{"id":4162,"date":"2018-03-15T16:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2018-03-15T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:05:44","slug":"51-years-ago-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/15\/51-years-ago-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"51 Years Ago Today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/51T37VW1Y0L._SY445_.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4165\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/51T37VW1Y0L._SY445_-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hit spy movie <em>In Like Flint<\/em> opened, the sequel to the popular <em>Our Man Flint<\/em> (1966) that introduced James Coburn as suave secret agent Derek Flint to the masses. Here he must thwart a secret society of women who are plotting to take over the world.\u00a0 Led by Lisa (Jean Hale) and the three top female fashion leaders, they operate from a lavish spa in the Virgin Islands called Fabulous Faces.\u00a0 Their plan is to take over a space station that controls nuclear weapons.\u00a0To reach their goal, they disguise two of their women as golf caddies and kidnap the president of the U.S. and replace him with an imposter (who eventually turns on them).\u00a0 To get the rest of the female population to support them, their clientele get \u201cbrain and hair washing at the same time.\u201d\u00a0 Flint&#8217;s three lovely assistants (Diane Bond, Mary Michael and Jacki Ray) however are able to resist to the chagrin of the nefarious ladies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jean Hale recalled working with Coburn and remarked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fantasy-Femmes-Sixties-Cinema-Interviews\/dp\/0786461012\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1521129841&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=fantasy+femmes+of\"><strong><em>Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0\u201cJames is adorable and easy, yet challenging to work with. He is a very sweet, gentle man. When I went on tour to promote the film, the big question was always, \u2018What was it like to kiss James Coburn?\u2019\u00a0 I\u2019d respond, \u2018it was lovely but all in a day\u2019s work.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MV5BNWNjZjUzZjQtMjRjOC00ZjU4LWFhODktZDk0NjBmNjk4NzE3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4164\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MV5BNWNjZjUzZjQtMjRjOC00ZjU4LWFhODktZDk0NjBmNjk4NzE3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diane Bond\u00a0 only had kind words to say about James Coburn but not so much about Jean Hale in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talking-Sixties-Drive-Movies-Lisanti\/dp\/1593939981\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\"><em><strong>Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, &#8220;We passed a lot of time together and he was a splendid, jovial person, always joking. He was very down-to-Earth and you could even tell that from his body language&#8230;Jean Hale was really unsexy and I thought someone better could have been the lead.&#8221; Meow!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/inlikeflint-dryers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4163\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/inlikeflint-dryers-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The hit spy movie In Like Flint opened, the sequel to the popular Our Man Flint (1966) that introduced James Coburn as suave secret agent Derek Flint to the masses. Here he must thwart a secret society of women who are plotting to take over the world.\u00a0 Led by Lisa (Jean Hale) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","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\/4162","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=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}