THE COOL ONES (1967) with MRS MILLER

DEBBIE WATSON (the movie "Marilyn Munster" and the final "Tammy") stars as a defiant Go-Go Girl who has a fit during a taping of the hit show "Whizbam" and creates a new dance craze called "The Tantrum".

Roddy McDowell plays a 'Phil Spector' - type.

Also featuring vocal novelty act MRS MILLER  in her only screen appearance and
Music by the Leaves, the Bantams, Glen Campbell, the Forté Four.

and the always fabulous  NITA TALBOT  ( who really should be in EVERYTHING).






The film is available to purchase on DVD here

The Big Cube

2:00 AM Big Cube, The (1969)
LSD almost ruins the life of a former actress and her stepdaughter. Cast: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan. Dir: Tito Davison. C-98 mins, , Letterbox Format

I saw this years ago at the Film Forum in NY with a lively crowd that included Michael Musto. During the Lana freakout scene people (we) yelled things like, "It's Cheryl! Johnny Stompanato!" etc.

Set your DVRs, it plays on TCM Friday Jan 8th at 2am, following a night of your favorite anti-drug fella, Elvis.

Who Put the Acid in my Coffee?

Giant billboard. As I'm sitting in traffic.

Angel, Angel, Down We Go

"LSD is the bomb!"

thanks to Dave Stuckey, who sent me this.

IN SEARCH OF -- syndication profits

When the syndicated TV series IN SEARCH OF debuted in 1976, I was spellbound. Leonard Nimoy was host. "He used to be Spock on Star Trek", my cousin told me. With my 9 year old TV-saturated brain I assumed that since Spock was logical and smart (and Nimoy wore a suit jacket and turtleneck and seemed informed) then IN SEARCH OF info must be true. I knew nothing about disclaimers or teleprompters.

The series conducted "investigations" into the pseudoscientific and paranormal (ie: UFOs, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster). Additionally, it featured episodes about mysterious historical events and personalities such as Anna Anderson/Grand Duchess Anastasia, the Lincoln Assassination, the Jack the Ripper murders, infamous cults (ie. Jim Jones), and missing persons, cities, and ships (ie: Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, D. B. Cooper, the Titanic, the lost Roanoke Colony).

Some shows were really creepy and you didn't want to watch them alone. The film reenactments (of hunters terrorized by Bigfoot) could be captivating and terrifying.

Opening verbal disclaimer (by Nimoy): "This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily the only ones, to the mysteries we will examine."

End Credit Narration (by Nimoy): "Lost civilizations, extraterrestrials, myths and monsters, missing persons, magic and witchcraft, unexplained phenomena. 'In Search Of...' cameras are traveling the world, seeking out these great mysteries. This program was the result of the work of scientists, researchers and a group of highly-skilled technicians."

148 half-hour episodes were produced through 1982.

Fun facts:
There was a soundtrack album on AVI Records, released in 1977 and produced by W. Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder, that featured the In Search Of Orchestra.

A few years later, Series creator Alan Landsburg would give TV audiences THAT'S INCREDIBLE! hosted by John Davidson, Fran Tarkenton and Cathy Lee Crosby (presenting fun factoids and real life freaks).

Skidoo screengrabs

Jackie (Tony Banks) trips in jail


Groucho as mob boss "God"


Carol Channing as Flo ("I don't care how many guys you've slept with!")


Cesar Romero (and Peter Lawford's floating head)


Mickey Rooney as "Blue Chips"*


Wow - Lawford is a floating berating head in TWO bad sixties films!


Jackie's coming down

TOOMORROW! Olivia Newton-John takes off on a wild rock & roll trip 1970 style!

I've been obsessed with this film for ages...it's like a bizarre Partridge Family on acid with a happy sorta Wild In The Streets meets Star Trek vibe if that makes any sense. It's called Toomorrow & was released in 1970. Here's some info from an olivia newton-John fan site:

In 1970 Olivia made her second movie entitled Toomorrow. Don Kirshner, who had created the Monkees in 1965, wanted to repeat this success and manufacture another pop group. He teamed up with Harry Saltzman maker of the popular James Bond movies. The group Toomorrow was to be launched via the cinema and via an album and single.

The group consisted of Australian 21 year old Olivia; English keyboard player Vic Cooper 25, American drummer Karl Chambers 22 and Ben Thomas American 24 year old singer. Originally Chirs Slade (who went onto ACDC fame) was to be a member - but before the movie was made he left and was replaced by Karl Chambers (Karl sadly died Feb 2002 from cancer).

There is a record as well, great odd music! Someone put the whole film in 11 parts on Youtube! here's one clip:

Don't freak out!

ps. 4/2008: oh no! it's gone ... but don't fear, the slammer team bought the film!