TINA HAS THE MEAN DOG BLUES

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After Gilligan’s Island ended its 3 year run in 1967, Tina Louise did her all not to get type cast in sexy “Ginger Grant” roles. She succeeded admirably more so than her cast mates particularly Bob Denver and Dawn Wells who both seemed to just love knocking Tina in the media. She played one of unhappily married Jean Simmons’ friends in The Happy Ending (1969) and was the tennis-loving Charmaine, the first wife to become a robot after Katherine Ross moves to the neighborhood in the classic The Stepford Wives (1974).

Below was a clip from one of Tina’s lesser known movies Mean Dog Blues (1978) but due to copyright infringement was removed.  She and William Windom play a battling rich couple who railroad hitchhiking country singer Gregg Henry take the fall for a hit-and-run caused by Windom. Assured he will get off, he is double-crossed and is sent to a desert prison from hell. Unfortunately, this isn’t available on DVD yet but since they went after the YouTube poster to take clip down maybe a release is in the works.

HERE PUSSY, PUSSY

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Lucky Londoners will have the chance to see a great photo exhibit by Terry O’Neill showcasing his behind-the-scenes photos (some never seen before publicly) from a number of James Bond movies including Dr. No, Goldfinger, and Diamonds Are Forever plus photos of other iconic actors from the Swinging Sixties. Click here for more details.

BOBBY, BOBBY DO YOU LUV ME?

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As a kid in the late sixties, I have to confess that my favorite TV actor (and singer) was teen idol Bobby Sherman. I would religiously watch his show Here Come the Brides every week and would beg my mother to let me watch it when they moved it to a later time slot after my bedtime. I even made a deal with a babysitter that if she let me stay up I wouldn’t tell my parents that she had friends over. [However, the next morning when my dad said he smelled cigarette smoke I slipped and ratted her out. I got a big mouth!).

Watching reruns of Here Come the Brides today and seeing how sexy Bobby was with that mane of brown hair and wearing those tight butt-hugging pants I now know why I was such a fan. And discovering that Sal Mineo had a thing for the actor who he helped discover according to the new biography on Mineo makes him even more enticing, Click here for the Cinebeats Blog to see the Bobby Sherman comic book that came out during the height of his popularity. Now how did I miss this comic book back then!?!