GOODBYE TO BEN GAZZARA AND ZALMAN KING

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Hollywood lost two talented actors last week, Ben Gazzara and Zalman King. Click here to read Stephen Bowie’s wondeful tribute to them on his Blog.

I admired Gazzara and really liked him most in his TV series Run for Your Life and the TV miniseries QB VII.

httpv://youtu.be/wAvlmsq5nYA

King was much less of a household name. He specialized in playing hippie radicals or tough bikers on numerous TV shows such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Land of the Giants, and Then Came Bronson. I always enjoyed seeing him turn up in these parts because he brought a real intensity to them. Stephen pays homage to King’s one season stint on The Young Lawyers (1970-71), which co-starred Judy Pace and Lee. J. Cobb. I would like to add that the Hollywood Foreign Press took note of his splendid work and nominated him for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in TV. He later went behind the camera as director and producer.

SURF’S UP! WELL NOT QUITE YET

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I have had a number of people asking me when the Turner Classic Movies Spring Break Film Festival will air and what movies will they be showing. Below is the schedule. I will be doing intros to all of them with Ben Mankiewicz. All but three are featured in my book Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959 to 1969. Buy a copy and follow along.

TCM Spotlight:  Spring Break

Monday, April 16

8:00 PM            Where the Boys Are (’60)

httpv://youtu.be/TEsIhloSBwg

10:00 PM           Palm SpringsWeekend (’63)

12:00 AM            Girl Happy (’65)

  2:00 AM            BlueHawaii(’61)

Tuesday, April 17

 8:00 PM            Gidget (’59)

  9:45 PM            Gidget Goes Hawaiian (’61)

11:30 PM            Ride the Wild Surf (’64)

httpv://youtu.be/AIWqIBLzCeM

 1:15 AM            For Those Who Think Young (’64)

Wednesday, April 18

 8:00 PM             The Girls on the Beach (’65)

  9:30 PM             Beach Ball (’65)

httpv://youtu.be/oXyd1b36adA

11:00 PM            Endless Summer (’66)

12:45 AM             Barefoot Adventure (’60)

Thursday, April 19

 8:00 PM            Beach Party (’63)

10:00 PM           MuscleBeachParty (’64)

11:45 PM           BikiniBeach(’64)

  1:30 AM            Beach Blanket Bingo (’65)

 httpv://youtu.be/kDesGtp-JII

Friday, April 20

 8:00 PM            Ski Party (’65)

httpv://youtu.be/HZo954DwLhA

10:00 PM            Winter a Go Go (’65)

12:00 AM            Get Yourself a College Girl (’64)

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BEFORE THERE WAS MICHELLE WILLIAMS AS MARILYN MONROE…

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There was Francine York in Marilyn: Alive and Behind Bars (1992).

httpv://youtu.be/IsJWSnlypm4

Francine commented in my book Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema, “I was so Marilyn people would flip if they saw it. I even get to sing a song called ‘I Never Had the Chance to Say Good-Bye.’”). I agree Francine is channeling Marilyn and she looks and sounds eerily like the sex goddess.

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