STARLET SPOTTING

Tonight I was hanging out at The Player’s Club, a writers’ private club in NYC, with my friends Lee Pfieffer, the publisher of Cinema Retro magazine, and fellow writer David Savage. As David and I (and my beau Ern) were leaving whom do we pass on the staircase but Tina Louise! David stopped and said hello to her (while I gawked) and told Tina, looking glam in her cocktail dress, that they had a met once before at a party a few years ago. Tina seemed very sincere when she apologized for not recalling. The poor girl gets a bad rap for being difficult but tonight she was charming!

I REALLY AM A SCHOLAR!!!

One week after that reviewer called me a “starlet scholar” I was contacted by my publisher with news that a professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington is teaching a spring course called “The History of Surfing” and is using my book Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies as a required text. Who would of ever thunk it that my starlets, surfer boys and I would be studied in the halls of academia. Pretty cool, if I do say so myself.

Also Cinebeats‘ review of Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood was briefly mentioned on the popular Blog Green Cine Daily. Click here and scroll down to the middle.

FINALLY SOME RESPECT!

The first review for Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood is in and it almost made me wet my pants. The reviewer referred to me as “starlet scholar Tom Lisanti.” I just love it though those are two words that don’t belong in the same sentence let alone together. Click here for the entire brief review.

Big congratulations goes out to my friend Shaun (another starlet scholar if there ever was one) for passing the bar exam. As a reward I will promise to try to stop knocking those 30s/40s movies though it will be as hard for me as it is hard for you to stop bashing our Francine York.