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.

THE MEN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

Turner Classic Movies is finally taking a break from airing those same ole b/w 30s and 40s potboilers and will be presenting all 8 feature films culled from episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. starring Robert Vaughn as suave Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as sexy Illya Kuryakin and featuring Sixties starlets galore on Nov. 6. Click here for the schedule.

I personally am looking forward to 1968’s Helicopter Spies (4:15PM) featuring Carol Lynley as a dippy blonde with revenge on her mind who keeps accidentally preventing U.N.C.L.E. from capturing mad man Bradford Dillman who has in his possession the thermal prism which he plans to use to conquer the world aided by Thordis Brandt as the salicious Miss Zalamar. Other spy chicks popping up over the course of the day are Luciana Paluzzi, Senta Berger, Yvonne Craig, Diane McBain, Irene Tsu, and Donna Michelle, among many others.