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For you fans of sixties and seventies movies check out the web site for a very cool new magazine called Cinema Retro. This blows away U.S. genre mags like Filmfax. It is a joint U.S./British production and is printed in color on high-quality glossy paper.

The second issue is out now and features amazing articles on Sean Connery & Brigitte Bardot in Shalako; the best flicks of 1961; Robert Vaughn; British B-starlet Margaret Nolan; director Michael Winner; the making of The Nightcomers; and my fave “Life’s A Beach: Surf King Aron Kincaid” by yours truly. Check it out. Soon to be available at Tower Records nationwide.

“Surf King” Aron Kincaid with Quinn O’Hara in a publicity still from The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (AIP, 1966).

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Adam Phillips (who works in marketing for my publisher, McFarland and Company) and me at the Memphis Film Festival, 2005.

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STARLET ALERT!

Fantasy Femme Judy Pace and Shelley Fabares can be seen in Brian’s Song televised on TVLand tonight at 8pm and hopefully rerun again. Though this is basically a tearjerker about football player Brian Piccolo (James Caan) and his roommate and friend Gale Sayers (Billy Dee “Hubba Hubba” Williams) and the agony they go through when Piccolo is diagnosed with cancer, it comes off basically as a gay love story between the two macho football players with the starlets more than holding their own as the guys’ clueless wives.

Tuesday, June 28, on Turner Classic Movies beginning at 9:30AM EST is an Elvis Presley double feature beginning with Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) co-starring Michele Carey and Fantasy Femme cover girl Celeste Yarnall; followed by Haraum Scarum (1965) with Mary Ann Mobley, Gail Gerber, and Brenda Benet.

Fans in New York can catch a special screening of Screen Door Jesus featuring sixties starlet Anjanette Comer this Thursday, June 30th, at 9pm, as a part of the Solar-Powered Arts Festival. It will be showing outside near the East River at Stuyvesant Cove Park. The director and writer will be introducing the film at 8.45.

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Comings and Goings:

Gail Gerber will be beach balling back to New York from Chicago permanently beginning July 1. Glad to have you back Gail!

You folks in LA make sure to check out Ray Courts’ Hollywood Collectors Show in Burbank this weekend. Among the starlets in attendance will be Francine York; Bond Girls Shirley Eaton, Lana Wood, Gloria Hendry and Trina Parks; Jo Morrow from Gidget; and everybody’s favorite Bad Seed, Patty McCormack.