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IT TAKES TWO TO SKIDOO

Next week begins the Otto Preminger film festival at the Film Forum in NYC. To get a headstart on it tune in tonight at 2AM on Turner Classic Movies to see one of Otto’s worst received movies that is now considered a camp classic. Gangsters meet hippies in Skidoo (1969) starring Jackie Gleason and Groucho Marx as a don called God. You haven’t seen anything until you see Carol Channing in bra and panties vie with her nubile daughter Alexandra Hay (pictured and profiled in my new book Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood) for studly mobster Frankie Avalon!!! To top it all off, the end credits are sung.

I saw this at a screening at MOMA and my mouth was agape the entire time. What the hell was Otto smoking when he made this!?!

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CAROL LYNLEY

What better way to start off the new year than with a new YouTube tribute compilation to my fave Carol Lynley. Click here to see one by entertainment reporter and Carol’s buddy, Nelson Aspen. He told me that he made this for her birthday party a few years ago. Check out Nelson’s website for more cool stuff about him.

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IN HARM’S WAY

Got my tickets already to see Jill Haworth along with co-star Patricia Neal introduce Otto Preminger’s WWII epic In Harm’s Way also starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Brandon DeWilde, Tom Tryon and Paula Prentiss at the Film Forum this Tuesday Jan 8th in New York City. Jill was one of my favorite interviews for Fantasty Femmes because she was just so saucy and so incredibly nice. Below are her candid comments about the Duke where she was literally put in harm’s way:

“John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude I ever worked with. In the scene [where her character meets Wayne’s and Douglas’s on a cruiser]Wayne had to walk up to Kirk Douglas and myself and hit his mark. I had to just stand there because it was a dolly shot. Wayne kept over-stepping the mark causing his shadow to come down on me. I was like stone and didn’t move a muscle. And that son of a bitch kept blaming me! This was my last shot of the film and I wasn’t going to end this picture with Mr. Preminger yelling at me for something that wasn’t my fault. Mr. Preminger never said a word to Wayne. Thankfully Kirk Douglas spoke up and said, ‘I think John is off his mark.’ It took another fifteen takes before Wayne got it right.”