About this item
Talking Sixties Drive-in Movies is a collection of profiles, interviews, and tributes about actors and films popular with the drive-in movie crowd during the sixties. Interviewees include Arlene Charles, Nancy Czar, Gail Gerber, Christopher Riordan, and Irene Tsu talking Elvis Presley musicals; Bobbi Shaw and Steven Rogers talking beach party movies; Jan Watson and Diane Bond talking spy spoofs; Nicoletta Machiavelli talking spaghetti westerns; Mimsy Farmer and Maggie Thrett talking alienated youth movies; and Valerie Starrett talking biker films. Some of the chapters center on one movie or a genre while others are career profiles with a main focus on one or two drive-in movies.
About the Author
Tom Lisanti is an award-winning author/film historian of 10 books about Sixties Hollywood. He began writing professionally in 1998. His newest book is Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense from BearManor Media.In 2010 he co-wrote with former actress Gail Gerber her memoir Trippin' with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for Best Memoir of 2010. In 2012, he appeared on Turner Classic Movies co-hosting with Ben Mankiewicz a week of 1960s beach movies and is featured in the documentary The Green Girl about actress Susan Oliver. He has been interviewed on a number of radio shows (WNYC's SoundCheck; Lakeshore Public Radio's A Look At the Arts with Tom Lounges; BBC; TV Confidential) and podcasts (Forgotten Films; Junot Files; NitrateVille; Ticklish Films) talking about his books and sixties movies of the drive-in kind.Tom tweets regularly @TomLis and Blogs on his web site sixtiescinema.com. He resides in New York.
