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Suzanne Pleshette
on the Web
Suzanne Pleshette is not merely
one of the finest and most underrated actresses in Hollywood history,
she also happens to be one of the finest actresses who ever married Troy
Donahue! She also worked for Alfred Hitchcock, made a movie
with Ralph Meeker, and wound up in bed with Bob Newhart more than
once. So check out this amazing site to explore the career of a one-of-a-kind
classy lady. The site was created by Blase Di Stefano. After you
explore his obsession with Pleshette, be sure to read some of the "out
and in" celebrity
interviews in the "Blase's Faces" section.
Tuesday
Weld
Meryl Streep movies are prime
examples of modern cinematic excellence and Bette Davis movies
are national treasures, but Tuesday Weld movies are essential to
life. With that in mind, you might want to visit one of the web's original
great fan sites, the Tuesday Weld pages of Ray Davis. Caution:
this is a mind-altering website.
Carol
Lynley
In
the decade from 1955 to 1965, Hollywood produced a nearly endless stream
of cool blondes who glided through movies like silver T-Birds on a lunar
landscape. Think of Yvette Mimieux. Think of Diane McBain. Think of Susan
Oliver. You've already thought of Tuesday Weld. Now visit the extremely
well-researched Carol Lynley Fan Page and find out why this icon is among
the coolest of the cool and why we still care.
Elvis'
Women
Probably no two words in the entire English language promise more fun
than the words "Elvis' Women." If you think we're exaggerating
or kidding, then visit Elvis' Women and see for yourself. Elvis
was no fool when it came to girls, girls girls, and he surrounded himself
with some of the most fascinating women of the past two or three centuries,
among them Anne Helm, Dolores Hart, Stella Stevens,
and Deborah Walley. You'll find still another Tuesday
Weld page here. (In the future, everyone on the web will have a Tuesday
Weld page for 15 minutes.)
Doug
McClure
There are two things in the universe about which you can be completely
sure: (1) there is a God, and (2) there is a Doug McClure website.
We happened to trip over it one day while surfing and we found ourselves
really mesmerized by all those photos of the late Mr. McClure, easily
one of our favorite movie and TV stars of all time. Our own Potpourri
Lounge also has a couple of nice shots of Doug that you might want
to examine. Gee, with all this interest in the guy, he'll probably wind
up on a postage stamp ahead of Ralph Meeker.
Canvass
of a Cowboy
Okay, you're just going to have to take our word for this one. It's still
another Doug McClure site, but this one is devoted entirely to
the actor's portrayal of "Trampas" on the old Virginian
TV series (1962-1971). The site presents an almost endless array of McClure/Trampas
photos, plus some shots of the rest of the cast and some of the guest
stars, plus a good supply of episode information. After we visited this
one, it occurred to us that practically everybody who ever appeared on
The Virginian should be the focus of a web site -- especially Roberta
Shore!
Don
Grady
Heard the My Three Sons theme music lately? Be careful, after you
visit the Don Grady page at MouseStars.com
you won't be able to get it out of your head
for weeks! However, this is one of the essential celebrity websites. Don
Grady was, after all, one of the essential TV stars of the past three
or four centuries. He was also a Mouseketeer, which places him in the
Pantheon with no less than Annette! For tons of info on Don and
Annette and ALL the other Mouseketeers, make sure you see everything
on this site. Just be aware that it causes brain damage. And of course,
our own Potpourri
Lounge also has a
Don Grady page.
The
American Wide Screen Museum & Film Technology Center
You really have to see The American Wide Screen Museum & Film Technology
Center to believe it. The creator of this exceptionally well-researched
site probably can't talk intelligently about Fabian movies and
chew gum at the same time, but he sure knows a thing or two about Cinerama,
Cinemascope, VistaVision, Todd-AO and all those other
exotic processes that made our icons look better than we did. We only
hope this someday gets turned into a real museum where we can go view
the films the way they were meant to be viewed.
If
Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats"
Say what? Welcome to Tom Sutpen's own personal "blog." What
is a "blog" you say? Well, it's a weblog and if you pay a visit
to Mr. Sutpen's contribution to the field you may run into Orson Welles,
Wallace Reid, Billie Holiday, Elvis Presley, Joseph von Sternberg and
Marlene Dietrich, or any number of "great junkies of the 20th Century."
While you're trying to figure out where you are, take the time to read
about Tom's encounter with Martin Scorsese. Also dig the shot
of Ralph Meeker from the "original ending" of 1955's Kiss
Me Deadly.
Brian's
Drive-In Theater
What do The Many Faces of Hercules, Low Budget Superheroes,
and B-Movie Cheesecake have in common? How can you get your minimum
daily requirement of Buster Crabbe, Joi Lansing, Guy
Madison, Pamela Tiffin and The Horror of Party Beach
without visiting the Meeker Museum? Brian's Drive-In Theater, of
course. You have to see this site to believe it. We plan to go live there
and wallow in Tab
Hunter.
TabHunter.com
We've read a fair amount of Shakespeare, Dickens, and Grace Metalious,
but the most gorgeous words we've ever heard in the English language are:
"The Official Tab Hunter Web Site." Visit this site (presumably
Tab's own) and you'll know why. There's a wealth of biographical and filmography
information, and also a very welcome "Tab on TV" section. There's
also a "Hollywood on Horses" page, where we learned of the existence
of a "HorseTV" cable channel. Far be it from us to make any
crude observations on this subject.
Yvonne
Craig
She was Batgirl in the old Batman TV series. This is a fairly interesting
site and it's going to have to do until there's an Yvonne Lime
page.
John
Phillip Law
We don't like a lot of laws, but John Phillip Law is an exception.
Don
Stroud
At the age of 17 he was a champion surfer boy. At the age of 18 he was
hired to be Troy Donahue's stunt double. In his 20s he appeared
in movies with legends like Simone Signoret and Diane
Varsi. Are we talking about a major star here or what? As if his credentials
aren't impressive enough, it turns out that Don Stroud is also a hell
of a nice guy to meet in person. Visit his web site to get more information
on this fine actor and also check out Don in
our own Potpourri
Lounge.
American
Movie Classics
Actually this is a former favorite. AMC has kind of turned to crap, hasn't
it? It's been ages since we've seen any of the really important stars
(like Susan Kohner) on this cable channel. And lately they've even
resorted to selling ad space in the middle of all those 1970s Lee Marvin
movies they come up with. We don't really recommend AMC at all, but we're
leaving this link so you can e-mail them and complain.
Turner
Network Television
On several occasions they've celebrated Ralph Meeker's birthday
(November 21) with a mini-festival of Meeker films.
Turner
Classic Movies
They are still the best oldie-but-goodie cable channel. More than any
other cable channel, they deliver all the really great stars. In fact,
we just watched one of the better Haya Harareet films on TCM. It
was called Ben-Hur, or something like that. Incidentally, we have
a nice still of Miss Harareet in our Potpourri
Lounge.
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