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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AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

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I am cyber friends with prolific writer Michael B. Druxman. He has had such an interesting career that began in 1960s Hollywood running his own entertainment public relations business. He began writing professionally in the 1970s, starting with books about movies (Make It Again, Sam: A Survey of Movie Remakes was a teenage fave of mine) and movie stars, and then graduated to stage plays, screenplays and novels. Check out his credits on the IMDB.

He has way too many books to promote, but two that stand out for me, and are on my reading list, are his well-received memoir My Forty-Five Years in Hollywood and How I Escaped Alive and his published screenplay Matricide loosely based on the murder of former Fifties starlet Susan Cabot by her son. Below is video promotion for it:

httpv://youtu.be/Jt9ZtM61lN0

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