-Go Jet Set.” The samples alone from his MySpace site are fantastic and had me go-go dancing around my apartment last night. For a second there I thought I was Carole Shelyne from Hullabaloo! You can download his CD from iTunes. I did!