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Hollywood Surf and Beach Movie cover boy Aron Kincaid will be at the Long Beach, California Main Library on Saturday July 30. He will be reading excerpts from my book, which he wrote the foreword; discussing his career in 60s beach movies; and showing clips from Beach Ball and Ski Party. More details to come.

Starlet Alert!
AMC is offering back-to-back Elvis Presley movies this Monday July 11. First up at 5:30AM EST Elvis plays a juvenile delinquent down New Orleans way in King Creole (1958) with Carolyn Jones as a gun moll, Dolores Hart as the virginal good girl, and Jan Shepard as Elvis‘ put-upon sister.

For connisseurs of Elvis‘ 60s swinging musicals Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) at 7:45 AM EST has the King returning to the islands wanting to open a helicopter tour business with friend James Shigeta. The film offers beautiful scenery, lots of songs, and starlets galore: Suzanna Leigh, Marianna Hill, Julie Parrish, Irene Tsu, Linda Wong, Gigi Verone, and Deanna Lund. Jan Shepard is back too this time playing the wife of Elvis’ partner.

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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.