{"id":4015,"date":"2017-03-03T00:34:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2017-03-03T00:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:34:39","slug":"talking-sixties-drive-in-movies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/03\/talking-sixties-drive-in-movies-3\/","title":{"rendered":"TALKING SIXTIES DRIVE-IN MOVIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TSDIM.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3941\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TSDIM-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"tsdim\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Soft cover edition of my new book <em><strong>Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies<\/strong><\/em> is now available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talking-Sixties-Drive-Movies-Lisanti\/dp\/1593939973\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1488500477&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=talking+sixties+drive+in+movies\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Talking Sixties Drive-in Movies<\/em> 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, Lara Lindsay, LAda Edmund, Jr., 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.<\/p>\n<p>First official review is in from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/2017\/02\/lj-in-print\/drive-in-decades-arts-humanities-reviews-march-1-2017\/\">Library Journal<\/a>\u00a0(l<\/em>ink to full review):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Recommended for film lovers everywhere<\/em>.&#8221;<span class=\"k4authorname\">\u2014Roy Liebman, formerly with California State Univ., Los Angeles\/<em>Library Journal<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More raves from the interviewees:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>A lovely book&#8230;amazing. Quoted me exactly. Not what I am used to<\/em>.&#8221;&#8212;Lara Lindsay<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I just love it [and] think it\u2019s great! I am very pleasantly surprised at how detailed, correct, and complimentary<\/em>.&#8221;&#8212;Jan Watson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft cover edition of my new book Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies is now available on Amazon. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}