Monday, May 30, 2011

New DVD's from MGM

A few crime/film noir DVD's were just announced by MGM in their MOD program.

Crime Against Joe 1956, The Fearmakers 1958,  and The Girl in the Black Stockings 1985 ( with Mamie Van and Marie Windsor !!). Good Stuff.


Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Jet Harris 1939-2011


 A belated RIP for Jet Harris (born Terence Harris; July 6 1939)  who passed away on March 18.  Harris was the original bass player for the great British instrumental group The Shadows (and somtimes back-up band for Cliff Richard). As John Lennon once said,  “Before Clff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.”

Yvette Vickers 1928-2010

  Yvette Vickers star of 50's drive classics Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman and The Giant Leeches was found dead in her Benedict Canyon home on April 27. Sad and strange story as reportered here in L.A. Times. She was also a Playboy Playmate and had small roles in Hud and Sunset Blvd.